If it isn't clear yet, here goes:
The purpose of #ICE is to antagonize the population to the point were that population will react. This will then give #Trump a pretense to invoke the #InsurrectionAct. Basically, he's prodding the People. This is happening in #Minnesota and it's only January. His intent is to have the #army present in as many if not all #BlueStates come the midterms.
I'm not saying he's going to succeed.
Right, America?
Judge: #Trump violated #FifthAmendment by ending #energy grants in only #blueStates
Trump's blatant #discrimination came on the same day as the government shut down last fall. In total, 315 grants were terminated in October, ending support for 223 projects worth approximately $7.5 billion…All the awardees, except for one, were based in states where Donald Trump lost the majority vote to Kamala Harris in 2024.
#Arizona, #NewMexico, and #Texas share #borders with #Mexico. Understandably, these states receive the highest number of supposéd "#IllegalImmigrants" coming from Central and South America. Yet, interestingly, we've seen no surge of #ICE agents there. Might this be because all three states just happen to allow "#OpenCarry", hmm?
#Trump isn't after illegal immigrants. Trump is out to create chaos in #BlueStates and Blue Cities. Period.
“A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting needy children and their families from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. “
Shock and awe
This is what I would describe what I felt when hearing the news that the #US invaded #Venezuela and took #Maduro as a #hostage. It is nothing short of something comparable to what happened when #Russia invaded #Ukraine with the same purpose - of triggering a regime change and turning it into a #puppetcountry - by force.
I remember even today that I took a day off from work, waiting for a desk to be delivered to my place. I woke up relaxed in that morning and I turned on the mobile data on my phone, waiting patiently to be bombarded by notifications. I got a message from a friend of mine, telling me that Russia was fighting in Ukraine. I replied to him that yeah, I know, in Donbass, right? (or something like that) - to which he replied something along the lines of "no, bro, they literally attacked Ukraine, they're in Ukraine" and sent me a link to some live reporting.
It was just as the #pandemic was getting over, most people got their shots, and we were hoping to go back to normal. We were hoping the world would go on with the ensuing post-war system that held largely well and ensured some prosper (albeit unequal) economies. The fact that a permanent member of the UN Security Council directly invaded a sovereign nation - even more so, for land grabbing reasons - changed that. I remember walking in the University Square here in Bucharest and trying to figure stuff out of what happened - my first thought was, "this world will simply not return to what it was. The old order and everything I learned about conflicts was no longer applicable".
#Trump's invasion (as I cannot really say America's invasion since the Congress didn't authorize this) of Venezuela, followed by the swift capture of its leader had an expectable outcome - not only the latter was smaller and not really surrounded by allied countries, but the #USArmy is a better trained, gunned and more effective army than that of the #Russians - but still equally shocking, given that outcome. Regardless of the motives of Trump's action (be it #drugs, #oil and whatnot), this paints a gloomier picture. What we're seeing in #Venezuela is the practical, real world application of Trumpo-Putinist doctrine, so far only expressed in words by the #POTUS when it came to #annexing #Greenland, #Canada or #Panama. It is the doctrine that was the standard in the #internationalsystem until #WW1 and the doctrine that was only starting to be abandoned after WW2, when a (apparently) more solid international organization - the UN, that is - was created to keep the order and make wars preventable. It is the doctrine that says that #mightisright and whoever has the weakest army risks being swallowed by the one that has the strongest. It is the very opposite of what our #postwar world was built on.
Maduro is not a leader to cry about. Even far from it. He's been ruling his country with an iron fist, suppressing dissent, repressing opposition and getting human rights to a low that probably even Putin would only dream about, let alone Trump himself. Yet what happened in Venezuela does not guarantee it a stable democracy, freedom, human rights. Because Trump cares nothing about these things - he showed it at home, he showed it in US #bluestates and #bluecities, he showed it by allying and bending down to dictators like Xi and Putin. What happened in Venezuela was a display of force. And it will inadvertently be a positive signal for #dictators around the world that they can do whatever they like on other countries' lands.
Right now, #EU is the strongest remaining guarantor of a #lawbasedorder. Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and the democracies of the Far East are more like regional players.
Beyond these events, a couple of questions arise: What did we do to end up in this terrible situation? Could the US Democrats come back to power this year and successfully flip the situation? Or Europe? Or at least will Europe be able to keep the rule-based order to some extent at least? Or are we doomed already?
Minnesota’s most prominent #Somali American, Democratic US Rep #IlhanOmar, has urged people not to blame an entire community for the actions of a relative few.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #Minnesota #HHS
Walz, the 2024 Democratic VP nominee, has said fraud will not be tolerated & his admin “will continue to work with federal partners to ensure fraud is stopped & fraudsters are caught.”
Walz has said an audit due by late Jan should give a better picture of the extent of the fraud. He said his admin is taking aggressive action to prevent additional fraud. He has long defended how his admin responded.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #Minnesota #HHS
O’Neill, who is also serving as acting director of the #CDC, also said in the post Tuesday that payments across the #US through the #ACF, an agency within the #HHS, will now require “justification & a receipt or photo evidence” before money is sent. They have also launched a “fraud”-reporting hotline & email address, he said.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #Minnesota #HHS
A federal prosecutor alleged earlier in December that half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 programs in #Minnesota since 2018 “may” have been stolen. Most of the defendants are #Somali Americans, they said.
#law #WhiteSupremacy #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics #Trump #childcare #HHS
#Trump admin says it's freezing #childcare funds to #Minnesota after series of “fraud” schemes
Deputy Secy of #RFKJr’s #HHS Jim O’Neill posted on X that the step is in response to “blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota & across the country.”
“We have turned off the money spigot & we are finding the fraud,” he said.
#law #BlueStates #BlueCities #RevengePolitics
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-child-care-funds-fraud-b511941de10f02fbb7349eff6738f748?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-30-Breaking+News
That's how you "human"! From now on, THAT'S how you "HUMAN"!
Bravo #Oregon for being the FIRST!
ALL the other #bluestates should follow suit! You can afford it!
Take it out what would have been your state federal taxes.
And do whatever you can to help you can to assist your idiot MAGA neighbors
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America’s political divide deepens: How Tuesday’s elections could further split red and blue states https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/us-elections-political-polarization-red-blue-states-pmr191jg?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #USElections #AmericanPolitics #RedStates #BlueStates #Trump
#BlueStates: It Is Time For Soft #Secession
#Democratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the #UnitedStates #economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our #humanity
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-states-it-is-time-for-soft-secession
(28 Oct) Trump denying aid to blue states ’punishing a lot of people who voted for him’: analyst https://www.alternet.org/trump-blue-state-voters/ Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/ivi4v #blue-states #disaster-relief #trump
Trump’s handling of disasters boomerangs on MAGA country. Trump: repeatedly said: he's the pres of #RedStates, excl -looks at #BlueStates as 2nd-class cits. He's conditioned MAGA *cultists thrive on the very idea that blue America constitutes an enemy nation within the US.
He probably thinks: by standing in the way of extending: expanded #ACA subsidies, he’s screwing blue ppl/states/Obama *red areas of the C are getting fleeced by premium hikes/#tariffs.
#Fascism #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/202269/transcript-trump-nixing-dem-storm-aid-backfires-screwing-maga-voters
💙⚡"I'm filing a brief in support of the case against Donald Trump's illegal tariffs now in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
California families and businesses shouldn't pay the price for actions that Trump never had the authority to take in the first place."
-Gov Newsom
#BlueStates #Fascism #Tariffs #TradeWar #Austerity #Inflation #Stagflation #Economy #Trumpcession #Protest #USPol
New polls show tightening races in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests, presenting caution signs for Democrats Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, who have led most surveys but now face closer margins against Republicans Jack Ciattarelli and Winsome Earle-Sears. In New Jersey, some polls show Sherrill in a dead heat with Ciattarelli, echoing his 2021 surge. In Virginia, Spanberger’s lead has narrowed amid new controversy. With Election Day weeks away, both parties are ramping up voter turnout efforts in these low-turnout, off-year races. While blue states and Trump’s low approval favor Democrats, Republicans are hopeful that polls, as before, may be underestimating their strength. https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-get-warning-signs-virginia-new-jersey-10872419 #NJElection #VAGov #Polls #Election2025 #MikieSherrill #AbigailSpanberger #JackCiattarelli #WinsomeEarleSears #PoliticalTrends #BlueStates
The DOE🚨is considering terminating 300 additional clean energy projects worth >$15B. Comb with official cuts announced last wk, CA would face the largest total loss with 93 project CXLs worth $3.5B.
Days after the #TrumpRegime made HLs for CXL nearly $8B in #CleanEnergy projects in 16 #BlueStates,🚨the DOE is considering term an additional 300 projects -incls 5 of 7 projects to dev clean #hydrogen energy.
#Austerity #Economy #Trumpcession #Fascism #NoKings #Protest #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-09/energy-department-considers-more-than-15-billion-in-additional-project-cuts
No pay 4 #NationalGuard or #military even when deployed....White House memo says #furloughed #federal workers aren't entitled to back #pay #salary #economy #federalgovernment #congress One goal is to destroy the #economy for #Americans who are not #billionaires and impose #martiallaw on #bluestates and #cities #portland #chicago #DC #newyork #memphis #LA based on #fake #AI and #memes and photos from #wars in other countries that are given to #trump to prove chaos in US https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/trump-memo-furloughed-federal-workers-backpay 1/
