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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices.
The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices.
The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.
February 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.
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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
February 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.
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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
There isn’t much information given about the topic, but the issue is related to looting. Predatory journals, predatory NGOs, predatory academics. Where there is unchecked abundance, there is plenty of corruption.
Abel: I am writing in my capacity as Chair of I4R. Last year, I was contacted by a researcher that alerted me of potential scientific misconduct in a set of papers all using data from a specific NGO.🧵
February 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
There isn’t much information given about the topic, but the issue is related to looting. Predatory journals, predatory NGOs, predatory academics. Where there is unchecked abundance, there is plenty of corruption.
They are not stupid, they are determined. The stupidity is to think they are stupid. Know your enemy.
February 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
They are not stupid, they are determined. The stupidity is to think they are stupid. Know your enemy.
It should come as no surprise that the destructive cynicism of the left is countered by the destructive nihilism of the right.
I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”
February 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It should come as no surprise that the destructive cynicism of the left is countered by the destructive nihilism of the right.
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
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And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
February 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
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hey @schatz.bsky.social I want you to know I literally laughed out loud and slapped the table when I read this. go off king
February 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
hey @schatz.bsky.social I want you to know I literally laughed out loud and slapped the table when I read this. go off king
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At today’s hearing in the FBI agents’ suits to enjoin the govt from disclosing the names of agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases, Judge Cobb’s most interesting comments related to her desire to know more about the survey that DOJ made agents fill out. ...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
At today’s hearing in the FBI agents’ suits to enjoin the govt from disclosing the names of agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases, Judge Cobb’s most interesting comments related to her desire to know more about the survey that DOJ made agents fill out. ...
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Yep. Time to review all the convictions he presided over: "New York judge resigns after saying he can’t be on a jury since he thinks all defendants are guilty": apnews.com/article/new-...
New York judge resigns after saying he can't be on a jury since he thinks all defendants are guilty
An upstate New York judge has resigned after he got out of jury duty by claiming that he couldn’t be impartial because he thought everyone brought before a court is guilty.
apnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
İmam hatip...
Our kids in this school district are so cool, so poor, and so majority -non-white and they deserve well funded schools and classes taught by well supported well paid teachers, not to be made unwilling & unwitting sacrificial lambs to feed the beast of christofascism
bsky.app/profile/crim...
bsky.app/profile/crim...
"The program’s average recipient is a white female, who has never attended public school, from a family earning more than $99,000 a year.
The shift has taken a huge bite out of state funding for public school — an estimated $600 million this year."
www.indystar.com/story/news/i...
February 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
İmam hatip...
Why do these people pay taxes?
The situation in schools is not new. Recovery cannot be achieved. A system that gets worse with every election result.
No budget, no qualifications, no foresight.
Terrible.
The situation in schools is not new. Recovery cannot be achieved. A system that gets worse with every election result.
No budget, no qualifications, no foresight.
Terrible.
The story behind ProPublica’s new Private School Demographics database began with our need to understand how many “segregation academies” still operate — and where.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Why do these people pay taxes?
The situation in schools is not new. Recovery cannot be achieved. A system that gets worse with every election result.
No budget, no qualifications, no foresight.
Terrible.
The situation in schools is not new. Recovery cannot be achieved. A system that gets worse with every election result.
No budget, no qualifications, no foresight.
Terrible.
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
Hopefully,"there are still judges in Berlin."
Law prof here. If that’s true, we’re screwed.
(I don’t think it is or that we are. But we need people in both places, working in solidarity.)
(I don’t think it is or that we are. But we need people in both places, working in solidarity.)
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hopefully,"there are still judges in Berlin."
One step away from becoming a 3rd world country, just in 2 weeks. These scenes are so normal here.
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
One step away from becoming a 3rd world country, just in 2 weeks. These scenes are so normal here.
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If you want more of the history, check out The Antifascist Roots of Presidential Administration. What I call “the antifascist litmus test” asks if the state is treated as an extension of the personality of the chief executive. Fascists: Yes. Democracies: No. They argued about *this very* question.
February 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you want more of the history, check out The Antifascist Roots of Presidential Administration. What I call “the antifascist litmus test” asks if the state is treated as an extension of the personality of the chief executive. Fascists: Yes. Democracies: No. They argued about *this very* question.
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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The Trump Administration has now effectively shuttered the agency that protects workers from employers, the agency that protects workers from discrimination, and the agency that protects consumers from big corporations.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who Trump named acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has reportedly shut down all CFPB operations - enforcement, investigation, everything - "pending a review"
They're gonna let corporations fuck over consumers if they want to, dammit.
They're gonna let corporations fuck over consumers if they want to, dammit.
February 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Trump Administration has now effectively shuttered the agency that protects workers from employers, the agency that protects workers from discrimination, and the agency that protects consumers from big corporations.
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NEW: Judge Boardman’s preliminary injunction opinion blocking Trump’s EO to end birthright citizenship came in late Wednesday night. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
NEW: Judge Boardman’s preliminary injunction opinion blocking Trump’s EO to end birthright citizenship came in late Wednesday night. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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February 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM