Ridiculous who elected #ElonMusk anyway?
The highest-ranking career official at the #TreasuryDepartment is departing after a clash with surrogates of #billionaire Elon #Musk’s #DOGE who sought access to sensitive payment systems.
#law #Treasury #economy #USpol #FederalAgencies #kleptocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
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A dist. ct in Texas holds Title IX Rule Violates 1st Amendment rights of teachers who want to misgender their students https://buff.ly/4iaFgB0
This is wrong and I have written an entire paper about why: https://buff.ly/3UVrAhd
To start, the teachers' speech is govt speech unprotected by the free speech clause
Judge in #EricAdams Case Appoints Lawyer to Argue Against Dropping of Charges
Judge Dale E. Ho said that with #NYC’s mayor & federal prosecutors agreeing to end the case, he needed to hear #independent arguments.
#law #DOJ #criminal #corruption #QuidProQuo #Trump #EmilBove
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/nyregion/adams-corruption-judge-independent-lawyer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump & #Maine’s Democratic Gov #JanetMills quarreled Friday at a National Governors Association session at the WH after Trump told a meeting of Republican governors he would withhold federal #funding from the state over its refusal to comply with an #ExecutiveOrder on #transgender athletes.
#law #CivilRights #LGBTQIA
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5157818-trump-janet-mills-maine-transgender-athletes/
Un-fucking-believable
Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans
TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.
#health #Insurance #medical #benefits #PublicHealth #law #USpol #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
Via @indivisibleteam:
#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:
“We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam
#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax
#Families, #LGBTQ+ advocates sue to block #Trump order on care for #transgender youth
The action follows a Trump admin order seeking to halt federal support of #gender transition care for those under 19.
#law #USpol #CultureWars #hate #discrimination #bigotry #health #medicine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/04/transgender-care-lawsuit-trump-executive-order/
#Romania’s #FarRight candidate, championed by #JDVance & #ElonMusk, detained by police
Romanian prosecutors have opened a #criminal investigation into #CălinGeorgescu, the far-right, Pro-#Russia populist who surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s cancelled presidential election last year.
#RussianPropaganda #ElectionInterference #geopolitics #law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/romanian-prosecutors-launch-investigation-into-far-right-politician-calin-georgescu
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#SEC Drops #Binance Lawsuit Days After #Crypto Exchange Lists #Trump’s #Stablecoin
The Securities & Exchange Commission dropped a lawsuit against Binance on Thursday, days after the crypto exchange began listing a stablecoin created by #WorldLibertyFinancial, one of Trump’s #blockchain ventures.
#law #corruption #billionaires #Broligarchy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #fraud #crime #felon47
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/29/sec-drops-binance-lawsuit-trump-stablecoin-listed/
#DOGE has turned its attention to small, #independent entities
NPR has identified close to 40 entities — inside, adjacent to & OUTSIDE of the #government — where DOGE & the #Trump admin have turned their attention in recent weeks.
It's the latest example of how DOGE is attempting to expand its reach beyond high-profile Cabinet agencies, & in some cases far beyond the #ExecutiveBranch & the #FederalGovernment entirely.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute
WTAF?
#CIA offers #buyouts to entire workforce to align with #Trump priorities
A CIA spox said in a statement the moves were meant to align the agency with the goals of Trump’s new ClA Director #JohnRatcliffe.
"Director Ratcliffe is moving swiftly to ensure the ClA workforce is responsive to the Administration's #NationalSecurity priorities. These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy," a CIA spox said.
#law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cia-offers-buyouts-entire-workforce-align-with-trump-priorities-wsj-reports-2025-02-05/
Newly confirmed #Trump #AttorneyGeneral #PamBondi is expected to order a review of the cases brought against #Trump, including those undertaken by prosecutors in #NewYork who successfully #convicted him in court.
Sworn in at the White House on Wednesday, Bondi intends to issue a series of memos aimed at curbing the so-called weaponization of the #DOJ….
She will order the review of the #criminal & #civil cases against Trump….
#law #lawlessness #Felon47
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/pam-bondi-attorney-general-first-day/index.html
Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked
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Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers strategize to prevent a return of abortion services.
Well I'm about to make a lot of money, and make an EXAMPLE.
I need lawyer for patient abuse.
One of the supervisors just wrote me up for having #tourettes and then called me a liar for like 10 minutes and told me I needed a better facility.
Soul Housing Recuperative Care, 1540 S Saint Andrews Pl #losangeles
I have a mountain of evidence for me and other people. I record.
It will be money for any #lawyers here.
I'm making a documentary too.
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Judge says #Trump cannot fire head of #independent #watchdog agency
The federal judge’s decision blocks Trump from removing #HamptonDellinger as head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel & sets up a likely #SCOTUS battle over the president’s powers.
#law #NationalSecurity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hampton-dellinger-trump-office-special-counsel/
#Senate #Democrats tried to advance a resolution that condemned “any acceptance of a Presidential aircraft, or any other substantial gift, from a foreign government as a grave #NationalSecurity threat to the Office of the President” & demanded that such a gift could only be accepted with the approval of Congress.
#Republican Sen #TommyTuberville of #Alabama blocked the measure.
#Trump #Qatar #AirForceOne #law #emoluments
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-trumps-free-luxury-jet-qatar-s-not-actually-free-rcna206706
#GiftArticle link thanks to @20002ist & @kateiacy
As #ElonMusk became one of #Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies & donating about $275M to help him win the presidency, he was also using #drugs far more intensely than previously known [tho pretty obvious to the casual observer], acc/to people familiar w/his activities.
#law #USpol #kakistocracy #FederalGovernment #DOGE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.ddlK.-OF3BB7k5PGN&smid=url-share
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More proof this is entirely unnecessary & serves #Trump’s interests alone.
• Distract you from his many other #illegal activities, his ineffectuality geopolitically, & his tanking of the #economy.
• Finally achieving his long coveted goal of creating an #authoritarian #MilitaryState in which no one is allowed to criticize him or even say they don’t like him.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #Gestapo #California #NationalGuard #Marines #immigration
https://apnews.com/live/immigration-protests-los-angeles-6-11-2025#00000197-5f9b-d663-a5f7-5f9b5dcd0000
#Google Calendar users no longer see default entries for events like #Pride, #BlackHistory Month
#nazi #hate #TrumpCoup #whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #law #CivilRights #tech #SearchEngine #techbros #technocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy
https://apnews.com/article/google-calendar-pride-black-history-month-8c499cfbe399b1eccc436032b3c4ced0
#Trump fires #USAID #IG one day after blistering report
The WH fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development on Tues evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact of the Trump admin’s efforts to significantly curtail the agency’s mission.
#law #aid #SoftPower #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/
#Musk Seeks to Put $100M Directly Into #Trump *Political Operation*
#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make donations not just to his own #superPAC, …but to an outside entity.
It is unheard-of for a WH staffer, even one w/*part-time* status, to make such large contributions to support the agenda of the boss. But there has never been someone in the direct employ of an admin like Musk, the world’s richest person, who is leading Trump’s #DOGE.
#law #democracy #oligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=DFBA3C3D-559A-4CDE-A0FB-ECD75001BA03
The #Trump admin is trying to deport *another* student, 21-yr-old #YunseoChung, a legal permanent resident, under the statute authorizing Secy of State #MarcoRubio to remove people deemed threat. She's lived here since childhood.
Chung wasn’t a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement, she only attended a few.
The #US is seeking to deport a person w/a #GreenCard since she was a child because she went to a #protest.
#law #immigration #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
The #Senate #Judiciary Cmte voted on Thurs to advance #KashPatel’s nomination to lead the #FBI, paving the way for a floor vote on his confirmation.
The vote, 12 to 10, fell along party lines. In forwarding Patel’s nomination to the full Senate, #Republicans on the cmte dismissed #Democrats’ demands for an additional hearing to question Patel about a host of issues, including grand jury testimony he gave in a #criminal investigation of #Trump that remains sealed.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-senate-judiciary-confirmation-trump.html?smid=url-share
There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in #America
Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. #DOGE & its boss, #ElonMusk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal #CivilService, along with its culture & values, & its replacement with something different. In other words: #RegimeChange.
#purge #TrumpCoup #law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/
Judge Blocks #Trump Administration From Terminating $14 Billion in 'Green Bank' Grants
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three #climate groups by the #Biden administration
#law #ClimateCrisis #DOGE #TrumpPurge #EPA #Citibank #ClimateUnitedFund #ClimateSolutions
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-380000b014480350b35b7b53bd14e277
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