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I love this headline. As if all the things this motherfucker does that are questionable legally ever amount to anything ever? Nobody ever does anything to him ever no matter who they are so fuck off with this stuff. Nothing’s gonna happen and you goddamn well know it. #trump #legality #lawandorder #lawandordermyass

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Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center,’ White House says – The Washington Post

President Donald Trump arrives for a showing of “Les Misérables” at the Kennedy Center on June 11. (Craig Hudson / For The Washington Post)

Kennedy Center board votes to rename to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’

Trustees voted to rename the center after President Donald Trump, who is also the board chair. It was unclear whether such a change is legal.

Updated, December 18, 2025 at 2:33 p.m. EST, 36 minutes ago, 4 min

By Kelsey Ables and Janay Kingsberry

The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted to rename the storied arts institution the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X on Thursday afternoon.

The Kennedy Center confirmed the vote in an email to The Washington Post. It was unclear whether such a change is legal.

“The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to name the institution The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” wrote Roma Daravi,the center’s vice president of public relations. “The unanimous vote recognizes that the current Chairman saved the institution from financial ruin and physical destruction. The new Trump Kennedy Center reflects the unequivocal bipartisan support for America’s cultural center for generations to come.”

The apparent change comes after months of President Donald Trump repeatedly joking about it, including at the Kennedy Center Honors earlier this month. It follows a year of upheaval at the center, after Trump overhauled the institution in February, sparking a wave of firings and resignations. Trump is chairman of the Kennedy Center board. Ticket sales have fallen sharply in the center’s three largest venues, according to an October analysis by The Post.

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“I was surprised by it. I was honored by it,” Trump said at an executive-order signing Thursday afternoon. “You know, we’ve, we’re saving the building. We saved the building.”

He noted Congress’s $257 million appropriation for repairs and maintenance at the center and recent private donations, adding: “This was brought up by one of the very distinguished board members, and they voted on it. And there’s a lot of board members, and they voted unanimously.”

“I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move,” Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the board, said in an X post.

“I’m devastated but not at all surprised,” said a former center staff member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. The president “has been floating that change since the beginning almost.”

In her social media post, Leavitt congratulated the president, calling the move the result of “the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation.”

President Donald Trump took center stage as host of the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 7 and joked about renaming the center after himself. (Video: Allie Caren, Alisa Shodiyev Kaff / The Washington Post)

“Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur,” she added.

Officials did not immediately cite an authority for the board’s ability to change the institution’s name.

The Kennedy Center is a public-private institution founded to be the nation’s cultural center and a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy. Its founding statute mandates that the board “assure” that “no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas” of the building.

House Republicans have suggested renaming the building after the Trumps. Earlier this year, reviewing an amendment to a spending bill that would change the name of the Kennedy Center’s Opera House to the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House,” David Super, a Georgetown law professor, told The Post that such a name change would require Congress’s permission.

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At the gala opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, Kennedy family members sit in the presidential box. (Thomas J. O'Halloran/Library of Congress)

#Legality does NOT mean #morality.

#GoVegan

If you think "legal = good" you are a nazi

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme #law #legal #legality #voting

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#Military #Legality #Gaza #Law #alt

Arron Parnas 11/17/25
From PBS

From Aaron Parnas 11/17/25
From PBS
Calls to organizations like The Orders Project, which provides free legal advice
to military personnel, are on the rise from staff officers involved in planning the
boat strikes, as are calls to a separate hot line from National Guard personnel
concerned about domestic deployments to American cities, and even calls
expressing concerns of complicity and a possible genocide in Gaza by virtue of
U.S. weapons sent to Israel, signaling heightened concern from within the U.S.
government that the U.S. military is exposing those who serve to legal harm.

“ #Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to U.S. cities have sparked a debate over their #legality.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/military-personnel-seek-legal-advice-on-whether-trump-ordered-missions-are-lawful

With his nonsensical talk of federal #immunity, vile #fascist #stephen_miller is trying to let the #ICE goons off the leash.

Just following orders, anyone?
That defence did not hold at Nuremberg.
It won't hold this time either.
Keep in mind that #accountability is at the very core of #legality and the #ruleoflaw.

Resist.
#UnitedStates

Could a Trump $1 coin break U.S. law on currency design? Columnist Theodore R. Johnson exposes how the proposed 250th anniversary coin featuring a living president defies legal norms, echoing the controversial Coolidge coin. This reflects Trump's personalist leadership style that puts his image above national milestones. Dive into the full analysis here: https://www.alternet.org/trump-coin-2674187463/ Excellent insight from Johnson. #DonaldTrump #TheodoreRJohnson #USCurrency #TrumpCoin #Politics #Legality #Congress #250thAnniversary

#AnimalRights #legality #morality #ethics #nonviolence #GoVegan

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

If thou allowest thyself to go to the utmost Extent of every thing that is lawful, thou art very near going further.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2093 (1727)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #brightline #conduct #lawfulness #legality #pushinglimits

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

For the moral point of this matter is never reached by calling what happened by the name of “genocide” or by counting the many millions of victims: the extermination of whole peoples had happened before in antiquity, as well as in modern colonization. It is reached only when we realize that this happened within the frame of a legal order and that the cornerstone of this “new law” consisted of the command “Thou shalt kill,” not thy enemy but innocent people who were not even potentially dangerous, and not for any reason of necessity but, on the contrary, even against all military and other utilitarian considerations.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #extermination #genocide #Holocaust #law #lawandorder #legality #legalsystem

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Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Act 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_and_Gender_Identity_Conversion_Practices_Act_2020
The

#Legality

#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 21 days ago

Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_or_Suppression_%28Conversion%29_Practices_Prohibition_Act_2021
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#LGBTQ #Legality #Victoria

[ENGLISH] MY VLOG: Is the oil deal struck with the US is good for Pakistan? Pitfalls must be avoided

#yasmeenaftabali #currentaffairs #oildeal #usa #pakistan #legality #logistics #legalclarity

https://youtu.be/WH9N9PeVzJA

Pakistan and the US have reached an oil deal, though the details remain undisclosed. The agreement signals Washington’s belief in significant reserves, particularly in Balochistan. The focus now must shift to the legal and structural framework.

"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros

“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

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#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/

cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/

@palestine 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

One reason I’m reading little of MSM is there is so little attention to the legal pushback against tariff manipulation, despite good evidence. Seems like it’s all headlines, on course to do what? Wheeler doesn’t atttribute motives, just notices.
#tariffs #msm #legal #legality l
https://www.empty-wheel.net/2025/07/16/the-press-keeps-coddling-trumps-tariff-lawlessness/