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What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?
February 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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NEW: Judge AliKhan transforms her administrative stay into a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration's mass funding freeze, finding that it is likely "arbitrary and capricious" and runs "roughshod over a bulwark of the
Constitution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Most notably, the Impoundment Act of 1974, 2 U.S.C. § 681 et seq., lays out specific procedures whenever the President wishes to suspend appropriations that have already been enacted. Defendants’ actions in this case potentially run roughshod over a “bulwark of the Constitution” by interfering with Congress’s appropriation of federal funds. U.S. Dep’t of the Navy, 665 F.3d at 1347. OMB ordered a nationwide freeze on pre-existing financial commitments without considering any of the specifics of the individual loans, grants, or funds. It did not indicate when that freeze would end (if it was to end at all). And it attempted to wrest the power of the purse away from the only branch of government entitled to wield it. If Defendants’ actions violated the separation of powers, that would certainly be arbitrary and capricious under the APA. At this stage, Plaintiffs have shown that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their arbitrary and capricious claim.
February 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
charlotteclymer.bsky.social Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Feb 3
Now we’re cooking!

Thank you for doing something, @schatz.bsky.social.

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February 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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jamellebouie.net
honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
davmicrot.bsky.social David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · Feb 3
What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM