https://www.europesays.com/1977633/ Former Mass. doctor arrives at International Space Station for 8-month mission #8MonthMission #Dr.JohnnyKim #earth #family #FormerEmergencyRoomDoctor #FormerMass.Doctor #FormerNavySeal #HarvardMedicalSchool #HistoryTuesday #InternationalSpaceStation #ISS #kazakhstan #kim #MassGeneralBrigham #mass. #nasa #NASAAstronaut #OuterSpace #ScienceProject #space #variety
Americans aren’t waiting for the Democratic Party to take on Trump
In February, anti-Trump demonstrations took place in all 50 states, part of the of 50501 movement (which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day).
On March 15, thousands of people marched in New York City under the banner of public employee unions against the Trump/Musk cuts to public services.
The arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card-holding Columbia University graduate who played a prominent role in anti-Israel protests last year, has sparked an uproar over whether the Trump administration is violating the 1st Amendment by targeting immigrants for their political beliefs.
And God bless New York Rep. #Alexandria #Ocasio-#Cortez, 35,
and Vermont Sen. #Bernie #Sanders, 83, who are on the road in Western states with their
“Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which has drawn thousands of people to arenas this week in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.
There’s more.
“Missing member” events, for example, where voters are holding their own town halls because their Republican members of Congress are too afraid to face them.
In some cases, constituents step up to a microphone and pose questions to an empty chair.
In Wisconsin, Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden did not show up at a town hall,
so a Democrat from a nearby district,
Rep. #Mark #Pocan,
came instead and spoke to 300 people next to an empty chair with Van Orden’s name on it.
Hundreds of healthcare workers demonstrated outside the Anaheim Hills office of Republican Rep. #Young #Kim the other day to protest expected cuts to Medicaid, the health safety net for more than 72 million low-income and disabled Americans.
And millions of Americans all over the country may answer the call on Saturday, April 5, for a
“Hands Off” protest organized by Indivisible,
the progressive grassroots group that got its start in 2017 when a handful of congressional staffers put together a handbook about peaceful, effective resistance to right-wing power grabs.
The “Hands Off” motto:
“They’re dismantling our country. They’re looting our government. And they think we’ll just watch.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-23/donald-trump-elon-musk-democratic-party-resistance-oppositionr
We have to be honest and pragmatic
With the USA reneging on support treaties. Calling #Ukraine the aggressor threating #Canada #Panama and #Greenland with annexation (invasion). Forcing all the allies to act counter to #trump and form an opposing alliance. And calling #Putin and chairman #Kim mates while criticising #Trudeau #zelensky and other #Democratically elected leaders. One thing is obvious
#USA is now a member of the #axis of evil states and not part of the time free world
California Republicans face weighty vote over House budget resolution
Republicans representing swing congressional districts in California
— including Reps. #David #Valadao (R-Hanford) and #Young #Kim (R-Anaheim Hills)
— must decide whether to support their party’s agenda at whatever cost,
or face potentially disastrous blowback in their home communities for agreeing to cut Medicaid.
In Valadao’s 22nd congressional district in particular, 67% of the population is on Medi-Cal, as Medicaid is known in California
— the highest percentage in the state, according to the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-02-25/house-budget-resolution-california-lawmakers
The people that Trump has apparently most respected — #Xi, #Putin, #Kim — they’ve never followed that advice.
And those who follow that advice are often on the receiving end of a tariff or diplomatic insult regardless.
He views friendship as leverage.
NATO allies have fought and died alongside American troops?
That’s not a partnership forged in blood — that’s a chump who should pay up.
Death of South Korean Star Kim Sae-ron Sparks Calls for Change in Celebrity Treatment https://www.inbella.com/912371/death-of-south-korean-star-kim-sae-ron-sparks-calls-for-change-in-celebrity-treatment/ #calls #CelebritiesNews #Celebrity #CelebrityTreatmentDeath #change #for.. #in.. #KDrama #Kim #KimSaeRon #Korean #MentalHealth #of.. #OnlineBullying #SaeRon #south #sparks #star #treatment
#Portnikov here differentiates the relationships of #russia with #iran and #northkorea, with the former still working with rough considerations pertaining to precedent in int. relations while #kim is more aligned with #putin by their lack of restraint.
https://nv.ua/ukr/opinion/syurpriz-mizh-rosiyeyu-ta-iranom-portnikov-pro-te-de-pomilivsya-putin-50483748.html
At least one Democrat is saying explicitly that the party should fight back against Trump and Musk by refusing to help Republicans reach a government funding deal.
“Look, if we have to take steps to be able to hold them accountable,
use the leverage that we have to force it,
I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions,”
Sen. #Andy #Kim
(D-New Jersey) said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”
“And for us to be able to support government funding in that way
only for them to turn it around to dismantle the government,
that is not something that should be allowed."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/09/democrats-government-shutdown-trump-musk/
The #US should respond to every North Korean provocation by actively informing North Korean people of their dire #HumanRights situations, David Maxwell, VP of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, argued.
"If #NorthKorea conducts a missile test, the response should not just stop at condemning the act. #Kim's deliberate decision to prioritize #nuclear weapons & missiles is what is causing the suffering of the Korean people in the North."
Harris argues that, at long last, the 
️end of the Trump era️ is in sight
Instead of treating Trump as an equal force in the system, the 
Democrats are now treating him more like a virus.
It is hard to overstate the extent to which this is facilitated by the other way in which Trump’s enduring presence has reshaped American politics:
-- the big, sturdy #echo #chamber in which he and his supporters exist.
The right has been in a #bubble for some time, but Trump strengthened and refocused it.
Allies like Elon Musk helped; Musk turned his social media platform X into a literal economic engine for the fringe right rather than just an engine for attention.
The bubble grew more insular and isolated, making it easier to treat as exceptional instead of as integrated.
Harris was direct in articulating the threat many Americans see in Trump, including his #authoritarian tendencies.
“I will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators like #Kim #Jong #Un, who are rooting for Trump,” she said at one point, “who are rooting for Trump because they know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors.
They know Trump won’t hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an #autocrat himself.”
Conspiracy Theorist Clay Clark Is Working to Place a ‘Prophet’ in Trump’s Cabinet
In 2021, far-right conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed
“alpha toxic male” #Clay #Clark
organized a “Reopen America” event in Oklahoma that was designed to protest restrictions that had been put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
That event was such a success that Clark quickly rechristened it 
“ReAwaken America” and launched a nationwide tour, holding similar events all over the country.
Convinced that a vague 2013 prophecy from the late self-declared “prophet” #Kim #Clement about “a man by the name of Mr. Clark and … another man by the name of Donald”
was a prophecy about himself and former President Donald Trump, Clark’s events quickly became a nonstop cavalcade of outlandish #conspiracy #theories and explicitly #violent #rhetoric mixed with aggressive #Christian #nationalism.
Eventually, members of the Trump family began to participate in Clark’s event,
leading Clark to form a particularly close friendship with #Eric and #Lara #Trump, whom he credited with “legitimizing what we are doing in the minds of many people.”
In 2023, Clark bragged that through his tour, he had managed to establish direct connections to the Trump family and campaign,
and was working to ensure that 
Trump would be “surrounded by both prophets and pastors” in his run for president.
On Monday, Clark appeared on a program hosted by self-proclaimed “prophet” #Julie #Green,
where he revealed that his current plan is to leverage the access he has gained
to place a “prophet” in Trump’s cabinet if the former president returns to the White House.
After bragging that Eric Trump had personally invited him to attend the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week,
Clark recalled how Eric had asked him to organize a right-wing prayer call for the Trump family earlier this year.
“For the president’s son to ask [us] to organize a night of prayer,
that’s just not normal of what you would expect, and it shows that God is moving on him,” Clark said.
“I feel like the purpose of the ReAawaken Tour is to flip the [organization] chart [so] you have 
God at the top, prophets second, and then the politicians third.”
“You’d have God, and then you’d have the prophets, and then you would have President Trump listening to them and 
treating them in the same way that he might talk to the Secretary of Defense, or the same way that he might talk to the head of Homeland Security,” Clark continued.
“I would like to see President Trump have a prophet in his cabinet.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/conspiracy-theorist-clay-clark-is-working-to-place-a-prophet-in-trumps-cabinet/
"North Korea’s Kim Seeks Obesity Meds Abroad, South Says"
https://time.com/7005228/north-korea-kim-jong-un-health-weight-obesity-medicine-abroad/
"South Korea’s spy agency briefed lawmakers that Kim, who is 5-ft-8, is estimated to weigh over 300 lbs. and belongs to a high-risk group for heart disease."
US ‘incredibly concerned’ over threat to supply weapons to North Korea after Asia tour
Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that Russia could supply weapons to North Korea is “incredibly concerning”, a senior US official has said,
days after #Putin and North Korea’s leader, #Kim Jong-un, signed a defence pact that requires their countries to provide immediate military assistance if either is attacked.
Matthew #Miller, a US state department spokesperson, said the provision of Russian weapons to Pyongyang
“would destabilise the Korean peninsula, of course, and potentially … depending on the type of weapons they provide … violate UN security council resolutions that Russia itself has supported”.
The US secretary of state, Antony #Blinken, and South Korea’s foreign ministry said the treaty between Russia and North Korea
posed a “serious threat” to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.
Blinken said the US would consider “various measures” in response to the pact, which elevated ties between the sanctions-hit states to their highest level since the cold war.
South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to protest against the pact with North Korea, as border tensions continued to rise.
Seoul has also said it would 
consider providing arms to Ukraine, triggering an angry response from the Russian ambassador, Georgy #Zinoviev,
who said attempts to blackmail and threaten Russia were unacceptable, Russia’s Tass news agency reported.
In his meeting with Zinoviev on Friday, the South Korean vice-foreign minister, Kim Hong-kyun, condemned the treaty
and called on Russia to immediately halt military cooperation with North Korea.
Friction over shipments of weapons to both sides in the war in Ukraine has worsened this week,
amid speculation that Putin and Kim discussed additional supplies of North Korean missiles and ammunition
for use by Russian forces when they met in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
