Trump Executive Action thread

[Winehole23]

A judge said in a r (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.19.0_1.pdf)u (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.19.0_1.pdf)ling Friday (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.19.0_1.pdf)that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could not terminate employees without cause, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the agency.

The court order came in response to a lawsuit by the National Treasury Employees Union (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/union-sues-russell-vought-doge-access-cfpb-treasury-department-rcna191419) and the CFPB Employee Association, among other groups, that sued (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.7.0.pdf) the agency and its acting director Russell Vought this week. They had asked the judge to “declare unlawful and set aside the defendants’ actions and intended further actions to dismantle the CFPB.”

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson prevents any mass firings at the agency and prohibits the deletion of agency data.

“Defendants shall not terminate any CFPB employee, except for cause related to the specific employee’s performance or conduct; nor shall Defendants issue any notice of reduction-in-force to any CFPB employee,” the judge wrote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-temporarily-blocks-mass-terminations-consumer-financial-protecti-rcna192311

[Winehole23]

Red states start to whine


"Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson, a senior appropriator whose district is home to a number of national parks, said in an interview his staff is talking to the administration about how an OMB-directed, government-wide hiring freeze will affect the National Park Service.


Meanwhile, another appropriations lawmaker, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), "has told the White House (https://www.rawstory.com/tag/white-house) that DOGE’s dismantling of USAID will impact constituents who have long relied on selling their crops to a government program that fights hunger abroad."


Another senator now jumping into the discussion is Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), whose state has some of the highest percentages of Trump voters in America. She expressed concern that the recent evisceration of the National Institutes of Health could stall biomedical research in West Virginia.


“I’m hearing from my institutions concerned about it,” she said. “It’s pretty drastic.”
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-trump-cuts-2671158629/

[Winehole23]

cutting people off from medical treatment willy nilly is sadism

https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-face-impossible-decisions-u-s-aid-freeze-halts-clinical-trials

[florige]

cutting people off from medical treatment willy nilly is sadism

https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-face-impossible-decisions-u-s-aid-freeze-halts-clinical-trials

A Trumper I know here in MD works in shipping and receiving at super defense contractor Northrop Grumman. I asked him what is he going to do once musk and Doge move to the defense dept and start doing all these cuts? I told him he had better start looking for jobs now because it’s a high probability that his job is going to be wiped out. He literally just had this blank look on his face when I asked him did he regret voting for Trump now. And the dummy just went out and bought a house lol

[Winehole23]

A Trumper I know here in MD works in shipping and receiving at super defense contractor Northrop Grumman. I asked him what is he going to do once musk and Doge move to the defense dept and start doing all these cuts? I told him he had better start looking for jobs now because it’s a high probability that his job is going to be wiped out. He literally just had this blank look on his face when I asked him did he regret voting for Trump now. And the dummy just went out and bought a house lolthe red team feedback is going to be problematic

they thought only dirty libs would suffer

[florige]

the red team feedback is going to be problematic

they thought only dirty libs would suffer


I guess they thought that they were only going to cut off entitlement programs for non Trump supporters and Trump would let them be lol

[Winehole23]

even if Trumplandia tries to walk this all the way back, the threat has already been demonstrated: Trump can nullify appropriations and turn off the money spigot to the states.

Trump's ability to steal appropriations and cut off funds is a known parameter at this point

[Blake]

the red team feedback is going to be problematic

they thought only dirty libs would suffer

And the scary illegal immigrants eating all the dogs

[Thread]

I guess they thought that they were only going to cut off entitlement programs for non Trump supporters and Trump would let them be lol


Trump's ability to steal appropriations and cut off funds is a known parameter at this point


And the scary illegal immigrants eating all the dogs

He's left the reservation now---never to return. He's blood drunk over getting shot...with the Father saving him with a Millimeter Miracle. You bet your asses he relives that moment many times of every day. Incredible ups & downs as he raises and falls by himself; even the children and Mel don't know.

Vengeance is cruel master.

You go, boy!!!

[Winehole23]

incompetence is a major parameter of DOGE


National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information.

In an email sent to employees at NNSA and obtained by NBC News, officials wrote, “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”

The individuals the letter refers to had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts. NNSA, which is within the Department of Energy and oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, cannot reach these employees directly and is now asking recipients of the email, “Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people’s personal contact emails.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345

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incompetence is a major parameter of DOGE

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345

We can certainly believe NBC.

HA!

[Winehole23]

it's not a fairytale that DOGE pink-slipped nuclear safety officers and can't call them back because it doesn't know how to reach them

[Winehole23]

the need for national salvation is so urgent that it overrides the laws

dangerous ideology must be purged

people against Trump must be purged

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[ChumpDumper]

it's not a fairytale that DOGE pink-slipped nuclear safety officers and can't call them back because it doesn't know how to reach them

Elon and Trump are fucking morons.

[Winehole23]

didn't turn out well for Napoleon IRL

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The closest I can trace that "He who saves his country" quote to the actual Napoleon is to the 1970 film Waterloo: "He who saves a nation violates no law."

[Winehole23]

"the law doesn't apply to me and my buddies"

[Winehole23]

wonder what Trumplandia is up to apart from the ongoing lawbreaking, purges and vandalism of government capacity

[Winehole23]

all the right needs is a Reichstag fire and an enabling law to start slaughtering their internal enemies at will

[Blake]

the need for national salvation is so urgent that it overrides the laws

dangerous ideology must be purged

people against Trump must be purged

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Lol said the felon

[Winehole23]

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[Thread]

"the law doesn't apply to me and my buddies"

It was the House all along.

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You're gonna need the House, Winester, or, another stand down.

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all the right needs is a Reichstag fire and an enabling law to start slaughtering their internal enemies at will

Not necessary, that old man is blasting hair all over them walls.

You needed the House, son to get him stopped, and then 2/3 Senate to run him off.
OR...
Stand down again and pray the Father has turned loose his hand.

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Lol said the felon

& still made President...

"How's that for wet work, huh?"

[Winehole23]

He seems to have said (https://bsky.app/profile/rparloff.bsky.social/post/3linlgkemus2t)that so long as the defendants acknowledge they must immediately comply with his orders, that they are free not to do so, without sanction. It's absurd.


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[Winehole23]

backtracking detected



This week, a memo sent from the Department of Interior to park service officials said the agency could hire 7,700 seasonal employees this year, up from the roughly 6,300 who have been hired in recent years.

If fully implemented, that would be a notable exception to the government-wide hiring freeze imposed when the Trump administration clamped down on the federal bureaucracy, threatening to eliminate entire agencies, offering “deferred resignation” to almost all federal workers and firing tens of thousands of career employees.

The reprieve for the parks is “definitely a win,” said Kristen Brengel, senior vice president of government affairs for the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Assn (https://www.npca.org/)., which obtained a copy of the memo that was shared with The Times.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-20/trump-administration-backtracks-eliminating-thousands-national-parks-employees

[Winehole23]

Trump's war on America hurts real Americans



The Trump administration’s swift, sweeping cuts to the federal workforce (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/doge-firing-low-performers-new-employees-reality/index.html) is set to derail the livelihoods of potentially thousands of military families.

The turmoil within the military community caused by the recent firings of probationary employees, looming terminations and a rolling series of deadlines for federal employees to return to work should not be surprising.

For decades now, the federal government has marketed itself as the employer of choice for military spouses, who are unemployed at five times the national rate despite being more educated than their civilian spouse counterparts.https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/military-families-federal-government-cuts/index.html

[Winehole23]

Military spouses and their families move involuntarily every two to three years, on average. As a result, it’s not unusual for those who work in the federal government to frequently change positions or even organizations within their agencies.

Many are perpetually probationary employees — the category of worker the Trump administration targeted in its recent first round of firings.

They can be probationary employees even when they have spent years and years in federal service.

Arielle Pines had proudly clocked 15 years working at the Department of Veterans Affairs when she was fired by email last week, despite years of exceptional performance reviews.

“It’s not just people who are new to the federal government,” she says, pushing back on a common misconception about probationary employees who are getting the boot.

“There are five of us [in my office] who moved over from other HR departments. We are military spouses, we are veterans, one with 18 years.”

[Winehole23]

scammy, like the boss


She’s trying to appeal through the Merit Systems Protection Board, but Trump has tried to oust the administrator, raising concerns about whether the independent agency charged with protecting federal employees from improper firings can arbitrate cases like hers.

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scammy, like the boss

Whatever it takes.

[Winehole23]

Trump to seniors, disabled and rural Americans: DROP DEAD


On April 1st, the Trump administration (https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/trump-administration-moves-to-overhaul-us-postal-service/) will implement a nearly billion-dollar cut in Medicare telehealth. Concerns grow as Americans who use telehealth services face limited options for remote medical care.

Adults over 65, people with disabilities, and those living in rural areas will be most affected as the primary users of telehealth resources. Telehealth services involve healthcare provided by a patient’s primary doctor or other healthcare providers located across the U.S., using video and audio communication technology. According to the American Medical Association (https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/millions-medicare-patients-kept-telehealth-habit-post-vaccines#:~:text=Nearly%204.2%20million%20Medicare %20patients,Medicare%20patients%20used%20telehealt h%20services.), nearly 4.2 million Medicare patients accessed care through telehealth in the first quarter of 2022.
https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/donald-trump-cuts-medicare-telehealth-funding-who-will-be-affected/

[Winehole23]

move fast and endanger natsec



The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess any potential damage from an unclassified email (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/cia-sends-white-house-unclassified-email-names/index.html) sent to the White House in early February that identified for possible layoffs some officers by first name and last initial and could’ve exposed the roles of people working undercover, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

That’s just one of multiple aftershocks from President Donald Trump’s push to take a jackhammer to the federal government – including the CIA. The administration’s efforts to cut the workforce and audit spending at the CIA and elsewhere threaten to jeopardize some of the government’s most sensitive work, current and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say.



Across the river in Washington, a senior career Treasury Department official delivered a memo warning Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that granting a 25-year-old computer engineer with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to the government’s ultra-sensitive payments system risked exposing highly classified CIA payments that flow through it.

And on the CIA’s 7th floor — home to top leadership — some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/cia-security-risks-trump/index.html

[Winehole23]

could be big -- the firing of six employees from six different agencies has been deemed unlawful by the Office of the Special Counsel

by law their recommended 45 day stay goes into effect if the Merit Systems Protection Board does not decide in three days what to do with the request


An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump’s mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs.

The Office of Special Counsel, the agency responsible for investigating illegal actions taken against federal employees, issued its decision for six employees, each at different agencies. While the decision was technically limited in scope, it could have immediate impact on all terminated staff at those six agencies and could set a wide-ranging precedent across government. It has not been made public and was provided to Government Executive by a source within the government. OSC, which did not provide the document to Government Executive, verified its authenticity.

OSC has turned the case over to the quasi-judicial Merit Systems Protection Board for enforcement of its findings and is so far requesting a 45-day stay on the firing decisions. The agency said it will use that time to further investigate the dismissals and determine the best way to mitigate the consequences from the apparent unlawful actions.

MSPB has three business days to issue a decision on the stay request. If it does not act by that deadline, the stay will go into effect.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/oversight-agency-finds-trumps-federal-worker-firings-unlawful-asks-some-employees-be-reinstated/403218/

[Winehole23]

By law, agencies terminating employees in their probationary periods must do so because their “performance or conduct demonstrates that they are unfit for federal employment.” OSC found, however, that agencies had mass fired their employees without specifying what performance or conduct issues individual employees presented. In some cases, agencies did not cite performance or conduct at all. It noted the language agencies used in their termination notices were “quite similar” to one another and none of the firing letters “provide any detail or individualized assessment.”

OSC investigated the backgrounds of the employees who made the complaint to the agency and found none of them had any indication of poor performance or conduct in their histories and instead had received only exemplary evaluations.

“Based on public statements, the agencies’ decision to terminate large numbers of probationers was to accomplish reorganizations and cost savings,” OSC said. “In other words, a RIF.”

Agencies improperly firing their employees have denied them of pay, benefits, possible accrual of tenure and due process rights, OSC said. Some employees, due to their high performance marks and federal layoff procedures, would not necessarily lose their jobs under a RIF.

Some of the probationary firings more specifically violated rules surrounding those dismissals, OSC said. Agencies must use the “trial period” to earnestly assess employees’ performance.

“This requirement is not a simple bureaucratic technicality—compelling agencies to assess the specific fitness of each employee prior to terminating them ensures that outstanding employees are not arbitrarily lost and that terminations are truly in the best interests of the federal service and consistent with merit system principles,” OSC said.

[Winehole23]

"if we remain very still and very quiet, maybe people won't notice us"



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[SnakeBoy]

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[Winehole23]

:zzz

[ChumpDumper]

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Why?

[Blake]

"if we remain very still and very quiet, maybe people won't notice us"


https://theonion.com/democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them/

Shit I know it's the Onion but can you blame them?

[Winehole23]

Shit I know it's the Onion but can you blame them?Hell yes I can

If they can't fuck up the parliamentary process they can at least act like leaders of people, because I tell you what, once Trump starts arresting and killing opposition lawmakers, there is no official help.

[Winehole23]

Hell, I wouldn't be at all surprised by US judges getting arrested or murdered by Trumplandia for merely being adverse.

or otherwise harassed and murdered by their officially tolerated paramilitary cadres

or by their reserve army of patriotic lone wolves

[Winehole23]

ignoring court orders

apparently the law is just advisory for Trumpies


The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI), according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged (https://substack.com/redirect/f837a4a3-a655-49ed-9819-2974c4bda643?j=eyJ1IjoiazkydXEifQ.5t35j0pz5-HmCWo6_JlGzHF0NxY7mieHjTqMAAa_Mck) that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/nih-defying-federal-court-freeze-research-funding-dei-temporary-restraining-order/

[SnakeBoy]

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[Blake]

Hell yes I can

If they can't fuck up the parliamentary process they can at least act like leaders of people, because I tell you what, once Trump starts arresting and killing opposition lawmakers, there is no official help.

Well yeah if Trump starts killing opposition lawmakers, that's why I wouldn't blame them

[Blake]

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Of course law enforcement, border and defense are exempt lol. Fear mongering to get votes and big private contracts equal wins for everyone except tax payers

[Winehole23]

WOW, HOW MANY IS THAT?

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[Blake]

WOW, HOW MANY IS THAT?

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Next he'll sign an order to remove ALL street gang members from Congress. Now!

[Winehole23]

Next he'll sign an order to remove ALL street gang members from Congress. Now!starting with Chuck Schumer

[Winehole23]

"Shout-Yell Calculator of Patriotism, Heterosexuality, and Nationalistic Tendencies"


The problem with the Biden administration was that they hired based on partisan and arbitrary criteria like “has experience doing this type of work” and “hasn’t been credibly accused of sexual assault.” That’s how we ended up with a deep state full of leftist cronies hell-bent on pursuing Marxist priorities like stopping companies from dumping toxic sludge into the water supply, preventing planes from crashing in midair, and making sure people don’t get murdered by domestic terrorists.

Thankfully, Donald Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, has come up with a much better system: having the candidate yell into a device that Elon calls the Shout-Yell Calculator of Patriotism, Heterosexuality, and Nationalistic Tendencies. Or SYCOPHANT.

Using the SYCOPHANT is easy. When the candidate comes in for the interview, the interviewer simply has them scream into the SYCOPHANT at the top of their lungs about the topic of their choosing. In addition to assigning a score based on decibel level, the machine awards points for things like:



Making an argument that immigrants were responsible for famous unsolved crimes like the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.
Espousing promising new conspiracy theories, like the FBI replacing their agents with artificially intelligent humanoid robots in the late nineties.
Using the word “crooked” followed by the name of any Democratic politician
Giving specific and detailed compliments about either Donald Trump’s or Elon Musk’s physical appearance
Number of racial slurs used per minute (RSPMs)
Voicing support for Christian values. But not hippie Christian values like kindness, forgiveness, and charity. Real Christian values like “Now is the perfect time to start a holy war”
Pitching any product that could make the Trump family a quick buck, including but not limited to MAGA meme coins, Trump-branded M4 assault rifles, or light therapy wands that increase men’s testosterone levels by shining infrared beams at their nuggets


Bonus points are awarded if the candidate has previously made similar remarks on Fox News, OAN, YouTube, or their podcast.

Unlike Joe Biden’s DEI hiring, the SYCOPHANT’s scoring system is fair. While DEI takes things like race and ethnicity into account, the SYCOPHANT is totally race-neutral. Just because the SYCOPHANT awards points for being racist doesn’t mean it gives preference to candidates of a particular race. It’s totally possible to be racist against your own ethnic group. Just ask Marco Rubio.


So if Trump’s government ends up being made up almost entirely of vein-popping-angry middle-aged white guys and a few extra-huffy white women, it’s just because they were best suited for the job.


And don’t worry, when food is no longer safe to eat, children are regularly dying from nineteenth-century diseases, and you can’t get disaster relief for your hurricane- and fire-ravaged home until you bribe the right guy at FEMA, we’ll still find a way to blame it all on minorities.https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/weve-replaced-the-governments-hiring-criteria-with-a-better-fairer-system-hiring-whoever-yells-the-loudest

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WOW, HOW MANY IS THAT?

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Excellent. He'd better be settled on the point of ass kicking every fuckin' one of 'em out of this country. And not allowing them to apply for citizenship the correct way because they broke & entered to start with.

OUT!!!

[Winehole23]

damn, y'all are dumb

[Thread]

damn, y'all are dumb

Well, dumb enough we can't invent a way to pick vegetables by automation, absolutely. We invented A/C, the Internet, TV, the telephone, TV, professional rasslin', Coca-Cola, and TV, but not how to pick an ear of corn by automation.

[Winehole23]

what horseshit

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Alaska Republicans commence the begging



Legislative leaders on Thursday wrote (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25547039/alaska-presiding-officers-letter-to-congressional-delegation-22725.pdf) to Alaska’s congressional delegation, urging them to block deep cuts to federal programs they say would “endanger the economic prosperity and social well-being of Alaskans.”

“It is our duty to inform you that the legislature cannot fix the financial havoc that is being wreaked on Alaskans by the federal government,” said Kodiak Republican Senate President Gary Stevens and House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, a Dillingham independent, in a strongly worded two-page letter (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25547039/alaska-presiding-officers-letter-to-congressional-delegation-22725.pdf).

Stevens and Edgmon warned about the “destabilizing” impacts of potential cuts to food stamps (https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2025/01/01/after-backlogs-federal-judge-orders-alaska-to-speed-processing-time-for-food-assistance-applications/), early learning programs (https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/education/2024/09/26/new-federal-guidelines-mandate-a-pay-boost-for-head-start-staff-can-child-care-centers-afford-it/) and Alaska’s bypass mail program (https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/08/21/alaskas-expensive-rural-mail-subsidy-is-on-the-table-postmaster-general-tells-senate-committee/); said that hundreds of federal workers (https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/02/17/impact-of-alaska-federal-job-cuts-comes-into-focus-but-questions-remain/) in Alaska could lose their jobs; and conveyed fears that hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for energy projects (https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/02/12/hundreds-of-millions-in-funding-for-alaska-energy-projects-on-hold-after-trump-executive-order/) in Alaska could stay frozen.

“The time to sound the alarm is over. It is time to act. Please reach across the aisle and restore the checks and balances that our founding fathers envisioned,” they said.



The two presiding officers also pushed back against “unchecked” cuts being enacted by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Stevens and Edgmon said those cuts “must end. It is having an outsized impact on our state.”https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/02/27/alaska-legislative-leaders-urge-congressional-delegation-to-avert-looming-crisis-from-deep-federal-cuts/

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Alaska Republicans commence the begging




https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/02/27/alaska-legislative-leaders-urge-congressional-delegation-to-avert-looming-crisis-from-deep-federal-cuts/

Nobody should be spared. Everybody will have a chance to voice their opinion November of '26 & November of '28. Until then Trump should wield his terrible swift sword like an avenging angel.
No quarter asked.
Nary quarter given.
Nary.

[Winehole23]

Improper firing reversed, Merit Systems Protection Board member is reinstated

Trumplandia will of course appeal the ruling

Judge has basically requested that Trump abide the reinstatement or fire her properly this time

(Maybe SCOTUS will do Trumplandia a solid and reverse itself on Humphrey's Executor)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigkgm7nxqjwkjicqsjkqe6eweuvaodix7sqqrjz7uvbo enrefmbia@jpeg
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277372/gov.uscourts.dcd.277372.40.0_2.pdf

[Winehole23]

adverse rulings aren't Ls all by themselves, this will of course be appealed

this is the lawsuit by the states in RI relating to various EOs and spending freezes


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:q3glmp5enr5gkuu2uaosjker/bafkreib4a4jxqrbz7bfkta6rnjcarjaaxhxcrlmy6m24sde4y ukijdabhm@jpeghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.58912/gov.uscourts.rid.58912.161.0_2.pdf

[baseline bum]

Nobody should be spared. Everybody will have a chance to voice their opinion November of '26 & November of '28. Until then Trump should wield his terrible swift sword like an avenging angel.
No quarter asked.
Nary quarter given.
Nary.

Bullshit, this is a totalitarian state now and there won't be free elections again.

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Bullshit, this is a totalitarian state now and there won't be free elections again.

There hasn't been a free election since Trump made President.

You fucked him over in '16 in rapt belief that he'd take it and go back from whence he came. And you'd be done with him and could get back to regular scheduled programming.

Uh, uh.

[Winehole23]

another illegal firing

and plenty where it came from


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[SnakeBoy]

1897802829474955415

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1897802829474955415

"But I'm President, and their not."

[ChumpDumper]

1897802829474955415

How do you feel about this personally?

[Winehole23]

why is Trump bailing out Bitcoin?

how is this a smart use of public money?

[Winehole23]

Scuttlebutt: moar racial and political purges


Roughly 500 CIA employees are going to be fired imminently, per a former agency officer (https://bsky.app/profile/zachsdorfman.bsky.social/post/3ljr5dyhwu22z). If true, this would be biggest purge of the agency in a generation or more.

[Winehole23]

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[SnakeBoy]

why is Trump bailing out Bitcoin?

how is this a smart use of public money?

The price of Bitcoin fell from $90,400 to $85,000 within minutes of the announcement. The broader crypto market experienced a similar decline with XRP falling 8%, Solana down 6% and Ethereum losing 5% within the hour.

The dip is likely due to the way in which the government will fill its crypto coffers. AI and crypto czar David Sacks revealed that the U.S. would not be buying new cryptocurrency, but instead use the stockpile of Bitcoin it has already seized from criminal entities over the years to create the reserve. The same is true for other cryptocurrencies that will be held in a separate stockpile.

[Winehole23]

The price of Bitcoin fell from $90,400 to $85,000 within minutes of the announcement. The broader crypto market experienced a similar decline with XRP falling 8%, Solana down 6% and Ethereum losing 5% within the hour.

The dip is likely due to the way in which the government will fill its crypto coffers. AI and crypto czar David Sacks revealed that the U.S. would not be buying new cryptocurrency, but instead use the stockpile of Bitcoin it has already seized from criminal entities over the years to create the reserve. The same is true for other cryptocurrencies that will be held in a separate stockpile.

why do you think this is a good idea?

AI is crap and so is crypto

[ChumpDumper]

The price of Bitcoin fell from $90,400 to $85,000 within minutes of the announcement. The broader crypto market experienced a similar decline with XRP falling 8%, Solana down 6% and Ethereum losing 5% within the hour.

The dip is likely due to the way in which the government will fill its crypto coffers. AI and crypto czar David Sacks revealed that the U.S. would not be buying new cryptocurrency, but instead use the stockpile of Bitcoin it has already seized from criminal entities over the years to create the reserve. The same is true for other cryptocurrencies that will be held in a separate stockpile.

What are the stockpiles for?

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why do you think this is a good idea?

AI is crap and so is crypto

Amen.

[SnakeBoy]

why do you think this is a good idea?

AI is crap and so is crypto

AI is the future old man. Bitcoin is ultimately going to $1M, all other crypto is crap so you're partially correct on that

What do you think the gubmint should do with seized bitcoin?

[Blake]

AI is the future old man. Bitcoin is ultimately going to $1M, all other crypto is crap so you're partially correct on that

What do you think the gubmint should do with seized bitcoin?

Sell it like before.

[SnakeBoy]

Sell it like before.

Why is that preferable to holding as a reserve?

[Blake]

Why is that preferable to holding as a reserve?

Because we immediately get real dollars.

[Winehole23]

Columbia called the cops on the protestors, even surveilled and disciplined them afterwards


Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia

The cuts come just days after the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced it was considering stop work orders on $51.4 million in contracts with the University.

The Department of Education, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the General Services Administration announced the cuts “due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/07/trump-administration-cuts-400-million-in-federal-funding-to-columbia/

[Winehole23]

AI is the future old man. Bitcoin is ultimately going to $1M, all other crypto is crap so you're partially correct on that

What do you think the gubmint should do with seized bitcoin?AI might be the future, it might not be

remember the Metaverse?

I think it's fine if seized Bitcoin is sold off, the USG shouldn't distort the market by holding it and using it for operations


The proposal at HUD indicates a new way that the administration may seek to bolster the industry: by incorporating blockchain and possibly cryptocurrency into the routine spending and accounting practices of federal agencies. It’s a move that would align with the apparent desire of (https://fortune.com/2025/02/14/elon-musk-us-treasury-blockchain-technology/) Trump adviser Elon Musk to use the blockchain to monitor federal spending.https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-considers-crypto-blockchain-stablecoin-housing-urban-development

[Winehole23]

extra Congressional action no longer needed for POTUS to alter student loan terms


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[Winehole23]

"advice and consent" of the US Senate is getting bypassed by Trumplandia again, they sure do hate checks and balances

at some point there's going to be a substantial number of people who want to kill the motherfuckers who are wrecking our government in capacity and form


The full extent of the confrontation at USADF became public when the president of the independent agency filed a lawsuit (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.1.0.pdf) Thursday trying to block the White House’s assault on its independence. The lawsuit refers to a Feb. 28 missive to USADF management from the White House Presidential Personnel Office claiming to appoint Pete Marocco – a Trump official known for helping strangle USAID from within – as “acting chair” of USADF’s board.

TPM has obtained the email in question, which contains the broadest assertion of presidential power over independent agencies yet made by the second Trump administration. In it, Trent Morse, deputy assistant to the President and deputy director of presidential personnel at the White House, stakes out a legal position that would undercut the Senate’s power to confirm new officers at agencies like USADF, experts say. Trump, Morse asserted, would have the “inherent authority under Article II” to appoint acting officials without going through the Senate’s process of advice and consent.



Anne Joseph O’Connell, a professor at Stanford Law School, called the argument “so much more of an executive power claim than a lot of what they’ve done.”


“Why have a confirmations process?” she told TPM. “We wouldn’t need a confirmations process – and that’s written into the Constitution.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-makes-aggressive-new-claim-of-executive-power-to-circumvent-the-senate

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hrua3ygv56plak6mna5x37iu/bafkreiecpx22lvuraqicmrpvmg2aspslf7v4tfupblkp4spm7 7w3xmc4zy@jpeghttps://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/national-parks-contributed-record-high-556-billion-us-economy-supported-415000-jobs

[Winehole23]

"from now on"

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[Winehole23]

Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia

The cuts come just days after the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced it was considering stop work orders on $51.4 million in contracts with the University.

The Department of Education, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the General Services Administration announced the cuts “due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/07/trump-administration-cuts-400-million-in-federal-funding-to-columbia/which btw is totes illegal

amazing how quickly we've progressed to POTUS ruling by decree


This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days.

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which btw is totes illegal

amazing how quickly we've progressed to POTUS ruling by decree

..."But, I'm President, and they're not."

It's that Millimeter Miracle that the Black reverend out of Detroit lodged during his Inauguration Benediction.

[Winehole23]

in the eyes of some that may render Trump akin to a saint, for others it may not

[Winehole23]

the judicial purge may not be far off, federal judges are getting pissed

this is from the OPM mass firing lawsuit, Judge Alsup quoted below


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[Winehole23]

"You chose to submit his declaration. And then you said, 'no but he can’t be cross-examined.' You can’t just say: 'Here’s a declaration—you have to accept it without question,' when there is a question!”

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:65vkd7kbacss37t7uj75g2qt/bafkreicngmbuni4rbqib3osuo4tuuva3oko2rzkryrvmy6mcr b4me2o3zq@jpeghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444883/gov.uscourts.cand.444883.45.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia's war on evil law firms is heating up

I'm guessing since all this is being raised "in the national interest", pesky federal judges will eventually be liable to be purged for obstructing the righteous persecution of bad guys

Was Trump allowed to write any of this? There's a word salad resemblance.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addressing-risks-from-paul-weiss/

[Thread]

Trumplandia's war on evil law firms is heating up

I'm guessing since all this is being raised "in the national interest", pesky federal judges will eventually be liable to be purged for obstructing the righteous persecution of bad guys

Was Trump allowed to write any of this? There's a word salad resemblance.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addressing-risks-from-paul-weiss/

Whatever it takes.

[Winehole23]

pausing funding in this case could be considered a crime

poisoning hundreds of thousands of people in another country is a choice that El0n/Trump made


In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia.


Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding. The shutdown left exposed open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange, which the American military sprayed across large swaths of the country during the Vietnam War. After Rubio’s orders to stop work, the cleanup crews were forced to abandon the site, and, for weeks, all that was covering the contaminated dirt were tarps, which at one point blew off in the wind.


And even more pressing, the officials warned in a Feb. 14 letter obtained by ProPublica, Vietnam is on the verge of its rainy season, when torrential downpours are common. With enough rain, they said, soil contaminated with dioxin could flood into nearby communities, poisoning their food supplies.


Hundreds of thousands of people live around the Bien Hoa air base, and some of their homes abut the site’s perimeter fence, just yards from the contaminated areas. And less than 1,500 feet away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, population 9 million.


“Simply put,” the officials added, “we are quickly heading toward an environmental and life-threatening catastrophe.”


They received no response from Washington, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Instead, Rubio and Peter Marocco, another top Trump appointee, have not only ordered the work to stop, but they also have frozen more than $1 million in payments for work already completed by the contractors the U.S. hired. The company overseeing the project is Tetra Tech, a publicly traded consulting and engineering firm based in the U.S., and a Vietnamese construction firm has been tasked with the excavation work.


Then, on Feb. 26, Rubio and Marocco canceled both companies’ contracts altogether before apparently reversing that decision about a week later, agency records show. As of Thursday, the companies had not been paid.https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk

[Winehole23]

DOGE is wrecking important shit



They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear Security Administration.

A half-dozen staff members left a unit in the agency that builds reactors for nuclear submarines.

And a biochemist and engineer who had recently joined the agency as head of the team that enforces safety and environmental standards at a Texas plant that assembles nuclear warheads was fired.

In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers — all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles.

Since the last year of the first Trump administration, the agency has been desperately trying to build up its staff to handle the added workload. Though it was still hundreds of employees short of what it had said it needed, it had edged up to about 2,000 workers by January.

Now, with the Trump administration’s buyouts and firings, the agency’s trajectory has gone from one of painstaking growth to retraction.

More than 130 employees took the government’s offer of a payout to resign, according to internal agency documents obtained by The New York Times that have not previously been reported. Those departures, together with those of about 27 workers who were caught up in a mass firing and not rehired, wiped out most of the recent staffing gains.

Engaged in top-secret work, tucked away in the Energy Department, the agency typically stays below the public radar. But it has emerged as a headline example of how the Trump administration’s cuts, touted as a cure-all for supposed government extravagance and corruption, are threatening the muscle and bone of operations that involve national security or other missions at the very heart of the federal government’s responsibilities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.yyGJ.t 8YyTRb1XXI2&smid=nytcore-android-share

[Winehole23]

enabling waste, fraud and graft is one of the reasons DOGE is doing what it's doing


Among the departures: At least 27 engineers, 13 program or project analysts, 12 program or project managers, six budget analysts or accountants, five physicists or scientists, as well as attorneys, compliance officers and technologists, according to internal lists.


The agency lost not only officials deeply steeped in the weapons modernization program, but also a noted arms control expert at a time when President Trump has said he hopes to restart talks with Russia and China about limiting nuclear arsenals.

“Here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons, “ Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office last month (https://apnews.com/article/trump-china-russia-nuclear-bbc1c75920297f1e5ba5556d084da4de). “We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things.”

Ben Dietderich, the Department of Energy’s chief spokesman said, “Contrary to news reports, the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons production plants and nuclear laboratories are operated by federal contractors and have been exempt” from cuts.

But multiple current and former officials of the agency said the loss of staff would hobble the agency’s ability to monitor the more than 60,000 contract employees who carry out much of the agency’s work. That could encourage fraud or misuse of taxpayer dollars, rather than limit it, as Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk have vowed the new Department of Government Efficiency initiative will do.


“The federal oversight is vital,” said Corey Hinderstein, the agency’s deputy administrator for nonproliferation under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “Do you have any construction projects at your house? You wouldn’t just say to the contractor: ‘I want something like this room. Have fun.’”

[Winehole23]

20 years of bitching about woke humanities departments and the first thing they do is defund STEM

[Winehole23]

Admissions in some graduate programs have have been cut in half or paused altogether, said Emilya Ventriglia, president of UAW 2750, the union representing around 5,000 early career researchers at NIH facilities in Bethesda, Maryland, and elsewhere.

“At this rate, with the hiring freeze, there may be no Ph.D. students next year if it’s not lifted soon,

because usually people make their decisions by April,” Ventriglia said.
https://apnews.com/young-scientists-see-career-pathways-vanish-as-schools-adapt-to-federal-funding-cuts-000001959e23d0e3addddf3fa7cc0000

[Winehole23]

hey look, a court order got obeyed at DOE


The Department of Energy late Thursday reinstated employees who had been fired last month in governmentwide cuts, according to a DOE memo viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
“You will be returned to your previous position with DOE, and to federal service effective the date of your” firing, the memo says.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/doe-reinstates-fired-employees/

[Winehole23]

Trump to gut core functions of the EPA

We'll all be living in the sacrifice zone pretty soon -- Trumpism is hardcore necropolitics


The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

The strategy is part of large-scale layoffs, known as a “reduction in force (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-education-department-firings.html),” being planned by the Trump administration, which is intent on shrinking the federal work force. Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the E.P.A., has said he wants to eliminate 65 percent of the agency’s budget. That would be a drastic reduction — one that experts said could hamper clean water and wastewater improvements, air quality monitoring, the cleanup of toxic industrial sites, and other parts of the agency’s mission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html

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Trump to gut core functions of the EPA

We'll all be living in the sacrifice zone pretty soon -- Trumpism is hardcore necropolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html

More power to him!

[Winehole23]

More power to him!everybody is cool with someone else eating shit until it happens to them, or someone they love

you might even live long enough for it to happen to you, too

[Thread]

everybody is cool with someone else eating shit until it happens to them, or someone they love

you might even live long enough for it to happen to you, too

I always recall Danny Glover hitting this dead center..."If you live long enough some bad shit is gonna happen to you."

...-Grand Canyon-...

[Winehole23]

well, yeah

but think of the liberal tears

[Winehole23]

Shutting down the only federal agency that funds libraries

Trump has deemed it unnecessary


On Friday night, March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/) intended to dismantle the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as six other agencies. This set of frequently asked questions is intended to help library workers, library advocates, and library users understand this Executive Order.https://www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targeting-imls

[Winehole23]

Trump just shook down a law firm with a bill of attainder (https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-3/bills-of-attainder) -- er -- executive order


This is wild (https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3lktrhlh67k2f). Trump says he’s withdrawing his executive order targeting the Paul Weiss law firm because they acknowledged “wrongdoing.”

They’re also going to provide “$40 million in pro bono legal services over the course of President Trump's term to support the Administration's initiatives”

[Winehole23]

I guess the copy editor got fired


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[Thread]

Trump just shook down a law firm with a bill of attainder (https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-3/bills-of-attainder) -- er -- executive order

They admitted to being wrong, and asked for relief. The old man granted them relief.

[Winehole23]

They admitted to being wrong, and asked for relief. The old man granted them relief.it was a shakedown

Trump's doing it all over the place

Who ever heard of a president suing companies before?

[Thread]

it was a shakedown

Trump's doing it all over the place

Who ever heard of a president suing companies before?

Whoever heard of a President, his wife and their only child being threatened with bombing them on move-in day at the White House?

[Thread]

Maine just raised the white flag on men posing as women to compete against women.

Next time, Gov. Maine= come hard, else stay on the fuckin' porch with Hillary & Harris.

[Winehole23]

good luck, Omaha


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[Winehole23]

"Leviathan"


1. National Expansion (Canada, Greenland, Panama, space). Leaders who expand national boundaries are Great Men, triumphant heroic leaders. Trump's power flows to expand national power & nation itself.


2. Destroy the Federal Government. Republicans for 50 years have wanted to end the "evil" of the federal government, but have failed. Trump is unleashing his flows of power to eliminate the evil, showing that he is a powerful triumphant hero, the only one powerful enough to do what ought to be done.


