“ #Trump admin “unquestionably” violated a court order when it tried to transfer detainees to war-torn South Sudan without a meaningful opportunity to contest their removal to a place where they might face torture, a federal judge said Wednesday.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/deportation-flight-south-sudan-controversy?cid=ios_app
The giant #Trump banner at the #USDA is another sign the US is sliding into #autocracy
It may be small & petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially more #authoritarian behavior.
#AmericanAutocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-usda-portrait-road-from-to-authoritarianism-rcna207709
Judge Finds #Trump Admin Violated #CourtOrder with Sudden #Deportation Flight
to Africa
Lawyers for some of the 8 immigrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to #SouthSudan. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in #Djibouti.
#immigration #law #rendition #judiciary
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/south-sudan-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=291694FB-D343-4DAC-A141-08E0F41D1DCF
Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Griffin:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks #Trump's firing of two Democratic members of privacy oversight board.
BREAKING: #AdamSchiff just read #Trump’s EPA director like a receipt roll listing failure after failure of the agency right to his face.
By the end? Dead silence. Not a word.
No defense. No spin. Just shame.
This is what accountability looks like.
One man. One mic. A whole administration exposed.
‘Keep Him Where He Is’: How #Trump Ofcls Were Sent Scrambling to Cover Their Asses in the #KilmarAbregoGarcia Case
A Maryland man’s deportation to #ElSalvador set off a fierce debate among ofcls of 3 cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.
The Trump admin had deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening.
#law #immigration #Rendition
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump’s new partner for his crypto venture World Liberty Financial is KuCoin — an exchange that reached a plea deal this past January and was banned In U.S., and fined $300 million for money laundering - by @z_everson for Forbes
Today in The Medium Blog, Zulie @ Medium shares highlights of what happened on #Medium in April 2025, including:
• A recap of #DraftDay2025
• Perspectives on #PopeFrancis by Daniel B. Gallagher; the Iberian power outage by Charlie Brown; and #Trump, #tariffs, and possible insider training by @johnnyp
• Selected stories by first-time Medium writers
• Medium product updates, and more
https://blog.medium.com/it-happened-on-medium-april-2025-3fe5de742c51
…after the US #military announced that 700 #Marines would join the now 5,000 #NationalGuard #troops in #LosAngeles on Wednesday, escalat[ing] the [admin’s unlawful] military response — an exceedingly rare use of active-duty #troops on #domestic soil — #Trump suggested on Tues that the #LAprotests were petering out, & gave himself credit. “By doing what I did, I stopped the violence in LA.”
#law #immigration #ICE #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/11/us/los-angeles-protests-trump-ice/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
"The European country of Kosovo has agreed to a #Trump administration request to allow the U.S. to deport a small group of migrants to the landlocked Balkan nation who are not from there"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kosovo-accept-u-s-deportations-of-migrants-from-other-countries/
Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait by Tom Nichols
« During the George Floyd protests in 2020, #Trump was furious at what he saw as the fecklessness of military leaders determined to thwart his attempts to use deadly force against protesters.
He’s learned his lesson: This time, he has installed a hapless sycophant at the #Pentagon who is itching to execute the boss’s orders. »
Well, the #PosseComitatusAct has officially been violated.
#NationalGuard troops have detained #civilians in #LAprotests, commander says
National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles #protests over #immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to *#LawEnforcement* [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf
CNN:
Newsom's blistering speech on Trump:
“He's declared a war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself. Databases, quite literally, are vanishing. He's delegitimizing news organization and he's assaulting the First Amendment… He's dictating what universities themselves can teach, he's targeting law firms and the judicial branches that are the foundations of an orderly and civil society."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJzM49ldI
#RiotPolice use force against #LA #protesters
Police in riot gear turned out Friday evening in a tense confrontation w/protesters in #LosAngeles, after a day of #immigration #raids in which dozens of people were reported to be taken into custody.
Live Reuters video showed #LAPD officers lined up on a downtown street wielding #batons, & firing what appeared to be #TearGas rifles…after authorities had ordered…protesters to disperse…
#law #Trump #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/riot-police-anti-ice-protesters-square-off-los-angeles-after-raids-2025-06-07/
Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Cheney:
BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the #Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination.
This can't happen without congressional approval, he ruled.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282419/gov.uscourts.mad.282419.45.0.pdf
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office [#CBO] said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes for corporations & the wealthy & slash federal programs would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring #NationalDebt over the next decade, in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that #Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
#USpol #economy #government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-policy-bill-deficit-estimate.html?smid=url-share
Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
—
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Women will die. #ProLifeMyAss
Via Kyle Griffin:
The #Trump admin has rescinded guidance telling health providers who perform #abortions in emergency cases that they're protected under federal law, despite any bans that might exist in their states.
The directive was issued by the Biden administration.
🚨 Trump’s Bedminster golf club flagged for 18 health violations in latest inspection—earned lowest grade in county (32/100)
Among the violations:
🤢 Expired milk
🤢 Raw meat stored above cheese.
🤢 A hand-washing station without soap
me, for @Forbes
#trump #news #USPol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/04/trump-health-inspection-violations-golf-club-bedminster/
Oops.
" #Trump officials delayed a forecast that predicted an increase in the trade deficit in farm goods.
The numbers contradict Trump’s messaging."
#Canada to expedite nation-building projects to counter #Trump admin border and tariff threats
« PM Carney said his plan is to narrow down a list of so-called "nation building" projects - like pipelines, nuclear reactors and trade corridors - and create a framework in which the projects would be approved in under two years' time. »
#MahmoudKhalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time despite objections from the #Trump admin
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
