🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️”Steven J. Hatfill, a virologist and WH adviser during #Trump ’s 1st term who pushed hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID despite what most researchers said was a lack of scientific evidence, has joined the second Trump administration in a senior role at HHS”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/04/hatfill-covid-hydroxychloroquine-anthrax/
trump
BS
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: The #Trump administration says it has "no updates" for Judge Xinis about efforts to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Reiterates that a judge in 2019 viewed him as a member of MS-13. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.64.0.pdf
Marco is wearing more MAGA hats than Musk did yesterday.
Aaron Rupar:
#Trump announces that Mike Waltz will be nominated as UN ambassador and Marco is the new intern national security adviser
No evidence linking #Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, #State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared days before #RumeysaOzturk was detained by #ICE agents, raises doubts about the #Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
#TrumpLies #immigration #law #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/13/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-trump/
#trump finally admitted that the #economy isn't doing well.
However in true Republican fashion, he didn't actually take responsibility for anything like an adult.
He blamed it on the past like a child, which I don't think surprised anyone. #maga wouldn't know responsibility if it hit them in the face - the problems in the #usa are never their fault, it's all the libtard Democrats, Biden, or Obama despite him not being in office for a LONG time.
"On Thursday morning, a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s effort to quickly deport Venezuelans under a wartime power only previously exercised three times in the nation’s history — most recently during World War II — was illegal."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #immigrants #courts #DueProcess #Texas #FernandoRodriguez
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/aea-trump-appointee-texas-final-ruling
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"A top #Trump appointee in the Justice Dept ordered an aggressive investigation in the last several months of student protesters at Columbia University, raising anger and alarm among career prosecutors and investigators who saw the demand as politically motivated and lacking legal merit, people familiar with the episode said." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/columbia-protests-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#ICE & the #SecretService conducted a large-scale operation in an upscale Irvine, CA neighborhood Wed to apprehend an individual accused of distributing fliers containing the personal info of Homeland Security Investigations (#HSI) agents.
The operation, described…as a “military-style brigade,” involved a cavalcade of armored vehicles, w/ICE providing #FoxNews drone footage of the procession through Pasadena to serve a criminal search warrant.
#immigration #law #Trump
https://migrantinsider.com/p/ice-deploys-armored-convoy-to-arrest
#Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejects request for policy changes
Moron did what now?
#Trump announced a 100% #tariff on #movies produced outside the #US, saying #Hollywood was dying a "very fast death" due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers.
"This is a concerted effort by other Nations &, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging & propaganda," Trump said in a social media post.
[I mean…c’mon, a #NationalSecurity threat?]
#idiocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-announces-100-tariff-movies-produced-outside-us-2025-05-04/
#Whistleblower details how #DOGE may have taken sensitive #NLRB data
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from #Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair #labor practices.
#law #InfoSec #privacy #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
Well, #Trump is now just regularly ignoring court orders.
On Friday, Judge Hollander asked #SocialSecurity Administration Commissioner #LelandDudek to appear at a hearing on April 15, tomorrow.
Tonight, the Trump admin says it will decline to make him available.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.138.0.pdf
Grift, Inc.
“ #Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-family-net-worth-crypto-investments/
🤦🏻♀️ “The #Trump administration is preparing to eliminate two key Environmental Protection Agency divisions focused on #ClimateCrisis and energy efficiency, including its consumer-facing Energy Star program”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/climate/energy-star-trump?cid=ios_app
Trump told Bukele he needs to build five more prisons to hold the "home grown" offenders.
Let's be clear: Trump is asking El Salvador to build concentration camp for his political prisoners.
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This is not going to end well
#DHS has requested more than 20,000 #NationalGuard members to help with the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown, according to two US officials with knowledge of the plans.
The request to the #Defense Dept came after Trump asked DHS last week to increase its ranks by pulling in 20,000 officers from state or federal agencies.
#law #military #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/national-guard-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2101FB33-83F0-4325-83B5-04AFD6257B6C
These #judges ruled against #Trump. Then their #families came under attack.
As federal judges rule against the Trump administration in dozens of politically charged cases, the families of at least 11 of the jurists have been targeted with #threats & #harassment.
[Note: This story contains offensive language]
#law #judiciary #felon47 #StochasticTerrorism #Extremism #DomesticTerrorism #MAGA
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/these-judges-ruled-against-trump-then-their-families-came-under-attack-2025-05-02/
Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics
#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/
" #Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by #Trump
Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation." #UnionStrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/federal-workers-trump-network-unions.html
The great negotiator: "America first"? Nope. ME first.
Aaron Rupar:
Van Hollen: "#Trump's visit to the Middle East- my view is the narrative here was selling out US national interests for the private gain of his business. He essentially gave away the crown jewels of US AI and semiconductor tech to the gulf in exchange for a $2b investment in his stablecoin venture"
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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
100% ILLEGAL
WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?
#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status
The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”
#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/
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So #trump is doing exactly what I thought he was going to do with the #tariffs when he failed to actually strong arm any countries into unfair deals -
He is walking them back, and then saying he cut deals! When in reality things just went back to the previous tariff situation between the #usa and #china before the ABSOLUTELY INSANE trade war.
Then since #maga sheep are profoundly dumb, they'll eat it up and praise him for wrecking our #economy.
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Keep ‘em coming
Via Kyle Griffin:
A federal judge has halted #Trump's attempt to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services — the agency which provides federal funding to libraries and museums.
District court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. issued an injunction, stating that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
👀"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/