
If there was ever any f'n doubt, which there wasn't...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw&ab_channel=WIRED
If there was ever any f'n doubt, which there wasn't...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw&ab_channel=WIRED
@SmudgeTheInsultCat Your anticommie crap bores the shit out of me. Like to see YOU in a kursk foxhole. You'd shit yourself warmongering batch.
#Putin and #Trump spoke on the phone today where they discussed the conditions for a potential (and severely limited) ceasefire on energy and infrastructure.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto was more optimistic. "Great news from Washington and Moscow. Today, the world has become a safer place."
France24 liveblog https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250318-live-trump-putin-ukraine
Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #Trump #TrumpIsARussianAsset @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
@tagesschau Putin hat umgehend den Befehl erteilt, #Energieanlagen nicht mehr anzugreifen.
Dafür hält #Russland nun mitten in die Innenstädte rein.
Astreine russische Logik und nicht anders zu erwarten. Trump hat seinen Job gemacht. Die Luftschläge gehen weiter, aber nun so, dass Russland sich weiter an keinerlei Konvention hält und die Ukraine ihnen nicht mehr weh tun kann. Menschenverachtend genial.
I think everyone should watch this, and then take a step back and look at the state of our country.
Manchmal frage ich mich, wie alle Welt auf die Idee kommt, Putin wolle Friedensverhandlungen.
Wenn der Frieden wollte, müsste er nur aufhören, sein Nachbarland anzugreifen!
Auch #Trump will keinen Frieden; der will Putins Schmeicheleien als "Beweis seiner Großartigkeit" und als echter Kerl mit echten Kerlen Deals machen.
Männer, die die Welt verbrennen
About that prison that the #USA sent the #Venezuelans to— the president of El Salvador said back in early February:
“We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee… (which) would be relatively low for the US but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
#ElSalvador #prison #trump #deportation
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/americas/el-salvador-migrant-deal-marco-rubio-intl-hnk/index.html
From: @dalfen
https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/114180233301072688
Putin-Trump-Telefonat: "USA haben die russische Perspektive übernommen"
Das Telefonat mit Trump zeige, dass Putin weiterhin an seinen Forderungen festhalte, sagt Sicherheitsexperte Loss. Der US-Präsident mache sich dabei zum Erfüllungsgehilfen des Kremlchefs.
To the surprise of precisely no one who isn't a credulous rube high on imperialism, settler colonialism, and weapons contractor bribes, Israel has started bombing children and houses again in Gaza. Naturally of course a Trump regime that wants to pave over Gaza and build luxury hotels and casinos for an obscenely wealthy, globetrotting ruling class if it can just find a way to get rid of all those pesky Palestinians, stands fully in support of resuming the US armed, funded, and politically protected genocide.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-violates-cease-fire
Backed by Trump, Israel Shreds Cease-Fire Deal and Kills Over 400 Across Gaza
"A barrage of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday killed more than 400 people and left a fragile cease-fire agreement in tatters just over two months after it was reached, with Israel's prime minister pledging "increasing military strength" in an enclave already decimated by more than a year of bombing.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Netanyahu government consulted with the Trump administration ahead of the latest Gaza bombardment. Leavitt expressed the White House's total support for Israel's attacks.
While Israel had been carrying out more limited deadly attacks on Gaza despite the cease-fire deal—including strikes over the weekend that killed at least nine—Tuesday's bombings were described as the "heaviest assault on the territory since the cease-fire took effect in January."
Speaking frankly, there are more detailed articles featuring a lot more atrocity porn available online, but I chose to highlight this short piece because the headline writer understood the importance of centering the Trump regime's full support for this monstrous, objectively illegal bullshit. The US government is supplying the bombs, funding the Netanyahu government, and actively praising Israel for resuming crimes against humanity; that makes the atrocities in Gaza Trump's genocide, the same as it made them Biden's genocide before him. None of this is lost on most media observers outside of the United States, but an American corporate media complex that has always supported the mass murder of Palestinians remains reluctant to center that knowledge, even if it hurts the fascist assclown currently calling their work "illegal" and threatening to come after them with the full force of the U.S. government.
