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Never considered this. The #Trump shakedown of legal firms for pro bono work isn't about the money. It's at least partially about forcing lawyers who have plenty of other opportunities to get paid and explore interesting issues, forcing them to take cases based on crackpot #MAGA legal theories that they'd otherwise never argue for. And maybe you could pay a decent lawyer to support, but you'd have to pay them a lot more and they'd be risking their reputation.

🗣 PUERTO RICO, ¡DESPIERTA!

❝ The U.S. Supreme court Thursday deferred any ruling on President Trump's claim that there is no automatic guarantee to birthright citizenship in the Constitution.

The court said it would hear arguments in the case on May 15, with a decision likely by late June or early July. ❞

“Supreme Court to hear challenge to Trump's birthright citizenship order in May”
npr.org/2025/04/17/g-s1-58221/

Yet more school shootings in the USA. Given other current events, I beg my fellow "liberals" to not reflexively call for gun control laws at this time, but instead for YOU to go purchase a semi-automatic rifle & pistol with detachable high-capacity magazines, & to take courses & spend range time practice for their safe handling. This is NOT a call for you to ever initiate any kind of violence, but rather to become capable of SELF DEFENSE.

While on the topic, those MAGA (Make America Great Again) fanatics, seems very much like gang members. I do not like them either.

#MAGA #MEGA #DonaldTrump #Trump #Nazis #Fascist

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https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a6p38g400dhy01qv

ぷにすきーLinux Is Best (@Linux)My opinions of gangs is I do not like them. I grew up dirt poor, and whatever you are imagining, poorer than that. My sneakers looked like sandals with all my toes fully exposed, my jacket looked like rags that moths had orgies in, my shirts both torn and faded, my jeans full of rips, tears, and holes, and all of them larger or smaller than they should have been because they were either a hand-me-downs or old gifts that I had long past grown out of. So when I finally got a new jacket, for the first time in my life, that was not given to me out of some form of sympathy, and that I could pick out, myself, that was a special day. It was followed by the next day, when I was waiting for the school bus, and someone asked me "who I represented", and when I did not understand the question, because it made no sense to me, some jerk likely suffering from mental illness, pulled out a gun, and told me I need to stop disrespecting his "peeps" and take off the jacket. My jacket was yellow and black, the jerk claimed it was "Latin Kings" colors, which I did not know what that meant either. I was 8 years old at the time. I had no concept of what a gang was. I just knew, from that point on, they were punks who threaten violence, and that view has never changed, even after they were long gone. I do not respect gangs or what they stand for. I believe they are stupid and unnecessary, while being cruel and dangerous, and only losers see them as anything else. RN: I can blindly claim anyone is a gang member or a terrorist, and then claim the burden of proof is on that poor, innocent individual that they are indeed innocent, which is an impossible thing to do. And with this logic, someone could make such an accusation to justify the damnation of any individual. We have seen this type of behavior before - The Salem Witch Trials. This is Donald John Trump's brand of justice. Anyone they dislike, they can claim is a gang member or terrorist, and without any evidence, off to a 3rd world country to die, you go. #BurnTheWitch #SalemWitchTrails #Justice #RuleOfLaw #ElSalvador RE: I want it known, that if I ever "vanish", that I am not part of a gang, and never have been part of a gang, but it is very convenient to use a double-negative, and claim people are gang members. An example of a harmless double-negative argument: > " Prove to me, and everyone else you did not sneeze, two weeks ago, and if you cannot, that must mean you sneezed! " It is that same type of nonsensical, circle argument that internet trolls make, as their "gotcha", and it is that same mindset Donald John Trump's regime is making today. And I suspect they will soon be making this claim against anyone they deem undesirable based on race, ethnic background, sexuality, gender, and political ideology.
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@GossiTheDog

Yeah capitalism has always been filth.

I think the time has passed for us to point out their hypocrisy. We've been doing it about #MAGA for 10 years now. They revel in how it annoys us. They think we're cucks.

We know they're irrational. They don't care. They don't think like us. Maximize shareholder wealth psychopathy.

We need #creditunions and #workercoops now! Fuck capitalists.

#maga #heritagefoundation #CDU #rechtsruck

Niemand muss sich Illusionen dazu machen, dass die Radikalisierung der Republikaner in Deutschland ohne Einfluss bleibt. Ganz im Gegenteil unterhalten große Teile der CDU und der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung überaus enge Beziehungen zu MAGA-Bande und der ultrakonservativen Heritage Foundation, die mit dem sog. "Project 2025" den Schlachtplan zur Zersetzung der amerikanischen Demokratie erstellt hat.

correctiv.org/aktuelles/trump-