Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nationalemergency, aggregated by home.social.
1 person in 60 has HIV in Fiji: national emergency declared
Fiji has declared a national emergency following a sharp surge in HIV cases. Rates are up 1500% in…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Fihi #HIV #nationalemergency
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/914175/
https://www.europesays.com/people/242443/ Gavin Newsom Comments on Climate #CaliforniaGovernor #ClimateChange #DonaldTrump #GavinNewsom #NationalEmergency #NewYorkClimateWeek #UNGeneralAssembly
Fiji Declares National Emergency Over Rapid HIV Increase
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurenglish.net/fiji-declares-national-emergency-hiv/
https://www.europesays.com/videos/89763/ Ex-migration minister: UK doesn’t have ‘full control’ of borders #CathyNewman #COBRAMeeting #immigration #Migration #MikeTapp #NationalEmergency #Protests #SkyNews #SmallBoats #UKNews
ALWAYS take the ramblings of a #fascist lunatic seriously
#IHIPNews : #NationalEmergency? (Not if you stop them! )
White House declares national emergency over foreign parts used in power grid
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Trump administration is declaring a national emergency over America’s power grid, signing an executive…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #NationalGrid #ArtificialIntelligence #Cybersecurity #DataCenters #EnergyDepartment #Executiveorder #Foreignequipment #nationalemergency #powergrid
https://www.europesays.com/britain/112881/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/112881/ White House declares national emergency over foreign parts used in power grid #ArtificialIntelligence #Cybersecurity #DataCenters #EnergyDepartment #ExecutiveOrder #ForeignEquipment #NationalEmergency #NationalGrid #PowerGrid
White House declares national emergency over electric grid threat
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday declaring a national emergency over security…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #NationalGrid #DepartmentofEnergy #Electricity #energy #energygrid #GrimesCounty #nationalemergency #power #Texas
https://www.europesays.com/britain/112342/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/112342/ White House declares national emergency over electric grid threat #DepartmentOfEnergy #Electricity #energy #EnergyGrid #GrimesCounty #NationalEmergency #NationalGrid #power #Texas
Trump Bans Foreign Grid Equipment in Emergency Order
Executive order bars transformers, inverters, and battery storage from 24 embargoed nations, targeting China's dominant role in U.S. power supply chains
https://pulseofnations.lol/trump-bans-foreign-grid/
#Cybersecurity #EnergyPolicy #ExecutiveOrder #ForeignEquipment #GridSecurity #Infrastructure #NationalEmergency #Trump
The UK is in the grip of a ‘firewave’. Sounds like an emergency? Yet we’ve heard nothing from our new Prime Minister. As Britain swelters through heatwaves, wildfires and droughts, communities need leadership, not silence. The climate and nature crisis is here and now: excess deaths, school closures, cancelled hospital appointments and rising food bills. Is Andy prepared to meet the moment?
Add your name to the call on Andy Burnham to:
Meet the UK's international climate and nature commitments
Pass the Nature + National Security Bill in this Parliament
Reject all new oil and gas licences, including Rosebank, and deliver a just transition
https://www.zerohour.uk/andy
#ClimateCrisis #UKgovernment #NationalEmergency
@dogzilla
It's STUNNING how quickly these RW "patriots" will abuse their power/authority whenever that power/authority is threatened. 🤬
#Delusional #RWNJ #ElectionFraud #ElectionTheft #NationalEmergency #MartialLaw
https://www.europesays.com/people/186028/ Andy Burnham to chair emergency meeting on heatwave after wildfires ravage country #AndyBurnham #DroughtConditions #EnglandAndWales #ExtremeHeat #FireBrigadesUnion #HighTemperatures #MetOffice #NationalEmergency #wildfires
Trump's Comments on Declaring Election Emergency Spark Controversy
📰 Original title: Trump's alarming four words on seizing elections light up internet: 'Take him at his word'
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Drone strike on oil refinery in Zawiya, Libya
A drone struck an oil tank at the Brega Petroleum Marketing Company facility in Zawiya, sparking a massive fire. Libya's government declared a national emergency.
#OSINT #NewsGroup #DroneStrike #OilRefinery #NationalEmergency #Libya
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Drone strike on oil refinery in Zawiya, Libya
State-owned Brega Petroleum Marketing Company reported a drone strike on its oil plant in Zawiya. A fire broke out at a storage tank, leading the government to declare a national emergency.
#OSINT #NewsGroup #DroneStrike #Libya #OilFacility #NationalEmergency
https://www.europesays.com/africa/359405/ Spain to deploy military to Ceuta as thousands breach Morocco border #Army #border #Ceuta #citizen #frontier #Government #InteriorMinistry #Migrant #Morocco #NationalEmergency #NationalSecurity #People #situation #Spain #thousand
https://www.europesays.com/people/172452/ Thousands of Illegal Migrants Invade Spanish Enclave Ceuta, Clashing with Locals #BorderControl #CivilWar #clash #GiorgiaMeloni #IllegalMigration #invaders #looting #MassInvasion #Morocco #NationalEmergency #PedroSánchez #remigration #residents #SantiagoAbascal #Schengen #spain
Thousands of migrants arrive in Ceuta as Spain sends army to ‘totally collapsed’ border
Spain is set to deploy its military to restore order at its “totally collapsed” border with Morocco in…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #ceuta #CivilGuard #Migrants #migrantscrossing #Morocco #nationalemergency #northernMorocco #Thesituation
https://www.europesays.com/spain/63313/
Spain needs a legal overhaul to protect homes from fire: here’s what it can learn from Australia and Greece
On July 24, 2026, multiple forest fires spurred by an intense heatwave led Spain’s government to declare a…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #bufferzone #buildings #catchingfire #firedamage #firesafety #fireswerestarted #forestfire #forestfirefighting #Greece #legalframeworks #MilitaryEmergencyUnit #nationalemergency #wildland-urbaninterface
https://www.europesays.com/spain/62676/
Tens of thousands flee fires in France, blazes merge outside Madrid
By Michael Francis Gore and Stephane Mahe NAVALUENGA, Spain/LEGE-CAP-FERRET, France, July 24 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Madrid #CapFerret #EmmanuelMacron #EuropeanUnion #France #Frenchauthorities #governmentofficials #IsabelDíazAyuso #LaurentNunez #Meteo-France #nationalemergency #tensofthousands
https://www.europesays.com/spain/60510/
Tens of thousands flee fires in France, blazes merge outside Madrid
By Michael Francis Gore and Stephane Mahe NAVALUENGA, Spain/LEGE-CAP-FERRET, France, July 24 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Madrid #Bordeauxmetropolitanarea #CapFerret #EuropeanUnion #France #Frenchauthorities #governmentofficials #IsabelDíazAyuso #LaurentNunez #Meteo-France #nationalemergency
https://www.europesays.com/spain/60404/
Tens of thousands of people fled #wildfires in southwest #France by car & boat on Friday & #Spain declared a #NationalEmergency as huge blazes merged outside #Madrid & searing #heat left tinder-dry conditions across #Europe.
French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the #CapFerret peninsula, a tourism spot. 2 fires merged outside Madrid, & a third was on the verge of joining them, government officials said.
#ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-declares-emergency-wildfires-force-thousands-evacuations-2026-07-24/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Spain declares national emergency over wildfires near Madrid and in Avila
MADRID, July 24 (Reuters) – The Spanish government on Thursday night declared a national emergency after a series…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Madrid #adverseweatherconditions #InteriorMinistry #Madridregion #nationalemergency #regionalgovernment #SanMartindeValdeiglesias #VilladelPrado #Wildfires
https://www.europesays.com/spain/60046/
Remember That Since This #WaPo Story In February #RWNJ #DJT Acolytes Seeking To Declare #NationalEmergency USA #Election #PowerGrab Plot In Plain Sight Has Not Gone Away
https://www.europesays.com/africa/324245/ FG to Implement 112 as Nigeria’s Single Emergency Number #112 #EmergencyNumber #EmergencyResponse #EmergencyServices #FG #KashimShettima #NationalEmergency #NationalEmergencyCouncil #NCC #NEMA #Nigeria #PublicSafety #Shettima
80 vials of fentanyl stolen from Rome hospital, enough for 20,000 doses
The Italian government is sounding the alarm after 80 vials of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to one…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #fentanyl #hospitalfacilities #nationalemergency #palazzochigi #vials
https://www.europesays.com/italy/29671/
Trump Extends North Korea National Emergency for One Year
U.S. President Donald Trump. EPA-Yonhap U.S. President Donald Trump has extended the “national emergency” declaration regarding the North…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Seoul #fissilematerial #Koreanpeninsula #nationalemergency #nuclearthreat #Pyongyangsanctions #TrumpNorthKorea #USnationalsecurity
https://www.europesays.com/korea/66021/
Chris Peckham on our National Emergency: https://www.nebriefing.org/expert-briefings/opening
Not only is the prevailing #FascistLogic of our Nations governments’ driven by caprice and hubris, but is the reason for their corruption. They know the only possible future is grounded on an ethically sustainable science of logic, but still believe their gold plated pensions are worth the price! #NationalEmergency #ChrisPeckham #EarthMatters #BBCBias #EndlessWars #ParochialStories #ArmsRace #RealDialogue #inequality #injustice #DiverseReporting #CorporateEvil #EthicalRepresentation #EndUltrasPower
https://www.europesays.com/africa/258488/ Stop deceiving Nigerians over state police, Makinde tells Tinubu #AlliedPeople'sMovement #Amotekun #APC #Makinde #NationalEconomicCouncil #NationalEmergency #Nigeria #OyoStateHouseOfAssembly #StatePolice #WesternNigeriaSecurityNetwork
https://www.europesays.com/africa/214482/ Tinubu Declares Insecurity, Poverty a National Emergency #BolaTinubu #GeorgeAkume #Insecurity #Labour #MayDay #NationalEmergency #Nigeria #NigerianEconomy #Poverty #RenewedHopeAgenda #Workers'Day
" #Canadians need to be levelled with. This is not a moment for partisan advantage. This is a #nationalemergency that demands all parties working together—getting legislation, getting policy, figuring this out. That is what creates #resilience. That is what creates #value."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mg66atptms2y
Trump’s White House is pure chaos: FBI officials quitting, Cabinet in revolt, and he’s still clinging to Howard Lutnick. This isn’t governance — it’s a personal circus run on ego, corruption, and loyalty over country. #TrumpWatch #Resist #NationalEmergency www.msn.com/en-gb/news/i...
Trump’s White House is pure chaos: FBI officials quitting, Cabinet in revolt, and he’s still clinging to Howard Lutnick. This isn’t governance — it’s a personal circus run on ego, corruption, and loyalty over country. #TrumpWatch #Resist #NationalEmergency www.msn.com/en-gb/news/i...
#SCOTUS strikes down imposition of #LiberationDay #TrumpTariffs
#HighestCourt rules Exec branch overstepped #authority to unilaterally impose #IEEPA import taxes using #DJT made up #NationalEmergency as pretext
Putting actual limits on #DreamyDon's #MockMobBoss mentality a rarity in this rein of error...
Now US #GOV may be obligated to tally & pay back billion$ in #REFUNDS to affected importers
https://www.ne16.com/t/10325091/217644891/9202902/1/1009235/
Why Isn’t News of #Trump Building Vast #ConcentrationCamps Being Treated as a #NationalEmergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a #MassDetention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
by #ThomHartmann, Feb 05, 2026
Excerpt: "The British originated the term '#ConcentrationCamp' to describe facilities where '#rebel' or 'undesirable' civilians were held in #SouthAfrica during the #SecondAngloBoerWar (1899–1902) to control and punish a #rebellious population.
"They were facilities where the 'bad elements of society' were 'concentrated' into one location so they could be easily controlled and would lose access to society and thus could not spread their messages of #resistance against the #BritishEmpire.
"Future generations of Americans—our children and grandchildren—won’t ask us whether #ICE followed civil detention statutes: they’ll want to know why we allowed concentration camps to exist in America at all.
"The Germans adopted the term in 1933 when #Hitler took power and created his first camp for #communists, #socialists, #UnioLleaders, and, by the end of the year, Hitler’s #PoliticalOpponents. They Germanized the phrase into '#Konzentrationslager' and referred to the process of their incarceration as 'protective custody.'
"The first camp was built at #Dachau just weeks after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and by the end of the year there were around 70 of them operating across the country."
#USPol #WakeUpPeople #HistoryRepeats #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DetentionCenters
#PrivatePrisons #CriminalizingDissent
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!
#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...
#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...
#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...
He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...
#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...
There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...
#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...
#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool
Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...
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#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl
“The #lawsuit challenges the administration’s emergency #tariffs, arguing that the law #Trump cited in his April order does not authorize the president to levy tariffs and that the so-called #nationalemergency was not a genuine emergency …” www.rawstory.com/trump-tariff...
Trump admin hit with $54 milli...
Please watch this video and sign the letter to UK media and the UK prime minister.
Even if - like I am - you are not from the UK.
#NationalEmergencyMeeting #NationalEmergency #Climatechange #climateaction
#JustHaveAThink #UK #NationalEmergency
You shound know about this: UK National Emergency Briefing 27. Nov. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7uh192r0
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse #ecocide #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #methane #GreenhouseGases #KeepitInTheGround
How is it that, that the only (and unlikely) network to broadcast this was GBNews!?
Who's hands are in whose pockets to keep this quiet?
Noting that "'emergency rule' is how autocrats assume and justify control," Jay Kuo points out that Trump has declared 9 national emergencies since becoming president, three on his first day in office. Kuo enumerates these.
And now we're about to see whether the Supreme Court will allow this behavior to continue, with impunity.
#Trump #NationalEmergency #autocracy #SupremeCourt
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-emergency-declarations-scotus
#Pentagon issued an order requiring all 50 states DC & US territories to train about 23,500 National Guard members as “quick reaction forces” 4 nationwide crowd control, following #Trump executive order 2 combat civil unrest. The internal memo outlines training in #riot control tactics, including use of batons, shields, #tasers, #pepperspray w full operational readiness by Jan 2026. #martiallaw #authoritarian #police #troops #electioninterference #nationalemergency #votingrights #ICE #DHS /1
@ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses #DonaldTrump, who has been exposed by Trump admin leaks in a BOMBSHELL @nytimes.com report about #ElectionRigging. By using the power of the president (such as he is) to declare a #NationalEmergency to delay voting at all...
youtu.be/5uxqEda1H-8?...
🚨 BOMBSHELL LEAK EXPOSES ANGRY...
@ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses #DonaldTrump, who has been exposed by Trump admin leaks in a BOMBSHELL @nytimes.com report about #ElectionRigging. By using the power of the president (such as he is) to declare a #NationalEmergency to delay voting at all...
youtu.be/5uxqEda1H-8?...
🚨 BOMBSHELL LEAK EXPOSES ANGRY...
Govt launches polio drive targeting 45 million children
ホームレス危機でカナダが非常事態宣言で大騒ぎ – カーニー首相が癇癪を起こす! https://www.yayafa.com/2526523/ #BreakingNews #CanadaHomelessCrisis #CanadianPolitics #CarneyTantrum #CityInCrisis #EmergencyDeclaration #GovernmentFailure #HomelessnessInCanada #HousingCrisis #MarkCarneyReaction #NationalEmergency #PublicOutrage #SocialCrisis #StateOfEmergency #UrbanCollapse #緊急事態宣言
“the scariest words in the English language right now may be ‘Trump officials declare that we are facing a #nationalemergency.’ So I got a sinking feeling when I saw Scott #Bessent … may soon declare a national #housing #emergency.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/yes-americ...
Yes, America Has a Housing Eme...
In filings in the case, the #Trump admin insists that “a #NationalEmergency exists” necessitating its #trade policy. A 3-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade, a specialized federal court in New York, was unconvinced however, ruling in May that Trump exceeded his powers.
The issue now rests with the appeals #judges.
The challenge strikes at just one batch of import taxes from an admin that has unleashed a bevy of them & could be poised to unveil more on Friday.
The 1977 #law, signed by President Jimmy Carter, allows the president to seize assets & block transactions during a #NationalEmergency. It was first used during the Iran hostage crisis & has since been invoked for a range of global unrest, from the 9/11 attacks to the Syrian civil war.
In sharp exchanges w/Schumate, appellate #judges questioned that contention, asking whether the law extended to #tariffs at all &, if so, whether the levies matched the threat the admin identified.
I had wondered about this myself. How many will refuse to follow orders -- especially when the targets are American citizens!
Is the US Military Poised to Experience a New Surge in Conscientious Objectors?
For troops experiencing ethical dilemmas, following one’s conscience
by Hope Hodge Seck
July 12, 2025
Excerpt: “What a number of them spoke to was, ‘I do not want to be part of pointing a gun at US citizens and maybe shooting it, like, I’m here to protect US citizens, even if they have different beliefs,’” Woolford told The War Horse. “So there were people who were having, I guess, a different version of ethical dilemma…They just didn’t believe this is all what they signed up for or agreed to.”
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/uAcY8
#MartialLaw #ICERaids #NationalGuard #USPol #TrumpSucks #NationalEmergency #Project2025
So yeah. #Biden and crew did NOTHING to stop #FusionCenters and other policies that #Trump is now using and abusing! And no thanks to #Obama for helping to expand presidential powers like #IndefiniteDetentionClause!
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113489577026000756
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112061266766251320
#NDAA #ExpandedPowers #BlueLeaks #JRIC #USPresidency #NationalEmergency #Drones #HR9495 #Terrorists #Activists #USPol #BorderEmergency
A little over three months into the second Trump presidency, I think we can safely identify patterns in the way the regime is seeking to construct a patchwork dictatorship by asserting unprecedented powers under the executive branch through a variety of means. Part of this is a truly unhinged reading of Article II of the US Constitution that requires you to assume the drafters just decided to quill out the rest of the document for shits and giggles after granting absolute authority to the President. Part of this strategy is exercising rarely-used powers under the authority of very old laws in ways that they were never intended to be used and based on pretending fascist conspiracy theories are real. And finally part of it is that Trump has declared an unprecedented number of (fake) national emergencies to grant himself extraordinary powers; which of course the Kelpto Kaiser is still using in ways they were never intended so he can straight up install a fascist dictatorship.
Trump Has Issued 8 “National Emergencies” Since Reentering the White House
"According to reporting from Axios, which relied on data collected by the Brennan Center for Justice, Trump has declared eight national emergencies since assuming office in mid-January. For comparison, President Joe Biden issued two national emergency declarations during his first 100 days in office, and President Barack Obama issued none within that time frame in either of his terms in office.
Trump has declared 21 national emergencies across his two terms so far — more than any other president this century, as the eight he announced this year, combined with the 13 he declared during his first four-year term, amount to 35 percent of all national emergencies declared by the four presidents since 2001. The next highest number of emergencies declared came from former President George W. Bush, who issued 16 such orders over the course of eight full years in office.
National emergencies allow presidents to temporarily enhance their executive powers without congressional approval. While Trump is not the first president to declare national emergencies to expand his authority, legal scholars say that he is exploiting such declarations to enact his far right agenda."
