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#MahmoudKhalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time despite objections from the #Trump admin

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Detained #Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump admin’s efforts to keep the father & infant separated by a plexiglass barrier.

#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #FirstAmendment #dissent #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-louisiana-immigration-406c341b8edf1f92dc44695cefcd8f8c

“ #Trump admin violated the law when it halted funding under a $5 bil fed infrastructure program, according to a nonpartisan govt watchdog, which concluded officials should restore the aid for electric vehicle charging stations as authorized by Congress.

The findings appeared to inch govt closer to a high-stakes constitutional showdown”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-federal-funds-gao.html

#Trump’s #EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars—& thousands of lives.
When the head of the EPA announced a wide-ranging rollback of #environmental #regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of #ClimateChange *religion*” [whatever that is] & introduce a “Golden Age”for the American economy.
What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human #health.
#Trump #PublicHealth #law
https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45

NEW: More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging

Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

#News #Trump #Tariffs #Stocks #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-officials-stock-sales-trump-tariffs

How is this even slightly legal?
(Hint, it’s not)

#Trump Admin Halts #Harvard’s Ability to Enroll #InternationalStudents

The move was a major escalation in the admin’s efforts to pressure the #college to fall in line with Trump’s demands.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #immigration #BrainDrain #AntiIntellectualism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FEF8C80B-EF9E-4A25-B3B7-9273FF569BA5

Asked about the ethics of #Trump & family members using the presidency in various ways to make money, Arthur Schwartz, an adviser to Don Jr., said“We don’t actually give a fuck.”

#law #emoluments #Constitution
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/donald-trump-qatar-747-bezos-amazon-facebook-cbs-crypto-golf/

#MAGAMurderBudget

Via Catherine Rampell:

CBO now estimates that combination of #Trump's budget bill + other parts of the GOP health agenda (e.g. allowing enhanced ACA tax credits to expire as scheduled) will increase # of uninsured people by 16 million.

This is a backdoor Obamacare repeal by any other name

Didn't even credit Ernst?

Via Kyle Griffin:

Leader Schumer is now calling #Trump's budget bill the "Well, We're All Going to Die Act."

There’s a protest outside of #immigration court in #Chicago today, supporting #RamonMoralesReyes, a #Milwaukee, #Wisconsin man who snatched by #ICE & accused of writing a letter threatening #Trump.

There's just one problem: the letter was fake.

Another man is now accused of forging it an effort to get Reyes — who could testify against him in a criminal case — deported.

Yet Reyes is still facing deportation.

#law #DHS #idiocracy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-threat-letter-charges-ramon-morales-reyes-f90472f31a2209741ebf3866d2f6cef2

Doesn’t sound like #Trump tried
too hard to dissuade #Putin.

Trump said #Russia planned to retaliate against #Ukraine for its surprise attack over the weekend, after speaking to Putin on the phone for more than an hour on Wednesday.

“President Putin did say, & very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields,” Trump posted on social media. He described it as a “good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-putin-ukraine.html?smid=url-share

"MAJOR:🚨SC's conservative majority appears poised to protect Fed Reserve from being fired by pres (if #Trump tried), citing its historical context, but WILL ALLOW PRETTY MUCH EVERY OTHER BOARD DISMISSAL."
-D Stublen

"#SCOTUS allows Trump to fire labor board mems. Apparent 6-3 decision with all liberal justices in dissent. Ct says more harm from denying POTUS right to remove officials than from those officials staying in office."
-J Gerstein
#Fed #Impunity #Fascism #USPol https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25951855-24a966-order/

ALT

"I’m with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who posted on social media: 'i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet.'”

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #racism #SouthAfrica #WhiteSupremacy #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-inches-closer-to

🤦🏻‍♀️" #SCOTUS granted a #Trump admin request that allows him to fire members of independent fed agencies, while suggesting legal reasoning would not apply to the Fed Reserve.

..formalizes temp decision along similar lines that allowed him to fire Gwynne Wilcox, member of NLRB, and Cathy Harris, member of the Merit Systems Protection Bd"

1/...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-trump-request-fire-independent-agency-members-rcna201152

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
—

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DHS #Extremism #Trump #Security #Terrorism #Government

"Can makers."

Your grocery bills ⬆️💸

You remember groceries, right? "A bag with different things in it"

#TrumpTax

NYT:

Home builders, car manufacturers and can makers are among those that will see higher prices for materials after #Trump raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%.

Keep 'em coming

(AP) "BREAKING: #Trump admin must give migrants sent to El Salvador prison a chance to challenge...

U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg said that people who were sent in March under an 18th-century wartime law haven’t been able to formally contest the removals or allegations that they are members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. He ordered admin to work twd giving them way to file challenges." https://apnews.com/article/trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations-c581c1ef8ce5199286727b17c12f81d9

BS!

“The ban will be targeted at specific countries, but will allow for exceptions.

#Trump's proclamation fully restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the officials said. It partially restricts the entry of people from seven countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-travel-ban-multiple-countries/

The violence and incitement are coming from #Trump by Jennifer Rubin

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-violence-and-incitement-are-coming

In an attempt to circumvent the courts, #Trump Wednesday moved to block nearly all #InternationalStudents from entering the country to attend #HarvardUniversity, in his latest attack on the #school.
In an #ExecutiveOrder Trump declared that it would jeopardize *#NationalSecurity* [his ego] to allow #Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#dictatorship #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #judiciary
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-students-ban-foreign-immigrations-a8ab4c05ce284c2625e7f883f8e7e07a

Judge deems #Trump's #NIH grant cuts illegal

A federal judge in Boston on Monday said the termination of National Institutes of #Health #grants for #research on #diversity-related topics by Trump's admin's was "void & illegal," & accused the government of discriminating against minorities & #LGBT people.

#law #science #medicine
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/federal-judge-says-trump-cuts-nih-grants-are-illegal-politico-reports-2025-06-16/

#HarvardUniversity sued the #Trump admin on Friday, <24hrs after #DHS said it would block #international #students from attending the nation’s oldest #university & one of its most prestigious.

#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harvard-sues-trump-international-students-garber.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D207A8FB-3511-4C58-8C06-FB1E6D0F75FE

#Trump threatens 50% #tariffs on #EU & 25% penalties on #Apple as his #TradeWar intensifies

Trump on Fri threatened a 50% #tax on all imports from the #EuropeanUnion & a 25% tariff on Apple products unless #iPhones are made in US.

The threats, delivered on social media, reflect his ability to disrupt the #GlobalEconomy with an outburst of typing, & the reality that his tariffs have yet to produce the deals he is seeking or the return of domestic manufacturing.

#economy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-apple-iphone-tax-170021e8fad22878d0183b5d48971087

#Trump already has the weight of the #ExecutiveBranch behind his efforts to strip funding from top #universities, #deport millions of unauthorized #immigrants & pressure #ForeignGovernments to change their economic policies.

With the sprawling bill that passed through the #House on Thurs, #Republicans are also preparing to enlist the #TaxCode as another tool against Trump’s political foes.

#law #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D8897650-C8DC-4320-B385-DFA3B3D729D8

#Trump cannot proceed with gutting US #Education Department, court rules

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking Trump's admin from carrying out his #ExecutiveOrder to dismantle the US Department of Education & requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff.

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-cannot-proceed-with-gutting-us-education-department-court-rules-2025-06-04/

Websites hosting major US #climate reports taken down

Websites that displayed legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared, making it harder for #state & #local governments & the #public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.

#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Trump #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8