"Emails confirm: SSA CXL contracts with Maine as pol payback against Mills..."
-A Delaney
“I was upset at the gov’s treatment, & I indicated in an email as such."
-Dudek
"I don’t know how it can stand in this country if we let someone remain in charge of a fed agency after finding out that he deliberately took actions that he knew would hurt Americans just to punish a pol opponent for not being nice enough to his boss."
-AR Melnick
Rep Connolly's letter to Dudek to resign:
#USPol #Retribution
The Trump admin is gaining power over criminal tax investigations.
Trump installed an Hunter Biden "whistleblower" as deputy of the criminal division.
Shapley was an IRS agent when he told Congress in 2023 that prosecutors slow-walked an inquiry into Hunter Biden for tax offenses. Shapley’s testimony made him a celeb figure on the R & endeared him to advisers Trump, who mused about using tax investigations to
#Retribution #DOJ #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/02/trump-administration-irs-politicization/
Israel seeks to erase refugee camps from Jenin and Tulkarm: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seeks-erase-refugee-camps-jenin-and-tulkarm
#USIP employees told WaPo that 200–300 people — nearly the entirety of USIP’s HQ staff — had been fired. The employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of #retribution from the #Trump admin, said some employees were offered severance & one additional month of health insurance, in exchange for their signatures to WAIVE their RIGHTS to sue.
Un gouvernement désemparé prépare la guerre 
Jusqu'en février 2025, l'Europe a été un instrument consentant de la politique étrangère des États-Unis. S'en rendant compte à l'instant, les dirigeant·es ne peuvent pas changer leur conviction de défendre le bien contre le mal. Iels choisissent donc de passer d'un discours des Lumières à un discours de réarmement.
En Allemagne, les partis politiques libéraux hérités du passé ont vu leurs votes chuter à 60 % (contre 76 % lors des élections parlementaires précédentes, trois ans plus tôt). Juste avant de se séparer, les représentant·es ont adopté une loi qui pourrait doubler la dette nationale.
"Après quinze années pendant lesquelles les partis politiques allemands ont sermonné leurs citoyen·nes en leur expliquant que la « hausfrau souabe » était le seul modèle de dépenses publiques et qu'on ne devait pas accabler « nos petits-enfants » par la prodigalité d'aujourd'hui, les mêmes partis politiques allemands ont abandonné la « responsabilité fiscale » en votant une nouvelle dette de plus de mille milliards d'euros, défiant non seulement leur propre frein à l'endettement, mais aussi celui qu'iels ont imposé au reste de l'Union européenne."
Mathew D. Rose (en) https://braveneweurope.com/mathew-d-rose-germany-has-sealed-its-own-demise
If distraught, prepare for war
The liberal legacy political parties had votes drop to 60 percent (from 76 percent in the previous parliamentary election three years earlier). Just before parting, the representatives passed a law that may double the national debt.
'After fifteen years of German legacy political parties lecturing their citizens that the Swabian hausfrau was the sole paradigm for government spending and that “our grandchildren” could not be burdened by today’s profligacy, the same German political parties have abandoned “fiscal responsibility”, having voted over one trillion euros in new debt, defying not only its own debt brake, but the one it imposed on the rest of the EU.'
Mathew D. Rose: https://braveneweurope.com/mathew-d-rose-germany-has-sealed-its-own-demise
#israel #lebanon : #militaryattack / #retribution / #hamas / #hezbollah / #civilianpopulation / #breachofceasefire
„Israel has conducted the first air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah is based, since a ceasefire with the group came into force in November.
The Israeli military said it had hit a drone storage unit used by Hezbollah on Friday, after issuing an evacuation warning that sparked panic.“
Multiple sources at #FSA who could not speak publicly for fear of #retribution said they were blindsided by the news.
Logistical challenges aside, the role of the office of Federal #Student #Aid as the administrator of the #StudentLoan portfolio is protected by #law. It's not clear how these responsibilities could be #legally moved w/o a vote of #Congress. [not that #Trump cares]
"Owner of the Old Orchard Beach Inn in ME: “easily” 90% of their bus has disappeared as Canadian tourists CXL vacations in the US following Trump’s relentless attacks on CA.
#Trump is destroying America."
-Rs agst Trump
The UK, Germany... have increased their travel warnings for those entering the US amid the Trump admin’s IMG crackdown *may be liable to arrest or detention if you break the rules.
#Tariffs #Retribution #Tourism #USPol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/european-countries-issue-travel-warnings-for-us-over-trumps-crackdown/
#israel was backed into a corner because Hamas was forcing Netanyahu to honor the ceasefire deal he had signed. Confronted with his own internal political challenges, Netanyahu's chose to return to war.
#Mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/why-netanyahu-chose-to-blow-up-the-ceasefire-and-return-to-war/
Advisory Opinions: Is Trump Going to War Against the Rule of Law?
Episode webpage: https://advisoryopinions.thedispatch.com/
Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/GF7929/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/DISPMI3329203381.mp3?updated=1742269542
State violence on children
"Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them."
by Hadeel Awad, a writer and a nurse based in Gaza: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/15/gazas-silent-epidemic
Over 43,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Jenin and Tulkarem (Occupied Palestine Territories)
https://thecradle.co/articles/jenin-camp-100-percent-destroyed-after-two-month-israeli-siege @israel @palestine
“I worry because Trump’s hatred inspires the hatred of others, which could lead to violence. I worry because our courts are not equipped to handle widespread, politically motivated, spurious investigations and prosecutions.”
We must protect this man!
"Less than three weeks after Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) sparred with President Donald Trump over his executive order prohibiting trans students from competing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity, the state has been hit with sudden cuts to funding and grants along with multiple investigations led by federal agencies and threats of more to come."
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/03/12/maine-targeted-with-federal-probes-threats-after-guv-spars-with-trump/
#Maine #retribution #revenge #USpol #USpolitics
[Substack]: Trump’s Revenge: The Vindman Brothers Targeted. By Olga Lautman, March 13, 2025
Here come the Jack Booted Thugs... (Geheime Staatspolizei)
"In Justice Department speech, Donald Trump threatens opponents with jail
The US president took aim at journalists, judges, prosecutors and Biden officials in a speech calling for ‘accountability’"
#Nazi #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Hate #Retribution #Fear #News #USA #MAGA
No, this is not evidence of the weaponization of the FBI or the EPA. 
No, this is not evidence of the real deep state.
Oh, sure, this is all perfectly normal "business as usual."
"trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups — The dishonest, vindictive, vengeful administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant."
https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations
ht @carkner
https://historians.social/@carkner/114151638593609803
#retribution #revenge #FBI
