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”
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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.
👏👏👏
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_action
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
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
‘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
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
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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
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
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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.
A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an #immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.
#ICE agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with.
#law #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/
#Trump would brag about this:
"US surpassed 1,000 #measles cases for the 1st time in 5 years..
1,001 cases have been confirmed in 30 states incl AK, AR, CA, CO, Fla, Ga, HI, Ill, In, Ks, Ky, La, Md, Mi, Minn, MO, MT, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OH, OK, Pa, RI, TN, TX, Vt, Via and Wash"
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FHealth%2Fus-surpasses-1000-measles-cases-1st-time-5%2Fstory%3Fid%3D121635906
In #Mideast, #Trump plans to focus on #business deals, not #geopolitics
Trump leaves Monday for a 4-day trip to #SaudiArabia, #Qatar & the #UAE, a mission that is expected to focus heavily on business deals & new investments from the #oil-rich region.
The swing through deep-pocketed #MiddleEast monarchies, Trump’s first major international travel of his 2nd term, is a marker of Trump’s priorities & another sign of his intention to de-emphasize the traditional #US #allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/11/trump-mideast-trip/
The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
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For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Idaho #Parents #Children #School #Disability #Trump
The #Trump poster-person for the first Afrikaner #refugees from supposed anti-white racism in #SouthAfrica.
She is not a #refugee by any definition, yet she is being flown here at #taxpayer expense & handed a path to #citizenship while actual refugees are turned away.
Also Trump claims he’s granting "refugee" status to "white farmers”, but this woman lives in Cape Town, isn’t a farmer, & it doesn't seem like she's #Afrikaner since her bio says she was born in Zimbabwe.
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🚨"Update: DOGE removes 31 more incorrect claims -- and $122M in savings -- from its "Wall of Receipts" after we identified they were wrong.
The listings were wrong b/c the contracts DOGE claimed credit for killing were not dead anymore: agencies had revived them."
-D Fahrenthold
#DOGE #Fraud #Fraudsters #Firings #Corruption #Trump #Musk #Austerity #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-trump.html
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Judge #Xinis is NOT happy. #Trump #DOJ privilege log that was due today was not filed. She gave them 30 minutes to file with the note: "Failure to file the privilege log or otherwise respond will be construed as an intentional refusal to comply with this Court's orders."
#KilmarAbregoGarcia's lawyers filed their log under seal.
#immigration #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #DueProcess
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"Despite whatever is rattling around [Stephen] Miller's febrile cabeza, habeas corpus is not a revocable privilege. It is a right guaranteed to everyone incarcerated. In calling it a 'privilege' that 'could be suspended' to suit the whims of his boss, Miller proves himself to be a traitor not only to the American idea, but also to the freaking Magna Carta (!),"
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64745130/stephen-miller-trump-habeas-corpus/
#Trump just defunded a program to provide high-speed #internet to rural areas, which are predominantly red. Why? It was called the Digital Equity Act.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195097/angry-trump-kills-woke-program-and-accidentally-screws-maga-voters
Hitler’s Terrible #Tariffs
#Hitler used tariffs seeking to “liberate” Germans from a *globalized* world order, the #Nazi government sent the national #economy careening backwards.
#Trump #TrumpTariffs
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/nazi-germany-tariffs-trade/682521/
#Trump angrily brushed off ethical concerns about accepting a $400 million luxury jet from #Qatar to be used as a new #AirForceOne, saying only someone “stupid” would turn down such an offer.
“I think it’s a great gesture from Qatar. I appreciate it very much. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer. I mean, I could be a stupid person say, ‘No, we don’t want a free, very expensive airplane.’ But it was—I thought it was a great gesture,” Trump said.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-qatar-plane-jet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F6768AF9-4106-43C0-8EE7-ECBF9E2D44E5
Multiple #Trump ofcls have links to #antisemitic #extremists
Trump campaigned on a pledge [🤔] to fight #antisemitism.
"Antisemitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society," Trump said in 2024.
However, …antisemitism…found a place within his administration.
NPR has identified 3 Trump ofcls w/close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer," & a prominent #HolocaustDenier.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism