#GaryShapley was a longtime #IRS agent when he told Congress in 2023 that prosecutors slow-walked an inquiry into then-President Joe #Biden’s son for #tax offenses.… But Shapley’s testimony, along w/that of Joseph Ziegler, has made him a celebrated figure on the #FarRight & endeared him to advisers to #Trump, who in his first term openly mused about using #tax investigations to persecute his perceived #political #enemies.
Donald #Trump laid out a plan for apparent retribution at the #Department of #Justice against what many would call his perceived #enemies
#Trump invokes the #Alien #Enemies #Act (1798) , a 18th-century #wartime act , to deport five #Venezuelans and open the doors to #mass #deportations
#America ( the #US ) is #at #War
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations?CMP=share_btn_url
#Trump invokes 18th-century #Alien #Enemies #Act of 1798 , a #wartime #act only used 3 times, during war times, in american history (1812, WWI and WWII) to deport five #Venezuelans , and opening to door to #mass #deportations without any constitutional rights
First steps ?
Furthermore
even if it is a problem
The #Free #World must accept the fact that #Trump #America
is no longer 'truly' a #NATO member
is more a #Russian 'Collective Security Treaty' member.
Therefore We MUST include #USA in the List of probable #enemies
from which we must be able to defend ourselves.
NO more "America is our friend"
... #Trumplandia is NOT !
it is like Russia... even worse because Trump is mentally unstable.
We must prepare to face one American Military aggression
NOW.
#Tesla unter #Feuer +++ #Corona #Covid19 im #Zweifel | Der #Politicker #TeslaTakedown #TeslaStockCrash #Wuhan #China #Ursache der #Pandemie #BND #Merkel #Scholz #Trump #Teslaboycott #Coronaursache #EU #Customers as #Enemies #TrumpCrash #Disruption
https://derwahlberliner.com/2025/03/12/tesla-unter-feuer-corona-covid19-im-zweifel-der-politicker/
The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s
https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/the-us-is-ending-support-for-ukrainian-f-16s
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE 
#solidarity
Wow, here we are, so soon. If you criticize Musk, the DOJ writes to threaten you. Congressman: I will not be silenced. They also are threatening Schumer.
#Trump #DOJ #weaponize #political #enemies #attack #free #speech #fascists #rule #iron #fist #fascism #USA #MuskWasNotElected #DeportMusk & #Theil too #California #House #Representative #threatened by #federal #prosecutor #WashingtonDC #beltway #ChuckSchumer #minority #leader #Democrats #GOP #GQP #democracy #dying https://www.alternet.org/congressman-letter-trump-doj/
At some density your friends become your enemies.
-- Aaron Corcoran
#Wisdom #Quotes #AaronCorcoran #Enemies #Friendship #Nature #Population
YouGov poll in Denmark.
Which countries do you see as a threat to Denmark:
1. Russia 81 %
2. USA 46%
3. North Korea 44%
4. Iran 40 %
That was Quick!
#Trump promises 2 punish people 4 disagreeing w him Lately he’s found that such threats R sufficient to bring many of perceived #enemies in line. Certainly the case when leaders at #Disney rolled over after Trump sued #ABC for alleged defamation by Stephanopoulos in a case that 1st #amendment lawyers widely believed #Disney would have won. This is1 way institutions fail not because they r forced in2 submission but because people in positions of power collapse on their own https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washington-post-bezos-trump-cartoon-ann-telnaes/681406/?gift=mBLCHcnsd_Gd3EecvWSKTR9BCilTPPRU9PG5KWrQMnk
Today's #executiveorder does more than just halt #foreignaid. I've been asked not to share details, but I will if (a) that changes or (b) the press gets ahold of it.
Just be aware that once again we are seeing that there are literally no lows to which this administration will not stoop. 47 and his appointed officials are #enemies of #democracy, the rule of law, and the people of the United States of America.
Tomorrow the man who is aiming to #destroy the #EU will become the most powerful #president of the #USA.
I recommend to the @EUCommission to stop thinking about how to appease #Trump with buying a little more #LNG, but to fucking acknowledge that we have powerful #enemies in this world who want to see us dead & gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/18/trump-pompeo-bolton-eu-eastern-european-states
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Via HN:
> "..there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend #democracy by #totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its #enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken #doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all #independence of thought"
