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"Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost":
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html
#Trump #tariffs #inflation #recession #politics #cowardice
CNBCTrump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff costAmazon founder Jeff Bezos has cozied up to President Donald Trump since the Republican won a second White House term.
Dean Obeidallah: White House Correspondents Dinner in past years was where a US President was publicly mocked by a comedian and no one went to jail. The White House Correspondents Association this year surrendered by cancelling comedian Amber Ruffin to please Trump.
#media #cowardice #politics #WHCD
Norman Ornstein was right to criticize the White House Correspondents' Association (who he called an organization of sheep) for cowardly giving an award to a reporter who was tough on Biden. This must have made Trump happy.
I realize that the bootlicking cowards at the White House Correspondents' Association were afraid to give an award to a reporter who was tough on Trump, because Trump would write a mean tweet, or have their tax returns audited.
#media #cowardice #politics #WHCA
The White House Correspondents' Association is so afraid of Trump or so opposed to free speech that it canceled the comedian they hired, Amber Ruffin, because she could have told a joke that Trump would not want to hear. #media #cowardice #politics #WHCA
Rita Powell: "I just saw clips from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner last night and I am completely disgusted. I can’t believe how they are congratulating themselves on ushering in a fascist state. We really do deserve better."
#media #cowardice #politics #WHCA
"Once bubbly, the White House Correspondents’ dinner goes flat."
I always watched it, but not this time, now that it was presided over by Eugene Daniels, the coward who hired and then fired comedian Amber Ruffin:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/white-house-correspondents-dinner-flat-00311576
#media #cowardice #television #politics
Geen wetten. Geen toezicht. Geen menselijk fatsoen.
No laws. No supervision. No human decency.
Rita Baroud is een van de weinigen die nog kan vertellen wat er gebeurt. Ze is een freelancejournalist uit Gaza-Stad die nu in Deir al-Balah verblijft.
#gaza #genocide #perversity #cowardice #netanyahu
Doing anything needed to save your own political fate, no matter what your deeds cause other people to suffer. Filth is a euphemism.
NRC · ‘Voedsel is niet langer een middel om te overleven. Het is een symbool van vernedering geworden’
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Five more high profile #BigLaw legal firms have capitulated to Downmarket Mussolini's fascist threats in order to keep raking in federal contracts; even as 500 of their contemporaries in US law are actively proving that fighting the Trump regime is an option:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-deal
Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders
"Donald Trump said on Friday that five major law firms reached agreements to together provide his administration $600m in pro bono legal work, among other terms, to avoid executive orders punishing them, a significant capitulation to the president as he attacks the legal profession.
The five firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft – are among the most prestigious and recognized firms in the US.
Trump’s announcement on Friday on Truth Social means he has secured a total of $940m in pro bono work from some of the most powerful law firms in the US.
The orders come as Trump’s attack on the legal profession has divided the most prestigious firms in the US. More than 500 firms signed an amicus brief last week in support of a legal challenge to executive orders punishing the firm Perkins Coie. But many of the country’s biggest firms – including those that reached agreements announced on Friday – were conspicuously absent."
Frankly, I'm tired of repeating myself so I'll keep this brief. These firms are all kissing the fascist toad in the White House's ring because standing up to him, even when the law is on their side, risks too much of their ability to make money and that's more important to them than the law, or any sort of moral obligation to oppose fascism from those in a position to do so. Like every other Big Law firm before them, these folks have traded away their independence and integrity without any guarantee whatsoever that this represents the end of Downmarket Mussolini's demands; which means, even if they don't realize it, all of these law firms work for Trump now. Maybe these bigshot lawyers honestly believe, as former Skadden lawyer Rachel Cohen reported in the interview I shared above, that they can outsmart the regime, but that presupposes the Trump administration is playing by a set of rules - which is an idea that is wholly discredited by the blatantly unconstitutional executive orders and threats from the White House that brought us to this moment in the first place.
Finally I would encourage folks not to dismiss the almost 1 billion dollars in promises for pro bono services to the regime and causes Trump himself supports, that Der Leader has extracted here. Downmarket Mussolini is forcibly recruiting massive law firms to help him conduct an assault on our civil rights and the American legal system itself, and when he says the firms have agreed they “will not deny representation to clients, such as members of politically disenfranchised groups and Government Officials, employees, and advisors” he's making that explicitly clear. I mean let's cut the bullshit here, this is a regime that has argued that white people, and fundamentalist Christians are "politically disenfranchised groups" in fucking writing, so I don't think it's hard to imagine what kind of cases Trump is going to deploy his new minions to argue on behalf of his fascist, white nationalist regime. Trump just bought himself an army of lawyers to do fascism with, and it didn't cost him anything more than the paper his unconstitutional executive orders were printed on.
The Guardian · Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders
Doofus has very little wiggle room and is running out of options #idiocracy #maga #bondmarket #cowardice #fear youtu.be/t4W-7uqnD7s?...
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#Shakespeare had Caesar say "cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once." Caesar may died but once, but he was stabbed a whole bunch that one time. "I am Cinna the poet!" Cowards may live to die many times, but it's the soul that gets stabbed. #JuliusCaesar #cowardice #USpol #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-fear-lobby-business-congress-00006608
Eugene Daniels is the coward who invited and then fired Amber Ruffin from entertaining at the White House Correspondents' dinner. After MSNBC was criticized for firing Joy Reid and other excellent non-White hosts, it decided to give Eugene his own show. He was Black, but he was also an Uncle Tom. His show will not be worth watching: if he was too afraid to hear Amber, who won't he be afraid to hear?
#media #cowardice #comedy #humor #television #politics
Ah, yes. The Academy values intellectual freedom and exploration of ideas - unless it might offend major donors or a right wing authoritarian government. And certainly uncomfortable data must be suppressed.
The Guardian · NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
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@ukraine That seems a lot like #cowardice on the part of the rest of #Europe.
Absolutely all media organizations should drop their membership from the White House Correspondence Association, due to the WHCA's firing and censorship of talented comedian Amber Ruffin. Another reason to dump the WHCA: When Trump attacked the Associated Press, the response of the stupid cowardly "leadership" of the #WHCA was to wear pins saying "First Amendment" - a foolish gesture that accomplished nothing. #media #politics #cowardice
nottheworsehalf wrote: "How rich for Eugene Daniels to pose as a symbol for Freedom of the Press, and then he bends the knee to Trump and fires Amber Ruffin. The White House Correspondents Dinner is now a sham." And it will be extremely dull.
#media #cowardice #politics #AmberRuffinFan #humor
Jeff Stein: "Trump said about caving law firms and universities:
'They're all bending and saying, "Sir, thank you very much." Nobody can believe it.
Law firms are just saying, 'Where do I sign? Where do I sign'?"
Aaron Blake: "One of the fun parts of caving to Trump is he likes to remind people about how you caved to Trump, making it much harder to claim you didn't actually cave to Trump." #cowardice #politics #lawfare
I think we're all ready for a combo of browser extension and/or proxy that not only repairs these shameful deletions but also makes the original stuff appear to live /at the original urls/. Because fuck you cowards.
#1984 #cowardice https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/114226177531241744
Mastodon 🐘Carrie🇨🇦 (@carrieberry@mstdn.social)NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts
https://futurism.com/nasa-deletes-comic-women-astronauts
Ross Barkan: "I confess I don't get Columbia University folding* . Don't they have an endowment worth many billions? Very rich alumni? Alumni who hate Trump? They could do a massive #resistance fundraiser to make up for lost federal dollars. Very odd and very weak."
*surrendering to Trump. #cowardice #politics
Quid pro quo : something for somethingPro bono : for the public good
Quid pro bono : self serving trickery by Brad Karp for the benefit of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d4kex0w2ro
@law #law #paulweiss #fraud #ruleoflaw #dei #capitulation #collaboration #cowardice
www.bbc.comTrump cancels executive order against law firm after $40m promisePaul, Weiss promised $40 million of free legal work to the White House and to change its diversity policies.