One of the major ways I think mainstream political discourse in the second Trump era has failed Americans, is in mainstream thinkers' inability to separate whether or not Downmarket Mussolini "can" do something, from whether or not he "should" do something. This isn't a videogame; emergency presidential powers presupposes an actual emergency that justifies them or Trump is just stealing power for the executive branch. Yes, the President has the authority to declare a bunch of national emergencies, but that doesn't mean we have to believe him when he makes up a bunch of fake crises and then insists that those fake crises give him the power to literally do fascism. What do I mean by fake crises? Well let's take a look at some of the emergencies Trump has declared:
"Trump has issued national emergencies related to fossil fuel energy production, mineral drilling, additional militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, and the country’s economy, using the latter of those declarations to justify imposing tariffs on nearly every country on the globe. Despite some abuses of the law by multiple presidents, Trump’s actions have been much more numerous and noticeable, according to Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program."
Please keep in mind that this is in addition to the fake war he says we're fighting against narco-terrorist gangs only his administration believes are working for Venezuela; as I've discussed elsewhere, this fake "invasion" is more or less the basis for the Trumprenreich regime's entire plan to traffic migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, just to name one example.
Finally of course, our American political tragedy wouldn't be complete if the reason Trump is getting away with all this wasn't a function of GOP complicity, short-sightedness, and a terrible SCOTUS ruling:
"The National Emergencies Act of 1976 established more than 120 powers that presidents can use when declaring emergencies. Meant to empower the executive branch to respond to events that required faster response times than allowed for by the ordinary legislative process, the law also originally included a “legislative veto” on emergency decrees, to ensure presidents couldn’t abuse the law.
That veto, which only required a simple majority vote under the law, was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1983. To overturn a presidential national emergency order today would require the passage of a law, with a veto-proof two-thirds support in both houses of Congress."
Somehow I don't think the fascist GOP is gonna stop the fascist president; but maybe I'm just cynical.
#Fascism #Trump #GOP #USPol #EmergencyPowers #NationalEmergency #SCOTUS
Not satisfied with scouring national monuments and poisoning our air, Trump has signed an executive order giving the green light to extremely dangerous and environmentally damaging deep sea mining operations in an unhinged scheme to compete with China in the critical minerals industry; a task which, stop me if you've heard this one before, Trump has declared a "national emergency."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deep-sea-mining
Trump Signs Executive Order to Advance 'Deeply Dangerous' Deep-Sea Mining
"Deep-sea mining is opposed by over 30 countries as well as academics and advocacy groups worldwide. Among them is Greenpeace USA, whose campaigner Arlo Hemphill said Thursday that "authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite—it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation, and U.S. credibility all at once."
"We condemn this administration's attempt to launch this destructive industry on the high seas in the Pacific by bypassing the United Nations process," Hemphill declared. "This is an insult to multilateralism and a slap in the face to all the countries and millions of people around the world who oppose this dangerous industry."
While the article goes on to note that this executive order in no way guarantees extractivist corporations will be able to successfully mine in the deep sea, I think we all understand that these greedbag sociopaths can do a fuck lot of damage to our oceans, a resource shared by the entire human species, while failing to profitably mine critical minerals. Furthermore, this order must be understood as part of a much larger environmental strategy by the Trump regime that from out here, sure as shit looks like letting the regime's billionaire supporters loot the till while the house burns down.
#Trump #ClimateCrisis #Fascism #DeepSeaMining #Extractivism #Environment #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #China #Corruption #NationalEmergency #USPol
It's honestly a little difficult to properly express how hard the Trump regime is leaning into its "villain in a Captain Planet cartoon" schtick with how quickly they're working to gut environmental regulations, strip mine the country, and turn the planet to ash. Furthermore, you can tell it's a real priority for the Kelpto Kaiser, his rich donors, and his fascist administration because of the extreme lengths the regime is willing to go to, in order to (not so) plausibly grant itself the power to do so.
Take for example the US interior department's announcement that they're going to fast track permit approvals for fossil fuel and mining projects on currently protected lands; and by "fast track" we mean reduce the length of the process to the point that the government is basically just rubberstamping mining projects. Their justification for doing so? Trump's executive order declaring an “energy emergency” which the regime argues, grants them extraordinary powers to quickly strip mine national monuments without consultation, or something.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/interior-agency-fossil-fuel-mining-permits
US interior agency to fast track permits for fossil fuel and mining projects
"The US interior department has announced plans to radically fast track permitting for projects involving fossil fuels and mining citing Donald Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration that many experts say does not exist.
The move would reduce to a maximum of 28 days permitting procedures that previously could take multiple years, the department said late Wednesday.
Green groups immediately criticized the plans to boost planet-heating fossil fuels and questioned their legality describing them as an extreme change to the nation’s core environment laws.
The department said that reviews that now typically take around a year would be reduced to just 14 days while a full environment impact statement that usually took two years would now take less than a month."
Obviously this is an extraordinarily bad idea for too many reasons to list fully here; not the least of which being that there is no energy emergency because the United States is already "extracting more oil and gas than any other country in world history." On a boiling planet run by genocidal billionaires, the last damn thing anyone needs is the US government helping Trump's fossil fuel industry donors mine more oil and gas we shouldn't be burning out of the ground on federally protected lands. I'm not surprised environmental groups are planning to sue to stop this, and I hope they win; assuming court orders mean anything to this administration at all - it's currently not clear that they do.
A moment must also be spared to note however that this is yet another example of Trump's strategy to expand his executive powers in ways that fracture the rule of law, by declaring a bunch of made up emergencies. At this point, I highly doubt that most Americans even know that the Trump administration has declared no less than 8 "national emergencies" to increase his power to do (mostly) fascist shit; that's how often the regime has gone to this well. There is no more an "energy emergency" in America, than there is an "invasion" by "narco-terrorist gangs" occurring on our southern border. The regime is merely pretending these things are true, and pointing to Trump's delusional edicts to justify enforcing this "unreality" as if they were true; but at the end of the day the Emperor really is bare ass naked, and reality isn't a game of nazi Simon Says.
#Fascism #ClimateCrisis #Trump #DepartmentOfInterior #DougBurgum #BigOil #FossilFuels #Mining #Capitalism #Corruption #NationalEmergency #Autocracy
No-Bid #ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Being Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job
The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to a company whose executives are accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker.
Sam Biddle, April 17 2025
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a contract worth $73 million with a firm whose executives are accused of taking part in a scheme to manufacture evidence against a co-worker during their time working at the Department of Homeland Security.
"According to a contract document reviewed by The Intercept, federal contractor #UniversalStrategicAdvisors will provide services pertaining to #ICE’s 'non-detained docket,' a master list of millions of #noncitizens believed to be removable from the United States but not yet in the agency’s custody.
"The contract cites President Donald #Trump’s declaration of a #NationalEmergency on the #USMexicoBorder, an overwhelming glut of potential #deportees, and a shortage of officers to process them all as justification for hiring a private vendor to assist with the collection of biometric data, coordinating removals, and monitoring #immigrant populations.
"The document says that with a fleet of new outsourced employees, ICE can reassign hundreds of officers to tasks that better align with Trump’s recent executive orders aimed at maximizing the agency’s detention and deportation operations. With the contractors onboard, the document says at least 675 ICE officers 'will be able to take all appropriate actions to comply with the EO’s by prioritizing conducting at-large arrests, removals, and detention related activities.'
"A former ICE official, who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity, said they were concerned by this plan to further privatize the agency’s operations at the same time as the Trump administration has dramatically slashed its workforce and gutted important oversight bodies like the Office for #CivilRights and #CivilLiberties, as well as the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. 'I certainly take issue with them firing career feds and demolishing whole offices, just to hire contractors to do the same work, many of them who are former ICE employees now retired,' the official said."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DjRAG
#WorkerRetaliation #ICEDetention #Deportations #HumanRightsAbuses #USPol #WorldPol #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Cronyism
#NationalEmergency
#Military it is time for action: GET THIS UNHINGED CRIMINAL OUT OF THE #WhiteHouse NOW!!!
#Protest & #Resist Safely
#FuckTrump #ImpeachTrump #EndTrump #ErazeTrump #FUCKmaga #ConstitutionalCrisis
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/before-you-protest-a-nationwide-guide
