On This Date
- 2025/01/28 16:27 UTC [L..T] Hiding in the attic in Donald Trump's America «In Chicago, terrible things are happening right now, as federal agents and police roam working-class blocks to carry out the initial raids of the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants that new President Donald Trump promised his voters in the 2024 campaign. Once again, people targeted by their country as undesirables are hiding in attics or cowering in basements, hoping to avoid a knock on the door.» ...as Trump gives lip-service to preventing anti-semitism and celebrates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
- 2025/01/28 15:09 UTC [L..T] Trump fires acting Labor Board chair in legally dubious move «President Trump fired acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Democrat Gwynne Wilcox late Monday night, she told Axios. He also fired the general counsel of the labor board, Jennifer Abruzzo, a strong advocate for unionization.»
- 2025/01/28 11:42 UTC [L..T] The President of the Working Class «When the Teamsters get crushed by the new NLRB, I’m sure O'Brien will so good as a white man.» Mostly linked here for the comments section.
- 2025/01/28 04:35 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] REINSTATING SERVICE MEMBERS DISCHARGED UNDER THE MILITARY’S COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE This order reinstates any service members who were discharged solely because they refused to be vaccinated against COVID. This requirement had already been rescinded on 2023-01-10 by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, for reasons that are unclear; this EO makes that amnesty retroactive.
- 2025/01/28 04:12 UTC [L..T] @realDonaldTrump/posts/113904028349476462 [full text] «The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!» Presumably he also wants us to think this rescue is due to his order 4 days earlier.
- 2025/01/28 03:54 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Restoring America’s Fighting Force «The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall abolish every DEI office within the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security with regard to the USCG, respectively, including any vestiges of DEI offices, such as sub-offices, programs, elements, or initiatives established to promote a race-based preferences system that subverts meritocracy, perpetuates unconstitutional discrimination, and promotes divisive concepts or gender ideology.» Increasing military readiness is a reasonable goal, but then why did he ban trans people from serving? (shorter Trump: [kicks a bunch of people out] "We need more people!")
- 2025/01/28 03:47 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness This order forces the military to observe birth-assigned gender and denies gender-affirming medical care of any kind, apparently on the theory that transgender soldiers are somehow less tough than cis soldiers. This will result in a large number of trans military personnel leaving the military, reducing readiness.
- 2025/01/28 03:27 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 2025 «We renew our resolve to end anti-Semitism and religious bigotry of all forms. We proudly reassert our strong bonds of friendship with the State of Israel.» This order also describes Israel as "our mighty friend". On the up-side, this should give pause to Holocaust denialists who would seek to ally with Trump/MAGA (if logic prevails at all, which is definitely not assumable with that mindset).
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Trump Fires NLRB Leaders Jennifer Abruzzo and Gwynne Wilcox «Donald Trump is forcing out top leaders of the US labor board, ushering in a swift reboot of workplace law enforcement while testing the limits of presidential authority.» / «Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, said she was fired via email late on Monday. Gwynne Wilcox, who was one of the labor board's two Democratic members, said she was ousted, too.»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] OPINION - Rachel Johnson: I broke the Neil Gaiman story, but I never wanted him cancelled like this «The point of me "breaking my silence" now here is to say that the blanket cancellation of Neil Gaiman was not my intention when I first heard Scarlett’s story, then the voices of four more females you hear in Master. My point was the compelling public interest in reporting her allegations, and others like hers.» [...] «What the police call IPSV – or intimate partner sexual violence – is the most underreported crime. Women don't report it [...] because they don't think they will be believed.» What's the point of "being believed" if no action is taken against the perpetrator? Did she, perhaps, just want to generate a lot of publicity for her work, without upsetting anyone's status quo?
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Over 15 Navajo Nation Members Swept Up in Trump Immigration Raids «The exact number of Diné/Navajo Nation members who have been detained is unknown, but there have been at least 15 documented cases of people being stopped at their homes or workplaces over the past week, CNN reported on Monday. These individuals were questioned or detained by federal law enforcement, who demanded they provide proof of citizenship.»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Trump’s billionaires will accelerate American decline. Dr. Richard Wolff explains how. «n the campaign trail and beyond, Donald Trump and MAGA right have repeatedly presented themselves as the true representatives of America's beleaguered working class. And yet, like the Capitol rotunda on Inauguration Day, Trump's administration is filled with billionaires, mega-millionaires, and corporate oligarchs whose staggering wealth is increasing year after year while working people struggle to get by. How are people, voters and nonvoters alike, supposed to square this seeming contradiction?»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Federal judge blocks Trump federal spending freeze after a day of chaos «A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from imposing a sweeping pause on trillions of dollars in federal spending, capping a frenetic day of disruption to government programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure low-income Americans have access to health care.»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Trump Claimed US Military 'Turned on the Water' in Fire-Scorched California. Here's What We Know ...«the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), which manages the state's water resources, posted (archived) on X shortly after Trump's Truth Social post that the military did not enter California. Rather, the department said: "The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days." According to the DWR, water supplies in Southern California remained "plentiful."»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Clearly illegal «Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the power of the purse, and Congress approved these payments. While Trump has the power to pause spending, subject to review, this isn't really about pausing. It’s about stopping. That’s called "impounding." In 1974, Congress enacted the Impoundment Control Act in response to Nixon's abuses of power. It bars a president from not spending money Congress has appropriated. Trump believes the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional» – and this may be his opening move in an attempt to get the Supreme Court to reverse their earlier ruling supporting that interpretation. Given the authoritarian-packed court Trump gave us in his previous administration, he may succeed.
- 0028/01/23 22:22 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL MUTILATION, Executive Orders issued by Donald Trump on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 «Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.» Thus begins a series of horrendous lies and harmful orders.
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