I'll bet you never knew there was a US law criminalizing peaceful #protests simply because of it's cause. Albeit, at times it HAS been against the law to speak against US war involvement at some times in it's history, and the US IS AT WAR with #Palestinians.
"#WhiteHouse says #immigration officials are seeking more pro-#Palestine protesters"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5324749/mahmoud-khalil-palestinian-protests-arrests @palestine
White House says immigration officials are seeking more pro-Palestinian protesters
from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [US]
March 11, 2025 5:31 PM ET
Elena Moore
The #WhiteHouse is defending the arrest of pro- #Palestinian protest leader and #ColumbiaUniversity graduate student #MahmoudKhalil, and says the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity plans to arrest more protesters moving forward.
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the decision to arrest Khalil, a green card holder who is of Palestinian descent, fell in line with President #Trump's recent executive order aimed at cracking down on antisemitism on U.S. campuses. The order allows the administration to revoke visas and deport international students if they're determined to be "pro-jihadist" or "#Hamas sympathizers."
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5324749/mahmoud-khalil-palestinian-protests-arrests
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine
Jackhammers have begun to remove the large yellow "Black Lives Matter" painted on to the street a block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week, which was made as a result of pressure from Republicans in Congress. The words will be replaced by murals, the design of which is as yet unknown. "The removal amounts to a public acknowledgement of just how vulnerable the District of Columbia is now that Trump is back in the White House and Republicans control both houses of Congress," writes @AssociatedPress.
#ICE arrests #Palestinian protest leader at #Columbia, in sharp escalation of campus actions
Jewish groups and leaders immediately spoke out both in favor and against the arrest
from #TheForward #Forward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]
"#BendTheArc, a progressive #Jewish group..., tweeted that President #DonaldTrump was playing on fears of antisemitism in order to pursue an anti-democratic agenda.
“The #WhiteHouse’s authoritarian actions are being falsely done in our name as #Jews, by a President and politicians who actively use antisemitism and do not speak for Jews,” the group tweeted. “We’ve been afraid this day would come since campus protests began. Free speech and education are pillars of our democracy, and a healthy democracy is what keeps Jews safest.”
The Anti-Defamation League ... praised the arrest while calling for immigration law to be followed. "
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#news #press @palestine
#politics #Trump
“It's all right there: the demand for deference, the obsession with money, the claims of corruption and dishonesty, the encirclement, the loud voices, the bizarre grievances, the underlying sense that a Jewish person does not fit and must be expelled.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #zelensky #zelenskyy #whitehouse #ovaloffice #antisemitism
“Much of what the U.S. has given Ukraine were obsolescent weapons that would have been otherwise been thrown away. As everyone in the room in fact knew, what Zelens'kyi was wearing was meant as an expression of solidarity with a people at war. It was not so unlike what Churchill wore in the White House in 1942.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#usa #ukraine #zelensky #zelenskyy #zelenskyi #zelenskyj #churchill #whitehouse
@briankrebs The #Republican Speaker of the House, today
Mike Johnson lied on live T.V
and said
“Senator Murkowski's view on this is plainly wrong. The person who walked away from the table was President Zelensky…” 
Not True: Remember JD Vance slammed #Zelensky for lack of gratitude
berated for not wearing a suit
@ 
the Oval Office, then after #Trump
refused to sign the deal and kicked 
Zelensky out of the #Whitehouse.
B/c the Mineral Deal essentially MEANT "security guarantees" due to US strategic/economic interest, as if a YUGE gas field in the region doesn't matter.
The "...#WhiteHouse blamed #Zelenskyy for the “meltdown”... claimed that they had communicated their position to #Ukraine beforehand, and senators also advised... to “not litigate the issue of wanting stronger security guarantees."
#Trump Officials Enraged at #Zelensky for Ignoring Advice Before Offal Orifice Meetup
2022 is the year we gave #Ukraine the equivalent of the entire Russian military budget if I recall, and there was SUPPOSED TO BE an 'offensive' it funded, that never happened... at all.
“I think #Zelensky’s biggest lie of all his lies was his assertion in the #WhiteHouse that the #Kyiv regime in 2022 was alone, without support,” -#Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Telegram.
Russia says Trump showed ‘restraint’ by not hitting ‘#scumbag’ Zelensky
It was the head of the #Kiev regime, Vladimir #Zelensky, who behaved hostilely towards US Vice President Jay Dee Vance during a meeting in Washington. This was stated by #WhiteHouse press Secretary Caroline Leavitt in an interview with Fox News channel:
"It was President Zelensky who behaved hostilely towards the vice president in front of the cameras and chose to swear at him..."
White House: it was Zelensky who behaved hostilely and started arguing with Vance
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/03/01/1100259.html #ukraine
After #Zelensky, #Trump & #JDVance met in the Oval Office, US ofcls reportedly *regrouped* & ultimately decided to tell President Volodymyr Zelensky of #Ukraine to exit the #WhiteHouse before the day’s remaining scheduled events.
While #US ofcls debated, the Ukrainians waited in the Roosevelt Room until finally 2 US ofcls told the Ukrainians to remove themselves.
One of the Ukrainians proposed a private meeting between Trump & Zelensky to calm things down; Americans said no.
Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Being Aided by a Trumpworld Power Couple
Stephen & Katie Miller—he's “the prime minister,”...she’s DOGE’s comms guru—liaise between the #WhiteHouse & #ElonMusk, & are centrally involved as he tears the govt apart.
https://www.wired.com/story/katie-stephen-miller-elon-musk-takeover/
" #StephenMiller is the White House deputy chief of staff for policy & homeland security adviser... Katie Miller, is a special #government employee who functions as the top #communications official at #DOGE."
" #Musk would not be named the #DOGE administrator, but rather an adviser to #Trump...
secrecy...
If people filed #lawsuits seeking disclosure of his emails or the operation’s records under #FOIA, the arrangement would set the admn up to argue that such documents were exempt... FOIA does not apply to a president’s White House advisers or to #WhiteHouse entities that advise him but wield no **formal** power"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.t9r3.sBTAws_GSyV3&smid=url-share
Bravo #BernieSanders #Trump give the key of #whitehouse to #Putin it's really clear what a shame for #usa
https://youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o?si=QzERumcFMTbayvM-
#Zelinsky #SlavaUkraini
Judging by Macron's body language at the #WhiteHouse press conference after the meeting, I bet Trump probably put him in line rather hard.
Imagine what will happen to the #Brit clown that Trump hates more than any European puppet.
A look at how the #Trump admin handled the quickly debunked & obviously wrong statement about who is working from home shows that correcting “mistakes” is far from standard practice recently for either the #WhiteHouse or prominent #Republicans.
DOGE’s Millions: As Musk & Trump Gut Govt, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
The Dept of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the #WhiteHouse has shielded #DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies...
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency
"While #ElonMusk & his underlings demand budget cuts & layoffs across the federal #government, funding for their agency — the DOGE — has soared to nearly $40 million"
Spartacus