“Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems
DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave”
www.wired.com/story/doge-a...
Top Officials Placed on Leave ...
While far right populists in Europe & elsewhere react like a bucket of ice water had been poured over them, there's one thing to conclude from a Paris court's ruling on the embezzlement case French far right populist Marine Le Pen has been involved in:
Dammit, the French system of justice for sure is stunningly quick & impressive! 👍👍👍👍👍 Exemplary!
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The court’s presiding judge, Bénédicte de Perthuis, said Le Pen’s actions amounted to a “serious and lasting attack on the rules of democratic life in Europe, but especially in France.” She said Le Pen’s immediate ban on standing for office was tied to “democratic public unrest” that would result from the election of a person convicted of embezzlement.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/31/europe/marine-le-pen-embezzlement-trial-verdict-france-intl/index.html
#RuleOfLaw #France #Justice #EU #EuropeanUnion #MarineLePen #Embezzlement #BarredFromCandidacy #Law #Democracy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics #JusticeReform #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether
Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-election-law-legal-challenge-232c5d05db604aed31beb9e717f745f9?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress
Here's the companion piece to last night's segment on 60 Minutes about what has happened to VOA: https://youtu.be/6WD31GTUH8k?si=j4Aeh6L_uxG0hWt6
Why are dictators like #Trump & #Putin so interested in Rare Earth Minerals in Ukraine & Greenland?
Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of products like: communications equipment, precision-guided weapons, night-vision goggles & stealth technology, cellphones, flat-screen monitors, lasers & sonar systems.
Controlling these rare earth elements drives Wall Street markets 📈or📉
It’s vital to national security attained through diplomacy, not mobster rhetoric.
Negotiation not extortion!
This is a huge tax increase from Donald Trump. Period.
Trump To The Hague!
Greenland's new Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has said that the US will not get Greenland:
"President Trump says the US is 'getting Greenland'. Let me be clear: The US is not getting it. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future.
We must not react with fear. We must react with calm, dignity and unity.
And it is through these values that we must clearly, distinctly and calmly show the US President that Greenland is ours."
#AureFreePress #News
#Missouri Officials Seize Control of #StLouis #Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms
The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control *urban* areas."
#law #WhiteSupremacy #racism #AbuseOfPower #Republicans #MikeKehoe
https://boltsmag.org/missouri-state-control-of-st-louis-police/
Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for public office for five years after being convicted of embezzling more than €4m from the EU parliament to finance her National Rally party. She will not be able to run in the 2027 presidential election unless she successfully appeals the verdict. Party leader Jordan Bardella posted on social media that French democracy had been “executed”.
…The decision shows that #Musk's Department of Government *Efficiency*, which is directing the cuts, is not making the government more effective, said Kathleen Clark, a professor of #ethics at WashU in St. Louis.
"It is becoming increasingly obvious that Musk’s & #DOGE’s mission has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, & instead is aimed at enabling Musk to use - & abuse - #power within the federal government," she said.
#USpol #law #corruption #kleptocracy #oligarchy #AbuseOfPower
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