Ultra Verified<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Urban_Hermit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Urban_Hermit</span></a></span> </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/complicit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complicit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> refuses to ask <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> politicians how they can justify the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/amoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amoral</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/fraudulent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraudulent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> actions taking place in their name</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> own this, and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> who refuse to ask them why they let this happen are accessories to these crimes</p>
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Ultra Verified<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Wileymiller" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Wileymiller</span></a></span> </p><p>And yet, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> refuses to challenge any <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> politician and ask them to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/justify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justify</span></a> this <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/barbarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barbarism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/child" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>child</span></a> be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty, a conservative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> appointee. “But the court doesn’t know that.”</p><p>Asserting that “it is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> to deport” a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UScitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UScitizen</span></a>, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheCrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrueltyIsThePoint</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"From the moment he was seized, it was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>," Judge Xinis said during the hearing. "If there isn't a document, a warrant, a statement of probable cause, then there is no basis to have seized him in the first place. That's how I'm looking at it," the judge said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rendition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Abduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abduction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> dispatches attys like so much legal cannon fodder, to defend the admin’s actions w/little or incorrect information about the underlying facts. It is grudging, if that, on compliance w/court orders, all but inviting judges to find the admin in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contempt</span></a> of court. Add…Trump’s out-of-court behavior, which has included assailing a respected district-court judge as a “radical left lunatic,” calling for his impeachment, & going after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BigLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigLaw</span></a> w/blatantly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> executive orders.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, takes a broader approach than a flurry of other recent lawsuits challenging the federal govt’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> policies on college campuses. Those suits, including 2 involving a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> student & a recent grad who are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a> holders, aim to stop individual deportation proceedings.</p><p>The lawsuit filed Tues challenges the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin’s overall approach to deportation, saying it is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin is appealing a judge’s order requiring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> to comply w/evidence demands from Democratic state ofcls who claim the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> is exercising <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> across the US govt.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> is arguing the lower court judge’s “unusual & highly invasive” order “raises grievous separation-of-powers concerns” by requiring a presidential adviser & the WH to turn over info about their activities….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">25-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aid</span></a> Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders</p><p>Secretary of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> said he had canceled 83% of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a>’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForeignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignPolicy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SoftPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Analysis: A Strike at the Heart of DOGE and Musk...</p><p>...With a Surprising Star Witness<br><a href="https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/analysis-a-strike-at-the-heart-of" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davidpepper.substack.com/p/ana</span><span class="invisible">lysis-a-strike-at-the-heart-of</span></a></p><p>"the surprising star witness...</p><p>Musk himself! With assists from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> & his press secretary.</p><p>It turns out, with their non-stop tweeting & trash-talking about what they’ve been doing... quotes from them turn out to be the best <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> negating the DOJ’s desperate defense of DOGE’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> actions."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system</p><p>When ideological targeting becomes cronyism<br><a href="https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">donmoynihan.substack.com/p/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-and-musk-are-building-a-new</span></a></p><p>"Trump, via <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, is engaged in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/impoundment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impoundment</span></a>, which is <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> & <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>. It also vastly weakens <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>. & yet, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> pitch to get Congress to pass appropriations is that he will ignore what they actually pass! Impoundment is a feature, not a bug, in their model for governing."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The 15-wk <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbortionBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbortionBan</span></a> had already been paused since Dec, when Reuss & other providers filed suit, which argued that the ballot measure, which adds constitutional protections for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> until about 24 wks, meant the ban was now <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a>’s AG, Kris Mayes, had agreed not to enforce the ban while litigation played out.</p><p>The short ruling, from Judge Frank Moskowitz of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaricopaCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaricopaCounty</span></a> superior court, agreed the 15-wk ban was unconstitutional & forbade AZ ofcls from enforcing it.</p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Court rules <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FISA</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Section702" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Section702</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> resident was <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a><br>'Public interest alone does not justify <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/warrantless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warrantless</span></a> querying' says judge<br>Specifically, it was decided the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> had violated a US resident's <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FourthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourthAmendment</span></a> rights against unreasonable searches by looking through a vast database of overseas communications vacuumed up under Section 702 of FISA and using that resident's private messages as evidence to successfully prosecute him. <br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/section_702_court/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/01/24/sec</span><span class="invisible">tion_702_court/</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The suit asks a federal district court in Maryland to ban the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> dept from acting on these <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>threats</span></a>, saying the letter is an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> infringement on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> & a twisting of long-standing anti-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>. It was filed by the American Federation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teachers</span></a>, its MD affiliate & the American Sociological Association, working w/Democracy Forward, which has filed several suits challenging <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin actions.</p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> sued 3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin ofcls Fri over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/access" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>access</span></a> to presidential events, citing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>.</p><p>The lawsuit was filed Fri afternoon in US Dist Court in Washington, DC.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> says its case is about an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> effort by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> to control <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> — in this case refusing to change its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a><br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-</span><span class="invisible">trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> on Thurs again raised the prospect of serving for an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> 3rd term asking a crowd at a WH event whether he should run again & receiving audience chants of “4 more years!”<br>Trump’s escalating rhetoric stoked further alarm among critics who say he is governing w/an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> playbook & fear he could attempt to seize <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> undemocratically, as he attempted to do after losing the 2020 election. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office >2X.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> again raises idea of running for an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> third term<br>
The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/king" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>king</span></a> & quoted a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictator</span></a> in suggesting that he was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immune</span></a> from following laws</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The unions had asked the court to block <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s dismantlement of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aid</span></a> agency, calling it “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a>” & saying it had “generated a global <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanitarianCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianCrisis</span></a>” & threatened American strategic interests.</p><p>“Not a single one of defendants’ actions to dismantle <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> were taken pursuant to congressional authorization,” the lawsuit said. “And pursuant to federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statute</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> is the only entity that may lawfully dismantle the agency.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>(7/?) So to recap so far: People in the US aren't rising up en masse because we are living against the backdrop of an on-going <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> that is harming our health, committed activists have been <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/traumatized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traumatized</span></a> and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/BurntOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurntOut</span></a> by their so-called "comrades" and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftist</span></a> groups uncommitted to care, and in general, people in the US tend to exist in a state of precarity to begin with. </p><p>Those are, to me, the big reasons why people aren't flooding the streets to stop <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> or <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s blatant <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> overreaches. And of course, this is what the <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a> want. They want us tired and burnt out and precarious so that we will let them have their way, and they know full well that once they consolidate power, they will keep us even more traumatized, burnt out, and precarious as they continue to oppress and exploit us for their own gain. What do we do about this?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MovementBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MovementBuilding</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonTheCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonTheCon</span></a> made a big show is signing an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> (yet another circumvention of Congress <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unconstitutional</span></a> during <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a>) banning <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> women from "women's sports."</p><p>THERE ARE NO K-12 TRANS KIDS in public school, and of the 510,000 college athletes, FEWER THAN 10 ARE TRANS. (This is a "solution" in search of a problem.) 🤬</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Sustainable2050</span></a></span> <br>"I'm old enough to remember" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> voters screaming that "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExcutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExcutiveOrders</span></a> were <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unconstitutional</span></a>" when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> was president b/c they supposedly "circumvented <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOPHypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPHypocrisy</span></a></p>
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