Of course everyone in the media, American or international, is claiming to be "shocked" that Israel has willfully imploded the ceasefire, and telling you that you should be shocked too. Naturally however, that position too is a grotesque farce that ignores available evidence and reality itself. This may be the first large-scale bombing since Netanyahu agreed to pretend he cared about a cease-fire for a while, but Israel already resumed the genocide when it tightened the blockade of, and cut electricity to Gaza; a region that is more or less constantly in a state of humanitarian crisis because Israel has been conducting a war of extermination there and purposely starving the population inside for seventeen months and counting. Furthermore, all of this is pretty consistent with statements made by various high ranking officials in the Netanyahu government, who have openly flouted their intentions to break the cease fire and ethnically cleanse (by whatever means are necessary) the Palestinian people in Gaza. The fact that American corporate media rarely reports on these stated intentions, and is foundationally committed to credulously taking Netanyahu's word for it when he claims to be seeking peace while bombing hospitals and murdering babies, does not mean the larger US establishment is unware of these facts - just that they're hoping you are.
The fact is, Trump, his administration, and American arms manufacturers should be on trial for crimes against humanity as we speak, and the reality that he is not alone in that because committing genocide in Gaza is a largely bipartisan position in the American establishment does absolutely nothing to alter the situation.
A U.S. federal judge has indefinitely stopped President Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, saying the effort is “likely unconstitutional.”
https://flip.it/qeKEWX
#USAID #Trump #US #Aid #DOGE #Government
Today’s #Putin #Trump phone call seems to be as far from a breakthrough as it possibly could be. The most concrete part of Trump’s readout[^1]
The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace.
The most concrete part of Putin’s readout[^2]
The key condition for preventing an escalation of the conflict and working towards its resolution through political and diplomatic means should be a complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence information to Kyiv.
Effectively, Kremlin declared that the most effective way to peace would be disarming the victim of aggression in order to make it lose. Very brilliant
During the conversation, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually renounce strikes on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. Vladimir Putin responded positively to this initiative and immediately gave the Russian military a corresponding command.
I understand that Russia has agreed to the mutual 30 days pause on infrastructure strikes because Ukraine earlier came forward with this proposal. This decision seems the more absurd that Kremlin previously declared it does not target critical infrastructure - and yet, of course they do
The only other tangible effect of the call is 175/175 prisoners exchange scheduled for tomorrow, plus #Russia will release 23 heavily wounded #Ukraine soldiers.
…In 2021 #JustinEichorn objected to a bill requiring #Minnesota schools to teach about sexual #orientation & #gender #identity, saying “before you know it, they’ll be reading kids ‘50 Shades of Grey.’ This discussion is better had at a more mature age.”
…Eichorn also co-authored a bill to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness.
“As a 40-year-old man, if you come … looking to have sex with someone’s child, you can expect that we are going to lock you up,” Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said in the release. “I have always advocated stiffer penalties for these types of offenses … We need our state Legislature to take this case & this type of conduct more seriously.”
Bloomington Police led #JustinEichorn 40, to believe he was talking to a 16-yr old girl & then met the senator & arrested him Monday…, acc/to a Bloomington PD press release.
…Eichorn was booked into the Bloomington PD jail & will be transported to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center, the release said. #Felony charges of #SolicitingAMinor to practice #prostitution are pending, Bloomington police said.
OMG
Yesterday, a #Republican state lawmaker in #Minnesota named #JustinEichorn introduced a new bill he coauthored to legally define "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a "mental illness" in the state.
Later in the day, he was arrested. For what, you ask?
via @bulwarkonline’s Adam Keiper
#criminal #law #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #pedophile #SexOffender #StatutoryRape
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/gop-state-sen-justin-eichorn-arrested-for-suspicion-of-soliciting-sex-with-a-16-year-old-girl/
Patrick Blowet @blowercartoons on Donald #Trump and Vladimir Putin’s phone call @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Pete Songi @Songicartoons on Donald #Trump and Vladimir Putin’s phone call @guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
The case for boycotting the United States | Robert Reich
#Trump #cdnpoli #tariffs #canada
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-trump-boycott
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
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Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps.