Notices by Wokebloke for Democracy (dougiec3@libretooth.gr)

U.S. Gestapo at work in Massachusetts-
" 'Not one of them would take his [or her] mask off or show us ID,” Shafiroff said. “No rights were read, no reason why [was given]. They were rude, they were military-style and I felt like I was on an island where there were no rights.'
The incident lasted roughly 30 minutes, according to Shafiroff.
On the video Shafiroff can be heard grilling the ICE officers about their unwillingness to provide information or take off their masks."
#ICE #Gestapo #Fascism

"... it came as a shock yesterday when the United States Court of International Trade suddenly ruled that almost everything Trump has been doing on tariffs is illegal. The Court is clearly right on the merits. But I, like many observers, thought that we were past the point where the merits of cases mattered. It’s gratifying to learn that I was wrong."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-164719207
#Tariffs #TACO #Trump

Texas reshaping its laws depending on your name or the color of your skin.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/war-hero-killed-texas-parking-160041901.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sb2dpbi55YWhvby5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGD6741Y2q3319PnYnj1YI1Z19jcW0aJ471kqoWTZvhQ-4N4AvlftjBavZL5-RYLHxW6RFO4V_tf473ZYXMI0klmACwKbibW23YNdf4a_CLy6_6F6L_lEt1BIiecxba6W0UqfBCBCbS0dfVmNwJQR--at6DG_T32X1KvAWoMRrcU
#Law #Murder #Guns

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" Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson persuaded the U.S. Congress that he needed $700 billion to buy subprime mortgage assets from banks.
...Paulson abandoned his promised strategy and instead...began giving away billions of dollars to Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and others..."
-"The Big Short"
#WallStreet #Capitalism #FalseEconomy #Banks

Ohman!
#USConstitution #Democracy #OathofOffice #Trump #Fascism #Dementia

From The New Yorker-

“I don’t really mind the government’s new death ray, because it hasn’t hit me yet.”
Cartoon by Jon Adams

Darkow!
What we were talking about the other day. Can we self deport to the Mediterranean?
#Deportation #Immigration #DueProcess

Horsey!
Money isn't the reason Trump wants to defund PBS and Public Radio.
#Ignorance #Fascism #Trump #President Musk #PBS PublicRadio

@Strandjunker
The irony does abound, doesn't it? Who would think that people in the US actually want to pay more for stuff?

Anderson!
#Narcissism #PopeTrump

Marion Henley!
#USConstitution #Money #Capitalism #Fascism

Zyglis!
#PBS #Trump #NPR

Eric not my fault!

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-says-eric-is-bidens-fault?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=63j6s&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#Trump #Trumps #Turnips

Adder!
#Alcohol #Hegseth #Pentagon #Security #Signal

HHS- what's left of it- isn't too happy about this.
"The newly formed Vaccine Integrity Project aims to start meeting with medical associations, state health officials, insurers, pharmacies and others next month on steps such as establishing a network of subject matter experts to conduct science-based reviews of vaccines.
The effort is supported by an unrestricted gift from Alumbra, a foundation established by Walton, the widow of Walmart heir John Walton."

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/public-health-experts-watchdog-vaccines?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top
#HealthCare

These are SLAPP lawsuits funded with taxpayer dollars.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/politics/actblue-trump-memo-doj-probe/index.html

#Fascism #Democracy #Trump

All these years later, right wing militias are back and the right says the dead at Murrah were actors.
"Even elements of the radical right, McVeigh’s fellow travelers, were stunned by the sight of firefighters pulling dead babies out of the wreckage. Before the bombing, they had been full of heady talk of war against the government, but many of them imagined this would involve an attack on federal judges who had displeased the movement, or blowing up a building at night."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-bombing-far-right-1995

Hate is the name of Trump's game.
SCOTUS should be ashamed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-jd-vance-trade-deal-free-speech-b2733806.html
#LGBTQ #Trump #SCOTUS #HateSpeech

"...not everybody got the idea. Eric Trump tweeted, 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump. The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose.
Eric’s father apparently didn’t get the memo either. Asked by reporters whether he planned to negotiate the tariff rates, the president said, 'The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have.' ”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-already-botched-own-bad-165100487.html
#Grift #Tariffs #Donald #Eric #Donald,Jr

Hands Off in winter cold.
#SantaFe #NewMexico #HandsOff