#powergrab — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #powergrab, aggregated by home.social.
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Overnight 'power grab' sees red state GOP vote at 4 AM to nix Dem seat #GOPSeditiousTraitors #racists #PowerGrab #GOPLiesAboutEverything www.rawstory.com/gop-26768877...
Overnight 'power grab' sees re... -
"Trump gets his Board of Peace, even as bigger countries steer clear. America’s traditional allies are taking a backseat on the effort ... Trump, who has three years remaining in his final term, has appointed himself the board’s lifelong chairman, giving himself the unilateral authority to veto decisions, approve the agenda, and select his own successor":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/trump-gets-his-board-of-peace-even-as-bigger-countries-steer-clear-00789617
#PowerGrab #VanityProject #corruption #SlushFund #politics -
"Trump gets his Board of Peace, even as bigger countries steer clear. America’s traditional allies are taking a backseat on the effort ... Trump, who has three years remaining in his final term, has appointed himself the board’s lifelong chairman, giving himself the unilateral authority to veto decisions, approve the agenda, and select his own successor":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/trump-gets-his-board-of-peace-even-as-bigger-countries-steer-clear-00789617
#PowerGrab #VanityProject #corruption #SlushFund #politics -
"Trump gets his Board of Peace, even as bigger countries steer clear. America’s traditional allies are taking a backseat on the effort ... Trump, who has three years remaining in his final term, has appointed himself the board’s lifelong chairman, giving himself the unilateral authority to veto decisions, approve the agenda, and select his own successor":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/trump-gets-his-board-of-peace-even-as-bigger-countries-steer-clear-00789617
#PowerGrab #VanityProject #corruption #SlushFund #politics -
"Trump gets his Board of Peace, even as bigger countries steer clear. America’s traditional allies are taking a backseat on the effort ... Trump, who has three years remaining in his final term, has appointed himself the board’s lifelong chairman, giving himself the unilateral authority to veto decisions, approve the agenda, and select his own successor":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/trump-gets-his-board-of-peace-even-as-bigger-countries-steer-clear-00789617
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Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool, no doubt no doubt.
Exclusive: #US may cut #AirTraffic 10% by Friday without #shutdown deal
The shutdown has forced 13,000 #AirTrafficControllers & 50,000 Transportation Security Administration [#TSA] officers to work WITHOUT #PAY & snarled tens of thousands of #flights.
#Trump #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #law #Congress
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-may-cut-air-traffic-10-by-friday-without-shutdown-deal-sources-say-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
The American Federation of Government Employees #AFGE & other #labor #unions have sued to stop the “reductions in force” #MassLayoffs, saying the firings were an #AbuseOfPower designed to punish #FederalWorkers & pressure #Congress.
Lawyers for the government claim the district court does not have the authority to hear personnel challenges [which is bullshit].
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
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About 500 #NationalGuard troops in LA are trained to accompany agents on immigration raids
Nearly 5,000 military personnel have been mobilized in the Los Angeles area in response to immigration raid protests. A commander says National Guard troops and Marines will protect #ICE agents and federal buildings, and will be allowed to 'temporarily' detain people.
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Updated 7:41 PM EDT, June 11, 2025WASHINGTON (AP) — "About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, the commander in charge said Wednesday. And while some troops have already gone on such missions, he said it’s too early to say if that will continue even after the protests die down.
"Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, speaking in an interview with The Associated Press and ABC, also warned that he expects the protest situation will escalate. 'We are expecting a ramp up,' he said, noting that protests across the nation are being planned and discussed now. 'I’m focused right here in LA, what’s going on right here. But you know, I think we’re, we’re very concerned.'
"Sherman, commander of Task Force 51 that is overseeing the more than 4,000 Guard troops and 700 #Marines deployed, initially said that National Guard troops had already temporarily detained some civilians. He later said he was incorrect, and that he had based his comments on photos and footage he had seen that turned out to not be a representation of Guard members in Los Angeles.
"He said that as of Wednesday, none of the troops has detained a protester. But he said they have gone through days of training and are prepared to do so if needed. Close to 2,000 of the Guard members have either been out protecting federal facilities or personnel already or are ready to move out, and the Marines will wrap up their training and are expected to be on the streets of Los Angeles as early as Thursday evening, Sherman said.
