thecornercat

[thecornercat]

Ben-Gvir's declarations

(Italian version and sources under the cut)

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right National Security minister and resident of an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, said he has met with “senior Republican Party officials at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate” in Florida.

Ben-Gvir said on X that Republican lawmakers expressed support for his idea that Israel should bomb the food and aid depots in Gaza in order to create military and political pressure to bring hostages home safely.

It's unclear who the Republican representatives were, but it is confirmed that among them was Republican Congressman Tom Emmer. Emmer has been one of the leading voices in the US Congress supporting Israel, and has said that Hamas, not Israel, was to blame for the high rate of civilian deaths in Palestine.

Itamar Ben Gvir was challenged at Yale University, where he was visiting the Jewish society Shabtai. After the conference, he left the room smiling and making the “victory” sign to the protesters, who responded by whistling and throwing water bottles.

Le dichiarazioni di Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben-Gvir, ministro della Sicurezza nazionale israeliano di estrema destra e residente di un insediamento israeliano illegale nella Cisgiordania occupata, ha dichiarato di aver incontrato "alti funzionari del Partito Repubblicano nella tenuta di Trump a Mar-a-Lago" in Florida.

Ben-Gvir ha dichiarato a X che i legislatori repubblicani hanno espresso il loro sostegno all'idea di bombardare i depositi di cibo e aiuti a Gaza per creare pressione militare e politica e far tornare a casa gli ostaggi sani e salvi.

Non è chiaro chi fossero i rappresentanti repubblicani, ma è confermato che tra loro ci fosse il deputato repubblicano Tom Emmer. Emmer è stato una delle voci più autorevoli al Congresso degli Stati Uniti a sostegno di Israele e ha affermato che Hamas, e non Israele, era responsabile dell'alto tasso di morti civili in Palestina.

Ben-Gvir è stato sfidato all'Università di Yale, dove era in visita alla società ebraica Shabtai. Dopo la conferenza, se n'è andato sorridendo e facendo il segno della "vittoria" ai manifestanti, che hanno risposto fischiando e lanciando bottiglie d'acqua.

Sources:

[thecornercat]

[thecornercat]

You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

[thecornercat]

Democratic U.S Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan is calling for the impeachment of President Trump over the case of the man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

Thanedar's office said in a release Friday that the Trump administration's "blatant disregard" for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring they facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a "direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution."

[thecornercat]

Republicans letting First Felon stop cancer research with zero pushback is disqualifying.

Forever disqualified. Forever unforgivable.

[thecornercat]

We need a conviction. #FAFO #StillWeRise

[thecornercat]

They fired an O-10 four-star general for this?

'Didn't earn it' is MAGA standard.

[thecornercat]

the trump administration using colossal’s false ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf to justify slashing endangered species protections is one of the most blatant displays of a total disregard for science and yet right wingers will still keep muttering “libs don’t believe in science because of trans people” like that has any bearing on anything

[thecornercat]

“Never again” is now.

[thecornercat]

This is what happens when constituents put the pressure on instead of just sitting back and doing nothing.

Calls, letters, emails, protests, and townhalls work. Non-stop pounding on GOP reps works.

They're no heros, but civic action works.

[thecornercat]

Performative feminism is a most annoying aspect of our times.

[thecornercat]

[thecornercat]

This is so unrelated but why tf is Trump fighting HARVARD FUCKING UNIVERSITY 💀

Like why is this rapist and his ugly spray tan telling the most prestigious uni in the United States to stop accepting international students (even though that’s majority of its student body) and trying to get them to report any international students that don’t follow the code of conduct and get each department to report and cut any forms of DEI.

Genuinely what in the 1940s Germany is this

[thecornercat]

Still standing

(Italian version and sources under the cut)

The Trump administration announced it will freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts at Harvard University after it said it would not comply with government requests to change its policies.

At issue are last year's pro-Palestinian campus protests, that contributed to the harassment of Jewish students, according to the administration.

Harvard, which is the highest-profile target in Trump and Stephen Miller’s campaign to dismantle "woke ideology" on campuses, agreed to engage with the administration's task force to combat antisemitism, dismissing the leaders of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies and suspending its Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative over accusations of anti-Israel bias, and in January settled two lawsuits brought by Jewish students alleging antisemitism.

But the Trump administration has further threatened several colleges across the United States with funding cuts unless they make changes to school policies: eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, banning masks during campus protests, reforming merit-based hiring and admissions, and reducing the power of faculty and administrators who are “more engaged in activism than academic research.”

But there are more important things than money; having learned Columbia's lesson, the New York university that bowed to Trump's demands without obtaining the restoration of funding, Harvard has chosen the hard line. Now the university, represented by lawyers William Burck (an ethics adviser to the Trump Organization) and Robert Hur (who in 2018 investigated then Vice President Joe Biden’s handling of top-secret documents), could infuse energy into other universities in the country.

"The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government." states a post on X.

Ancora in piedi

L'amministrazione Trump ha annunciato che congelerà 2,2 miliardi di dollari in sovvenzioni pluriennali e 60 milioni di dollari in contratti pluriennali all'Università di Harvard, dopo che l'ateneo ha dichiarato di non voler accogliere le richieste di modifica delle sue politiche provenienti dal governo.

La questione principale sono le proteste pro-palestina nei campus universitari dello scorso anno, che avrebbero contribuito alle molestie contro gli studenti ebrei, secondo l'amministrazione.

Harvard, che è il bersaglio di più alto profilo nella campagna di Trump e Stephen Miller per smantellare l'"ideologia woke" dai campus, aveva accettato di collaborare con la task force dell'amministrazione per combattere l'antisemitismo, licenziando i dirigenti del suo Centro di Studi Mediorientali e sospendendo la sua Iniziativa per la Pace, la Religione e i Conflitti a causa di accuse di pregiudizio anti-israeliano, e a gennaio ha patteggiato due cause intentate da studenti ebrei per presunto antisemitismo.

Ma l'amministrazione Trump ha minacciato numerosi college negli Stati Uniti di tagli ai finanziamenti se non fossero state apportate modifiche alle politiche scolastiche: l'eliminazione dei programmi per la diversità, l'equità e l'inclusione, il divieto di indossare la mascherina durante le proteste nei campus, riforme delle assunzioni e delle ammissioni basate sul merito e la riduzione del potere detenuto da docenti e amministratori "più impegnati nell'attivismo che nella ricerca accademica".

Ma ci sono cose più importanti dei soldi; avendo imparato la lezione di Columbia, l'ateneo di New York che si è piegato alle richieste di Trump senza ottenere il ripristino dei finanziamenti, Harvard ha scelto la linea dura. Ora l'ateneo, rappresentato dagli avvocati William Burck (consigliere per l'etica della Trump Organization) e Robert Hur (che nel 2018 ha indagato sulla gestione di documenti top secret da parte dell'allora vicepresidente Joe Biden), potrebbe infondere energia ad altre università del Paese.

"L'Università non rinuncerà alla sua indipendenza né ai suoi diritti costituzionali. Né Harvard né alcuna altra università privata può permettersi di essere occupata dal govern" si dice in un post su X.

Sources:

https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/04/15/amministrazione-trump-congela-22-miliardi-per-harvard_c2143951-a708-4bb1-9603-cdcb6474171c.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20z60vxvmjo

[thecornercat]

BREAKING— In a 9-0 decision, The Supreme Court says the Trump administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; A Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The fact that it took a Supreme Court ruling is absolutely astonishing. It was so astonishing that it rendered a 9-0 ruling. Every justice agreed on this.

The Trump administration noted in court that he was deported by mistake due to an administrative error yet they still refused to schedule his return.

They accused Garcia of being a member of MS-13 which his family denies. He was falsely accused by an informant looking to lessen their prison sentence.

Garcia fled El Salvador in 2011 due to gang violence and was allowed to remain in the United States under a court order as long as he made regular check ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Garcia has no criminal record and is married to a US citizen which they have a 5 year old disabled child together.

Bring him home.

[thecornercat]

Married women now are forced to forfeit their right to vote because their names don’t match their birth certificate.

Call your Senate reps and tell them to strike this down!!