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  1. Democracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.

    “We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
    said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
    🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”

    The president has no power over federal elections,
    and the US constitution is not ambiguous on the matter.
    Article I, section 4 of the document gives states the power to run elections.
    Congress, the constitution says, can pass nationwide rules for federal elections.

    Nonetheless, Trump and his allies have suggested the president may still be able to wield some kind of emergency power to take control of the electoral process.
    “The president’s authority is limited in his role with regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States
    – as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have,”
    #Cleta #Mitchell, a conservative lawyer and Trump ally said on a podcast interview last year.
    ⚠️“Then, I think maybe the president is thinking he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.”

    Declaring a national emergency unlocks about 150 statutory powers for the president, including things like shutting down radio stations, suspending certain military regulations, and to sanction foreign countries.

    But none of those powers “even come close to giving the president any authority over elections”, Weiser said.
    “The president has zero emergency powers over elections.”

    The concern about the president using emergency powers has only been amplified by the presence of #Tulsi #Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at the Fulton county raid.
    Gabbard, whose presence as an intelligence official on a domestic matter has caused widespread outrage, is said to be investigating voting equipment and foreign interference.

    Among others, Gabbard is briefing Mitchell and #Kurt #Olsen, another lawyer who was involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the election, on her investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.

    Mitchell declined to comment on those briefings, but said she understood Trump’s comments to be more about the need to change federal voting laws.
    “All of the election statutes need significant revision, updating, and reform. And many of us are working on that,” Mitchell said in an email. “Clearly there are far too many election officials nationwide who treat the law as optional suggestions. And have instituted procedures that are contrary to law. That happened in spades in 2020 and is all too common every election. Sloppy, poor administration and intentional disregard of basic statutory requirements. We see it everywhere.”

    There is no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020 or in any other election.

    The White House press secretary, #Karoline #Leavitt, has framed Trump’s comments similarly.
    Trump subsequently undercut those efforts to downplay his comments,
    criticizing Democratic cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, saying:
    🔥“If they can’t count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”

    Beyond unspecified actions to take control of state election processes, there are other pathways for Trump to try to interfere in the election process.
    #Steve #Bannon, the influential conservative personality and former Trump strategist, has called for Trump to deploy ICE agents at the polls.
    Such an effort would violate a federal law that prohibits federal troops from being at the polls “unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States”.
    ❌“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November.
    We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again,”
    Bannon said on his podcast on Tuesday.
    “And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

    The Trump administration has already shown its willingness to use emergency powers to try to expand the president’s authority.
    Last spring, the Trump administration invoked the
    💥"Alien Enemies Act",
    an 18th-century law that allows the government to deport immigrants without full due process.

    The United States, the government argued, was subject to an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
    Federal judges have since blockedthat order and expressed skepticism it is a legitimate invasion.
    Trump has also claimed he has emergency powers to impose tariffs, though the supreme court appears poised to reject that argument.

    Part of the reason Trump is talking about nationalizing elections now may be to try to get the public to accept an idea that is obviously illegal.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

  2. @Lana

    That nothing is correct that the White House says to defend themselves about Minneapolis, we are already used to.

    But that they also manipulate arrest pictures, as done here, to make the arrested people look bad, is even more depraved.

    #WhiteHouse #Lying #Depraved #Leavitt

  3. While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
    it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.

    In 2025,
    💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
    entered the lexicon,
    a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
    that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
    as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inhuman.

    The year ended with a Vanity Fair photographer capturing a close-up portrait of 28-year-old White House press secretary
    #Karoline #Leavitt that appears to show visible injection spots on her lips.

    Billionaire #Elon #Musk,
    the self-proclaimed “First Buddy.” also invited the world to take a closer look at his sexual proclivities in 2025,
    having installed himself in government to run the pseudo-agency Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while proclaiming he would destroy the
    “woke mind virus.”

    Musk wants everyone to think it’s progressives who are weird,
    mostly because they accept trans people.

    Instead, we learned that he has a fetish for impregnating women,
    which he justifies with an even stranger claim to be single-handedly battling the imaginary threat of depopulation.

    Musk frequently hits up strangers on X to ask if they’re interested in having his babies
    — of which he has at least 14 already.

    If they’re game or greedy enough to say yes, he reportedly tends to forgo the typical impregnation technique
    — which most people cite as the most fun part of the process
    — in favor of having a doctor do it for him with IVF.

    Musk’s kink swept through MAGA.

    🔥To hear movement leaders talk,
    it’s a woman’s duty to be pregnant as often as possible,
    ideally non-stop.

    #Tradwife” content that fetishized female submission and over-the-top fecundity was everywhere in right-wing bubbles in 2025.

    When pop star Taylor Swift became engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce,
    Charlie Kirk ranted that she needed to
    “submit to her husband”
    and “have lots of children.”

    🔥MAGA media was also awash in disinformation painting birth control as dangerous and unnatural,
    enabling the Trump administration to destroy millions of dollars worth of contraception,
    rather than let poor women have it.

    Nearly all women who have sex with men use contraception at least some of the time.

    But in 2025, MAGA was infected with online ideologies like “#incel
    — short for “involuntary celibacy”
    — and the “#redpill,”
    a misogynist worldview that treats dating as a dominance battle between men and women,
    instead of a shared activity.

    It’s why Nick Fuentes professes pride at being a virgin.

    The online right is flooded with sexually dysfunctional straight men
    who argue that their romantic woes aren’t due to their own failures,
    but because feminism has “ruined” women.

    Bored, angry men are a lucrative audience, so it makes sense that the grifter-heavy right would churn out endless content appealing to the bruised egos of these malcontents.

    But their dysfunction is seeping into politics in ways that are increasingly distorting and dangerous.

    The phrase that cinched this bizarre, inverted worldview in 2025 was
    #sexual #matador.”

    Technically, it was coined in late 2024 by Fox News’ Jesse Watters to describe Stephen Miller,
    who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff.

    But the term got new life in September when Miller’s wife Katie repeated the phrase on Fox News in a moment that was too confusing to be upsetting to anyone outside of the bizarre world of MAGA sexuality.

    On some level, it seems they were trolling Stephen Miller,
    who by conventional standards does not exactly exude sexual magnetism.

    salon.com/2025/12/31/the-right

  4. So this admiral, according to Leavitt, ordered helpless people , hanging on the side of the boat after the first strike, to be killed in "self-defense".....
    #trump #hegseth #bradley #leavitt #geopolitics #usa #navy #venezuela @geopolitics
    36m
    Democracy Matters :verified: @DemocracyMattersALot

    So Admiral Frank M. Bradley
    should be stripped of his many medals and dismissed in disgrace.

  5. RE: mstdn.social/@DemocracyMatters

    So this admiral, according to Leavitt, ordered helpless people , hanging on the side of the boat after the first strike, to be killed in "self-defense".....
    #trump #hegseth #bradley #leavitt #geopolitics #usa #navy #venezuela @geopolitics

  6. '#Karoline #Leavitt relative ARRESTED BY #ICE'

    I doubt very much that #Leavit cares in the slightest
    about the fate of her relative
    I think, however,
    that it bothers her enormously
    that it is 'public' that she has Hispanic relatives.

  7. Karoline #Leavitt Hypocritical #Story , revisited:

    * #Debts over $300,000, from.10 creditors. Only 5 of them were paid back, two of which were her parents.
    * The #Catholic #extremist Karoline #Leavitt had a baby out of wedlock, a "bastard" child as her #church calls them

    youtube.com/shorts/16JqGJ2DBNA

  8. Steven Cheung continues to prove himself to be the single most embarrassing Asian American fool of all time.

    ✅ Rocker Jack White Brutalizes Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt as Clash Goes Nuclear
    thedailybeast.com/rocker-jack-
    #stevencheung #trump #leavitt #jackwhite

  9. CW: Sexist but true AF I swear

    DHS ICE New Detention Center will feature #Ghislaine #Maxwell with the #Whip, #Kristi #Noem with the #Gun and #Melania #Trump with the #Stripper #Pole.

    "But what about #Karoline #Leavitt?"you ask. She provides the #drivel #nonsense and total #cluelessness.

    This is how #Republicans like their #GOP women. Violent. Hot and stupid AF.

  10. CW: Sexist but true AF I swear

    DHS ICE New Detention Center will feature #Ghislaine #Maxwell with the #Whip, #Kristi #Noem with the #Gun and #Melania #Trump with the #Stripper #Pole.

    "But what about #Karoline #Leavitt?"you ask. She provides the #drivel #nonsense and total #cluelessness.

    This is how #Republicans like their #GOP women. Violent. Hot and stupid AF.

  11. CW: Sexist but true AF I swear

    DHS ICE New Detention Center will feature #Ghislaine #Maxwell with the #Whip, #Kristi #Noem with the #Gun and #Melania #Trump with the #Stripper #Pole.

    "But what about #Karoline #Leavitt?"you ask. She provides the #drivel #nonsense and total #cluelessness.

    This is how #Republicans like their #GOP women. Violent. Hot and stupid AF.

  12. CW: Sexist but true AF I swear

    DHS ICE New Detention Center will feature #Ghislaine #Maxwell with the #Whip, #Kristi #Noem with the #Gun and #Melania #Trump with the #Stripper #Pole.

    "But what about #Karoline #Leavitt?"you ask. She provides the #drivel #nonsense and total #cluelessness.

    This is how #Republicans like their #GOP women. Violent. Hot and stupid AF.

  13. Pure #BULLSHIT as presented by #Karoline #Leavitt youtube.com/watch?v=exIux-tqhX0 - TIME TO WAKE THE FUCK UP, AMERICA!! Toss those russian assets to the curbs!! rescue what is left , after #Trump's idiocracy rage.

  14. on the 'other hand'
    #Karoline #Leavitt #WH #press #sec.

    She REALLY have the shittyes 'job'
    no wonder she is always neurotic and pissed

    She has to constantly lick Trump's ass (and this alone would destroy anyone's soul)
    defending any bullshit trump does
    and she has to put her face on it and 'sprinkle sugar candy' on
    ALL the worst shit coming from the #WH

    I'd be hysterical too if I had to do what she does.