3. Ruling by Executive Order. Trump has orchestrated a near-daily spectacle of his magnificent flows of power by sitting at the desk of power and signing large pieces of paper, which are not law, but are to be treated as law. He shows us his flows of power cannot be constrained by law or Constitution.


4. Demands for "Unification." Trump has used intimidation, lawsuits, personal attacks & other strategies to force the opposition to capitulate to him. He calls that capitulation "unification." His legacy will be that his great power flows will unify the nation (a criteria of presidential greatness).


5. Erasing the past to control history and the future. Trump is using his power flows to erase all information about anything that contradicts his power. He will remake the nation in his own image, with his preferred view of reality. Inconvenient truths and perspectives will be erased.


6 Punishing domestic enemies. Trump is using his power flows to crush his and his followers enemies, delivering satisfying retribution for his supporters. Trump’s sadism is heroic, not evil.


Taken together, Trump's six power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, and retribution are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump. He has become, or is becoming, the Leviathan.
https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-or-is-becoming-the-leviathan

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"Leviathan"

https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-or-is-becoming-the-leviathan

I'll boil it down...

"I'm President...and their not."

[SnakeBoy]

1904609384875139218

POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions:

- Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms.
- Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law.
- Directs the updating of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 and security standards for voting equipment -- which includes requiring a voter-verifiable paper ballot record and not using ballots in which the counted vote is contained within a barcode or QR code.
- Directs the Attorney General to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations.
- Takes appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in Federal elections.
- Revokes Biden Executive Order 14019, which turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers.

[Winehole23]

empire of chickenshit

there isn't an election integrity problem, y'all just can't stand losing

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empire of chickenshit

there isn't an election integrity problem, y'all just can't stand losing

You struck that mold, bub. He makes President in '16 and you meet him and his family at the door to the WH with a bomb threat.

He tries again to make President in '24 and the SS stands down in PA., to thwart said try. God moves him a millimeter and spares his life.

All because he had the gall to enter a closed circuit and make President not once, but twice.

Shame on ya's.

[Thread]

1904609384875139218

POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions:

- Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms.
- Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law.
- Directs the updating of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 and security standards for voting equipment -- which includes requiring a voter-verifiable paper ballot record and not using ballots in which the counted vote is contained within a barcode or QR code.
- Directs the Attorney General to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations.
- Takes appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in Federal elections.
- Revokes Biden Executive Order 14019, which turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers.

Absolutely!!!

[SnakeBoy]

1904589468201607520

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is about to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.

Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or over 40% of their revenue. Nobody is fooled: For Planned Parenthood, money is fungible. Federal funds help prop up the murder mills they operate all across America.

American taxpayer dollars must NOT be used to kill innocent unborn babies.

Republicans in Congress spent decades promising to do this, without delivering. Once again, Trump is getting it done.

[ChumpDumper]

1904589468201607520

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is about to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.

Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or over 40% of their revenue. Nobody is fooled: For Planned Parenthood, money is fungible. Federal funds help prop up the murder mills they operate all across America.

American taxpayer dollars must NOT be used to kill innocent unborn babies.

Republicans in Congress spent decades promising to do this, without delivering. Once again, Trump is getting it done.
How many abortions did they perform last year, snacks?

Give us the facts as Charlie Kirk tells you to know them.

[Thread]

1904589468201607520

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is about to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.

Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or over 40% of their revenue. Nobody is fooled: For Planned Parenthood, money is fungible. Federal funds help prop up the murder mills they operate all across America.

American taxpayer dollars must NOT be used to kill innocent unborn babies.

Republicans in Congress spent decades promising to do this, without delivering. Once again, Trump is getting it done.

Great cover in the backwash of this Hoothie crisis.
Trump ain't no country preacher.

But he'll play hell gettin' this thru the courts...though perhaps when it gets to the SC this Coney woman will back us up?

[Thread]

How many abortions did they perform last year, snacks?

Give us the facts as Charlie Kirk tells you to know them.

This news, a day after the Hoothie materiel is a real kick in the shorts, eh, Dumper?

ha, ha.

[SnakeBoy]

They're baby killers. That's a fact.

[ChumpDumper]

They're baby killers. That's a fact.Do you personally oppose abortion in all its forms?

Yes or no.

[SnakeBoy]

1904610591979036906

[ChumpDumper]

1904610591979036906:tu

It won't actually happen though.

[Thread]

1904610591979036906

No licking his wounds. No letting or making Mel lick his wounds. No pissing. No moaning.

Just cranking the gun turret a might and blasting hair all over a fresh wall.

That's the old man I love!!!

[Thread]

:tu

It won't actually happen though.

...That's all that Coney girl was hired for, Dumper...and she came thru the first time without a hitch.

Let us proceed...

[Blake]

1904589468201607520

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is about to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.

Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or over 40% of their revenue. Nobody is fooled: For Planned Parenthood, money is fungible. Federal funds help prop up the murder mills they operate all across America.

American taxpayer dollars must NOT be used to kill innocent unborn babies.

Republicans in Congress spent decades promising to do this, without delivering. Once again, Trump is getting it done.

American taxpayer money should also not be used to help these kids after they're born, amirite?

[Winehole23]

Snake Boy stepping in with the deflections, it's practically a frenzy for him

usually he parses letters like he was paying for a telegram

[ChumpDumper]

Snake Boy stepping in with the deflections, it's practically a frenzy for him

usually he parses letters like he was paying for a telegramTexAgs is letting him down today.

Sad.

[Thread]

Snake Boy stepping in with the deflections, it's practically a frenzy for him

usually he parses letters like he was paying for a telegram

The old man getting shot down like that has left us in the grip of frenzy, Winester.

I want payback in any form...legal/illegal...make ME no difference.
And I don't know for a fact, but, I have the utmost confidence that that old man heartily believes (in the dank of night) precisely that-a-way as well.

He understands FULLY what has happened to him and why. They wouldn't let him in to that closed circuit, threatened his life and those of his family to keep him from it, expel him from it once in and then shot him in PA., and tried again in Florida to stop him from crashing that closed circuit once again.

You damn right he is fully cognizant of these facts, Winester.

That he can't lose now is his glory...that Christ protected him outright in Pennsylvania his deliverance. That he was meant for this trek, this "night time graveyard walk." That perhaps he believes heartily that he is invincible, that only the Father is sanctioned to set him free.

Good shit, eh?

[Winehole23]

1904609384875139218

POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions:

- Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms.
- Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law.
- Directs the updating of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 and security standards for voting equipment -- which includes requiring a voter-verifiable paper ballot record and not using ballots in which the counted vote is contained within a barcode or QR code.
- Directs the Attorney General to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations.
- Takes appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in Federal elections.
- Revokes Biden Executive Order 14019, which turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers.why does it give DOGE voter records?

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrdnz54wrgzamambh2pz7ytr/bafkreidh3ofjwyacqxp6rid2a2zbzcmryjo7kdlwflpyeqxzq z6xrnhmye@jpeg

[Winehole23]

so El0n can hack elections too?

[Winehole23]

Also, the ID laws (https://bsky.app/profile/uajamie.bsky.social/post/3llafdhzibs2p)only apply to federal elections, but if states don’t also “voluntarily” change their state and local election laws to match, Trump’s FEMA will withhold emergency funding for natural disasters that occur in those states.


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[Winehole23]

how about pass a law, motherfuckers?



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[Winehole23]

this is just an executive branch memo

[Winehole23]

the wallet inspector wants to keep your billfold safe

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/

[Winehole23]

Reagan-appointed Judge Royce Lamberth blocks Kari Lake from shutting down VOA



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreieuybzygl3y6a2dwm73la7bbebo446vkpxfp4nyhupfc i6iqc6fuy@jpeg
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[Winehole23]

is this weaponization?

red states get the Biden goodies

blue states get bupkis


A list circulating inside the Energy Department suggests cutting funding for the development of four hydrogen production hubs in mostly Democratic-leaning states while maintaining funding for three hubs spread across mostly red states, three people familiar with the plan said Wednesday.

The cuts, if carried through, would politicize the federal funds that Congress and the Biden administration awarded to seven regional applicants as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law.

The funding cuts are under consideration amid President Donald Trump’s directive to cut government waste and eliminate climate-focused spending enacted during the Biden administration. Previous submissions for spending cuts from DOE offices included potentially eliminating federal funding for all seven of the hydrogen hub projects.

The first tranches of funding for the seven selected hubs in the $7 billion program were delivered to recipients before the Biden administration left office. The sites were envisioned to help speed development of hydrogen as a clean fuel that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in difficult-to-decarbonize industries, such as fertilizer production, steel making, and electricity generation.

A spreadsheet of the projects prepared by DOE and obtained by POLITICO labeled each hub as “cut” or “keep.” Out of seven projects, only the four planned for primarily Democratic-leaning states are recommended to have their funding pulled back, according to people familiar with the latest iteration of the plan.

On the cut list: the Pacific Northwest hub spanning Oregon, Washington and Montana; the ARCHES hub in California; the Midwest regional hub linking Illinois, Indiana and Michigan; and the Mid-Atlantic hub in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

On the keep side: the Heartland hub that spans Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota; the Appalachia hub in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania; and HyVelocity in Texas and Louisiana.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/energy-department-hydrogen-projects-blue-states-00249589

[Thread]

is this weaponization?

red states get the Biden goodies

blue states get bupkis

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/energy-department-hydrogen-projects-blue-states-00249589

To the victor goes the spoils.

[Winehole23]

they're wrecking perfectly good shi tthat is not very expensive



The Trump administration is planning to close a small, obscure laboratory whose work undergirds everything from microchip manufacturing to nuclear fusion.

TheAtomic Spectroscopy Group (https://www.nist.gov/pml/quantum-measurement/atomic-spectroscopy) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the definitive measurements of atomic spectra. Spectra are specific sets of colors emitted by different atomic elements. Those sets of colors act as atomic fingerprints that are used to characterize a wide variety of things — from the gases in far-off stars, to the blood in a person's finger.

The laboratory has been in continuous operation for more than 120 years, but in mid-April it will be forced to close, according to a letter sent by the lab's head, Yuri Ralchenko, to dozens of colleagues around the world.

"We were recently informed that unless there is a major change in the Federal Government reorganization plans, the whole Atomic Spectroscopy Group will be laid off in a few weeks," Ralchenko wrote in the letter, which was emailed on March 18 and seen by NPR. The letter was first reported (https://www.wired.com/story/nist-doge-layoffs-atomic-spectroscopy/) by Wired.
Ralchenko says in the letter that he was told "our work is not considered to be statutorily essential for the NIST mission."

But thousands of scientists and engineers disagree. A petition (https://www.change.org/p/oppose-the-layoff-of-the-nist-atomic-spectroscopy-group?recruited_by_id=72cffe70-0976-11f0-8599-f1a4bd7efb22&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=copylink) is now circulating to reverse the closure, and it had received close to 3,000 signatures as of Wednesday. Among the signatories is Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sheldon Glashow.

"I cannot believe that the government would be stupid enough" to slash this kind of work, Glashow said in a video statement.



The laboratory maintains a database (https://www.nist.gov/pml/atomic-spectra-database) of atomic spectra that are the standard reference used to ensure devices are functioning correctly. Every month, the database receives around 70,000 queries from around the world and is cited in at least two scientific papers, according to a recent post (https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/shedding-light-how-nists-light-database-helps-bring-you-computer-chips-welded) about it on NIST's website.


In addition, the laboratory conducts precise measurements of ultraviolet atomic spectra that are critical to developing advanced microchips. Ultraviolet light is used to etch tiny circuits, and advances in the field require detailed knowledge of the atomic spectra of elements in the extreme ultraviolet. There are a handful of facilities that research ultraviolet spectra, and this group is one of them, Goldschmidt says. It also studies plasmas, which are ionized gases that enshroud nuclear fusion reactions. Researchers around the world are pursuing fusion as a clean and virtually limitless form of energy, and detailed knowledge of plasmas is essential to that development.


Neither NIST nor its parent agency, the Department of Commerce, responded to NPR's inquiries about the closure, but the savings from closing the lab would be minimal. NIST's annual budget is just $1.5 billion, less than 0.02% of the government's $7 trillion annual budget.

[Winehole23]

Within NIST, the atomic spectroscopy group is made up of seven full-time federal employees. The group's employees even pay out of pocket for coffee and sugar used in its coffee breaks and have been doing so since 1973https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340687/trump-cuts-nist-atomic-spectra-lab-advanced-chips-medical-devices

[Thread]

they're wrecking perfectly good shi tthat is not very expensive

Then you shouldn't mind too much.

[Thread]

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340687/trump-cuts-nist-atomic-spectra-lab-advanced-chips-medical-devices

Stop whining!

[Winehole23]

No thanks

[SnakeBoy]

they're wrecking perfectly good shi tthat is not very expensive

Just 1.5 billion, just 3 billion, just 10 billion...you love to pay that game

If the service is so critical to semiconductor manufacturing, then that industry can pay for it

[ChumpDumper]

Just 1.5 billion, just 3 billion, just 10 billion...
That's Elon's game.

Except he just makes the numbers up.

And you believe him every time.

:lol rube

[Thread]

That's Elon's game.

Except he just makes the numbers up.

And you believe him every time.

:lol rube

Yes, I believe him. We've heard those numbers for the last quarter century with guffaws and resignation that nothing could, or, would ever be done. Just the way it was and always would be.

Now? We'll see.

[Winehole23]

they keep falling for the wallet inspector gag

[Winehole23]

is this weaponization?

red states get the Biden goodies

blue states get bupkis

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/energy-department-hydrogen-projects-blue-states-00249589even after Biden gave the bulk of the goodies to red states

this is how Trump pays it back

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

DOJ is ideologically streamlined -- the WH is telling it what to do in court



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[Winehole23]

Kari Lake was about to get spanked in court for her legally inept shutdown of Voice of America, so she withdrew the grant termination, provisionally

Giving herself a do-over.

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[Thread]

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Excellent.

Have things exactly your way from the start. Don't waste a moment.

[Winehole23]

Trump decrees collective bargaining over for "agencies with national security missions"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/

[SnakeBoy]

Now we're talking

1905637766244794518

[Winehole23]

so much for being the workers' president

[Thread]

Now we're talking

1905637766244794518

Amen.

[Winehole23]

one way to look at it is that Trumplandia is currently short of ready legal services

for some reason


Per White House pool: Trump has announced a deal with Skadden law firm in which the firm will provide $100 million in pro bono work that the administration approves of.

“This was essentially a settlement,” Trump said.

[Winehole23]

Paul Clement of Wilmer Hale says Trump's EO's are unconstitutional


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[Winehole23]

Now we're talking

1905637766244794518"every time Trump takes away somebody's rights, a MAGA gets its wings"

[Thread]

"every time Trump takes away somebody's rights, a MAGA gets its wings"

Amen.

[Thread]

Paul Clement of Wilmer Hale says Trump's EO's are unconstitutional

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278932/gov.uscourts.dcd.278932.2.16.pdf

But, Biden's & the Magic Negro's were constitutional.

Biden, A. shouldn't a shoved all his EO's in Trump's face twixt Presidency #1 & Presidency #2. And B. Biden shouldn't a missed in PA..

[SnakeBoy]

POTUS Signs Executive Order On Concert Ticket Reselling

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SEC_245870193-7b62.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646

[ChumpDumper]

POTUS Signs Executive Order On Concert Ticket Reselling

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SEC_245870193-7b62.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646

Which means what?

[Winehole23]

If Trump isn't going after Ticketmaster it isn't real

[ChumpDumper]

Quality low key pandering to the LBGTQ+ community with the sparkly dude tho.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5oevos635qa5cttq4y5w5cbf/bafkreigp7iubeu3iombe7fh7wbzggyvxfzeb3qe6l5qxlgytn zuebh7xke@jpeg

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao fucking moron has to take direction from the press

1906839390027976890

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1906839390027976890

[Winehole23]

Trump's not all there

[Thread]

Which means what?

Read it, ya moron, you.

[Thread]

Trump's not all there

"there" enough to make President again.

[Thread]

:lmao fucking moron has to take direction from the press

1906839390027976890

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1906839390027976890

Though he had enough command of direction to make President again. That's why you was up after midnight over it, Dumper.

[Winehole23]

Trump wants poor New Englanders to go broke and drop dead this winter


The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gutted the workforce of a federal program that provides heating and cooling assistance to low-income residents in Maine and nationwide, officials said, leaving the fate of the program uncertain as energy prices are expected to rise.



While the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program remains in effect, its staff has been let go, leaving concerns over how the program will be operated and funds allocated. The layoffs are among the up to 10,000 terminations (https://apnews.com/article/health-human-services-layoffs-restructuring-rfk-jr-ec4d7731695e4204970c7eab953b2289) of DHHS staffers Tuesday, part of a massive effort to reduce the federal workforce in the name of efficiency.


Roughly 51,000 households in Maine rely on the program, said a spokesperson for Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District.


Maine received more than $37.5 million in LIHEAP funding for the 2025 fiscal year, Sen. Susan Collins’ office announced in October. Local Native American tribes were given just over $1.4 million.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/01/dhhs-cuts-entire-staff-that-administers-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program-staff/

[Thread]

Trump wants poor New Englanders to go broke and drop dead this winter

https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/01/dhhs-cuts-entire-staff-that-administers-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program-staff/

Tougheth lucketh.

At least Maine was duly warned and decided to go to the mat over it.

Let us proceed...

[Winehole23]

Turning US appropriations into a presidential slush fund to extort states to bend to Trump's will is a motif

It's illegal impoundment

Trump has already been impeached for this once and in a functioning democracy he would be again


A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration had violated his order to halt sweeping freezes to federal funding (https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-puts-federal-funding-freeze-on-ice-finding-trump-placed-himself-above-congress/) by withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to at least 19 states.

It seemed to be a “covert” effort to punish states with so-called sanctuary laws for immigrants, the judge said.

In March, U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction in favor of 23 states that sued the government (https://www.courthousenews.com/new-york-leads-multi-state-challenge-to-trumps-reckless-federal-funding-freeze/) over its plan to implement a broad pause to state aid. The Barack Obama appointee ruled that the plan “fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government,” and ordered the Trump administration to “immediately end any funding pause” until further notice.

But on Friday, McConnell found (https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/trump-order-funding-freeze-fema.pdf) the Trump administration in breach of the court’s order. At least 19 states — all with Democratic attorney generals, and all of which had sued to stop the funding cuts — “presented undisputed evidence” that they were not receiving congressionally approved FEMA funding from the federal government, the judge ruled.
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-slammed-for-covertly-withholding-fema-funds-from-blue-states/

[Thread]

Turning US appropriations into a presidential slush fund to extort states to bend to Trump's will is a motif

It's illegal impoundment

Trump has already been impeached for this once and in a functioning democracy he would be again

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-slammed-for-covertly-withholding-fema-funds-from-blue-states/

"Impeachment" don't mean shit without the conviction.

[Winehole23]

lawyers not willing to lie in court for the US can be removed for lack of zealous advocacy and so can their supervisors

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-places-attorney-leave-after-struggling-maryland-migrant/story?id=120526466

[Winehole23]

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[Thread]

now deleted

Ya's shot his pa.

[Winehole23]

lawyers not willing to lie in court for the US can be removed for lack of zealous advocacy and so can their supervisors

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-places-attorney-leave-after-struggling-maryland-migrant/story?id=120526466


If the DOJ is going to punish its attorneys for being candid with the courts, it stands to reason that courts can no longer assume DOJ attorneys will fulfill their duty of candor.

[Winehole23]

moar backsliding

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/us-weather-agency-to-preserve-research-websites-in-reversal

[Winehole23]

a tad presumptuous


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[Winehole23]

§105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government worksCopyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2010-title17/html/USCODE-2010-title17-chap1-sec105.htm

[Winehole23]

One of my favorite comments (https://bsky.app/profile/themightyjoedanger.bsky.social/post/3lm6hho75322l) to write in my code was "This work is a research product of the United States Government. It is free to use without reservation or restriction."

[Winehole23]

Trump intentionally trashing global markets could color the upcoming showdown at SCOTUS over executive power, everybody knows he'll want to fire Powell if Powell doesn't lower interest rates fast enough.



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[Thread]

Trump intentionally trashing global markets could color the upcoming showdown at SCOTUS over executive power, everybody knows he'll want to fire Powell if Powell doesn't lower interest rates fast enough.

...and has every right to fire PowellPERIOD

[Winehole23]

purging cybersecurity now


The Trump administration is now going after its first cybersecurity company, stripping @sentinelone.com (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5fpvkgmdixnrfl5filc7wvqq)

of "any active security clearance."

Will the infosec industry do any better than the legal industry in showing solidarity?www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... (https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/)

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[Winehole23]

just sicced the Energy Secretary

on the showerhead pressure public menace

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[Winehole23]

hard to see how the Trump EO singling out Krebs and Taylor for prosecution for espionage and treason by the DOJ isn't the functional equivalent of a bill of attainder (https://www.justsecurity.org/110109/president-cannot-issue-attainder-bills/)

Trump is fulfilling yet another original complaint of the Declaration of Independence

[SnakeBoy]

1,382 days left

[Blake]

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Oh right, they'll get rid of real federal employees doing really important things but creating a magic department is top priority

[Blake]

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Those penguins are in for a HUGE L

[Winehole23]

1,382 days leftno one knows the measure of their days

[Winehole23]

1,382 days leftto me it stands out how Trump 2.0 is running the 1776 revolution in reverse

taxation without representation

official oppression

transporting people abroad for pretended offenses without due process

bills of attainder

[Winehole23]

being a king-like executive

[Winehole23]

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

[Winehole23]

"He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."

[Winehole23]

"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world".

[Winehole23]

"For imposing taxes on us without our consent:"

[Winehole23]

"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...

[Winehole23]

8 out of 27 grievances, and it's just what, 75 days?

[Winehole23]

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

[Winehole23]

amazing overlap with George III

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amazing overlap with George III

Cept this old man made Hillary eat the exact same shit sandwich that the Magic Negro had fed her. Then avenged himself by hammering Biden in that debate like trout meat...made him quit...then hunted the half breed down, set her top rung on the curb "American History X" style & told her..."Now, say goodnight."

Nobody does the wet work like Old Man Trump.

[Winehole23]

"for imposing taxes on us without our consent"

[Thread]

"for imposing taxes on us without our consent"

"But I'm President...and their not."

[Winehole23]

it's so amusing that one obvious, originalist case against Trump is so easy

Trump 2.0 is the anti-Declaration of Independence

maybe one third of the 27 grievances against King George have so far already been accomplished

[Winehole23]

...

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it's so amusing that one obvious, originalist case against Trump is so easy

Trump 2.0 is the anti-Declaration of Independence

maybe one third of the 27 grievances against King George have so far already been accomplished

What's hard is beating him, even then he won't stay down, chases Biden and leaves him where he found him...then takes off after the half-breed and scalps her.

Yada hey!!!

[Winehole23]

hard to see how the Trump EO singling out Krebs and Taylor for prosecution for espionage and treason by the DOJ isn't the functional equivalent of a bill of attainder (https://www.justsecurity.org/110109/president-cannot-issue-attainder-bills/)intriguingly, Krebs was an earlier debunker of Trump's threadbare election integrity gripes

it may not be long until it's "treasonous" to say Trump lost the election in 2020


Trump fired Krebs in a tweet in November 2020 over the agency’s Rumor Control website (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-fires-head-u-s-election-cybersecurity-after-he-debunked-n1248063), which corrected falsehoods about election integrity, many of which Trump and his allies promoted.

Krebs was among the most vocal government officials debunking baseless claims (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/q-fades-qanon-s-dominion-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theory-reaches-n1247780) about election manipulation, particularly addressing a conspiracy theory centered on Dominion Voting Systems machines that Trump's lawyers have pushed.

As a prominent critic of Trump’s false claims that the election 2020 was stolen, Krebs has been a consistent target for Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-orders-probes-two-former-officials-defied-rcna200523

[Winehole23]

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-harvard-funding-conditions-constitution-congress-c26040f8

[Winehole23]

new Trump EO will raise drug prices


But the solution in the Trump executive order is precisely the opposite: to expand tthe delay period for small-molecule drugs, therefore giving those medications more immunity from Medicare negotiations. “This represents pharma taking another bite at the apple,” said Steven Knievel, an advocate for Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program. Under such a “reform,” more than half (https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-effect-of-delaying-the-selection-of-small-molecule-drugs-for-medicare-drug-price-negotiation/) of the small-molecule drugs already in the Medicare price negotiation process would no longer be eligible, and lower prices would have to wait.

Specifically, the order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “work with the Congress” to “align the treatment of small molecule prescription drugs with that of biological products.” The existing Republican bills (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1492/text) on this all accomplish this by increasing the delay period for small-molecule drugs, and one could easily be tucked into the big reconciliation bill Congress is working on.

You know that’s what Trump’s after, because there’s a little addition that says this change should be “coupled with other reforms to prevent any increase in overall costs to Medicare and its beneficiaries,” and reconciliation bills have to appear to be revenue-neutral. The only reason you would need to say that is if the extension of the delay period would increase the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare and beneficiaries. Which of course it would, if you have to wait four more years to negotiate prices on these drugs.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-04-17-trumps-order-cut-drug-prices-would-raise-prices/

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia trashing datasets and federal work product at NOAA

why?


United States Earthquake Intensity Database

Name of product or service:
United States Earthquake Intensity Database
Type of change:
Product will be decommissioned.
Description of change:
More detail about the change including hyperlinks to the product’s website(s). Include this information as the last line:
The United States Earthquake Intensity Database product is being decommissioned and the data will only be available via an archive request to [email protected]. The planned product retirement date is May 05, 2025.
Products currently found at:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/natural-hazards/tsunamis-earthquakes-volcanoes/earthquakes/intensity-database-1638-1985
Point of contact:
[email protected]
Send comments to:
[email protected]
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia hates education, poor people and kids


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Trumplandia hates education, poor people and kids


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...AMEN.

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia hates Americans and wants them to die so rich guys can marginally improve their profits


The Food and Drug Administration (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-replace-laid-off-employees-contractors/) is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities.

The plans have not been finalized and might need congressional action to fully fund, the officials said, who were not authorized to speak publicly.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/

[Thread]

Trumplandia hates Americans and wants them to die so rich guys can marginally improve their profits

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/

Stop whining!

[SnakeBoy]

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's Equinor will halt offshore construction of its Empire Wind I project in New York State, following a stop-work order from U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the company said on Thursday.

The sudden order marks a major blow for the company and the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, which previously enjoyed substantial support as part of former President Joe Biden's plan to decarbonise the power grid and combat climate change.

Burgum

[Winehole23]

what's wrong with wind power?

[Winehole23]

CFPB gutted

cui bono?

https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-has-been-gutted/

[Winehole23]

I'm told that CFPB just RIF'd its entire Office of Research, including the division that sets the APOR tables (https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lmzzckcaf22n), an obscure but incredibly important part of making mortgage markets function. The first time they stopped the APOR tables from being published, they had to backtrack and restore it.https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/ (https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lmzzckcaf22n)

[Winehole23]

The agency updates the APOR tables (https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/documentation/tools/rate-spread) every week,using survey data (https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/tools/rate-spread/methodology) for eight different mortgage products. The survey data comes primarily from Freddie Mac, one of those secondary-market giants. But it’s CFPB’s job to manually calculate and publish the APOR tables to keep the mortgage market humming. (Under Rohit Chopra, CFPB actually strengthened reporting (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/building-resilience-and-durability-into-mortgage-rules/) of the APOR tables with a new methodology that was more redundant and less susceptible to the failure of outside providers to send the data.)

Yesterday, I started hearing from people worried that with the CFPB in shutdown mode, they wouldn’t publish the APOR tables. Per the statute (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/1003/4/#a-12-i), lenders could use the last published rate as a guideline in the short term, but if mortgage rates rose, those would quickly become obsolete. They could try to calculate APOR themselves, but that might not have any legal sanction.

Georgetown Law professor Adam Levitinexplained the stakes (https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/02/unintended-consequences-of-standing-down-the-cfpb.html) in a post late Monday night. Lenders would either not make loans at risk of coming in above APOR, or would raise rates on loans below APOR to compensate, costing borrowers potentially tens of thousands of dollars in financing. Home values could get skewed, and credit access could be cut for many borrowers. “In other words, shutting down the CFPB does not reduce regulation. It actually increases it because it results in the [APOR tables] being miscalibrated,” Levitin wrote.

[Winehole23]

Real quick as I'm losing steam: dismantling CFPB puts consumers in a *worse* position than they were in 2008.The consumer protection laws were still being enforced by the Fed and other agencies, just not particularly well. Now the signal is they won't be enforced at all.

[SnakeBoy]

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/ (https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lmzzckcaf22n)

lol Bluesky

[ChumpDumper]

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's Equinor will halt offshore construction of its Empire Wind I project in New York State, following a stop-work order from U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the company said on Thursday.

The sudden order marks a major blow for the company and the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, which previously enjoyed substantial support as part of former President Joe Biden's plan to decarbonise the power grid and combat climate change.

Burgum

What is wrong with wind power?

[Winehole23]

lol Blueskysuperficial

all information comes from somewhere

David Dayen was all over the 2008-9 death of capitalism, he doesn't seem to be flagging on the second one imho

[Winehole23]

some people think there have been two other bailout driven financial coups, 2019 (repo ructions) and 2020 (Trump mega dole)

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

NO DATA, NO PROBLEM!


The Department of Health and Human Services, now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., laid off the 17-person team (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2474698-us-government-fired-researchers-running-a-crucial-drug-use-survey/) in charge of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which for more than five decades has tracked trends in substance abuse and mental health disorders. The department’s Administration for Children and Families is weeks behind on the annual update of the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, the nationwide database of child welfare cases, after layoffs effectively wiped out the team that compiles that information. And the department has placed on leave (https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/prams-maternal-mortality-cdc-layoffs/) the team that oversees the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, a collection of survey responses from women before and after giving birth that has become a crucial tool in trying to address the country’s disconcertingly high rate of maternal mortality (https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eviscerated divisions that oversee the WISQARS database on accidental deaths and injuries — everything from fatal shootings to poisonings to car accidents — and the team that maintains AtlasPlus, an interactive tool for tracking HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to stop requiring oil refineries, power plants and other industrial facilities to measure and report their greenhouse-gas emissions (https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis), as they have done since 2010, making it difficult to know whether any of the policies meant to slow climate change and reduce disaster are effective. The EPA has also taken down EJScreen, a mapping tool on its website that allowed people to see how much industrial pollution occurs in their community and how that compares with other places or previous years.

The Office of Homeland Security Statistics has yet to update its monthly tallies on deportations and other indices of immigration enforcement (https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/immigration-enforcement/monthly-tables), making it difficult to judge President Donald Trump’s triumphant claims of a crackdown; the last available numbers are from November 2024, in the final months of President Joe Biden’s tenure. (“While we have submitted reports and data files for clearance, the reporting and data file posting are delayed while they are under the new administration’s review,” Jim Scheye, director of operations and reporting in the statistics unit, told ProPublica.)

And, in a particularly concrete example of ceasing to measure, deep cutbacks at the National Weather Service are forcing it to reduce weather balloon launches (https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/04/16/national-weather-service-buyouts-staff-shortages-trump-administration/), which gather a vast repository of second-by-second data on everything from temperature to humidity to atmospheric pressure in order to improve forecasting.

Looked at one way, the war on measurement has an obvious potential motivation: making it harder for critics to gauge fallout resulting from Trump administration layoffs, deregulation or other shifts in policy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

reducing public capacity exposes the public to real life danger



The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

The suspension is another disruption to the nation's food safety programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, as part of President Donald Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The FDA this month also suspended existing and developing programs that ensured accurate testing for bird flu (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-suspends-program-improve-bird-flu-testing-due-staff-cuts-2025-04-03/) in milk and cheese and pathogens (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-suspends-food-safety-quality-checks-after-staff-cuts-2025-04-17/) like the parasite Cyclospora in other food products.

Effective Monday, the agency suspended its proficiency testing program for Grade "A" raw milk and finished products, according to the email sent in the morning from the FDA's Division of Dairy Safety and addressed to "Network Laboratories."

Grade "A" milk, or fluid milk, meets the highest sanitary standards.

The testing program was suspended because FDA's Moffett Center Proficiency Testing Laboratory, part of its division overseeing food safety, "is no longer able to provide laboratory support for proficiency testing and data analysis," the email said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/ (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180)

[Winehole23]

improperly declared frog embryos for research have Ksiniia Petrova in indefinite detention in a Louisiana hellhole


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[Winehole23]

reducing public capacity exposes the public to real life danger


https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/ (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180)Privatizing functions of government is inflationary


wonder if (https://bsky.app/profile/olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social/post/3lnfsb7kebc2f)we're going to see axes of inequality widen considerably in the short and medium term between people who can afford food, medicine, cosmetics, etc that employ private third party quality control vs. people who have to take their chances with what's affordable

[Winehole23]

Trumpism as barbarism


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improperly declared frog embryos for research have Ksiniia Petrova in indefinite detention in a Louisiana hellhole


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& after over 60 years in the cure for cancer hunt we've finally come up with one. And the old man canned it.

Just shows ta go ya.

[Winehole23]

increasingly unpopular policies

one thing Trump has in common with El0n Musk is that he's his own worst enemy



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increasingly unpopular policies

one thing Trump has in common with El0n Musk is that he's his own worst enemy

Polls matter not ever again for Trump. He can no longer lose.

Let us proceed...

[Winehole23]

the existence of US citizens and legal residents who are not native English speakers really pisses some people off

for some reason


1915420007447605391

[Winehole23]

government is not all bullshit and graft, far from it

Trumplandia -- to its credit -- bent the knee to actually existing linguistic diversity in the USA

and the wokism of acknowledging that (for purposes of government at least) languages other than English are commonly used here, and fully appropriate for public weather warnings

[Winehole23]

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

[Winehole23]

Trump fulfilling 9 of the 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence in 100 days

is impressive from any angle

[Winehole23]

"we accidentally nuked something very important"


The Trump administration is restoring financial support for a landmark study of women's health, an official said Thursday, reversing a defunding decision (https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-5372892/womens-health-initiative-research-funding-gets-cut) that shocked medical researchers.


"These studies represent critical contributions to our better understanding of women's health," said a statement from Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5376473/hhs-restores-funding-for-womens-health-initiative

[SnakeBoy]

On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order "Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth," creating new educational opportunities focused on artificial intelligence (AI), marking a significant shift in how American students prepare for future technology careers. The comprehensive initiative aims to build essential AI literacy and skills from an early age, positioning the United States to maintain its competitive edge in global technology development and prepare students for an AI-driven economy.

:tu

[ChumpDumper]

Is this what the tariffs are for?

[Winehole23]

heavy necropolitical vibes and vice-signaling

also disdain for disability and old age

Meals on Wheels seems to be in the crosshairs of intended savings


On Thursday, HouseReps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) introduced a formal inquiry demanding more information from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the decision to dismantle the Administration for Community Living (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/rfk-hhs-acl-community-living-shutdown/) (ACL), which oversees programs vital to independence and quality of life for disabled and aging adults. Kennedy’s HHS moved to close the agency at the end of March as part of massive layoffs and cuts expected to claim some 10,000 federal jobs and drastically reduce services.

Reps. Scott and Bonamici’s inquiry requests all communications, including meeting notes and legal memos, from both President Donald Trump and Secretary Kennedy that touch on the agency’s proposed elimination, layoffs of ACL employees; discussions on dismissing its leadership, grant terminations, actions related to Kennedy’s ‘‘HHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again’’ release announcing the move, and evidence of actions showing that laws governing ACL’s congressionally mandated work will still be followed, such as federal compliance with the Older Americans Act and Assistive Technology Act.

“HHS Secretary Kennedy’s decision to eliminate ACL is unacceptable and will be harmful to the millions of Americans who benefit from essential programs like Meals on Wheels,” Bonamici said in a statement. “We are demanding answers about why and how Secretary Kennedy made this harmful decision and will keep up the pressure until it is reversed.”

If the House Education and Workforce committee to which the inquiry is referred does not take action within 14 days, Scott and Bonamici can bring a motion demanding accountability before the House as a whole.

Around 40 percent of the agency’s 200 employees have so far been laid off, including all staff at its efficiency-focused Center for Policy and Evaluation (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-hhs-acl-disability-center-layoffs/). As one former worker in that center told me after his termination, “I fear this purge will drain the department of crucial disability subject matter expertise and humanity just when we need it most.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-jr-bill-community-living/

[Winehole23]

Media crackdown coming


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Media crackdown coming


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[Saw] it last night. The Judges will have a field day with this one, Winester.

& notice they popped it on a Friday afternoon.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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Polls won't matter again for 4 years, Winester.

[Winehole23]

"the refusal of localities to be commandeered by federal LE is insurrection"


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[z0sa]

States' Rights!