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US Senator warns of #Trump admin plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied #immigrant #children
A Democratic US senator warns the Trump admin is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing #legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://apnews.com/article/migrant-children-deportation-border-trump-wyden-853585bc4efd13e59eccfb43fc4d0ceb
#Trump “library” says no Twitter #DMs can be found, despite evidence he sent them
Records show that Trump's first admin opted not to save DMs in its library archives, raising questions about compliance with the #PresidentialRecordsAct.
#law #transparency #accountability
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/03/trump-library-says-no-twitter-dms-can-be-found-despite-evidence-he-sent-them/
US #NationalParks passes will pay for #Trump July 4 plans
Entry fees are going toward a $1.6 million #fireworks display & DC “beautification”, while “donations” will fund a $5 million #helipad at the #WhiteHouse.
That money is being spent at the expense of the rest of the #US’ #park system which has a $24 billion backlog of badly needed #infrastructure repairs & improvements, known as “deferred maintenance.”
[tell us again to rake the forests]
#GovernmentWaste #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/03/trump-officials-divert-national-park-service-fees-fund-july-4-celebration/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&utm_campaign=rct:0:1:0:20260526;tt_2510:control&no_nav=true
Former #Trump admin #NationalSecurity adviser #JohnBolton pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally retaining classified information, sealing a deal with federal prosecutors that could allow him to avoid a prison term.
Bolton, who became an outspoken critic of Trump after serving in the Republican’s first admin, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 by US District Judge Theodore Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/bolton-justice-department-trump-classified-information-e95c29e7f8659d8b4b01d44148ae1ab4
#Trans Minors Sue to Stop #DOJ Access to #MedicalRecords
The #Trump admin says it is investigating off-label medication use & fraudulent billing. Families say the inquiry is a new way to press hospitals to end the #care.
#law #Privacy #TransRights #HumanRights #LGBTQ #science #medicine #healthcare #bigotry #hate #discrimination
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/transgender-minors-medical-records-lawsuits.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Good news for #anticorruption & #GovernmentWaste
#Senate #Republicans have formally removed #funding for #Trump’s #ballroom security as part of their sprawling #immigration funding package [cuz seriously wtf?], acc/to revised #legislative text released Wednesday.
The decision to drop the ballroom funding, which had sparked significant debate among lawmakers, is not a complete surprise, though it is likely to frustrate #Trump [call the waaaahhhmbulance].
#law #vanity
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/trump-ballroom-funding-senate-republicans
Holy hell, they finally found their ovaries
In a first, #House votes to block #Trump from ordering further #strikes on #Iran
The #Senate advanced a similar #WarPowers resolution last month on a procedural vote, reflecting growing impatience with a conflict #Congress hasn’t authorized.
#OvaryUp #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #war #ForeverWars #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/house-iran-war-powers-vote?cid=ios_app
When declining to commit to permanently scrapping the controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" #MAGASlushFund, #Trump claims he doesn’t know if the $1.8 billion fund is dead, & calls it ‘a beautiful thing’
#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #SlushFund #sickness
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/anti-weaponization-fund-trump
With no public accounting of the entire #Trump construction spree, a team of NYT reporters—Luke Broadwater, Marco Hernandez, Junho Lee & Elena Shao—set out to produce one. They found that the admin had mobilized at least $1.2 billion on no fewer than 18 major projects across the nation’s capital. Here’s everything they learned about their budgetary provenance.
#law #landmark #PublicLand #conservation #TaxPayersMoney #oversight #UrbanPlanning #architecture
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/24/us/trump-dc-costs-ballroom-arch-pool.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.ukIA.PAjpl0kTe-h1&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Federal judge halts #Trump #election #ExecutiveOrder seeking to create a #federal voter list & limit who can receive a #mail #ballot.
#US District Court Judge Indira Talwani sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen #states that challenged the Republican president’s order in granting a #SummaryJudgment [nice!]. Her ruling applies to this year’s #midterms.
#law #Constitution #VotingRights #VoterSuppression #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-elections-mail-voting-b28c3425c1dc968cd0f57c61fb7a684e
I think France should take the Statue of Liberty back
#SCOTUS on Thursday allowed the #Trump admin to end legal protections for #immigrants fleeing #violence & natural #disaster in #Haiti & #Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential #deportation.
The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders & allows the #DHS to swiftly end #TPS, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.
#law #racism #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-supreme-court-haiti-syria-tps-1bbbf8115f984a0d53336656924e989d
Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious) (2024) https://lobste.rs/s/9czcrx #law
https://ntietz.com/blog/licensing-joy-gal/
Florida's #AlligatorAlcatraz #immigration #ConcentrationCamp has closed
“Alligator Alcatraz,” the remote #Florida immigration detention center that faced harsh criticism for its conditions, has shut down nearly a year after opening, Gov DeSantis said Thursday.
DeSantis said the center at an isolated airstrip in the #Everglades was always meant to be only temporary until more permanent detention centers could be secured & federal ofcls now have that capacity.
#law #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-closure-florida-immigration-detention-3c371f51fe71ed64b7ae9d22d0fab5cb
#SCOTUS Expands Trump’s #ExecutivePower Over #Immigration
The court handed #Trump victories in his push to rescind #deportation & for hundreds of thousands of people & turn away #immigrants at the southern border.
#law #immigration #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #judiciary #legislation #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-temporary-protected-status.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.fkE6.E-jXQRTpMCY6&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Trump admin has separated dozens of #children from their #parents for a second time, AP finds
…8 years after Trump’s forcible border separations came to an official halt following global outrage, an AP investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their #families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together.
#law #immigration #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-family-separation-ice-71a610d15af5207a68f989fcafb55039
Video shows #Pentagon “counterterrorism” hire clambering into Capitol on #Jan6
#EliasIrizarry was filmed moving through restricted grounds & climbing through a broken window, according to a Washington Post analysis.
#Trump #NationalSecurity #insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #TrumpIsATerrorist #SeditiousConspiracy #treason #law
https://wapo.st/4ugPZQ7
#Senate is considering a motion to block #Trump from establishing the $1.8 billion #SlushFund he planned to use to compensate allies he believes have been politically persecuted. Minority leader Sen Chuck Schumer introduced the motion as the Senate considered #Republicans’ $70 billion #immigration enforcement bill. #ToddBlanche, the acting AG, previously said the fund was dead, but Trump expressed his support for it as recently as Wednesday, saying, “I love it.”
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/04/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Trump Keeps #Immunity From #IRS, a Victory in a Long Feud
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8B #SlushFund for Trump’s allies, #Republicans looked the other way as his admin granted him lucrative #tax protections.
#Senate Republican anger about Trump’s $1.8B fund for people who claim to be victims of federal overreach was loud & apparent.
…Not so for sweeping protections from IRS audits that #ToddBlanche also ordered up for Trump, his family & his businesses.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/trump-immunity-tax-audit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.gcSQ.hiZiiEEk4rpF&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Judge Says #Trump Officials Must Restart #Asylum & #Immigration Processing
The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/asylum-immigration-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Holy crap
#Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million #living people as #dead — including some #US #citizens & lawful permanent residents — #whistleblower claims
A former #SocialSecurity executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure #immigrants to leave the country.
#law #immigration #SSA #fraud #HumanRights #CivilRights #DOGE #ElonMusk #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/
NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.”
But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aclu-trump-police-reform-doj-minneapolis-louisville-phoenix-memphis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
As the #Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a #US strike killing over 100 Iranian #children
A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago. We still don’t know the full story
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
https://apnews.com/article/iran-school-strike-baluch-trump-2a134a5c74d80db763db4c3eb6d0d847
US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers via @kngl https://lobste.rs/s/thkwcf #law
https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers