Revealed: US firm running Guantánamo migrant jail accused over rights abuses
Corporate conglomerate Akima subject of critical audits and complaints over detainee treatment at facilities in US
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3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day.
The scars of their year-long incarceration remain.
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Delegitimization: To remove the authority, the very veracity of a thing, an idea, a process or a person.
We saw it become more and more used as a word in the 1990’s, raising to a regularly seen word in the modern era.
The idea of a politician lying to the people is as axiomatic and expected as to be enfolded within the very image of the word “politician”. The sad part is not the lie, it is the full purchase of the lie by those who prefer the lie to the reality that they might be wrong.
Nonetheless, the very invention of the modern internet created an unexpected leveling of information sources where the respected scientists and journalists somehow were delegitimized to become equal footing with the internet troll and conspiracy theorist.
My grandfather used the term “talking out both sides of your mouth”. Certain “news” pundits used the politicization of reality to unashamedly become very rich. They sold themselves and whatever morals they once held for this idea that the public doesn’t have the right nor the need for the actual truth.
From a very good 2018 article in the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320 In the future, the term “fake news” might come to be seen as a relic of febrile 2017 (if we’re lucky). But the fight against misinformation won’t go away. Companies and governments are now starting to take concrete action… Google and Facebook have both said that they are going to be hiring a lot of people to review content and enforce their terms of service…” we have instead seen Zuckerberg first accused by the republicans of violation of the 1st Amendment only to then bend the knee to Trump, and the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk to remove such standards and accuracy oversights. We witnessed live the overthrow of journalistic integrity by the very people journalists are meant to hold accountable.
Musk went on to purchase both president trump outright and the “mandate” to purge the government similar to his destruction of Twitter all the while publicly declaring fascism alive and well.
In the midst of this, we have seen the republicans refuse to allow evidence that trump attempted to bribe a desperate foreign head of state to implicate Joe Biden in a conspiracy of fraud, only to then fire and oust the people who did their job in reporting that problem to the government.
The very same republicans who were once cowering under their chairs as the Jan.6th insurrectionists smashed their way in an attempt to keep trump in power and hang Mike Pence, again – if a bit late – for doing his job. They later called it a “tour”, then cheered when the very person responsible for their crimes came back into power and pardoned each and every one of them.
And refused to do their jobs when it was found that trump had stolen boxes upon boxes of national secrets.
Trump violated the law and was – shockingly – expected to account for his actions, garnering sexual abuse convictions, fraud convictions, rico election fraud accusations… and they were ignored. The government employees charged with the thankless task of holding a president to the very laws of the country he once headed were fired, ostracized, threatened. The supreme court was packed with the questionable… yeah, we’ll leave it at that. The Justice Department was put into the hands of his former personal attorney, the one who was refusing to allow him to be held accountable for his crimes, foregoing the very notion that the Justice Department is the “People’s Attorney”.
I’m absolutely out of breath! I’m no where near a complete description and I’m out of breath. I can only wonder if there will ever be a history book describing this, or if we are witnessing the final acts in the decimation of the education of our youth and the idea of facts, reality, justice. What will be left that made America what it is? The Constitution? Already disrespected. The People? They are cowed into hysterical sycophantic abasement on the one hand and bewildered incredulity on the other. I just don’t know what is left and I seriously question what will we become now.
Trump warns consumers: Prices ‘could go up’ because of White House plans
The Republican president is moving forward with an agenda that, by his own assessment, is going to make the cost of living worse.
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Opinion | The grim reason Trump is trying to distort the meaning of ‘lawfare’
The president and his allies don’t like that he’s being held to account by judges.
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Stars pull out of shows and positions at Kennedy Center after Trump takeover
Issa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president
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Trumpflation
Ideas Everything is going to be a little more expensive now. February 13, 2025 Woe to the American consumer. The price of groceries, gas, housing, and other goods and services jumped 0.5 percent from December to January; the cost of car insurance is up 12 percent year over year and the price of eggs is up 53 percent. “On day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail. That is not happening. Worse, the White House’s early
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-judges-rulings-constitutional-crisis-presidential-power-a9c593cf3f9faec23a03f4a5123fefdb
White House says judges balking at Trump’s actions are provoking a ‘constitutional crisis’
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Notice that felon tRump and Putin talked about the terms even before tRump talked to The Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. Then tRump announce that Zelenskyy was supportive to end the war but I don’t trust anything said by the convicted felon president. Felon tRump said his terms which was basically what Putin has demanded. That the Russia keeps the land they took, that Ukraine gives back to Russia the Russian lands that they took, and that Ukraine doesn’t get to join NATO. Trump also said he has decided to stop supporting Ukraine with weapons and aid money. Says it is Europes job to handle. Again Felon Trump talked tough about Putin and yet gave him everything he wanted. Trump is not only a felon but a craving coward who has no honor, no sense of reality, and no care for anything but himself along with money. Hugs
Trump says he and Putin have started talks to END war in Ukraine
President Donald Trump has revealed he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and lay the groundwork for historic summits in the U.S. and Moscow.
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Trump Talked to Putin By Phone Wednesday, the First Official Contact of Presidency
U.S. president says the two leaders have agreed to visit each other’s countries and will open immediate talks on Ukraine war
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