  15. #Vance, #Musk, #Trump und Co sind scary, aber imo verströmen zB #MarjorieTaylorGreene #KarolineLeavitt #PamBondi, #PaulaWhite und #KristiNoem umso mehr diese gruseligen #Gilead Vibes.
    Das war es auch, was ich in #HandmaidsTale besonders verstörend fand: Dass Frauen aktive Propagandistinnen und Täterinnen in einem grausamen System werden. Und genau wie in Handmaids Tale scheint die "freie" Welt dem sprachlos gegenüber zu stehen.

    #Noem #Leavitt #Bondi #USA #Fascism

  16. Does Donald Trump surround himself with stupid people in order to look smart by comparison? Or is he only concerned with loyalty, and his sycophants simply tend to be of low intelligence? #trump #mtg #gaetz #vance #musk #vivek #rubio #giuliani #boebert #hegseth #mcmahon #noem #rfk #leavitt #burgum

  17. In 1908, Henrietta S. Leavitt discovered that the period of a variable star could predict its brightness. This, starting in 1918, let astronomers measure the sizes of our galaxy and the observable universe. #Poetry #Science #History #Astronomy #VariableStars #Leavitt (sharpgiving.com/thebookofscien)

  18. The #Courage #tour has made stops in Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia.

    The inclusion of #Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, in the tour highlights the Trump campaign’s increasing alignment with a movement on the religious right that seeks to subordinate US government and society to Christian doctrine.

    A typical day at the Courage tour involves faith healing and music in the morning, followed by a series of speakers preaching about the scourge of secular society and espousing their opposition to LGBTQ+ inclusion.

    Trump-aligned organizations including TPUSA Faith and America First Policy Institute have had a presence on the tour handing out pamphlets and posting up at stands outside the tent.

    Vance’s speech marks the first time the Trump campaign has officially linked with the tour.

    In response to a request for comment about Vance’s participation in the Courage tour, a Trump campaign spokesperson, #Karoline #Leavitt, did not directly comment on Wallnau or Vance’s participation in the event,
    but wrote that neither “President Trump, nor any of his supporters, ever engaged in an alleged ‘insurrection’.”

    Wallnau did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    #Republicans have long enjoyed the support of conservative, and in particular, #evangelical Christians.

    In 2016, Trump, whose profile as a twice-divorced billionaire who has faced multiple accusations of sexual assault, managed to maintain that alliance by assuring his presidency would represent the Christian right through conservative judicial appointments.

    Trump made good on his promise, ushering in an ultraconservative supreme court, which in 2022 overturned Roe v Wade
    – delivering opponents of abortion a stunning win.

    Since 2020, a burgeoning movement of evangelical leaders who seek to separate the church from Maga politics could threaten that alliance.

    If Trump is able to hold on to those voters and turn out enough conservative Christians at the polls, he could win back the White House.

    With its 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania could be a make-or-break state for Harris and Trump.

    Some polling shows Kamala Harris holding a narrow lead over Trump in the state;
    other polls suggest the candidates are virtually tied there.

    Vance’s participation in the Courage tour could alienate some.

    The campaign is probably betting the support he could shore up from rightwing Christians there will outweigh the risk of appearing at an event with extremist overtones.

  19. Former Trump advisor #Stephen #Miller claimed he has
    “never been involved with Project 2025” in a post on X on Saturday

    However, a video on the Project 2025 YouTube channel says otherwise.

    Following in Donald Trump’s footsteps, Miller tried to deny he has had any involvement with the plan, that has been described as, “ridiculous and abysmal,” by his former boss.

    Unfortunately for Miller, he appears in a video on the Project 2025 website entitled
    “Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy.”

    Miller addressed the Biden-Harris campaign X account which shared a screengrab of Miller in the video, telling followers on X
    “I have never been involved with Project 2025, not one word. But keep hoaxing, losers. Hoaxes are all you have.”

    Miller isn’t the only Trump administration official linked to Project 2025.

    Former Trump assistant #Spencer #Chretien, former Trump Office of Personnel Management Chief of Staff #Paul #Dans and Trump advisor #Troup #Hemenway appear in the video
    and are listed on the Project 2025 website as creators of the plan.

    Trump campaign press secretary #Karoline #Leavitt also appears in the video right after Miller.

    thedailybeast.com/former-trump

  20. Unterhaltsam erläutert das Autorenteam um Harald Lesch die Entdeckungsgeschichte unserer Galaxie. Lediglich im hinteren Teil fehlt es dem Buch ein wenig an Struktur. Eine Rezension

    Das Autorenteam um Harald Lesch ermöglicht mit diesem Buch eine spannende Reise durch die Entdeckungsgeschichte unserer Galaxie. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Die Entdeckung der Milchstraße von Harald Lesch, Cecilia Scorza-Lesch, Arndt Latußeck)#Milchstraße #All #Universum #Astronomie #Kosmologie #Sternsysteme #Sterne #Galaxis #Andromeda #Herschel #Leavitt #Hubble #Lesch #Spiralgalaxie #Physik
    »Die Entdeckung der Milchstraße«: Die Entschlüsselung unserer kosmischen Heimat