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[firestar464]

Fucking contempt of court

[firestar464]

‘Rules aren’t clear anymore’: Trump crackdown on student protesters sends shock waves across US universities

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/us/mahmo ... index.html

ICE has ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say

https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/ice-has ... rneys-say/

[firestar464]

MN lawmakers want to define 'Trump derangement syndrome' as a mental illness

https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-lawmakers- ... al-illness

I'd put this in "dumbassery" but ah well

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

Amidst all the noise, I somehow missed this story, from a few days ago.

Could NPR and PBS be next on the chopping block?

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Trump moves to close down Voice of America

16 March 2025

US President Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".

A White House statement said the order would "ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda", and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media criticising the broadcaster.

VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda. It says it currently reaches hundreds of millions of people globally each week.

Mike Abramowitz, VOA's director, said he and virtually his entire staff of 1,300 people had been put on paid leave.

Abramowitz said that the order left VOA unable to carry out its "vital mission... especially critical today, when America's adversaries, like Iran, China, and Russia, are sinking billions of dollars into creating false narratives to discredit the United States".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o

[firestar464]

Trump calls for the impeachment of a judge, as lawsuits pile up

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-53 ... p-lawsuits

John Roberts criticized his statement without referring to him by name. The response from MAGA:

I'll just drop some examples of stupid here

[firestar464]

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop ... -haircuts/

Navajo Code Talker Videos, Photos, Stories Removed to Comply with Trump Diversity Purge

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... month.html

[Vakanai]

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop ... -haircuts/

That is the dumbest thing perhaps yet from conservatives, which is incredible considering just how stupid their acts of hate and pettiness has gotten. I mean hair cuts??? So much serious effort spent on such agonizingly idiotic things.

[firestar464]

French researcher denied entry to US for 'expressing personal opinion' on Trump policies

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international ... 346_4.html

[firestar464]

MN lawmakers want to define 'Trump derangement syndrome' as a mental illness

https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-lawmakers- ... al-illness

I'd put this in "dumbassery" but ah well

[firestar464]

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/1 ... t-00239754

[firestar464]

Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons as White House rallies to defend Musk

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/tesla-c ... i-doj.html

[firestar464]

How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule

https://www.thenation.com/article/socie ... gman-rule/

[Vakanai]

Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons as White House rallies to defend Musk

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/tesla-c ... i-doj.html

So he want's to deport legal American citizens to El Salvadorian prison just for damaging property and such of his richest supporter and co-conspirator in the take down of democracy. Oh geeze, if only there was a right to citizenship by birth to protect us...

I swear it's like we're living in a political satire only without the humor.

[firestar464]

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-heal ... tion-trump

‘Let’s just put things on pause': Alberta premier under fire for Breitbart interview

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/ ... interview/

ISTG she'd be the first to defect in the event of a US invasion

[firestar464]

Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people”

https://www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilm ... ion-people

[weatheriscool]

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

Source: CNN Business

Published 7:58 AM EDT, Tue March 25, 2025

New York CNN — Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs. Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children.

The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.

DeSantis is supportive of the law and has been vocal of cracking down on immigration, echoing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric. However, economists have warned that could backfire, sparking further inflation and labor shortages. “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff,” DeSantis said last week at a panel discussion with border czar Tom Homan, as first reported by the Tampa Bay Times.

A Florida law was signed in 2023 requiring employers with more than 25 employees that checks their immigration status using a federal database known as E-Verify. Employers who don’t comply with the law face fines of $1,000 per day until they provide proof that their workers are legal citizens. “Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up,” DeSantis also said during the panel discussion.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business ... index.html

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ga ... s-legal-in
https://wordsfrom.us/2015/09/the-case-a ... abor-laws/

[Vakanai]

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

Source: CNN Business

Published 7:58 AM EDT, Tue March 25, 2025

New York CNN — Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs. Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children.

The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.

DeSantis is supportive of the law and has been vocal of cracking down on immigration, echoing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric. However, economists have warned that could backfire, sparking further inflation and labor shortages. “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff,” DeSantis said last week at a panel discussion with border czar Tom Homan, as first reported by the Tampa Bay Times.

A Florida law was signed in 2023 requiring employers with more than 25 employees that checks their immigration status using a federal database known as E-Verify. Employers who don’t comply with the law face fines of $1,000 per day until they provide proof that their workers are legal citizens. “Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up,” DeSantis also said during the panel discussion.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business ... index.html

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ga ... s-legal-in
https://wordsfrom.us/2015/09/the-case-a ... abor-laws/

Out of all the sickening depravities coming out of the whole Trumped up MAGAfied modern conservative party, I somehow still didn't think they had the gall to reverse child labor laws openly this soon. And do they really think this will work? Even among the MAGA public what parent will be cool with their children working freaking graveyard shifts and juggling schools? Of course I imagine the end goal is they won't juggle school - they'll just fall into poor end work early for the rest of their lives, after all it's good for the businessmen lining the pockets of guys like DeFascist. It's one thing to argue against immigration, it's another to argue for child wage slaves.

[raklian]

They never had the mandate to do almost all of this. It was about the price of eggs, right?