Previously: Americans United called it “a flagrant, self-serving attack on church-state separation that threatens our democracy by favoring houses of worship over other nonprofits and inserting them into partisan politics.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-irs-texas-churches-johnson-amendment/
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There are reports that #Republicans will try to redraw as many as five currently Democratic districts—from South Texas and Houston to Dallas and possibly Austin—to favor the GOP to flip in the upcoming midterms. https://www.texasobserver.org/redistricting-plans-michael-li-interview-2025/
#Texas #TXlege #Trump #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #news #democracy
Columbia University agrees to pay $200 million fine to settle Trump administration dispute.
@axios reports: "Columbia University's acting president, Claire Shipman, noted that the university 'has not admitted wrongdoing and does not agree with the government's conclusion that it violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act' in the settlement."
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away.
These are their stories.
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #CECOT #Immigration #Immigrants #Venezuela #ElSalvador #Trump #Deportation #ICE
U.S. says it’s leaving U.N. cultural agency UNESCO again, only 2 years after rejoining.
@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/QNIvpC
#Trump sues #WSJ publisher and Rupert #Murdoch for $10bn libel damages over #Epstein revelations 🍿
https://www.ft.com/content/c386832e-4f59-45e5-a063-f00bf5f0f3e2
Why are Jews given a "special envoy" - effectively a Voice to Parliament - but First Nations Aussies are not??? #Australia #auspol #Rafael #Elbit #Israel #Netanyahu #warcriminal #zionazis #Palestine #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank #genocide #jewishterrorists #USA #Trump https://insidestory.org.au/the-wrong-way-to-respond-to-antisemitism/
The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell:
Trump's WSJ suit
“A number of his cases have been dismissed at early stages, and, a number of Donald Trump's lawsuits have been dropped by Donald Trump so that he never has to testify under oath in depositions.
...a lot of them are just stunts! that go nowhere, and are intended to go nowhere. A lot of Donald Trump's lawsuits are designed to get him through the news day.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVO1vDk8a9A
#Trump a semnat legea privind criptomonedele stablecoin, marcând un pas major spre adoptarea acestora în economia reală.
A federal judge blocked on Friday the enforcement of #Trump's #ExecutiveOrder targeting those who work with the #InternationalCriminalCourt.
The ruling follows an April lawsuit by 2 #HumanRights advocates challenging Trump's Feb 6 order authorizing potentially far-reaching economic & travel #sanctions on people who work on #ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies, such as Israel.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-judge-blocks-enforcement-trumps-order-icc-2025-07-19/
Tarifele lui Donald #Trump forțează producătorii greci de ulei de măsline să caute piețe alternative.
A firing of Jerome Powell by President Trump would likely open up a legal war never before seen in the US, without any guarantee of a courtroom victory for the White House. That may be why Trump hasn’t done so. Yet. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump #JeromePowell
President Donald Trump has looked to the marble finishes and hefty price tag of the Federal Reserve headquarters to claim grounds to fire Chair Jerome Powell, with whom he has tussled for years over interest rates. But the extensive use of marble in the building is, at least in part, the result of policies backed by Trump himself. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump
#Trump has been diagnosed with Venous Insufficiency, which is visibly affecting his ankles.
Fortunately, it seems not to be affecting his ass, since he is clearly still able to pull facts, figures, opinions, and rewrites of history out of it.
#TrumpHealth
U.S. President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and its owners including Rupert Murdoch for at least $10 billion on Friday, over the newspaper's report that his name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Jeffrey Epstein that included a sexually suggestive drawing and a reference to secrets they shared. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump #jeffreyepstein
The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell:
Lawrence: Trump's WSJ suit claims he's been damaged. Epstein is the one who did a lot of damage.
Lawrence:
“Donald Trump does say in that post, ‘I hope Rupert and his friends are looking forward to the many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case’, and Rupert is hoping that his friend Donald is looking forward to the same thing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVO1vDk8a9A
Donald #Trump dă în judecată 📰#WallStreetJournal pentru cazul Epstein și cere 10 miliarde 💵#USD.
He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared. https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-deportees-trump-immigration-asylum-el-salvador?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=river #Trump #Fascism
OTD in 2020, with 142,000 Americans dead from the #COVID19 pandemic, #GOP President Donald #Trump played golf https://toilet-guru.com/trump/?s=mb #priorities #failure
Local faith leaders, residents reject Camp Blanding’s concentration camp. This is in addition to the better-known Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp. https://www.mainstreetdailynews.com/news/rally-rejects-camp-blanding-ice-detention-center #Florida #Trump #Fascism
"The move came just days after Colbert publicly criticized CBS’s corporate owner, Paramount, for agreeing to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to settle an outrageous $20 billion lawsuit against the company.
The agreement was the latest in a series of bootlicking moves by Paramount as its chairwoman, Shari Redstone, desperately tries to sell the company to Skydance Media, a deal that requires federal approval."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/stephen-colbert-cancelled-cbs-trump-paramount/
BREAKING: Visitors to the U.S will need to pay a "visa integrity fee," according to a provision of little Donnie’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
In unrelated news, the term “integrity” is an odd word for anything related to little Donnie and his administration.
“Neither Trump nor DeSantis can create an entirely new system of #immigration judges outside of the one already established by Congress.”
Florida’s plan to use National Guard JAG officers as judges at Alligator Alcatraz raises serious constitutional red flags. https://theconversation.com/florida-plan-to-deputize-national-guard-officers-as-immigration-judges-at-alligator-alcatraz-would-likely-violate-constitutional-rights-260677 : #USPolitics #Trump
Let’s keep Stephen Colbert and get rid of little Donnie instead.
Colbert’s approval ratings are way, way higher.