#Farmers in #Canada are reeling from China's decision to impose hefty duties on their #CanolaSeed, after the surprise move spooked #grain buyers into halting purchases & stoked worries there will be little demand for crop deliveries this autumn.
#China hit Canadian #canola seed imports with preliminary 75.8% duties on Tuesday following an anti-dumping investigation, escalating a year-long #trade dispute.
#economy #commodities #trade #markets
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/canadian-farmers-reel-china-blocks-top-canola-seed-market-2025-08-13/
#Trump admin to lead review of some #Smithsonian #museums
The White House said on Tuesday it will lead an internal review of some Smithsonian museums & #exhibitions ahead of the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, after Trump earlier this year accused the institution of spreading "anti-American ideology" & raised alarm among #CivilRights advocates [& historians].
#censorship #whitewashing #history #USHistory #AmericanHistory #truth #facts
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-lead-review-some-smithsonian-museums-2025-08-12/
[Right after the 5Smithsonian reinstalled the “#impeachment” exhibit that included #Trump as the only president in all of #UShistory to be impeached 2X, & after his #dictatorship ordered its removal] the “White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions”
#Classic #US #USpol #law #Constitution #Constitution #Belief #Values #USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/design/smithsonian-exhibitions-review-white-house-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #Trump admin said on Tuesday that it would begin a wide-ranging review of current & planned exhibitions at the #Smithsonian Institution, scouring wall text, websites & social media “to assess tone, historical framing & alignment with American ideals.”
#US #USpol #law #Constitution #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteWashing #revisionism #Belief #Values #USA #Classic #impeachment #Trump #UShistory #dictatorship
[Right after the 5Smithsonian reinstalled the “#impeachment” exhibit that included #Trump as the only president in all of #UShistory to be impeached 2X, & after his #dictatorship ordered its removal] the “White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions”
#Classic #US #USpol #law #Constitution #Constitution #Belief #Values #USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/design/smithsonian-exhibitions-review-white-house-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump's rhetoric about #DC echoes a history of #racist narratives about #urban #crime
#Trump has taken control of DC’s #police & ordered #NationalGuard #troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, claiming the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis.
#WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-12-Trump%27s+DC+rhetoric
Even as #DC officials questioned the claims underlying his *#emergency declaration*, #Trump promised a “historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam & squalor & worse.” His rhetoric echoed that used by #conservatives going back decades who have denounced #cities, especially those with majority #nonwhite populations or led by #progressives, as lawless or crime-ridden & in need of outside intervention.
#WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #CivilRights #TrumpCoup2
Trump's rhetoric about #DC echoes a history of #racist narratives about #urban #crime
#Trump has taken control of DC’s #police & ordered #NationalGuard #troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, claiming the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis.
#WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-12-Trump%27s+DC+rhetoric
Appeals Court Allows #DOGE Access to
Sensitive #Data at Several #FederalAgencies
The decision cited a #SCOTUS order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the #SocialSecurity Administration.
#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/appeals-court-doge-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed teams affiliated with #DOGE to gain #access to potentially sensitive #data on millions of Americans, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in Feb.
By a 2-1 vote, a 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the #FourthCircuit granted the access to data stored at the #Treasury Dept, the #Education Dept & the Office of Personnel Management [#OPM], citing the June #SocialSecurity #SCOTUS decision.
#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #Musk
Appeals Court Allows #DOGE Access to
Sensitive #Data at Several #FederalAgencies
The decision cited a #SCOTUS order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the #SocialSecurity Administration.
#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/appeals-court-doge-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
An influx of arrests could hamstring an already understaffed US attorney’s office in #DC, which has seen dozens of prosecutors leave this admin….
The mayor said Monday that she had one call over the weekend that indicated #Trump might deploy the #NationalGuard but did not have reason to believe that the president would place the DC #police under direct #federal #control.
#law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” #Bowser said at the Monday news conference, as she sought to downplay the impact of the #DC #takeover. “So we are going to work, every day, to get this emergency put to an end.”
She paused briefly & added, “I’ll call it the so-called emergency.”
#Trump #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
“In every conversation I have with him, we’re always briefing the president on our progress,” Bowser said. “We went over the crime trends. We went over how we’re seeing decreases. So the president is read in on our efforts.”
#PamBondi has not met w/the #DC #police chief, but had been expecting & prepared for Monday’s announcement, acc/to 2 people…. #TerryCole, head of the #DEA & newly named commissioner of the DC police, for the first time on Monday evening met w/DC Police Chief Pamela A. Smith.
An influx of arrests could hamstring an already understaffed US attorney’s office in #DC, which has seen dozens of prosecutors leave this admin….
The mayor said Monday that she had one call over the weekend that indicated #Trump might deploy the #NationalGuard but did not have reason to believe that the president would place the DC #police under direct #federal #control.
#law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
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