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The Trump administration issued a grand jury subpoena for records pertaining to the Arizona Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County election results, Maricopa County narrowly went for Biden in 2020 by 2 points, but the A...
TAT: [Controlling information | Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
The US military killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific. This brings the death toll of those killed in alleged "narco-terrorist" strikes by the US administration to at least 157 in over 40 attacks.
TAT: [Foreign policy]
Somali Americans hounded by ICE (Immigration enforcement) and rightwing ‘influencers’ on edge in Ohio: ‘I’m scared to go outside’. ICE launched ‘Operation Buckeye’ and ‘influencers’ claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after Trump repeatedly used racist language a...
TAT: [Nationalism]
As the Iranians get closer to naming their next supreme leader, President Donald Trump said Sunday the new leader "is not going to last long" if the Iranians don't get his approval first. "He’s going to have to get approval from us," the president told ABC News. "If he does...
TAT: [Foreign policy]
Fox News aired old footage of Trump not wearing any headgear while saluting at dignified transfer of killed soldiers from Iran. The true footage from this week's handover showed Trump sporting a white Trump-merchandise baseball cap with gold-embroidered "USA" lett...
TAT: [Controlling information]
Although the White House claims watchdogs perform ‘all required functions’, documents show that number of deaths in custody are at a 20-year high. According to court records, thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration det...
TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights | Hollowing state]
President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing three diplomatic officials briefed on the matter.
TAT: [Foreign policy]
The detainees describe Camp East Montana - an ICE (Immigration enforcement) detention facility - as somwhere where an average of about 3,000 people have lived per day in loud and unsanitary quarters, diseases spread easily and sleep is a luxury. Detai...
TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]
President Trump says he won't sign any bills into law until the SAVE act is passed. The SAVE act restricts voting by requiring more voter ID and restricting mail in ballots
TAT: [Undermining democracy]
President Donald Trump's administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to revive his executive orders that sought to punish four major U.S. law firms, arguing that federal judges overstepped their authority by blocking directives that...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
Trump vowed in a social media post that Iran would be hit "very hard". He wrote “Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran’s bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered...
TAT: [Foreign policy]
A diabetic Norwegian woman who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has told Newsweek that she feared she might die in detention as her requests for insulin were repeatedly ignored. [link]
TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]
President Donald Trump denied U.S. involvement in a strike that killed more than 165 people at a girls’ elementary school in Southern Iran, instead placing the blame on Iran. When asked aboard Air Force One Saturday whether the U.S. conducted the Feb. 28 str... [link]
TAT: [Controlling information]
Trump invites Latin America’s rightwing leaders to Florida summit. Trump’s guest list includes the rightwing presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador and Paraguay but excludes the leftist leaders of three of Latin America’s biggest economies: Brazil, Mexico and Colombia
TAT: [Foreign policy]
Trump convenes ‘Shield of Americas’ summit with 12 Latin American leaders and called for regional cooperation to counter Chinese economic and political interests
TAT: [Foreign policy]
A National Intelligence Council report completed before the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran assessed that even a large-scale military assault on the country would be unlikely to topple its theocratic government, according to U.S. officials briefed on the w...
TAT: [Foreign policy]
Although Trump rejected the UK’s offer to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East, he warned the UK that ‘We will remember’. On Truth Social he wrote “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two...
TAT: [Foreign policy]
Beyond the President Trump's vitriol against judges in speeches and social media posts, his administration has launched a more systematic effort at the U.S. Supreme Court to diminish the power of the federal judiciary, a Reuters analysis shows. ...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
U.S. government has declined to refund tariffs the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled illegal last month. Customs officials are denying companies' requests to recover duties imposed under emergency powers invoked by Trump
TAT: [Undermining democracy]
According to experts, the Trump administration has failed to take obvious steps to contain the spread of measles, which continue to climb in the US. Previously, the CDC would have issued regular reports, alerts and social media posts to help people protect themselves dur...
TAT: [Attacking science]
In a phone interview with Israeli TV station Channel 12, Trump demanded that ‘disgraceful’ Herzog, the President of Israel, immediately pardon Prime Minister Netanyahu so he can focus on Iran war.
TAT: [Foreign policy | Undermining democracy]
Donald Trump is expected to forge ahead with his aggressive immigration crackdown driven by top aide Stephen Miller and a new homeland secretary nominee who shares Trump's hardline view
TAT: [Nationalism]
In a chilling social media video released by the US government, clips from Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Top Gun are crassly interspersed with real kill-shot footage of the attacks in Iran
TAT: [Foreign policy | Controlling information]
Donald Trump said on Friday that only Iran’s “unconditional surrender” will bring an end to the offensive. “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, when US strategic bombers were in action over Iran and inte...
TAT: [Foreign policy]
The State Department is declaring an emergency with the war in Iran to bypass Congressional approval and sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel that are valued at nearly $660 million
TAT: [Undermining democracy]
America’s pressure campaign on Cuba is pushing the country to the breaking point. Trump has tasked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lead talks with Cuban officials and has floated a “friendly” takeover of the island.
TAT: [Foreign policy]
President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations
TAT: [Foreign policy]
The Department of Defense (calling itself Dept of War) on Social Media posted a propaganda style post showing a fighterjet with the words "Uncontested airspace - we will fly all day, all night finding and finishing the Iranian military US air power...
TAT: [Foreign policy | Controlling information]
A U.S. autism advisory board remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to include vaccine skeptics aims to steer federal research spending toward investigating causes of the condition, as well as other issues like co-occurring medical disorders, according to some...
TAT: [Attacking science]
Trump's Department of Justice (DoJ) has increasingly become his administration’s “political wing” with criminal investigations of economic and political foes and an FBI raid of a Georgia election office seeking evidence for Trump’s debunked clai...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]