[Monarch Butterfly]

After taking a 10% stake in Intel, the U.S. Government will take stakes in more companies, top Trump adviser says

https://twitter.com/x/status/1959983132708581631

A larger percentage than what the Canadian government owns of Air Canada. As of April 2021, the Government of Canada owns approximately 6.4% of Air Canada. Allegedly.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

For peeps getting weirded out about government holding percentages in private companies and such should know that it is not socialism by any real stretch. And I wish they stop calling it that. While sure, communist states run *crown* corporations (like a lot of other countries do) and yes, peeps can still be weirded about that...it has no real benefits to the people like us living under those arrangements outside powers that be getting filthy rich over it and/or dictating their narratives. Just saying.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

President Trump has just fired Fed Governor Lisa Cook

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

^...I think she just told him where to stuff his onions. And is staying put.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the administration is thinking about the federal government taking partial ownership of defense corporations

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960349476071084362

 

[PinkLucy]

Trump lawsuit against the federal bench in Maryland has been dismissed (via the New York Times, paywalled https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/26/us/trump-news#trump-suit-maryland-judges)

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an extraordinary lawsuit that the Trump administration had filed against the entire federal bench in Maryland, challenging a standing order intended to briefly slow down the government’s ability to deport undocumented immigrants.

In a scathing 39-page ruling, the judge, Thomas T. Cullen, called the suit “novel and potentially calamitous,” saying that the administration had simpler — and clearly more legal — ways to contest the standing order aside from bringing a suit against all 15 federal judges who sit in Maryland.

Judge Cullen, who was appointed by President Trump, went out of his way to describe the complaint as extremely unusual, offering his own role in the case as a prime example of its unorthodox nature. Because the suit was filed against the state’s entire federal bench, all of the district judges there were forced to recuse themselves and Judge Cullen had to be brought in from his home courthouse in Roanoke, Va., to preside over the case.
Moreover, he used the ruling to take Mr. Trump and some of his top aides to task for having repeatedly attacked other judges who have dared to rule against the White House in a flurry of cases challenging aspects of its political agenda.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...I am pretty sure there's been a boom in the legal economy with this administration. /sigh

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Trump: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States,'' in response to a question about a reporter asking him about sending the National Guard to Chicago

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...it's somewhere between "I am the law!" and "The law is whatever I say it is!" /bleh

 

[lenaitch]

L'etat; C'est moi.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

L'etat; C'est moi.

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Let them eat hamburgers...

 

[afransen]

What a weird scene. Filet o Fish, made hours earlier, sitting on silver trays. That room must have smelled like shit.

 

[PurplePinky]

What a weird scene. Filet o Fish, made hours earlier, sitting on silver trays. That room must have smelled like shit.

I don’t think it’s real, probably AI picture.

 

[afransen]

I don’t think it’s real, probably AI picture.

Sadly, it is too real.