Trump Executive Action thread

[Thread]

States' Rights!

Only when a D is President. Otherwise:::no such thing.

[Winehole23]

Trump's attempts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Board

keep hitting constitutional roadblocks

(Royce Lamberth is a Reagan appointee)

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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.48.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

in other words, pass a fucking law

[Thread]

in other words, pass a fucking law

Toss it on the Appeals pile>>>reverse the turret>>>open fire.

[Winehole23]

"When money has been appropriated by Congress.. Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations"

[Winehole23]

APOR underpins the mortgage industry, this is part of Trump's intended destruction of the CFPB

Trumplandia wants to privatize it


There's also an update in here about the APOR tables, the weekly posting that CFPB is required to carry out, & whose absence might break mortgage markets. Vought wants to outsource it, in another attempt to gut public functions.prospect.org/justice/2025...

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[Winehole23]

Trump/Musk condominum war on IP law

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-sources/

[Winehole23]

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“I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.

[Winehole23]

y'all Trumpies cool with PUTUS declaring price controls by decree?

Trump can just tell businesses what to do now?

[Winehole23]

*crickets*

(silence implies assent)













the real constitutional crisis isn't so much Trump getting out of his lane as Congress refusing to police its own

[Winehole23]

the judiciary, per contra, is somewhat standing up for itself

[Winehole23]

so-called"DEI" is protected speech

Trump cutting funds for expression he doesn't like is unlawful retaliation -- an abuse of power



A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration unconstitutionally retaliated against the American Bar Association when it abruptly canceled millions in grants awarded to the world's largest association of lawyers and legal professionals.

Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the cancelation of the five grants and ordered the Justice Department to fully pay out the $3.2 million previously allocated to the ABA. The grants were intended to train lawyers and judges who work with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

"The ABA has made a strong showing that Defendants terminated its grants to retaliate against it for engaging in protected speech,"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-rules-trump-unconstitutionally-retaliated-against-aba-by-canceling-grants/ar-AA1EOUHy

[Winehole23]

mass executive impoundment is mass executive illegality



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[Winehole23]

tl:dr

all four law firms that sued Trump over his unconstitutuonal EO have won, Trumplandia not appealing



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[Winehole23]

Trumplandia is fucking up the CDC



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[Winehole23]

Trump/Musk are wrecking the good shit


Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned. A new plan has yet to be put into place.https://www.wired.com/story/fema-cancel-strategic-plan/

[Winehole23]

The FAA has had its problems before 2025, but DOGE's reckless firings might have pushed it over the edge


The Federal Aviation Administration has implemented a ground delay (https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=43&adv_date=05212025&facId=AUS&title=ATCSCC%20ADVZY%20043%20AUS/ZHU%2005/21/2025%20CDM%20GROUND%20DELAY%20PROGRAM&titleDate=05/21/2025) at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport due to staffing shortages at the air traffic control tower, officials said.

The delay, which began at 11:47 a.m. local time, is expected to continue through late Wednesday night and could cause significant delays for travelers, according to the FAA advisory (https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=43&adv_date=05212025&facId=AUS&title=ATCSCC%20ADVZY%20043%20AUS/ZHU%2005/21/2025%20CDM%20GROUND%20DELAY%20PROGRAM&titleDate=05/21/2025). Delays are averaging 49 minutes, with some flights facing delays of up to 113 minutes.

"The FAA is slowing traffic at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday, May 21, due to staffing issues at the air traffic control tower," an FAA spokesperson said. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/faa-implements-ground-delay-at-austin-airport-due-to-staffing-issues-at-control-tower

[Winehole23]

ideological vetting and ersatz anti-fraud measures impair public capacity

but maybe the intention here is just to wreck dearly paid for public services


A growing backlog of hundreds of unsigned NOAA contracts has slowed agency operations to a crawl — so much so that even Sen. Ted Cruz, a staunch ally of the Trump administration, has raised concerns about the gridlock.

The bottleneck is due largely to one man: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose portfolio includes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. After taking office in February, Lutnick insisted that he personally review any contract in excess of $100,000.

Intended as an attempt to identify waste and redundancy, the policy instead has sown chaos at the nation’s preeminent climate and weather agency, say former and current NOAA officials.

More than 200 NOAA contracts — including one aimed at helping local communities prepare for extreme weather events — are now stuck in limbo, waiting for Lutnick to make a decision. The impasse has forced NOAA to furlough employees, and it has created a work environment where NOAA staffers spend much of their time trying to justify their work — rather than doing it, they say.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/05/20/noaa-paralyzed-by-backlog-of-unsigned-contracts-00357095...

[Winehole23]

GAO says Trump is violating the Impoundment Control Act

This kind of abuse of power is legion in Trump 2.0 -- Trump should have been removed from office for doing it in his first term tbh


DOT is not authorized to withhold these funds from expenditure and DOT must continue to carry out the statutory requirements of the program. While DOT cannot withhold these funds under the ICA, DOT could propose funds for rescission or otherwise propose legislation to make changes to the NEVI Formula Program for consideration by Congress.https://www.gao.gov/products/b-337137

[ChumpDumper]

:lol Yoni got murked trying to say Trump was legally using the impoundment act.

We never saw him again....

[Winehole23]

raised middle fingers to the millions who depend on the Great Lakes water supply

clean water for people is too woke, I guess


Multiple people who have worked with the lab also told ProPublica that there are serious gaps in this year’s monitoring of algal blooms, which are often caused by excess nutrient runoff from farms (https://www.propublica.org/article/phosphorus-the-culprit-behind-dead-zones-threat-to-water-supply). Data generated by the lab’s boats and buoys, and publicly shared, could be limited or interrupted, they said.

That data has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.

If the streams of information are cut off, “stakeholders will be very unhappy,” said Bret Collier, a branch chief at the lab who oversaw the federal scientists that run the harmful algal bloom program for the Great Lakes. He was fired in the purge of federal probationary workers in February.

The lab has lost about 35% of its 52-member workforce since February, according to the president of the lab’s union, and it was not allowed to fill several open positions. The White House released preliminary budget recommendations (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf) last week that would make significant cuts to NOAA. The budget didn’t provide details, but indicated the termination of “a variety of climate-dominated research, data, and grant programs, which are not aligned with Administration policy” of ending “‘Green New Deal’ initiatives.”

An earlier document obtained by ProPublica and reported widely (https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361366/major-budget-cuts-proposed-for-the-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration) proposed a 74% funding cut to NOAA’s research office, home of the Great Lakes lab.

Vance’s office didn’t respond to questions from ProPublica about how federal cuts have affected Great Lakes research. The White House also didn’t respond to messages.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-michigan-lab-toxic-algae-blooms-great-lakes-drinking-water

[Winehole23]

Trump's face, Rubio's shoe leather and writing

Marco Rubio is very close to the top now, he heads what, four separate US agencies?



"We believe the NSC (https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/national-security-council/) policy staff could be streamlined to 60 people, the same number of NSC (https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/national-security-council/) staffers that President Dwight D. Eisenhower employed"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5409610/trump-national-security-council

[DMX7]

The FAA has had its problems before 2025, but DOGE's reckless firings might have pushed it over the edge

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/faa-implements-ground-delay-at-austin-airport-due-to-staffing-issues-at-control-tower

Do we know if they fired anyone in the FAA that directly impacted this?

[Blake]

Do we know if they fired anyone in the FAA that directly impacted this?

Why are you okay with these idiots that have no idea how the FAA works making cuts?

[Winehole23]

per se evidence of Trump's lawlessness


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[Winehole23]

Do we know if they fired anyone in the FAA that directly impacted this?we know people got fired and a lot of important people took the voluntary retirement DOGE offered at an agency that was already short staffed, why do you ask?

[Winehole23]

now that I've answered your direct question, DMX7, perhaps you can answer mine

what do you think of Republicans adding trillions to the deficit with new tax cuts?

[DMX7]

we know people got fired and a lot of important people took the voluntary retirement DOGE offered at an agency that was already short staffed, why do you ask?

Well it seems kind of relevant...

[DMX7]

now that I've answered your direct question, DMX7, perhaps you can answer mine

what do you think of Republicans adding trillions to the deficit with new tax cuts?

I wanted to know if anyone fired at the FAA directly impacted this. You brought it up so I thought you might know but apparently you don't. You seem to think it's plausible but you don't actually know.

Ok, fair enough.

I'm not a republican. I think the tax bill is nuts and not fiscally responsible. I think it will get better in the Senate but both parties aren't seriously addressing the budget deficit.

There are only a hand full of true deficit hawks like Chip Roy who don't just concede to every special interest group.

[Winehole23]

if you want to argue that DOGE didn't provably fuck up the FAA fine, that's an interesting side to take

I think it'll all come out in the wash eventually, we'll see

[Winehole23]

Wilmer-Hale EO struck down in its entirety as unconstitutional


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[Winehole23]

Trumplandia fucked up an already ailing FEMA even worse

To be fair, the last FEMA chief got canned for saying it wasn't going to be eliminated, so the intent here is fairly clear

Pretending FEMA is still a functional agency while strangling it to death is happening all over government...the GOP can't/won't pass laws repealing US agencies, so I guess it has to be done in this blatantly ad hoc, unconstitutional way

"The will of the people" moves across time and institutions, it isn't just the very last election -- Trumplandia is being wildly undemocratic


In an internal memo obtained by The Handbasket that was sent on Thursday to Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson by Stephanie Dobitsch, Associate Administrator for Policy & Program Analysis, Dobitsch outlined the status of “critical functions” at the agency that a working group determined were at “high risk” of not properly functioning because of “significant personnel losses in advance of the 2025 Hurricane Season.” ...



One slide in the memo, which was also shared with approximately 30 members of FEMA senior leadership, pertains to staffing at Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, a critical high security facility in Virginia. (It contains the nuclear bunker where congressional leaders were stashed on 9/11 (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/30/federal-government-is-upgrading-a-secret-bunker-why-its-classified/83370527007/?utm_source=www.thehandbasket.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fema-at-high-risk-of-disrupting-life-saving-disaster-relief-per-internal-memo).) The slide states that “staffing was already at a critical low at the beginning of 2025” and because of departures “the facility is at risk of not being fully mission capable.”




Another slide in the memo details the high risks facing FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery—what a FEMA staffer told me is “THE disaster response program.” It lists issues with Resource Deployment; Disaster Staffing; Operational Guidance; Planning, Training and Exercising; Interagency Coordination; and Pre-Staging Assets. “Failure to mitigate or eliminate identified risks in critical functions will challenge the Agency's ability to execute response and initial recovery operations and may disrupt life saving and life sustaining program delivery,” the slide reads.

Under the heading of “Resiliency,” the memo details the high risk of “Potentially lapsing almost $3B in grant funding to hundreds of direct grantees and thousands of subgrantees.” It attributes the issue to, among other things, “Inability of ICE to advise on Sanctuary Jurisdictions and accept role for program design.” The resiliency slide also notes the high probability of “Timely Payment of Flood Insurance Claims” being disrupted.

The memo also notes that FEMA Mission Support lacks critical Information Technology (IT) infrastructure to “build out secure and maintain services supporting local field office disaster operations.” In other words, they lack the technical manpower to quickly stand up a field office when disaster strikes.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-high-risk-disaster-relief-internal-memo

[Winehole23]

Trumpy police state ramping up



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[Winehole23]

Trumplandia playing fast and loose with the taxpayer's money

and usurping the role of Congress


DeLauro and Murray pointed to Vought's removal (https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/what-are-they-hiding-delauro-murray-demand-omb-promptly-restore-access-website) in late March of an OMB website that made federal spending allocations available to the public as evidence that he is depriving "the public of information they are entitled to in law but also undermin Congress' ability to carry out its legislative and oversight functions."

Further, they wrote, under Vought's direction the OMB has developed "inconsistent and inadequate spending plans for fiscal year 2025 submitted by departments and agencies under section 1113(a) of the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act."

"Many agencies' plans still have yet to be submitted or blatantly omit basic funding details at your agency's direction."

The bill was passed in mid-March, with departments and agencies required to submit a complete "spending, expenditure, or operating plan for fiscal year 2025" within 45 days of its passage.

"These spending plans were due to the appropriations committees on Tuesday, April 29," wrote DeLauro and Murray. "Four weeks have now come and gone, and while the committees began receiving [I]some spending plans from departments and agencies consistent with the 45-day requirement, many agencies' plans still have yet to be submitted or blatantly omit basic funding details at your agency's direction."

The lawmakers pointed to the spending plans of the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services (HHS) as evidence that the OMB and the Trump administration have "demonstrated an inability to effectively and efficiently manage public resources."

The Department of Education's plan was submitted on the deadline of April 29, but "completely omitted dozens of specific programs and activities."

The education document also said nearly $13 billion was "unallocated," though much of that funding is directed for specific purposed by law. A revised plan sent to Congress on May 23 still included $8 billion in "unallocated" funding and lacked "detail on dozens of programs now with only four months left in the fiscal year."

The spending plan submitted by HHS included the label "Hill Version" in the file name—suggesting there was another internal version that the agency headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr (https://www.commondreams.org/tag/robert-f-kennedy-jr). was not sharing with lawmakers.

The HHS document included only "high-level funding amounts" and provided no funding information for hundreds of programs.

"Instead, it lists 530 asterisks in place of details about how this administration is choosing to fund—or not fund—hundreds of programs that the American people count on every day," wrote DeLauro and Murray. "We need to see the 'real version' of HHS' spend plan, and we need to see actual funding amounts—not asterisks—for these vital programs."

The lawmakers demanded that the OMB comply with section 1113 by the end of May "and ensure that all spending plans contain sufficient information to demonstrate how each department and agency intends to prudently obligate all amounts provided by Congress."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/530-asterisks-trump-accused-of-deliberately-hiding-how-he-s-spending-taxpayer-dollars/ar-AA1FETDG

[Winehole23]

unconstitutional impoundment

everything like this that Trump does is per se impeachable

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[Winehole23]

per se evidence of Trump's lawlessness


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Trump rekt the presumption of regularity in the first six months

a mighty advantage forfeit for a much reduced staff

[Winehole23]

to 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


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]

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

[Winehole23]

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.wwfWE0o3t-1c6AmdAQTkbAHaHa?w=202&h=202&c=7&r=0&o=7&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7&rm=3

[Winehole23]

Fire

Never aim



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices, according to an email from CDC leadership to employees seen by POLITICO.

The rehiring, announced internally Wednesday, marks the largest number of employees that the agency has asked back to date.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/cdc-backtracks-on-layoffs-rehires-more-than-400-people-00400404

[Winehole23]

co-President Miller wants to ethnically purge LA



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[Winehole23]

this doesn't look like efficiency nor cost cutting

but maybe that was never the point


The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees.

The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle (https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-supreme-court-education) over cuts instituted by the Trump administration.

The department has already paid more than $21 million to idle employees over the last three months, AFGE has calculated, after they were terminated in March when the agency cut (https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/department-of-education-cuts)nearly half of its workforce (https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/department-of-education-cuts). Roughly 1,300 people were laid off and hundreds more took voluntary “buyouts.”

The firings were part of President Donald Trump (https://www.cnn.com/politics/president-donald-trump-47)’s larger plan to dismantle (https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/education-department-trump-executive-order) the Department of Education and promise to deliver efficiencies through cuts across government. Dozens of other agencies have faced cuts in recent months, with workers in those departments facing similar situations.

Under the terms of the layoffs, affected Department of Education workers were to be paid their salaries until June 9, their last day of employment.
(https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-supreme-court-education)
However, following a May federal court decision blocking White House plans to shut down the agency, the workers were reinstated and placed on “administrative leave” — meaning they are employed but not allowed to work — as lawsuits continue.

This means salary payments will now continue past Monday, while employees remain in what many describe as “administrative purgatory,” racking up further costs for the department.
According to AFGE Local 252, which analyzed over 900 salaries of affected employees, the true cost to the Department of Education is well over $7 million a month as the figure does not include employee benefits or managers’ pay.https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/education-department-idle-employees

[Winehole23]

just out of curiosity, on what authority does Trump rely on for liberating a US state and its principal cities from their elected government?

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

just out of curiosity, on what authority does Trump rely on for liberating a US state and its principal cities from their elected government?ditto Illinois and NY

[Winehole23]

(notice he left out Texas and Florida)

[Winehole23]

GAO opines once again that Trump is violating the Impoundment Control Act

Trump wants to fuck up libraries, for some reason




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[Winehole23]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/epa-trump-asbestos-ban-delay.html

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia is losing in federal court about 95% of the time from May on -- too much specious and way too much arbitrary and capricious

US agencies can't refuse to spend appropriated funds because appropriations are US laws



A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants issued by the Biden administration for low-income areas and communities of color was unlawful.

The ruling over the Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program comes as EPA is separately appealing a ruling (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/court-questions-epa-termination-climate-grants-00356918) that its termination of $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants was also unlawful. Congressional Republicans have proposed rescinding funding for both grant programs as part of their reconciliation bills.
The Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program was part of a $2.8 billion tranche of funding under the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act intended for community groups to provide block grants to address pollution that takes a disproportionately heavy toll on communities of color and low-income and rural areas.

Announced in December 2023, EPA selected 11 groups to disburse the funds to subrecipients, a setup the Biden administration argued would help the groups cut through red tape and access the money more easily.

EPA in February terminated the grants as it sought to end environmental justice work under the Trump administration’s move against diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Three of the regional grantmakers sued: the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, which worked in the mid-Atlantic region; the Minneapolis Foundation, operating in the Midwest; and Philanthropy Northwest, which funded programs in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

EPA’s termination of these grants violated the Administrative Procedure Act, ruled Judge Adam Abelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

“EPA contends that it has authority to thumb its nose at Congress and refuse to comply with its directives. That constitutes a clear example of an agency acting ‘in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right,’ and thereby violating the APA,” wrote Abelson, a Biden appointee.

Abelson rejected the argument EPA made in this and similar cases that the grant terminations are effectively contract disputes that must be heard by a special court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Instead, he ruled that EPA’s terminations of the grants because the administration opposes environmental justice efforts were unlawful precisely because Congress intended the agency to spend it on environmental justice activities.

“Congress expressly required EPA to use the appropriated funds for ‘environmental justice’ programs. By terminating Plaintiffs’ grants on the basis that current EPA leadership no longer wants to support ‘environmental justice’ programs, EPA exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act, and therefore was ‘in excess of statutory . . . authority, or limitations,’” under the Administrative Procedures Act, Abelson ruled.

Abelson also rejected EPA’s argument that the grants were terminated to prevent waste. “EPA is required to spend the funds that Congress appropriated … and to do so on specified types of projects, and to specifically ensure that such projects benefit disadvantaged communities,” he wrote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/epa-termination-environmental-justice-grants-unlawful-00411906

[Winehole23]

I hate it that the Montana and Wyoming are going to lose on this

even with all the billionaires

wasn't Zinke Trump's Interior guy in the first iteration?

(yes)


Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke (Mont.) has also spoken out against the plan.

“I have said from day one I would not support a bill that sells public lands,” he wrote Wednesday on X (https://x.com/RyanZinke/status/1935467183133348035). “I am still a no on the senate reconciliation bill that sells public lands.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lee-public-lands_n_6854744de4b0e5115b42115b

[Winehole23]

an unending series of pretextual emergencies to grab more power and hurt more American people


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2amnkge5a6hplfwyesmxqkfl/bafkreiaeoljmnnckakoknkfxbbdxwnwajksd2l2kehz2bjh4q isbr2cs2y@jpeghttps://newrepublic.com/article/197074/trump-threat-unleash-troops-cities

[Winehole23]

in Schmittian terms, Trump through his policies and actions is trying to create the emergency that will allow him to declare the state of exception



Trump and his advisers want his powers to decree emergencies—unlocking vast additional authorities—to be placed beyond judicial review entirely. Importantly, the court in the L.A. case rejected that argument. It suggested (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.4e2731d4-cbd8-4803-a59f-a1d0c6023daf/gov.uscourts.ca9.4e2731d4-cbd8-4803-a59f-a1d0c6023daf.32.0.pdf) this would effectively grant Trump the power to send in the National Guard based on a decision that is “obviously absurd or made in bad faith,” or one “based on no evidence whatsoever.”





The rub is that this is exactly what Trump and his advisers believe he should and does have the power to do. David French looked at the language (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/trump-newsom-los-angeles-national-guard.html) of Trump’s top advisers as he dispatched troops to L.A. and noticed something revealing: They almost seemed to be anticipating that this move would inflame the situation, and even appeared to be hatching, in real time, fake justifications for a more extreme military response later.

[Winehole23]

Trump's attempts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Board

keep hitting constitutional roadblocks

(Royce Lamberth is a Reagan appointee)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g6lzk7zc3ev6wzjr77cjdxr2/bafkreidlo3zcd2kebu3qufppebwxfyge77riluqzwfegytmm4 jwormpvu4@jpeg
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.48.0.pdfSenate Parliamentarian rules CFPB back in, the rescission would run afoul of Byrd rules for reconciliation, but Rs can still defund it in a regular bill

I guess we'll see if Senate Republicans still obey a parliamentarian, I wouldn't hold my breath

[Winehole23]

I hate it that the Montana and Wyoming are going to lose on this

even with all the billionaires

wasn't Zinke Trump's Interior guy in the first iteration?

(yes)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lee-public-lands_n_6854744de4b0e5115b42115bturns out two elderly Republican Senators from Idaho are clearing their throats, threatening their votes

suspense

[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.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:euynv325eix7glyek377orak/bafkreihhe7xlfzo3lavfjvzu56xtazzf2vbmqgp3fosbuddhr dauqhezlu@jpeg
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:euynv325eix7glyek377orak/bafkreihh4mc3ms5w6rhujoweimkjuunjmwiwcgmmtgmnsr6th mzie5r6ge@jpegKari Lake recently called members VOA Farsi from administrative leave, who are still scheduled to be terminated on September 1st

[Winehole23]

Trump loses in court again for arbitrary and capricious actions and violating the 1st Amendment

Trumplandia is an autocratic criminal regime -- according to US courts, over and over again


A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional.


Instead of seeking to define the limits of a government program advancing a government message when awarding new funding or creating new programs, the implementation of the Equity Termination Orders appears to be a concerted effort to penalize existing grants across the board for promoting forbidden views, as reflected in the stated aim to “combat” and “end” the “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral . . . DEI” speech. 90 Fed. Reg. at 8633. This is quintessential viewpoint discrimination and that likely violates the First Amendment.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450653/gov.uscourts.cand.450653.54.0.pdf)

[Winehole23]

Closing the National Archives to the public

What's the rationale here?

To screw researchers?



Restricted-Access Federal Facility, Effective July 7, 2025
Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public. Security officers will enforce these restrictions, and your cooperation is appreciated.https://www.archives.gov/college-park

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia is probably going to purge all the records they don't like

[Winehole23]

Those records belong to the people

[Winehole23]

these are all restricted access now



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[Winehole23]

the National Science Foundation is being kicked out of its own building, which will be given to HUD

presumably, GSA has presumably terminated the lease

generational loss for science


NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."


"The NSF will occupy 94 percent of the building and has preleased it for 15 years through the General Services Administration. The property is expected to be completed in late 2016."


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[DarrinS]

:tu

[Winehole23]

the notice has been taken down, but what do you have against the National Archives?

[Winehole23]

politicizing prosecution is per se weaponization of justice

completely expected in this authoritarian regime

President Miller is a menace to the American public


The administration’s plans, described in internal documents and by government officials, would reduce federal prosecutors’ control over investigations, shifting key decisions to a network of task forces jointly led by the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, the primary investigative arm of DHS.
Officials said the plan to bring law enforcement agencies together in the new Homeland Security Task Forces has been driven primarily by President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Stephen Miller, who is closely overseeing the project’s implementation.

Current and former officials said the proposed reorganization would make it easier for senior officials like Miller to disregard norms that have long walled off the White House from active criminal investigations.
htps://www.propublica.org/article/stephen-miller-trump-dhs-fbi-doj-war-on-drugs

[Winehole23]

Veteran officials at the DEA — who appear to have had almost no say in the creation of the new task forces— are said to be even more concerned. Already the DEA has been fighting pressure to provide access to investigative files without assurances that the safeguards of the OCDETF intelligence center will remain in place, officials said.


“DEA has not even been invited to any of the task force meetings,” one former senior official said. “It is mind-boggling. They’re just getting orders saying, ‘This is what Stephen Miller wants and you’ve got to give it to us.’”

[Winehole23]

Trump loses in lower court again for arbitrary and capricious actions and violating the 1st Amendment

Trumplandia is an autocratic criminal regime
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450653/gov.uscourts.cand.450653.54.0.pdf)

-- according to US courts, over and over again


like 9.5 times out of ten since last month

[Winehole23]

turns out two elderly Republican Senators from Idaho are clearing their throats, threatening their votes

suspenseRep. Zinke has recently been clearing his throat

to ventilate his dissatisfaction with the proposed public land sale

[Winehole23]

DOD withdraws microwave data from NOAA


Microwave data such as those from the DoD Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder are essential to hurricane forecasts, not a nice-to-have. They’re used in a variety of critical applications, including estimating hurricane intensity through AI-driven neural networks like the Deep Multispectral INtensity of TCs estimator or DMINT. In the absence of hurricane hunters, DMINT has been shown to be one of the most crucial tools in a hurricane forecaster’s arsenal for estimating storm intensity, largely because of the microwave data it utilizes.

Though other microwave data will still be available to forecasters, the DoD weather satellites comprise half of all microwave instruments, which means data availability will be sliced in half, greatly increasing the odds of missing rapid intensification episodes, underestimating intensity, or misplacing the storm and degrading forecast accuracy.https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool

[Winehole23]

Godfrey Susman gets summary judgment

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279461/gov.uscourts.dcd.279461.206.0_1.pdf

[baseline bum]

DOD withdraws microwave data from NOAA

https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool

Thankfully hurricanes mostly hit red states so they're getting what they voted for.

[Winehole23]

Thankfully hurricanes mostly hit red states so they're getting what they voted for.it hasn't sunk jn yet that that's how power works now, but over time, it will

[Winehole23]

Turning the presidency into a personalist regime that demands fealty on the reg, maybe isn't as popular as he thought.

[Winehole23]

Even when executive actions are plainly illegal, as here, judges can beg out on weak-sounding yet important jurisdictional/procedural issues


Trumplandia is objectively pro-human trafficking and anti-violence prevention; they want to see people get hurt. Women in particular.


A federal judge (https://lawandcrime.com/?s=federal+judge) in Washington, D.C., was crystal clear on how he felt about the DOJ (https://lawandcrime.com/?s=DOJ) and its Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) "shameful" and "unfair" sweeping move to slash violence prevention and anti-human trafficking grants. But unfortunately for the groups who sued the Trump administration (https://lawandcrime.com/?s=Trump+administration), the judge simultaneously acknowledged amid his lamentations that he was powerless to do anything about it.

A collection of safety-focused nonprofit grantees filed a class action suit against the DOJ and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in May (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.280817/gov.uscourts.dcd.280817.1.0.pdf), claiming that the OJP's April decision to "abruptly and summarily terminat[e] more than 370 multi-year cooperative agreements" and "$820 million in essential funding" ran afoul of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/administrative_procedure_act) (APA).

The Vera Institute of Justice, the Children and Youth Justice Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action (aka Stop AAPI Hate), FORCE Detroit, and Health Resources in Action argued that the "no notice" terminations with "no reasoned explanation" amounted to a "quintessential unlawful agency action" in violation of the APA, one they contended that U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta had the power to stop.

On Monday, Mehta disagreed in rather straightforward fashion that he had any role to play, even as he roundly criticized the administration's stated rationale for the cuts.

The judge said that because the plaintiffs' APA claims against the government "are essentially contractual in nature" those claims "belong" in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, not the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it-is-likely-to-harm-federal-judge-rips-trump-dojs-shameful-slashing-of-violence-prevention-grants-laments-theres-nothing-he-can-do/ar-AA1IcI8q

[Winehole23]

(between competing policy options, Trumplandia will generally pick the one that hurts the most people)

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

bye bye, NASA


At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.

The 2,145 employees are those in GS-13 to GS-15 positions — senior-level government ranks that are typically reserved for those with specialized skills or management responsibilities. The losses are particularly concentrated at higher levels, with 875 GS-15 employees set to leave, according to the documentshttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674

[Winehole23]

food safety is for pussies



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.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/

[koriwhat]

Thankfully hurricanes mostly hit red states so they're getting what they voted for.

You dicks talk about compassion and have zero to speak of. Yall are truly sickening.

[Blake]

food safety is for pussies


https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/

Yay capitalism!

[baseline bum]

You dicks talk about compassion and have zero to speak of. Yall are truly sickening.

What's sickening about it? The states that voted to kill FEMA are the ones who will mostly have to deal with the effects of their vote re: hurricanes. It's what they wanted isn't it?

[Blake]

It's a lack of compassion for the people that probably deserve it.

Trump tards have zero compassion for anyone not in their cult.

Tat tard just wants anyone in his screech radius to die.

[koriwhat]

What's sickening about it? The states that voted to kill FEMA are the ones who will mostly have to deal with the effects of their vote re: hurricanes. It's what they wanted isn't it?

How about FEMA during the hurricanes a yr or so ago? I don't remember such vitriol from you then bro; I wonder why that is...

[ChumpDumper]

Because FEMA worked then.

Your Republicans blocked disaster funding.

[Winehole23]

they're still blocking aid to NC and California

[baseline bum]

How about FEMA during the hurricanes a yr or so ago? I don't remember such vitriol from you then bro; I wonder why that is...

Red states hadn't voted to eliminate it at that time. Now they have and they got their wish.

[ChumpDumper]

St. Louis waits for aid as FEMA response to Missouri disasters is slowest in 15 years

From 2010 through 2024, it took an average of 16 days to approve federal disaster requests for Missouri. One declaration for Missouri this year took 49 days, another 20, and two are pending....

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/06/04/st-louis-waits-for-aid-as-fema-response-to-missouri-disasters-is-slowest-in-15-years/

kw is low information

[koriwhat]

Red states hadn't voted to eliminate it at that time. Now they have and they got their wish.

So why was FEMA's response so piss poor then and why were "whites who voted for Trump" supposed to be passed over?

I don't think you're grasping the big picture here but that's ok because you're a leftist and I don't expect you to grasp a damn thing to begin with.

[ChumpDumper]

You'll have to be specific about your "piss-poor" remark.

But you won't.

You can't.

You're a pussy.

[Blake]

Trump thinks throwing paper towels into a crowd of locals is all the aid they need

[koriwhat]

Trump thinks throwing paper towels into a crowd of locals is all the aid they need

More than brain dead Biden ever did for anyone while in office his entire fucking life.

[Blake]

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He's not stumping for Trump, is he? Surely he's not

[ChumpDumper]

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He's not stumping for Trump, is he? Surely he's not

Yep, played the whatabout card.

[koriwhat]

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He's not stumping for Trump, is he? Surely he's not

Not in the least, simply showing you the mirror you refuse to look into. I know why too.

[baseline bum]

So why was FEMA's response so piss poor then and why were "whites who voted for Trump" supposed to be passed over?

I don't think you're grasping the big picture here but that's ok because you're a leftist and I don't expect you to grasp a damn thing to begin with.

You seem to be having trouble with red states voting to end FEMA and now getting what they voted for.

[Winehole23]

You seem to be having trouble with red states voting to end FEMA and now getting what they voted for.yeah well the rest of us are watching Trump destroy dearly paid for public services

[koriwhat]

You seem to be having trouble with red states voting to end FEMA and now getting what they voted for.

Over your head or pure ignorance... pick a lane.

[Winehole23]

TACO alert

Trump reverses course on AI chip export controls after meeting with Nvidia


Nvidia will resume gross sales of its H20 AI chips to China after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump (https://dotnewstv.in/tag/trump/) within the White Home final week in an effort to persuade him to take away export controls that had hamstrung the corporate.


The Trump administration (https://dotnewstv.in/tag/trump-administration/) has assured Nvidia that licenses to export the chips shall be granted, ending months of halted shipments that had severely impacted the corporate's entry to certainly one of its largest markets, according to a statement from the firm. (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ceo-promotes-ai-in-dc-and-china/)
https://dotnewstv.in/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-can-resume-ai-chip-gross-sales-to-china-after-trump-assembly/

[Winehole23]

MAGA is anti-science, anti-knowledge, anti-civilization


“The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html

[velik_m]

A former Obama official sponsored a government K9 in memory of his dead wife. Trump stopped him going to its graduation ceremony

A former Obama administration official and Trump critic was barred from attending the graduation ceremony of a K9 officer he had sponsored - and named after his dead wife.

James Clapper, who served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 until 2017, was informed by the nonprofit dog-training group that his name had been taken off the list for the event.

The 84-year-old had sponsored the yellow Labrador, named Susan, as she completed her CIA training for “detection canines.” Once deployed, the dogs help to sniff out concealed explosives.

Clapper’s late wife, Susan, a former National Security Agency employee, had been a great animal lover and had volunteered at a local animal shelter.

According to The Atlantic, Clapper was informed that he was not permitted to attend Susan’s graduation a day before the event in late May. The order to bar him had come from an executive order signed by the president.
...



https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/james-clapper-k9-graduation-trump-b2791714.html

Focusing on the important things.

[Winehole23]

Trump is petty af.

This is one of his signatures, like Nixon

Never forgets a slight

[Winehole23]

just out of curiosity, on what authority does Trump rely on for liberating a US state and its principal cities from their elected government?never got a suitable answer to this, btw

[Winehole23]

Court rules OMB must reveal what it's doing with appropriated funds -- they've been hiding the ball

This is a basic violation of separation of powers, sadly very typical of Trump 2.0

The case was so clear that the court skipped over preliminary injunction and gave partial summary judgment on the merits


Under the United States Constitution, it is the job of Congress to decide how American taxpayer dollars are spent, including how many dollars to spend and on what priorities to spend them. Once Congress authorizes funding through an appropriations bill, and the President signs the bill into law, constitutional responsibility shifts to the Executive Branch to allocate the funds according to congressional instructions. The decisions about how to allocate funds are called “apportionments,” and they are used to ensure that the Executive Branch does not spend more or less than Congress appropriated. Defendants in this lawsuit are the Executive Branch officials responsible for apportioning congressionally approved spending.

To facilitate congressional oversight of the apportionment decisions of the Executive Branch and provide the public with insight into the decisions, in 2022, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, a statute requiring the Executive Branch to publish its apportionment decisions on a publicly available online database within two days of the decision. Thereafter, the Executive Branch created a public database (the “Public Apportionments Database”) and complied with this law until late March 2025 when, without notice, it took the database offline. Defendants argue that this public disclosure law is an unconstitutional encroachment on the Executive Branch’s decision-making authority. Relying on an extravagant and unsupported theory of presidential power, Defendants claim that their apportionment decisions—which are legally binding and result in the actual spending of public funds—cannot be publicly disclosed because they are not final decisions about how to administer the spending of public funds.

However, the law is clear: Congress has sweeping authority to require public disclosure of how the Executive Branch is apportioning the funds appropriated by Congress. Under the law, the decision of the Executive Branch must be made public within two days of the decision. And if Defendants need to make a new decision, that new decision must also be made public within two days. Plaintiffs in this lawsuit monitor these decisions, and they have the right to report on and re-publish this information. As explained in this Memorandum Opinion, there is nothing unconstitutional about Congress requiring the Executive Branch to inform the public of how it is apportioning the public’s money. Defendants are therefore required to stop violating the law!https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PD-v-OMB-Summary-Judgement-Decision.pdf

[Blake]

never got a suitable answer to this, btw

You never will

[Winehole23]

FCC chair Brendan Carr wants to drop the agency’s goal of gigabit internet for Americans, because he says that goal is unfair to companies whose broadband is slow.

I am not making this up. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

[SnakeBoy]

yeah well the rest of us are watching Trump destroy dearly paid for public services

Yes we are, it's great to see the project moving along :tu

[Winehole23]

Yes we are, it's great to see the project moving along :tuthanks for underscoring my point

:tu

[Winehole23]

it took nearly a week for Sec'y Noam to authorize FEMA search and rescue when ~160 people had just been swept away on the Guadalupe River

hell, the FEMA call center cratered the second day after the flood because Noam didn't authorize funds for it


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x3egvancop75u6czhdqyvcjg/bafkreichz3ifur2owkqc7tbyaqkmj4dpn52cnrdfry3w7cxva [email protected]/2025/07/21/p... (https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/fema-search-and-rescue-chief-resigns)

[Winehole23]

DHS literally saying that the lives of hundreds of victims and thousands of survivors aren't worth a few hundred thousand dollars, during the sort of natural catastrophe FEMA was intended to respond to

[Winehole23]

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...


We're grading broadband on a curve like its dad helped it get into Penn

[Winehole23]

Trump wants homeless, mentally ill and addicted people to be involuntarily committed

There's no more money for common goods, but beaucoup for the punishment bureaucracy -- under Trump 2.0, deprivation of rights and punishment are the solution for all social ills

The pretext is bullshit, cities have never been safer or less crime ridden

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

[Winehole23]

bonkers


"Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order."

[Winehole23]

very wasteful



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[Winehole23]

according to rumor, Trump wants TikTok to be sold to Larry Ellison so it can be turned into a MAGA propaganda app


Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/20/trump-trade-lutnick-august-1-tariffs.html) said Thursday that TikTok (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/tiktok-lawsuit-kids.html) will go dark for Americans unless China (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/eu-china-summit-xi-courts-eu-while-brussels-demands-trade-rebalance.html) agrees to give the U.S. more control over the popular short-form video app.


“We’ve made the decision. You can’t have Chinese control and have something on 100 million American phones (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/heres-how-much-a-made-in-the-usa-iphone-would-cost.html),” Lutnick told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street (https://www.cnbc.com/squawk-on-the-street/)” on Thursday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/tiktok-trump-us-china.html

[Winehole23]

Reichsminister for Communications warns the lugenpresse


CNBC: Colbert is a comedian. You keep talking about journalism and fairness in news, but we all remember Carson and Jay Leno giving Reagan the business. Where does that fit in?

FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: Frankly, the media industry across this country needs a course correction

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Trump literally installing political commissars at media outlets...with barely a peep from the free-speech crew

[Winehole23]

Trump will also have political commissars at Columbia University, to monitor admissions, curriculum and student life

[Winehole23]

god our government sucks, what petty bigoted jerks


A Venezuelan Little League baseball team will not be allowed to participate in a championship tournament because the team was denied travel visas to the U.S.

Little League International said on Friday the Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela will not participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year, despite qualifying for the tournament, after being unable to obtain visas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/trump-travel-ban-little-league-00477894

[Winehole23]

dead inside


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[koriwhat]

dead inside


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Doing the Lord's work!

[Winehole23]

Doing the Lord's work!how so?

[koriwhat]

how so?

You're a leftist, you don't believe in the Lord so no explanation needed. :tu

[ChumpDumper]

^ scared little pussy. :tu

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

Trump wants homeless, mentally ill and addicted people to be involuntarily committed

There's no more money for common goods, but beaucoup for the punishment bureaucracy -- under Trump 2.0, deprivation of rights and punishment are the solution for all social ills

The pretext is bullshit, cities have never been safer or less crime ridden

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

There's no money in homelessness. Paying contractors to "house" people is where it's at.

[Blake]

according to rumor, Trump wants TikTok to be sold to Larry Ellison so it can be turned into a MAGA propaganda app

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/tiktok-trump-us-china.html

50000% TIK TOK TARIFF UNTIL SOLD TO AMERICA

[Blake]

Lol little tatted ball of hate saying "God's work"

[Winehole23]

this is the fifth time GAO has found Trump to be in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974

every instance is impeachable. Congress has the spending power, POTUS can't alter or withhold it


According to the GAO, the Trump administration was in violation of the ICA when the NIH terminated (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/04/23/no-nih-grants-colleges-dei-programs-or-israel) more than 1,800 grants (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/07/23/feds-axed-grants-across-red-blue-states-report-finds) and, from February to June, committed almost $8 billion less to research than the government had during the same time period the year before. Trump officials argue the cuts are an effort to align federal investment with the president’s priorities.


The GAO said it shared the report with the Department of Health and Human Services, whose officials claim they have lifted the pause on applications for future grants. The department did not say anything, however, about the status of existing appropriations for this year, according to the GAO.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/06/gao-states-trump-violated-statute-withholding-nih-funds

[Winehole23]

Total ideological streamlining -- gleichschaltung

Plus explicit state ideology promulgated by justice and police forces dictating to the academy and other federal grantees/contractees

Of course, this is not really the law, it is merely an executive branch memo


*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.

*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."

*Cannot "promote anti-American values"www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/)

[Blake]

Meaning anti Trump ass kissing

[DMX7]

Rubio kind of always looks like that.

[Winehole23]

if the courts sound like a broken record, it's because Trump 2.0 is breaking the law over and over again -- in the same way


A federal judge has ruled that the government's abrupt elimination of humanities grants previously approved by Congress was "unlawful" and that a lawsuit brought by humanities groups can move forward.


In April, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), terminated (https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s1-5350994/neh-grants-cut-humanities-doge-trump) grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to thousands of groups across the country including humanities councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets.


In May, Oregon Humanities and the Federation of State Humanities Councils sued (https://www.statehumanities.org/federation-of-state-humanities-councils-and-oregon-humanities-file-lawsuit-against-neh-and-doge/) the endowment and DOGE, alleging the sudden grant cuts were an "attempted destruction, spearheaded by DOGE, of the congressionally established federal-state partnership."


In his decision (https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/humanities-order.pdf), U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon wrote that the councils were "likely to succeed on their claim that the withholding of the funds at issue in this case is unconstitutional." He added, "The United States Constitution exclusively grants the power of the purse to Congress, not the President."
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5495365/neh-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-lawsuit

[Winehole23]

the executive can't shirk reporting what it spends, especially in the context of mass executive impoundment

all that money for FEMA held up at DHS -- has it already been spent?

:lol




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[Winehole23]

A federal appeals court panel shot down (https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/2025/08/25-5266LDSN.pdf) a Trump administration bid to make secret a public database of federal spending that researchers say is crucial to ensure the administration is not flouting Congress’ power of the purse.

In an order issued Saturday evening, the three-judge D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted unanimously to give the administration until Friday to put the data back online.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

I will say in passing that it is impressive to me how little commentary there is on "both sides" about Trump's truly radical AI driven impoundment/extortion model of enforcing ideological conformity throughout the public and private sphere

[Winehole23]

..or for that matter, the willy-nilly cancellation of government leases and contracts

I can't imagine a stronger incentive to avoid doing business with the USG

[Winehole23]

Toady alert

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[ChumpDumper]

He's got a vest!

[Winehole23]

the levels of batshittery and dipshittery are beyond category

if you didn't figure it it out after RFK Jr., god bless

[Winehole23]

Dabney Friedrich, a Trump-appointed judge

Not down with the gleichschaltung, apparently


U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by Trump during his first term in 2017, granted the request on Monday.

"The defendants have likely unlawfully frozen the Endowment's funding," Friedrich, who sits on the federal court in Washington, D.C., wrote in a 15-page ruling.

NED, a private, nonprofit organization, was formally recognized in the National Endowment for Democracy Act, which was passed by Congress in 1983.

Friedrich wrote that Congress has the "prerogative" to conduct policy-related oversight of the organization and approve its funding, while NED's board of directors is responsible for ensuring it complies with the purposes laid out in the NED Act.

The executive branch, Friedrich wrote, is tasked with funding the endowment. But evidence in the case "clearly shows" that the Trump administration is "withholding funding" from NED "for impermissible policy reasons," the judge added.

Friedrich also laid out how the Trump administration's decision to halt NED's funding severely hampered the organization's function.

"It was unable to fund 226 approved grants, 124 grants recommended for approval by the Board, and 53 core institute projects. These are activities that the Endowment, in consultation with Congress, has determined are 'important and time-sensitive' to furthering 'critical election monitoring, helping democracy activists overcome authoritarian censorship, [and] maintain[ing] access to independent news and information,'—in other words, to fulfilling the Endowment's mission," Friedrich wrote. "The defendants have fallen woefully short of providing an 'annual grant' that 'enable[s]' the Endowment to fulfill its statutory purposes."

The judge also rejected the government's argument that it withheld NED's funding to "ensure" its "level of funding in the coming fiscal year."

"Before and during litigation, the defendants obstructed routine drawdown requests on money already set aside in the Endowment's Treasury account, imposed and then abandoned a novel waiver requirement, and delayed the obligation of apportioned funds," the judge wrote.

She went on to note that she did not need to rule on whether the defendants were barred from imposing an "alternative apportionment schedule in all instances."

"The Court merely finds that the defendants may not withhold appropriated funds under the present conditions: on the grounds that the Endowment's projects do not align with the Executive's priorities," Friedrich wrote.

"In sum, subjecting $95 million of the Endowment's funding to 'review for alignment with Administration priorities,' ... is precisely the kind of extra-statutory requirement prohibited by the NED Act," Friedrich wrote. "Accordingly, the Court concludes that the Endowment is likely to succeed on its claim that the defendants violated the NED Act."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-appointed-judge-deals-legal-blow-to-the-white-house/ar-AA1KkYb3

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

DHS social media comms are basically white power vaguebooking at this point


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[ChumpDumper]

DHS social media comms are basically white power vaguebooking at this point


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I guess.

I care less about their fascist signaling than their fascist actions.

[Winehole23]

He's got a vest!iirc, the enabling law requires a monthly report

but Trump's new BLS toady prefers the less timely but more accurate quarterly figures

he's there to help Trump hide the damage his hasty and ill-conceived tariff scheme is doing to the US economy, so temporizing makes sense

a statistic from Trump's government shamed the great man...that can't be allowed to happen again

[Winehole23]

god forbid reality should intrude

[Winehole23]

DHS/ICE is the incipient police state

in mid-2000s subforum I was considered a bug eyed uberliberal for even suggesting

it could lead to something really bad if we elect somebody really bad

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.

[Winehole23]

Trump purports to fire Lisa Cook

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[Winehole23]

this was just a month or two ago


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[Winehole23]

Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023


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[Winehole23]

Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023


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[Winehole23]

CDC bloodbath over RFK Jr's antivax woo-woo



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[Winehole23]

Trump is extorting US corporations

I wonder where the money goes


The exact template has varied. In the case of TikTok, the administration is seeking a fee for service. With Intel, the federal government is acquiring an equity stake. For chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, meanwhile, the demand was for a slice of future profits. And with the network television settlements, the payouts arose after personal legal disputes.

"There is no consistent principle at play, just the exercise of Trump's personal power over other people's money," said Dael Norwood, associate professor of history at the University of Delaware, who notes that the winners and losers are clear.

"All Americans — taxpayers, investors, customers, and workers — lose with crony capitalism," he said. "It increases everyone's costs, makes everyone more vulnerable to extortion (or worse), and profoundly degrades our expectations for honesty and fair dealing, society-wide."

In public, corporate executives show support to the president and appear to back such deals, but behind closed doors, some business leaders are expressing deep concern (https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5501591/trump-corporate-america-capitalism).

Yale School of Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld recently helped organize a gathering of more than 100 top CEOs, and he said there was near-unanimous consensus in surveys conducted at the event that Trump's interventions in private business are undermining America's free market principles.

"These are shakedown schemes. It's a gross violation of what capitalism is supposed to stand for. I'd even call it extortion," Sonnenfeld said. "Privately, CEOs are horrified."
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g-s1-90598/tiktok-deal-trump-oracle

[Winehole23]

Bail reform


Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023


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[Winehole23]

Trump defunds the police


Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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[Winehole23]

Republican MoCs supported these appropriations, and Vaught promised not to touch them

Then he just stole them


The White House is canceling food research funding popular with the GOP despite budget chief Russell Vought's promise to leave that money untouched.https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/trump-vought-cancel-food-research-funding-congress-00588358

[Winehole23]

Executive contempt of court orders is per se impeachable


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[Winehole23]

Trumplandia just retracted the nomination of this bigoted, incompetent loser as head of BLS


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[Winehole23]

"Academic study of oyster slime"

Apparently not a waste of time or money


Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.interestingengineering.com/science/chin... (https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinas-oyster-inspired-bone-glue)

[Winehole23]

Russ Vaught stealing more appropriations, for ideological streamlining purposes

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[Winehole23]

"subway stops in black and latino neighborhoods are illegal DEI, in violation of the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment"


Russ Vaught stealing more appropriations, for ideological streamlining purposes

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Okay I was just looking into this for a laugh basically but Phase I of the Second Avenue Subway (complete) serves exclusively majority-white neighborhoods, and Phase II (under attack by Trump) would open three more stops in Latine and Black neighborhoods.

[Winehole23]

apparently equal protection under Trump means brown and black people shouldn't receive any public goods that white folks automatically qualify for -- the outlines of herrenvolk democracy (https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4BC993B9C6475FB6B1DC611B04DF6FC3/S0010417500012469a.pdf/herrenvolk-democracy-and-egalitarianism-in-south-africa-and-the-u-s-south.pdf) were clear from the beginning, Trumplandia is eagerly filling them in

[Winehole23]

The US government doesn't belong to Donald Trump


sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charleslastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

[Winehole23]

Worse and worse. A single false tweet from a low-rent MAGA influencer is now enough to get a senior career prosecutor fired.https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/politics/justice-department-prosecutor-fired-comey-case

[Winehole23]

the Hatch Act is a dead letter, but Trump's contempt for law stands out again

US agencies are spouting an ideological line in unison


Federal employees "May not use any e-mail account or social media to distribute, send, or forward content that advocates for or against a partisan political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group." https://osc.gov/Documents/Outreach%20and%20Training/Handouts/A%20Guide%20to%20the%20Hatch%20Act%20for%20Federal %20Employees.pdf

[Winehole23]

DHS defunds the police



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[Winehole23]

“Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed that day,” Ben’Ary wrote.



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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/fired-prosecutor-trump-era-political-interference-00593426

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

transparently unconstitutional: Congress directs spending, the president makes sure the money is spent according to the say so of Congress

using illegally taxed funds as a private executive kitty is Charles I (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-I-king-of-Great-Britain-and-Ireland)stuff


The Trump administration said Tuesday it will use tariff funds to keep afloat a federal food assistance program for nearly 7 million pregnant women, new moms and young children during the government shutdown (https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/pam-bondi-hearing-senate-10-07-25).


The program, known as WIC, was expected to run out of money soon (https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F06%2F politics%2Fmillions-of-moms-and-young-kids-could-lose-wic-food-assistance-within-two-weeks-amid-shutdown&data=05%7C02%7CTami.Luhby%40cnn.com%7C1a3584abeb7b 46d0351108de05dfa0df%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68 f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638954655504477854%7CUnknown%7CTWF pbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwM CIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3 D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=BYcd2OJRM3IzCjdh0%2Fvdf4rBEwzzulAzT6vRG3uDze E%3D&reserved=0) because Congress has yet to approve a federal spending package for fiscal year 2026, which started on October 1. The National WIC Association has predicted that the program’s funding would last only a week or two into the shutdown.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/tariff-revenue-federal-food-aid

[Winehole23]

nakedly unconstitutional and impeachable

the president of the USA has no lawful basis to withhold anyone's pay


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[Winehole23]

*tactical silence from right wing poasters: Trumpy coup d'etat in progress*

[Winehole23]

(when you rule by executive proclamation, steal appropriations, trample the people, militarily invade US states and break the law as a matter of course -- catch me if you can! -- that's a coup d'etat)

[Winehole23]

More illegal RIFs at Education, IRS, Housing, CDC and NIH

Trump got the COVID booster, but he's taking public health and public safety back to the 19th century

[Winehole23]

we already knew Trump was demented, but the transition from mad king to bad king has been swift

[Winehole23]

what Trump is proposing is 100% illegal



No Money shall be drawn (http://ttps://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-7/appropriations-clause) from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.


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[Winehole23]

this is a panicky move

Trump blinked

[Winehole23]

if Trump can do this, Article I is a dead letter

the President commanding and funding the military is the opposite of US originalism



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[Winehole23]

prosecution operating outside DOJ?


ABC News reported Friday (https://abcnews.go.com/US/pam-bondi-doj-officials-caught-off-guard-tish/story?id=126401855) that Bondi was reportedly "caught off guard" by the news that Halligan indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James (https://www.rawstory.com/letitia-james) (D) on Thursday. Senior Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership hadn't been informed that Halligan was presenting evidence to a grand jury until after the fact.


During a Friday interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBE77roKWOE) with CNN (https://www.rawstory.com/tag/cnn) host Brianna Keilar, former U.S. attorney Harry Litman (an appointee of former President Bill Clinton) argued that the details over James' indictment were growing "stranger and stranger," especially with the news that Halligan had been apparently keeping Bondi "at arms' length."


"All the evidence seems very strong that it was directed or it was in order to satisfy Trump's urge for a reprisal prosecution," Litman said. "Lindsey Halligan is his private attorney. Did she just completely bypass DOJ leadership and go directly to the top? That would be very anomalous and improper."https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-halligan-2674175024/

[Winehole23]

As Litman mentioned, Halligan is a former insurance lawyer whom Trump (https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/) ended up hiring on his legal team in the case involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. That case never went to trial, as U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon (https://www.rawstory.com/tag/aileen-cannon) (who Trump appointed to a lifetime post in 2020) dismissed the charges in July of 2024 (https://www.alternet.org/cannon-clarence-thomas/). This means Halligan – who also indicted former FBI Director James Comey (https://www.alternet.org/comey-indictment-trump-doj/) in late September — has almost no courtroom experience, and is nonetheless reportedly keeping the DOJ in the dark about criminally charging Trump's political opponents.



"Anyway you slice it, something really weird happened here," Litman said. "Possibly she wants Bondi to have deniability, but we're going to have a focus here as we did in Comey about the reasons for doing this prosecution. Was it reprisal or not? And that's gonna engage leadership of DOJ, if she somehow did this on her own."


"Remember, she has zero experience. She doesn't know where the door is," he added. "That's gonna be, funky would be the legal term. Just really nuts."

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

probably no one has standing to complain under the Antideficiency Act, but Trump/Vought would clearly be breaking it if they "moved money around" to pay soldiers

any federal officer that breaks this law faces a criminal penalty, if indicted



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[Winehole23]

oh, there's a provision of the CR

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[Winehole23]

so, not illegal, and limited in amount -- $8b

[Winehole23]

might last a couple weeks

[Winehole23]

More illegal RIFs at Education, IRS, Housing, CDC and NIH

Trump got the COVID booster, but he's taking public health and public safety back to the 19th centuryFired, rehired and fired again. Then rehired.

Trump 2.0 is a clown car

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html

[Winehole23]

oh, there's a provision of the CR

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:fzrbbhfjtw3n4smiwsukrj4m/bafkreifncwqpwr4yri557mlim3a3xao7hb4idygbemvjxkux4 ldsby5ore@jpegnot sure it makes any difference at this point, but this might be bullshit too

are regular payroll payments unforeseen military requirements?



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[Winehole23]

suddenly government propaganda is obligatory

or is it?
The state’s two largest airports, one of which is the operational hub for “ICE Air” (https://azmirror.com/2025/10/07/trumps-african-deportation-operation-runs-through-a-phoenix-airport/), cited policies barring political advertising to explain why they are not playing a video of U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming the ongoing federal government shutdown on Democrats.


Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport both confirmed to the Arizona Mirror that they are not displaying a video of Noem (https://xcancel.com/RapidResponse47/status/1976668787467514316) that was promoted by the White House as being played at “every public airport in America.”


Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport plays a crucial role in the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. The airport hosts the operational hub for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “ICE Air” operations, which deport and shuttle immigrants across the country.


Airport spokesman Ryan Smith confirmed to the Mirror that the video is not currently displayed at the airport due to the Mesa Gateway Airport Authority Board (https://www.gatewayairport.com/leadership) policy, which states that “(a)dvertising that discusses the topics or subjects of politics or religion, social society, or economics is prohibited.”


“Consistent with airport policy, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport declined to post the video,” Jon Brodsky, a spokesman for the state’s largest airport, told the Mirror. Sky Harbor also has a policy that does not permit political content.


And Tucson International Airport also confirmed to the Mirror that it is not playing the video. Not only does it also ban advertisements — even from the government — that focus on political speech, but the airport does not have screens in the area DHS requested the video be played.


https://azmirror.com/briefs/arizona-airports-refuse-to-play-noem-video-blaming-democrats-for-shutdown/

[Winehole23]

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

[Winehole23]

more airports refusing to run regime propaganda

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport
Westchester County Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Akron–Canton Airport

[Winehole23]

conditioning FEMA money to states on assisting DHS is illegal, the government is violating a court order


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:euynv325eix7glyek377orak/bafkreiehye2gfxzg5qu2vbwfwzq5hffpbxi52vdet3hbz3j27 puoh5zehm@jpeghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59597/gov.uscourts.rid.59597.75.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

taxation without representation



Six months into President Donald Trump’s unprecedented gambit (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-trade-markets-impact-what-know-rcna198207) to impose sizable tariffs (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461) on imports, U.S. consumers are already shouldering as much as 55% of their costs, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts.


And with new tariffs most likely on the way, the cost burden could rise even higher, they said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/us-consumers-bearing-half-cost-tariffs-far-goldman-sachs-says-rcna237283

[Winehole23]

impoundment is 100% illegal and per se impeachable

Congress has the power of the purse, what Trump is saying is pure contempt for the law he swore to uphold, twice


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[Winehole23]

this is presidentially directed murder -- for which I hope the future holds everyone involved to account

it's illegal as hell to murder non-combatants who pose no imminent threat to the US

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[Winehole23]

illegal as hell

what is the Non-deficiency Act?

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP. 7Vmt65eyfW63xZFpYy4ckAHaEK%3Fcb%3D12%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=968e9c97c89dd0db52a8f0d4779cf7d8035fb4ff5c64cc 91e587b8e5dee50438&ipo=images

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

[Winehole23]

donation to defray the responsibilities of government is strictly verboten by law


This act prohibits federal agencies from obligating or expending federal funds in advance or in excess of an appropriation, and from accepting voluntary services.https://www.gao.gov/legal/appropriations-law/resources

[Winehole23]

The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal employees from



making or authorizing an expenditure from, or creating or authorizing an obligation under, any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available in the appropriation or fund unless authorized by law. 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(A).





involving the government in any obligation to pay money before funds have been appropriated for that purpose, unless otherwise allowed by law. 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(B).





accepting voluntary services for the United States, or employing personal services not authorized by law, except in cases of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property. 31 U.S.C. § 1342.





making obligations or expenditures in excess of an apportionment or reapportionment, or in excess of the amount permitted by agency regulations. 31 U.S.C. § 1517(a).

[Blake]

illegal as hell

what is the Non-deficiency Act?

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP. 7Vmt65eyfW63xZFpYy4ckAHaEK%3Fcb%3D12%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=968e9c97c89dd0db52a8f0d4779cf7d8035fb4ff5c64cc 91e587b8e5dee50438&ipo=images

Was he also giving away a "free" plane to use as Air Force 1?

[Winehole23]

Was he also giving away a "free" plane to use as Air Force 1?I see that as a totally separate corruption, ymmv

[Winehole23]

illegal as hell

what is the Non-deficiency Act?

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP. 7Vmt65eyfW63xZFpYy4ckAHaEK%3Fcb%3D12%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=968e9c97c89dd0db52a8f0d4779cf7d8035fb4ff5c64cc 91e587b8e5dee50438&ipo=imagesthat trump is even suggesting this impeachable all by itself

[Winehole23]

The president openly suggesting that we break the law for expediency's sake forsakes the oath of office to uphold the law

[Winehole23]

Trump's war against public health marches on

https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/cdc-behind-top-nutrition-survey-nhanes-laid-off/

[Winehole23]

Deprofessionalization and partisan streamlining of the judiciary




Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u

[koriwhat]

The president openly suggesting that we break the law for expediency's sake forsakes the oath of office to uphold the law

Got that same energy for all shit leftists in office who claim their states are sanctuaries for illegals? Those who spied on a duly elected potus?

