Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.

Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩

Get the hell out of it right now.

› https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#Facism #Autocraty #Criminal #BigTech

Are you looking to replace Google Maps and choose European?

Gladly, we have a lot of alternatives!

#GoEuropean #BuyFromEU #BuyEuropean #Degoogle #GoogleMaps #HereWeGo #Trump

Given the White House wants U.S. women to have more babies, my talk “Rethinking Population” from 2014 seems particularly relevant.

The key theme is that all around the world, women with an education, the ability to enter the workforce & access to healthcare & medicine choose to have fewer children.

https://youtu.be/JtyAQ2JK6E8?si=PmQz483ew4wWrgxm

Where do fertility rates remain high? In places where child mortality is high, health conditions are poor & women don’t have as much autonomy & opportunity. #uspol #Trump

China vows retaliation against countries that follow U.S. calls to isolate Beijing

“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests. If this happens, China will not accept it and will resolutely take reciprocal countermeasures,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said, according to a CNBC translation.

Retaliation For Those Who Make A Deal With Trump : The Trade War Becoming A Cold War

#News #TradeWar #China #USA #Trump #TheLinesAreDrawn

China vows retaliation against countries that follow U.S. calls to isolate Beijing

In a shift toward a harder stance this month, China retaliated against U.S. tariffs with levies of 125% on imports of American goods.

^{Evelyn Cheng (CNBC)}

El Salvador offers Venezuela prisoner swap involving US deportees

El Salvador's president has offered to repatriate 252 Venezuelans deported by the US and imprisoned in his country - if Venezuela releases the same number of political prisoners.
Nayib Bukele appealed directly to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a post on social media.
He said many of the Venezuelan deportees had committed "rape and murder", while Venezuelan political prisoners were jailed only because they opposed Maduro, whose re-election last year is widely disputed.

DIrty Dealing That Makes Trump Look Complicit, A Liar (Surprise) or a Fool (Also no Surprise) or all 3

#ElSalvador #Venezuela #Trump #OurModernTimes #News #BBC

El Salvador offers Venezuela prisoner swap involving US deportees

El Salvador proposes exchanging 252 US-deported Venezuelans for the same number of "political prisoners" in Venezuela.

^{Jaroslav Lukiv (BBC News)}

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters

Crowing About His Flaunting Law & Order Lies and Ignoring The Supreme Court

#News #Trump #SupremeCourt #SalvadoranTortureCamps #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IgnoringDueProcess #Fascism

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters

In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

^Techdirt

Republican rebels try to stop Trump's Canada tariffs

Four Republican US senators have broken ranks and voted with the Democrats in an effort to block President Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada. In a rare display of opposition to the president, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Susan Collins helped to vote through a resolution 51 to 48 to end Trump's emergency declaration on fentanyl trafficking that he has used to justify tariffs on Canadian imports.

BBC News Story

#News #BBC #Trump #Canada #LisaMurkowski #MitchMcConnell #RandPaul #SusanCollins

Republican rebels vote with Democrats to scupper Trump's Canada tariffs

Four Republican senators vote with Democrats to try and end levies on imported Canadian goods, steel and aluminium.

^{Adam Hale (BBC News)}

Good to see that in 2025 one still cannot buy justice. Let’s keep it that way…

#uspol #trump #musk

Anti-Immigrant Extremists Want to Use this 226-Year-Old Law to Implement a Mass Deportation Program

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was used to justify World War II-era internment of noncitizens, and now Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the law to target immigrant communities

This is A Threat To So Many Lives

#ARGH! #Trump #ImmigrationMadness #Interment #AbuseOfLaw #AlienEnemiesAct #ACLU

Anti-Immigrant Extremists Want to Use this 226-Year-Old Law to Implement a Mass Deportation Program

^{Naureen Shah (American Civil Liberties Union)}

"We assess that the Presidency has been captured by Vladimir Putin. Until we see proof otherwise, assume that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance are proxies for Putin, Xi, and their allies. China backs Russia fully.

Russia’s strategic goal is to dismantle the United States. They will pursue this through creating internal turmoil and dysfunction, trying to destroy the dollar and by 'ending' the Federal Reserve."

~ Dave Troy

#Musk #Trump #Putin #economy
/7

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1iwjijEK_6oyN4hV2QahTN0pHcztDNjX5GeeUqWBq_Rw/mobilebasic?ref=america2.news

Managing Financial Instability In 2025

MANAGING FINANCIAL INSTABILITY IN 2025 By David Troy, Publisher + Editor, America 2.0 Published November 8, 2024; Last Updated March 4, 2025 The Trump/Vance administration has the potential to unleash widespread economic harms, many of which are not…

^{Google Docs}

"Trump has created a climate of extreme economic uncertainty. And that’s really bad for the economy in the most fundamental way. If you’re tied to the global economy in really any way it’s hard to imagine you’d be making any big spending decisions at the moment. And that plays down to the consumer level. Meanwhile, the administration is at least trying to yank a lot of government spending out of the domestic economy."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #StockMarket #recession
/6

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ominous-economic-data

Ominous Economic Data

The Atlanta Fed has again lowered its projection for first quarter 2025 GDP. It had been predicting growth of 2.3%. At the end of last week that was revised to…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

"Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are."

~ Wall Street Journal

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
/5

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-the-dumbest-tariff-plunge-5da57946

Opinion | Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge

He says the 25% levies on Mexico and Canada will begin Tuesday. Stocks fall.

^WSJ

"The unease has already led to warnings that the U.S. could be heading for recession, with the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model estimating real GDP growth for the first quarter of 2025 at -2.8 percent, down from +3.9 percent just four weeks ago."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
/4

"Donald Trump’s introduction of his long-threatened 25 percent trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada has caused global stock markets to drop sharply, with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all falling."

~ Oliver O'Connell, Joe Sommerlad, Ariana Baio

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
/3

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-news-tariffs-recession-stocks-canada-live-updates-b2708571.html

U.S. forecast to enter recession after Trump crashes markets with tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico: Live

President’s trade aggression causes unease after he suspends American aid for Ukraine

^{Oliver O'Connell (The Independent)}

"Also today, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecast a dramatic contraction in the economy in the first quarter of 2025. Evaluating current data according to a mathematical model, it moved from an expected 2.9% growth in gross domestic product at the end of January to –2.8% today."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
/2

"Today, the stock market dropped dramatically upon news that Trump intended to go through with his tariffs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 650 points, down 1.48%. The S&P fell 1.76%, and the Nasdaq Composite, which focuses on technology stocks, fell 2.64%."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-3-2025

March 3, 2025

As seemed evident even at the time, the ambush of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday was a setup to provide justification for cutting off congressionally approved aid to Ukraine as it tries to fight off Russia’s invasio…

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"Trump is killing the economy, reducing the U.S. government to rubble, and destroying our relationships with our allies. Putin may love it, but it’s a catastrophe for us and much of the rest of the world."

~ Robert Reich

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
/8

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/democrats-wake-the-hell-up

Democrats! Wake the hell up!

Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.

^{Robert Reich}

"I think for the first time in 90 years, we’re going to see an interruption of #SocialSecurity benefits. I hope it doesn't happen, but I believe it will. You're going to see wait times skyrocket.”
-M O’Malley -fmr SS COMR

He said the current admin’s efforts to shrink the WF will send away essential personnel & jeopardize the agency’s most basic functions.

>73M ppl, incl. 56M seniors, rely on the #SSA for monthly benefit checks.

#USPol #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Coup #Resist

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-security-missed-benefit-payment_n_67c5d849e4b05a517aba7be2

Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley Says DOGE Cuts Could Interrupt Benefits

Donald Trump's purge of the federal workforce could cause a system failure at the Social Security Administration, the agency's former leader warned.

^{Arthur Delaney (HuffPost)}

I don't know what the Trump/Musk wreckers are doing to the NIH systems of online information and research, but lots of people want to know.

PubMed, Cancer.gov failing (and reappearing, broken sites, graphics wrong}

Websites keep failing, DNS records arent resolving....
#NIH #WormBrain #RFKjr #trump #musk #Fascism
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/2/2307303/-The-United-States-is-actively-under-attack-NIH-NLM-NCI-have-all-been-taken-offline#comment_90826112

The United States is actively under attack. NIH, NLM, NCI have all been taken offline

The National Institutes of Health (nih.gov), the National Library of Medicine (nlm.nih.gov), the clinical center (cc.nih.gov) and the National Cancer Institute (cancer.gov) ** have all been taken offline. Trying to connect generates a “server not...

^{Daily Kos}

"DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify. It only provides records for $9.6B in savings from contract terminations."

Neither Trump, nor Musk, can keep track of their egregious lies that are destroying public servants' livelihoods & lives.

#Trump #Musk #Grift #DOGE #USPol #Resist

https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-impossible-verify/story?id=119174949

DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify

It only provides records for $9.6 billion in savings from contract terminations.

^{Soo Rin Kim (ABC News)}

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar

Trump's People Called Out For Trying To Cover Up History In Museum

#Trump #CrimesAgainstHistory #CriminalTrump #NaziTrump #NazisHateHistory #CriminalConspiracy

Trump’s swearing-in will move inside the Capitol Rotunda because of intense cold weather

Cold Day In Hell For Trump & His Supporters

#APNews #News #Trump #ColdDayInHell #SignsNPortents

#NASA Administrator Bill #Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that #SpaceX founder and Donald #Trump ally Elon #Musk and Russian President Vladimir #Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.

The report raises national security concerns as SpaceX’s relationships with NASA and the #US military may have granted Musk access to sensitive government information and US intelligence.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/25/politics/elon-musk-vladimir-putin/index.html

#Ukraine #Russia #MAGA #GOP

Rachel Maddow : Russian Media Tries To Fake American Diplomats, Trump Desperate Money Deals Etc Al

A lot has been going on over the 4 days I took off from a lot of the news....

Russian Fake American Media, Trump National Security Threat etc al

#News #Maddow #Trump #Russia #Putin #FakeRussianAmericanMedia #TikTok

'Everything's for sale': Trump's TikTok flip-flop follows disturbing pattern

Rachel Maddow looks at examples of Donald Trump completely reversing a strongly stated opinion at a time that appears to coincide with a donation or other financial incentive, a situation that is not likely to change given Trump's transactional natur…

^{MSNBC.com (MSNBC)}

Yes! Nobody could have imagined, much less predicted that.

#Obama's election threw #White #Christians into apoplectic rage, paving the way for #TeaParty, #NewtGingrich, and the #religious #FarRight, culminating in #MAGA and #Trump

#GOP

Latest comic on Trump calling his political enemies "vermin"

#politics #uspol #cartoon #comic #fascism #authoritarianism #media #language #trump

Whatever you do, do not use Soapbox for your #fediverse needs.

The creator and maintainer, Alex Gleason, of Soapbox (or Rebased as it was called) is anti-trans and was previously the head of engineering of the Trump-related social network (Truth Social).

He also worked on Poast, which was a social network for neo-nazis and a direct successor to Kiwi Farms.

Steer clear of it.

[ # ] :: #trans#fedi#soapbox#rebased#trump#transphobia#federation#mastodon#lgbt#lgbtq#queer

Truth Social Closely Linked To Far-Right Platform Poast

'It's using the front end built directly on Poast.' Truth Social has close link to far-right platform Poast.

^{Claire Goforth (The Daily Dot)}