"The decision to have the soldiers provide security on the raids moves troops closer than ever before to carrying out law enforcement actions such as #deportations as President Donald Trump has promised as part of his immigration crackdown.
"#California Gov. #GavinNewsom has called the troop deployment a 'serious breach of state #sovereignty' and a #PowerGrab by Trump, and has gone to court to stop it. The president has cited a legal provision that allows him to mobilize federal service members when there is 'a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.'
"Under the Posse Comitatus Act, active-duty forces are prohibited by law from conducting law enforcement. Sherman said all of the Guard troops and Marines are going through several days of training on #CivilUnrest and #CrowdControl so they know exactly what they can and can’t do." [Um, yeah... Sure...]
#PoliceAccontability #ACAB #NationalGuard #LAProtests #Resist #Resistance #ResistICE #ResistAuthoritarianism #USPol #PosseComitatus #StatesRights #Constitution #Authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule #ResistFascism #USPol #Project2025
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Online news analysts Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali “...break down the authoritarian power grab and the indispensable programs – from Medicaid to school lunches – that [Don Trump's #project2025 initiative to scrap all programs which use public funding to serve public needs, ie, to vaporize #publicGoods to the ultimate benefit of private equity] targets under the guise of eliminating programs that 'advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.'
“YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen also joins the show to discuss how Democrats are massively failing to respond while Trump and his MAGA base wreak havoc on the country...”
#powerGrab #dissolutionOfSeparation #separationOfPowers #wealthTransfer #savingsTransfer #investmentsTransfer #dismantlement #heritageFoundation #corporateSocialism #MAGAplunder #constitution #headlines #news #powerOfThePurse
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What #SCOTUS just did to #broadband, the #RightToRepair, the #environment, and more
By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
By Verge Staff
Jun 28, 2024"Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the #EPA, #FCC, #FTC, #FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life. Both industry and ordinary people look to the administrative state, rather than legislators, for an immediate answer to their problems. And since 1984, the administrative state largely ran on one Supreme Court precedent: #ChevronUSA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (#NRDC).
"That decision has now been overturned. Admin law is not always interesting, but the simple fact is when it comes to the day-to-day, agencies are the most impactful part of the federal government. No single policy writer at The Verge can fully articulate the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court decision and how profound its effects will be. The administrative state touches everything around us: net neutrality, climate change, #CleanAir and water, and what scant #ConsumerProtections we have.
"While the practice had been in place for decades before, it came to be known as Chevron deference after a 1984 case: Chevron v. NRDC. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the #RonaldReagan administration’s #industry-friendly Environmental Protection Agency to stick with a lax interpretation of the #CleanAirAct.
"Over the years, Chevron deference has enabled federal agencies to tackle all sorts of issues that legislators have yet to cover — from addressing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change to regulating broadband access. As the conservative legal movement to disempower the administrative state grew, Chevron deference became — in certain circles — shorthand for #GovernmentOverreach.
"Before its decision to overturn Chevron, the Supreme Court had already dealt a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by strengthening the 'major questions' doctrine in its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA. According to the major questions doctrine, a federal agency shouldn’t have the leeway to craft regulation on an issue of major national significance if Congress hasn’t explicitly allowed it to do so in legislation.
"The same bloc of six #conservative justices that formed the majority in West Virginia v. EPA also overturned the longstanding precedent of #RoeVsWade — an even older case than Chevron — in the same month. When two cases calling for an end to Chevron deference worked their way up to the Supreme Court this year, the writing was on the wall — and once again, those same six justices overturned Chevron.
Impacts:
- #NetNeutrality
- The #environment and efforts to fight #ClimateChange
- Regulating #BigTech
- #TechWorkers on #visas and #immigration law
- #Labor and #WorkersRights
- The right to repair, #copyright, #PatentLaw, and the Apple Watch banhttps://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa
#DMCA #Chevron #PowerGrab #CorporateFascism #ChevronDeference #WaterIsLife #CleanWaterAct #SCOTUS #ScotusIsCorrupt #ScrotusSunday #ImpeachJusticeThomas #ImpeachJusticeAlito #KochBrothers