Doubt it.

[ChumpDumper]

Got that same energy for all shit leftists in office who claim their states are sanctuaries for illegals? Those who spied on a duly elected potus?

Doubt it.You break drug laws every day.

[Winehole23]

Got that same energy for all shit leftists in office who claim their states are sanctuaries for illegals? Those who spied on a duly elected potus?

Doubt it.that was all done according to law. Trump brought it on himself tbh.

[Winehole23]

it would frankly have been irregular not to investigate Trump, he looked suspicious as hell

and the way he acted afterward made him look even more suspicious

[koriwhat]

that was all done according to law. Trump brought it on himself tbh.

Sanctuary states/cities are lawful? Same with spying on and following through with a coup on a duly elected potus? Yeah, I don't think so bro. Go gaslight one of the retards in your cult of dipshits if you want to convince someone of either.

[koriwhat]

I hope we end up hanging each and every one of those losers from both the obama and biden admins. PPV that shit!

[koriwhat]

Trump brought it on himself tbh.

That's the problem with you marxist and marxist lites, by any means necessary, right? You think a coup is alright if you "suspect" Trump brought it upon himself or if he seemed "suspicious"? Odd!

They all need to hang!

[Winehole23]

Sanctuary states/cities are lawful?.they absolutely are

do you understand federalism?

[koriwhat]

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More, please! :tu

[koriwhat]

they absolutely are

do you understand federalism?

I understand harboring illegals is illegal and breaking their oath to office/country. Obfuscate some more or post more froggats out of Portland.

[koriwhat]

do you understand federalism?

Just like the leftist that you are, you would've had this same argument for Great-Great-Grandpa WH to keep his slaves.

[Winehole23]

I understand harboring illegals is illegal and breaking their oath to office/country. Obfuscate some more or post more froggats out of Portland.you can post stuff too

btw, which laws have been broken?

[koriwhat]

you can post stuff too

btw, which laws have been broken?

I'm not looking up articles for anything bro. Harboring and/or aiding illegals is a crime, you know it, I know it, everyone knows it... Breaking your oath to office/country I'd assume is worse than a crime.

[Winehole23]

so much the worse for you if you can't back up what you say

[koriwhat]

so much the worse for you if you can't back up what you say

Do I have to back anything up? Our we in court? Do you not have google or better yet the multitude of technologies like AI at your disposal?

You're not really disputing what I said either but simply asking me to post for the sake of posting.

[ChumpDumper]

Do I have to back anything up? Our we in court? Do you not have google or better yet the multitude of technologies like AI at your disposal?

You're not really disputing what I said either but simply asking me to post for the sake of posting.We are absolutely disputing it, you whiny little bitch.

You know you're wrong. You know you're not smart. You know you're ignorant.

All you have left is rage.

And drugs.

[Winehole23]

if you say X broke the law, but you can't say what law was broken

then you don't really know what you're talking about

[Winehole23]

but

MAGA is all about creating a vibe and acting on it

so it makes sense that you say Dems are breaking the law without knowing what you're talking about

[Winehole23]

it's kind of like the brand new vogue of the US government calling the political opposition terrorists

[Winehole23]

Running the DOJ out of the White House now



Elizabeth Yusi, a longtime federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, was dismissed Friday evening, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, after she told colleagues she found “no probable cause” to indict James. Her deputy, Kristin G. Bird, was also firedhttps://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-prosecutors-fired-after-refusing-trumps-pressure-to-charge-his-political-adversary/

[Winehole23]

a Republican Senator doesn't have the gumption to call out Trump for violating the constitution

Trump 2.0 is a crime spree


Traditionally, the White House needs to send a request to reprogram federal funding to Capitol Hill, and members of the Appropriations Committee need to approve it before an administration is able to shift funds away from the programs for which they were intended.


Republican appropriators say they are not aware of the White House sending a reprogramming request to Congress before Trump ordered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (https://thehill.com/people/pete-hegseth/)to use “all available funds” to make sure that troops got their paychecks this week.


One Republican senator who requested anonymity to comment on Trump’s aggressive repurposing of federal funding said the administration didn’t explain its legal authority.

thehill.com/homenews/senate/5559673-republicans-concerned-trump-reprogramming/

[Winehole23]

When Congress won't or can't appropriate money, it's contrary to the Anti-Deficiency Act for POTUS to solicit donations to fund his priorities

Other than that, Trump's vanity project for the people's house has strong symbolic value during a government shutdown


Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/white-house-begins-demolishing-east-wing-facade-build-trumps-ballroom/

[Winehole23]

Another day, another lie revealed

[Winehole23]

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-7/appropriations-clause


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[Winehole23]

nakedly unconstitutional spending

[Winehole23]

wrecking public capacity related to cybersecurity -- what could go wrong?



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdxiuhym6fvbhxo5uhiohmyy/bafkreibextlp7wafbcvn77yjfgbad75ied4rihxs4kr3gpfnj khjlei5cu@jpeghttps://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-stakeholder-engagement-division-layoffs-critical-infrastructure-international/803433/

[Winehole23]

demanding to be paid for his crimes



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[Winehole23]

picking winners and losers based on political patronage

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[Winehole23]

Trump's bid to pay the military with R&D funds and donations falls afoul of the Antideficiency Act, the Appropriations Clause and the "purpose statute" (31 U.S.C. § 1301) at a minimum

The president or private donors making themselves paymasters of the US military is a facial conflict of interest, and totally unconstitutional


The administration’s action to pay the military during the shutdown violates the Constitution, the Antideficiency Act (https://www.gao.gov/legal/appropriations-law/resources) (which gives teeth to the Constitution), and the “purpose” statute (https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1301&num=0&edition=prelim) (31 U.S.C. § 1301), as well as appropriations law and authorization statutes.

Let’s start with the Constitution. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, is often known as the Appropriations Clause. It says:


No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.



In plain terms, the federal government can’t spend money on something unless Congress has provided money for that specific purpose. The Antideficiency Act and the purpose statute are laws that enshrine this prohibition into the U.S. Code. Under the Antideficiency Act, the federal government can’t spend money without an appropriation enacted into law and an apportionment (explained below) of the appropriated funds by the president’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Under the purpose statute, it can’t spend the money it does have for any purpose not specifically allowed in the authorization law and the appropriation made for the budget account(s) that funds that authorized purpose.

When President Trump used money authorized only for the purpose of supporting R&D to instead pay the troops, he used existing money for a purpose not allowed by that appropriation. He also spent money to pay the troops when he didn’t have an appropriation usable for that purpose.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-trump-violated-the-law-to-pay-the-military

[Winehole23]

it's kind of like the brand new vogue of the US government calling the political opposition terrorists"accusation in a mirror"

blame the target for what you're already doing

[Winehole23]

Trump is taking care to break the law at every expedient juncture, daring the law to catch him

not just in one crime but myriad

[BadMotorscooter]

Trump is taking care to break the law at every expedient juncture, daring the law to catch him

not just in one crime but myriad

democrat pussies crying as usual like blake and chump.

[ChumpDumper]

democrat pussies crying as usual like blake and chump.

Does the law matter to you at all?

Yes or no.

[BadMotorscooter]

Does the law matter to you at all?

Yes or no.


do you support illegals?....yes or no.

[Blake]

do you support illegals?....yes or no.

You support felons. Not even a question.

[BadMotorscooter]

You support felons. Not even a question.

And your party lost to him....you support a party that cant even beat a felon.....:lmao

[ChumpDumper]

do you support illegals?....yes or no.Support?

No.

Does the law matter to you at all?

Yes or no.

[Winehole23]

dismantling public capacity is dismantling civilization


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to accurately monitor for potential tsunamis in Alaska – and quickly warn at-risk communities.

The Alaska Earthquake Center for decades has collected data from seismology stations across the state and directly fed the information to NOAA’s National Tsunami Center, in Palmer. If the data indicates an earthquake that could lead to a tsunami, the Tsunami Center sends out a warning message within minutes.

Or at least that’s how it worked historically, including on Thursday morning, when an earthquake struck between Seward and Homer.

But that’s about to change. In late September, the federal agency advised the Alaska Earthquake Center that it does not have funding available for that workhttps://alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-desk/2025-10-31/noaa-cancels-longstanding-funding-for-seismic-data-collection-crucial-to-tsunami-warning-systems

[BadMotorscooter]

Support?

No.

Does the law matter to you at all?

Sure you do support illegals...you vote democrat....yes or no?

Yes or no.

[SnakeBoy]

dismantling public capacity is dismantling civilization

https://alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-desk/2025-10-31/noaa-cancels-longstanding-funding-for-seismic-data-collection-crucial-to-tsunami-warning-systems

:tu