#AbuseOfPower

Obscure_RebelObscure_Rebel
2025-12-04

“British hunger strikers learn prison lessons from Palestine”

by Asa Winstanley in Palestine Is Still The Issue on Substack

@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml

“The experience of these hunger strikers mirrors some of what the Palestinians are going through: ‘It’s like they’re living the experience of a Palestinian’.”

open.substack.com/pub/asawinst

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-12-02

A quotation from Euripides

NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty,
   Who are rarely controlled, always imperious;
   It is hard for them to give up their wrath.
   To get used to living like everybody else
   Is better.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως
   ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες
   χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν.
   τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἴσοισιν
   κρεῖσσον.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80529/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #absolutepower #abuseofpower #anger #badmood #badtemper #compromise #equality #power #rage #royalty #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #temper #temperament #tyrant #indignation #grudge #wrath #tantrum

Henry Stonehstone519
2025-12-01

democrats begin congressional probe of kash patel's use of fbi gulfstream jet
democrats begin congressional probe of kash patel's use of fbi gulfstream jet



cbsnews.com/news/democrats-pro

We Must Strikewms@c.im
2025-12-01

#Trump and #PickledPeteHegseth have justified wantonly murdering civilians by alleging without evidence that they were smuggling drugs. AND YET, Trump will pardon a man who was convicted of smuggling 400 TONS OF COCAINE into the #usa . So... is the punishment for drug smuggling DEATH or a FULL PARDON?
___
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case - edition.cnn.com/2025/11/28/pol

#uspol #abuseofpower #graft #hypocrisy

Obscure_RebelObscure_Rebel
2025-11-29

“DID TRUMP PRESSURE STARMER TO BAN PALESTINE ACTION?”

by John McEvoy and Dania Akkad in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@UKLabour
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews @AlJazeera

“Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group”

declassifieduk.org/did-trump-p

2025-11-29

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote:
"We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists."

Brett Meiselas replied: "These tweets may seem cool to Pete now.
Probably not so much when he is on trial for ."

2025-11-29

Nikki McCann Razirez: "The reason the Trump administration was so pissed at Democrats for reminding the troops they can refuse unlawful orders is because the orders they are issuing are actual crimes."

2025-11-29

Rep. Ted Lieu: "I read the classified legal memo. Nothing in the memo, or military law, authorizes a second kinetic strike against defenseless survivors. If the reports are true, then a war crime was committed. Also, there is generally no statute of limitations for ."

2025-11-29

Peter Baker: "Trump, who is bombing boats said to carry drug runners, pardons the former president of Honduras who was convicted of supporting one of the largest, most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world."
copy: @renewedresistance

Sir Coral Legssircorallegs
2025-11-28

92% autopen? 😂 Impossible. Presidents use autopen legally. Erasing all Biden orders out of spite = abuse of power. Personal grudges don’t override the Constitution.”

2025-11-28

#GiftArticle

#Hegseth gave order on first #Caribbean boat strike, officials say: “Kill them all”

As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.

#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #Venezuela #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Despotism #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
wapo.st/49KbUJ1

2025-11-25

Oh boy, here’s #Bovino [somebody needs to give this guy a nickname, I’d say “pig”, but they’re far more intelligent than this pond scum] somehow trying to say under oath that shooting a praying #reverend in the face with a #PepperBall is an appropriate #UseOfForce. Unreal.

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #judiciary #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

Q. Okay. Well, let's forget about exact words. Did you make the point that nothing bad happened to Reverend Black because when he got hit in the head with a PepperBall, he was trespassing. Is that your position? A. I -- I didn't say that. Q. I'm not asking you if you said it; I'm asking you, is that your position? A. What -- say that again, please? Q. Is it your position that, when Reverend Black got hit in the head with a PepperBall, that was on him because he was trespassing on ICE property at the time? A. I believe Reverend Black was trespassing on Ice property. Q. Okay. Do you believe that the force that was applied to -- you recall the scenario, Reverend Black is, you say, trespassing on ICE property, and he's also praying, right? He's got his hands outstretched? MR. KHOJASTEH: Are you referring to a picture or something, Counsel?
2025-11-25

#Deposition of #BorderPatrol Cmdr #GregBovino went off the rails at hello, transcript shows

The recent deposition of #CBP Cmdr #Bovino about the #UseOfForce by his #immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz” seemed to go off the rails the minute they said “hello.”

#Trump #Chicago #law #judiciary #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/

2025-11-24

As #corruption later expanded nationwide, first under the late President Hugo Chávez & then under #Maduro, the use of the term #CartelDeLosSoles expanded to #police & #government officials as well as activities like illegal mining & fuel trafficking. The “suns” in the name refer to the epaulettes affixed to the uniforms of high-ranking #military officers.

#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #Carribean #Pacific #AbuseOfPower

2025-11-23

Aftermath of #Chicago's intense #immigration crackdown leaves lawsuits, investigations & anxiety

#DHS has touted >3,000 arrests, but the agency has provided details on only a few cases where immigrants without legal permission to live in the country also had a criminal history.

#Trump #law #judiciary #DueProcess #Constitution #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #propaganda
apnews.com/article/arrests-chi

2025-11-22

John Harwood: "Donald Trump's ICE agents are acting like domestic terrorists."

2025-11-22

Nicholas Kristof: "ICE in 2025 reminds me of secret police thugs in various dictatorships I've reported from."

2025-11-22

As #Trump weighs what could be imminent #military action against #Venezuela & its leader, Nicolás #Maduro, while striking at alleged drug boats in the #Caribbean Sea & eastern #Pacific Ocean, new details are emerging about the evolution of a strategy that involves unprecedented US military force against the narcotics trade—&, critics say, outsize #legal risk.

#criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Despotism #MafiaState

2025-11-22

#GiftArticle

White House blew past #legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats

The #Trump admin sidestepped skeptical lawyers across #NationalSecurity agencies as it pursued a #military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, ofcls say.

#criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #Carribean #Pacific #Venezuela #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Despotism #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
wapo.st/43FXQfO

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