Keep 'em coming. #UnionStrong
Via Kyle Griffin:
Reuters: U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS #TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM CANCELING UNION BARGAINING FOR 50,000 TRANSPORTATION SECURITY OFFICERS
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#KilmarAbregoGarcia's latest legal brief roasts #Trump's "shocking proposition" that officers can "snatch residents of this country & deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law" — & no US court can do anything about it.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.176.0.pdf
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
The #Trump admin says Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is "personally handling" discussions with #ElSalvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants.
He has a "personal relationship" with #Bukele that dates to his time on #ForeignRelations Cmte.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.290.1.pdf
#immigration #law #DueProcess #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #HumanRights
Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
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Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-mental-health-therapists-quit-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Military #Army #Veterans #MentalHealth #PTSD #Health #Psychology #Psychiatry #SocialWork #Trump
Crap.
Via Kyle Cheney:
#Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C.
The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker.
All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit.
They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.
“Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the manner of #RumeysaOzturk’s arrest seemed unusual to him.
“‘I’m not accustomed to … law enforcement officers without identification, approaching individuals masked and you know, not having a warrant…’”
#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-trial
It’s the #LibraryOfCongress.
But #Trump claims it’s his.
Trump’s new target in his campaign to expand #ExecutivePower: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name—admin attys are now arguing the main #research #library of the #legislative branch doesn’t belong to #Congress at all.
A #legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t a one-off. It’s the latest move in a broader effort by Trump…to erase the…lines that separate the branches of govt.
#law
https://wapo.st/4dQh5Hm
😳🤦🏻♀️
Via Maddow:
#trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested:
a judge
a democratic mayor
a democratic congresswoman
now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer
From the Creator of ‘#Succession,’ a Satire of #Tech’s #FarRight
…“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong…new movie, “#Mountainhead,” …He wrote the script, about grandiose, nihilistic tech #oligarchs holed up in a mountain mansion in Utah, in Jan & Feb, as a very similar set of oligarchs was coalescing behind #Trump’s inauguration. Then he shot the film, his first, over 5 wks this spring. It premieres on Sat on #HBO.
#broligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/opinion/succession-mountainhead-tech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F1B636B4-CB53-4955-B261-4829BC8C52DD
With each passing day, the #unitedstates sinks deeper in the #cesspool of an egregiously #corrupt #fascist #authoritarian #state. #Rights are mere illusions under #Trump.
According to Vox, Trump has asked #SCOTUS to disregard the Convention Against Torture.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture
#news #uspol #hellscape #america #thisis2025 #torture #deportation #wtf
"Comfortable."
COMFORTABLE striking a nuke facility.
So glad he's so comfy. I'm not.
Yashar Ali:
BREAKING via ABC NEWS
“#Trump is getting comfortable with the idea of taking out Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. It would not be just one strike on the facility, it would be several. There is now a movement to get ready for this.”
"Just for clarification, there is no such thing as a white South African refugee. And the Episcopal Church is well aware of that fact. Because there is nothing that a white South African needs to be refuged from. ...
South Africa's wealth distribution is heavily influenced by race, with white South Africans historically and currently holding a disproportionate share of wealth."
~ Keith Owens
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"During the EXCLUSIVE telephone interview, the senior #Trump transition team insider explained that President Trump is determined “to make #theInternet serve America first”, emphasizing the word “first”.
The transition team insider then added that President Trump is considering many different actions to deliver on this, including a Presidential Executive Order."
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Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows:
• 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations;
• 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.;
• 6 of those were violent crimes.
#News #ElSalvador #Venezuela #Deportation #Trump #Immigration #Crime #Data
When Trump took office, the administration set up a tip line for employees to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it, ProPublica learned via a public records request.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-diversity-initiatives-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Hearing in #KilmarAbregoGarcia's case is underway with Judge #Xinis on the bench hearing arguments over whether the #Trump admin can invoke the #StateSecrets privilege [GMAFB] to withhold information about what it has done to facilitate #AbregoGarcia’s return to the #US [nada].
[via Anna Bower + my commentary]
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#immigration #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction
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#SCOTUS maintains block on #Trump #deportations under wartime #law #AlienEnemiesAct
The US #SupremeCourt on Friday kept in place its block on Trump's deportations of #Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without #judicial review in #violation of a prior #CourtOrder by the justices.
#immigration #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-maintains-block-trump-deportations-under-wartime-law-2025-05-16/
Answer: Yes.
#Trump has Get Out of Jail Free cards.
#Zelenskyy has "functioning brain, outsmart everyone" cards
Acyn:
Reporter: He said Zelenskyy didn't have the cards when they met in the oval office a few months back. Does Zelenskyy possibly have some cards that the president hadn't known about?
"The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the news. Mainstream journalists are depriving their audiences of crucial context. ...
The elite reporters who cover Trump still dutifully report what he says. Then they point out that others disagree. And they think they’ve done their job."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MainstreamMedia #MediaFail
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-donald-trump-rarely
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#JDVance met privately Tues morning with #LauraLoomer, a #FarRight crackpot whose criticisms of some of the #Trump admin’s hires have led to their ousters.
Vance met alone with Loomer at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. It was not immediately clear what the pair discussed.
#USpol #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/laura-loomer-jd-vance-meeting?cid=ios_app
How quickly they turn on each other
#Musk calls #Trump’s sweeping #legislation ‘pork-filled’ & ‘a disgusting abomination’
#law #Republicans #broligarchy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/03/trump-presidency-news/
#Disinformation Campaign of #Fake Images & #ConspiracyTheories On #SocialMedia Stoke #RightWing #Rage Around #LAProtests
Misleading photos, videos & texts have spread widely on social #media as #protests against #immigration #raids unfolded in #LosAngeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories‘ to support #Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods appears intended to stoke outrage toward #immigrants & #Democrats.
#MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #Resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Among the new list of countries that could face visa bans or other restrictions are 25 African nations, including significant U.S. partners such as Egypt and Djibouti, plus countries in the Caribbean, Central Asia and several Pacific Island nations."
WaPo:
The #Trump administration is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries, in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced early this month, according to a State Department memo.
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post