#giftarticle — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #giftarticle, aggregated by home.social.
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Unforgivable
#Pregnant woman from #Ghana detained with her 4-year-old #child at Dulles Airport, #ACLU says
The pair had arrived seeking #medical treatment & have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #InternationalLaw
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Unforgivable
#Pregnant woman from #Ghana detained with her 4-year-old #child at Dulles Airport, #ACLU says
The pair had arrived seeking #medical treatment & have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #InternationalLaw
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Unforgivable
#Pregnant woman from #Ghana detained with her 4-year-old #child at Dulles Airport, #ACLU says
The pair had arrived seeking #medical treatment & have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #InternationalLaw
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Unforgivable
#Pregnant woman from #Ghana detained with her 4-year-old #child at Dulles Airport, #ACLU says
The pair had arrived seeking #medical treatment & have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #InternationalLaw
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Unforgivable
#Pregnant woman from #Ghana detained with her 4-year-old #child at Dulles Airport, #ACLU says
The pair had arrived seeking #medical treatment & have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #InternationalLaw
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How #PredictionMarkets & #Crypto Firms Steamrolled a #Watchdog Agency With Trump’s Blessings
Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
Three companies — each with ties to the #Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.
#law #business #oversight #regulation #fraud #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
How #PredictionMarkets & #Crypto Firms Steamrolled a #Watchdog Agency With Trump’s Blessings
Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
Three companies — each with ties to the #Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.
#law #business #oversight #regulation #fraud #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
How #PredictionMarkets & #Crypto Firms Steamrolled a #Watchdog Agency With Trump’s Blessings
Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
Three companies — each with ties to the #Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.
#law #business #oversight #regulation #fraud #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
How #PredictionMarkets & #Crypto Firms Steamrolled a #Watchdog Agency With Trump’s Blessings
Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
Three companies — each with ties to the #Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.
#law #business #oversight #regulation #fraud #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
How #PredictionMarkets & #Crypto Firms Steamrolled a #Watchdog Agency With Trump’s Blessings
Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
Three companies — each with ties to the #Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.
#law #business #oversight #regulation #fraud #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
There’s a Way to Stop Trump’s #IRS #SlushFund
by #JamieRaskin
These days it takes a spectacular burst of #corruption to get the attention of our scandal-weary nation, but #Trump & his admin have managed, once again, to transfix Americans by establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in the #DOJ that will undoubtedly be used to line the pockets of Trump’s partisans & foot soldiers — with your tax dollars.
#law #criminal #theft #TaxpayersMoney
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion/trump-congress-blanche-treasury.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.qgbr._vGHusTOpqUc&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
CW: uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread
Quinta Jurecic on the Foxification of the DOJ: "The goal of securing an indictment is no longer, as Justice Department regulations still require, to put together a case strong enough to persuade a jury to convict. More and more, DOJ primarily aims to participate in the call-and-response of the right-wing propaganda machine"
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A Powerful El Niño is Forming
A history of the #climate pattern may guide what to expect#ElNino #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/climate/el-nino-history-famine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.BXiY.r8_cRyvm_hZI&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
CW: Iran war
So
1) Their plan was to install Ahmadinejad as the "friendly" leadership. I'm sure the protestors Trump told "help is on the way" and other opposition figures would be thrilled!
2) They were going to accomplish that by… blowing up the IRGC grunts guarding his gate? -
In today's #AIIsGoingGreat (ht @jalefkowit*) NYT finds Steven Rosenbaum's book on AI "The Future of Truth" is packed with slop… His response? it "serves as a warning about the risks of A.I.-assisted research and verification, that is why I wrote the book. These A.I. errors do not, in fact, diminish the larger questions that the book raises about truth, trust and A.I. and its impact on society, democracy and editorial"
* https://mastodon.social/@jalefkowit@vmst.io/116602112873534348
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#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
“Protection from audit could be quite remunerative for Mr. Trump. In 2024, The Times reported that a loss in an I.R.S. audit could cost Mr. Trump more than $100 million.”
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The above NYT report is a #GiftArticle, but here is AP’s reporting:
#US government agrees to drop #tax claims against #Trump in broadening of #IRS lawsuit #settlement
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
https://apnews.com/article/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-7bb7a6d8020b903395accc180acf263b
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The above NYT report is a #GiftArticle, but here is AP’s reporting:
#US government agrees to drop #tax claims against #Trump in broadening of #IRS lawsuit #settlement
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
https://apnews.com/article/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-7bb7a6d8020b903395accc180acf263b
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The above NYT report is a #GiftArticle, but here is AP’s reporting:
#US government agrees to drop #tax claims against #Trump in broadening of #IRS lawsuit #settlement
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
https://apnews.com/article/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-7bb7a6d8020b903395accc180acf263b
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The above NYT report is a #GiftArticle, but here is AP’s reporting:
#US government agrees to drop #tax claims against #Trump in broadening of #IRS lawsuit #settlement
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
https://apnews.com/article/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-7bb7a6d8020b903395accc180acf263b
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The above NYT report is a #GiftArticle, but here is AP’s reporting:
#US government agrees to drop #tax claims against #Trump in broadening of #IRS lawsuit #settlement
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
https://apnews.com/article/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-7bb7a6d8020b903395accc180acf263b
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ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.
Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.
Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState
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ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.
Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.
Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState
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ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.
Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.
Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState
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ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.
Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.
Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState
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ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.
Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.
Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState
