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Cyran 6 hours ago
Ryuu96 said:

BREAKING NEWS: In a presidential action Saturday, Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to immediate detention and deportation.

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— NPR (@npr.org) 15 March 2025 at 20:55

President Donald Trump invoked a centuries-old wartime law to declare a Venezuelan street gang has “invaded” the United States, clearing the way for “immediate apprehension, detention, and removal” of anyone the government says falls into that category.

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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 15 March 2025 at 20:49

The only other times this was invoked was during WW1, WW2 and War of 1812. It gives the President a heck of a lot more power because u'know, it's a wartime act, so according to Trump, America is at war...Or he simply illegally invoked a wartime act to give him even more power to abuse. But sure, invoking a wartime act to deal with a single gang, Lol. America will be rounding up anyone who isn't white at this rate.

Courts will have a field day with this one.

If the court read the Aliens Act Literally and how intended they will declare that Trump cannot invoke the law in this case.  That being said I have 0 faith in the current supreme court not to interpret the law how they want to instead of what written and intended.  It very clear there are 2 situations this law can be used.  During war and only congress have the power to declare war so that don't apply and during a invasion of the country and they meant the word invasion literary like we being invaded this second by a military/paramilitary force and it need to be repelled now there no time to get congress in session.

Trump is the first person to ever try to use the invasion clause and not in it intended literal meaning.  The other 3 times 1812,WW1,WW2 it was used after congress have declared war.



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shavenferret 6 hours ago

lmao..... kanye west and DT.  A match in crazy heaven



shavenferret 6 hours ago

Americans worry Trump too closely aligned with Russia, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-worry-trump-too-closely-aligned-with-russia-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-03-13/



Jaicee 3 hours ago

Greetings VGC!



Whelp it's now official: according to even the most conservative polling aggregator, Trump's job approval rating is back upside-down. The honeymoon's officially over. For anyone who doesn't know what I mean, as I explained here a few weeks ago, newly-elected American presidents tend to enjoy a kind of honeymoon period where they're popular at the start of their new terms because people don't know better yet, and typically the goodwill lasts a good while. Sometimes years. Even Joe Biden polled in net positive territory on average until September of his first year in office. Trump, by contrast, has burned through all of his post-election political capital inside of two months. Only 46 more of those to go!

What's the public liking and not about the new administration just under two months in? The most recent Daily Mail survey is instructive. They did the word bubble thing with people's responses to queries about what Trump's biggest achievements and screw-ups have been so far. The words people most commonly used to describe the new administration's biggest achievements to date were "border" and "immigration", followed by "illegal" and "immigrants", all of which are descriptors of the crackdown on illegal immigration, which one concedes has pretty much completely vanquished the entire phenomenon. Meanwhile, the word people most commonly used to describe the new administration's biggest screw-up to date by a wide margin was "tariff", followed by "Musk", "firing", "federal", (all terms describing the DOGE wrecking operation) and "Ukraine". I don't think I need to explain any of those things in further detail to this highly attentive community. 

To add something you might now already know though, the leaders of all those countries Trump has been accosting lately, ranging from Canada's previously struggling governing Liberal Party to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, are all enjoying a surge of directly consequent rally-around-the-flag patriotic popularity right now. (See the links.) The only party involved who isn't benefiting from a patriotic surge in popularity right now is, ironically, our jingoistic president, who's poll numbers are headed in the opposite direction and are now in fact upside-down. Everyone else is proud of their leaders. Everyone but us. And the specific reason why we're not proud of ours is because our increasingly broad-ranging and extreme trade war against the world is causing American consumers to worry about the direction of the economy and the cost of living. American consumer confidence sank this month to a two-year low specifically over fear of what the economic consequences of our rapidly escalating trade wars might be.

You can feel the culture continuing to shift. Congressional Republicans are avoiding town halls for fear of their constituents. X is the platform getting taken down by cyber-attacks these days. There's a wave of national boycotts happening. Dystopian literature is selling like discounted eggs from Canada. Liberal elites (the only people who ever bought them in the first place) are selling their Teslas now that they're fascist vehicles. There's a MAJOR nationwide protest against everything from DOGE and Trump in general to our slide oligarchy being jointly organized by a wide range of groups slated for April 5th that even I'm actually thinking of participating in. Andrew Tate's rescue from his rape and pimping charges by the Trump administration is proving mildly controversial with conservatives and seriously controversial with the larger public. (I wouldn't be much of a feminist if I neglected to mention it, would I?) In short, the resistance is back and it's starting to almost make me feel like there is hope for the future. Almost.

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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Jewish activist group shares video of ‘horrific’ arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in New York

US-based activist group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has shared a newly-released video of the arrest last weekend of pro-Palestinian protester and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil.

Describing Khalil’s arrest, which has sparked protests across the US, as an “illegal detention” and “horrific”, JVP said that US President Trump was carrying out a “clear attempt” to “silence dissent, chill speech, and attack our freedoms”.

“Ideas are not illegal, and there is no ‘controversial speech’ exception to the First Amendment,” the group said in a post on social media.

“Our right to free speech includes advocacy for Palestine. We will not be intimidated. We will not be stopped. We will fight until Mahmoud Khalil is free. We will fight until Palestine is free,” it added.

‘Racist trend’ in arrest of pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil: Amnesty

Amnesty International has described the US arrest and detention of pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil as part of a “racist trend” across the world aimed at stifling Palestinian rights and solidarity.

“In the US as well as the UK, Germany and other European states, Amnesty has documented cases of students and staff advocating for an end to the genocide in Gaza facing undue restrictions of their rights and retaliation, including police violence and sanctions,” the rights group said.

Amnesty said Khalil must be released and universities must take steps to protect their immigrant student population.



Mass protests in New York demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release

A video shows the protesters in Times Square, in the centre of New York, massing in support of the detained Columbia University student.

Yesterday, demonstrators flooded the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, in a show of solidarity with Khalil.