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”
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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The #Trump admin has rescinded guidance telling health providers who perform #abortions in emergency cases that they're protected under federal law, despite any bans that might exist in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
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/
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/
"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/...
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
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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"
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
