👀"At #Trump’s urging, #USPS board to name FedEx official as postmaster general David Steiner is a member of FedEx’s board and was previously the leader of sanitation company Waste Management.. "helping solidify the White House’s control over the historically independent mail service." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/06/usps-trump-david-steiner/
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Keep ‘em coming
“A federal judge is halting the #Trump administration from carrying out, under a February executive order, mass firings or major reorganizations of multiple agencies going forward”
Nice. Sen #SheldonWhitehouse just mentioned that #KilmarAbregoGarcia has an excellent #BivensAction complaint against #Trump et al.
#DeepCut but exactly on the nose.
A Bivens action generally refers to a lawsuit for #damages when a federal officer who is acting in the color of federal authority allegedly violates the US #Constitution by federal officers acting.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_action
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
Should have happened a year ago
Judge Bars #ICE From Making #Immigration Arrests at #Courts in #NewYork
The #Trump admin’s practice of detaining immigrants at federal #courthouses [#entrapment] has stirred outrage.
#law #SafeSpace #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyregion/ice-immigrant-arrests-nyc-courts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
#News #Tariffs #Trump #SeanDuffy #Stocks #Trade #Economy #Business #USPolitics
Death of woman released by #ICE on a winter day is now ruled a #homicide
The grainy security footage from the Pittsburgh transit authority shows Daphy Michel seated on a steel bench. She had been released hours earlier from ICE custody, & temperatures that night would dip to freezing. The 31-year-old #asylum seeker wore only a hooded sweatshirt to keep herself warm.
#law #Trump #immigration #ExtrajudicialKillings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/16/death-woman-released-by-ice-winter-day-is-now-ruled-homicide/
‘That’s Not Who We Are’: #Biden Criticizes #Trump in BBC Interview
The fmr president stepped up his public re-emergence by attacking Trump’s handling of #ForeignPolicy & defending his own decision to seek re-election.
6 months after his party lost the presidential election, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is stepping back into the public spotlight with a scathing condemnation of his successor & his handling of international affairs.
#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/trump-biden-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=90A32E8E-9267-489E-A5FD-56DFD5B66684
Wisconsin’s Name-Change Law Raises Safety Risks for Transgender People
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A 167-year-old statute requires trans people to publish their old and new names in a newspaper. Families and advocates worry the requirement now poses a risk as President Donald Trump has attacked transgender rights.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-law-transgender-name-changes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #Trans #LGBTQ #Transgender #TransRights #Trump
The #Trump admin is proposing increasing the “#refugee” admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 to 17,500 but only for #White #SouthAfricans, according to an “emergency” determination sent to #Congress & obtained by CNN.
#law #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #racism #asylum #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/trump-additional-white-south-african-refugees?cid=ios_app
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
Stifling Voices, literally
The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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Breaking News: The #Trump administration laid off more than 600 people at the federally funded news outlet Voice of America, reducing its staff to less than 200. The news organization provides independent reporting to countries with limited press freedom.
Via Steve Benen:
As former Fox News [sic] contributor Janette Nesheiwat's surgeon general nomination collapses, #Trump's list of personnel failures keeps growing.
- Matt Gaetz
- Chad Chronister
- Dave Weldon
- Elise Stefanik
- Kathleen Sgamma
Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #University #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #Boston #Palestine
NEW: More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Food #SNAP #Children #Kids #Poverty #USPolitics
The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #CivilRights #Immigration #Law #Trump #DHS #Deportation #Border
"Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land. For two months, Israel has blocked delivery of all aid into the strip."
~ Financial Times
#Netanyahu #Trump #Israel #Gaza #starvation #healthcare
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https://www.ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7-4d1f-b842-752e3aca9272
Trump administration officials suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.
“It’s laughable to suggest that on the African continent, the prime issue of human rights concern is whites in South Africa,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-afrikaner-south-africa-money?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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“ #Trump set to grant another extension to avoid #TikTok disruption
The social media platform is technically prohibited under U.S. law unless it can find an American buyer.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-extension-tiktok-rcna213625
Every time I hear the tangerine dictator speak I’m reminded of what grandma always said: ‘The empty can makes the most noise’.
It didn’t really make sense to me until Trump ran for office in 2015.
"Donald Trump’s approval rating hit a new low this month, but there’s one group that still staunchly stands by him.
According to a recent Pew poll, 69 percent of white evangelical Christians approve of his job performance. That number has dropped slightly from last year, but the investment Trump made in winning over religious conservatives continues to pay dividends."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism
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