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2025/02/11 07:52 UTC [L..T] Black Folks Have Been Calling for A Boycott and It's Happening on February 28th. Here's The Tea «As soon as Trump took office, he took aim at Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives in the Federal Government. Following his lead, corporations like McDonalds and Walmart started rolling back DEI initiatives in their stores. Incensed, Black folks started calling for boycotts of places like Walmart and others. However, there was no real organization to those calls. Now, it seems that white folks are on board and there is a push for a February 28 boycott of places like Amazon, Walmart and any other corporation that is following the 47th president’s lead.»
2025/02/11 07:33 UTC [L..T] Georgia Senate votes along party lines to ban state medical coverage of transgender procedures «The Georgia Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would prohibit state health insurance plans from paying for medical care related to changing gender. [/] Senate Bill 39 was adopted by Republicans on a 33-19 party-line vote. [/] The measure comes after a similar vote last week when the Senate passed a proposed ban on participation of transgender athletes in school sports.» ... «The legislation would prohibit the use of state health benefits coverage for "gender-affirming care." It would also ban state-owned health-care facilities and physicians who work for the state from providing such care. [/] The legislation defines such care to include hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery. [/] Republicans voted down an amendment offered by Democrats that would have carved out an exception for mental health care related to gender identity. Tillery said the underlying legislation would clearly allow such services, but Democrats insisted the language was unclear.»
2025/02/11 04:07 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security ...«overexpansive and unpredictable FCPA enforcement against American citizens and businesses – by our own Government – for routine business practices in other nations not only wastes limited prosecutorial resources that could be dedicated to preserving American freedoms, but actively harms American economic competitiveness and, therefore, national security.»
2025/02/11 01:15 UTC [L..T] Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials «Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the US justice department to halt prosecuting Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials to win business. [/] The order instructs the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to pause prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 until she issues revised enforcement guidance that promotes American competitiveness.»
2025/02/07 23:27 UTC [L..T] Transgender and Nonbinary People Take Trump to Court Over Passport Restrictions «Following an executive order from President Donald Trump barring people from updating the sex designation on their passports, seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department's refusal to issue passports with accurate sex designations.»
2025/02/07 22:29 UTC [L..T] North Carolina judge's ruling retains close court election result, but more legal steps are expected «In three one-page orders, Superior Court Judge William Pittman affirmed the December rulings of the State Board of Elections. Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs maintains a 734-vote lead over Republican rival Jefferson Griffin after more than 5.5 million ballots were cast and two recounts. [/] Pittman entered the orders only a few hours after listening to arguments by lawyers for Riggs, Griffin and the State Board of Elections. The hearing marked another step through a legal jumble on the outcome of the race, which is one of but a few unresolved nationwide from the Nov. 5 elections.»
2025/02/07 20:59 UTC [L..T] AG Bondi to Criminally Prosecute Private Entities for DEIA «This week a contact at the DOJ sent me a dozen memos just been issued by new US Attorney General Pam Bondi. The memos, among a range of instructions, informed DOJ employees that the Department will criminally prosecute private entities that implement Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI/DEIA) policies. This is Project 2025 in action. This is fascism, plain and simple.»
2025/02/07 19:54 UTC [L..T] Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright «granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor – a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern – even over objections from members of the department's general counsel and chief information offices [...]. The DOE chief information office is the department's IT and cybersecurity office. [/] Members of the general counsel and chief information offices "said this is a bad idea" because Farritor hadn't had a standard background investigation needed to access the department's system, one of the people told CNN. "He's not cleared to be in DOE, on our systems. None of those things have been done."»
2025/02/07 17:56 UTC [L..T] DOJ agrees to give two-days' notice if it releases names of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases «FBI employees and the Justice Department agreed to a court order Friday that bars the DOJ from releasing a list of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases – including the one against Donald Trump – publicly, to the White House or to any other government agency without two days' notice.» ... «But Thursday night, after a full day of hearings on the matter, FBI leadership said in a memo obtained by CNN that it had complied with the demand from the Justice Department to hand over the names.»
2025/02/07 17:38 UTC [L..T] Trump delays cancellation of de minimis trade exemption targeting China imports «President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday* that puts a pause on his closing of the de minimis trade exemption, a provision commonly used by Chinese e-commerce companies Temu and Shein.» (*The document is officially dated Wednesday, but may have actually been posted on Friday for some reason.)
2025/02/07 15:51 UTC [L..T] Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in U.S. and Canada «At the same time, the Trump/Vance administration is moving to fire or force out more than 20% of the agency's Chicago staff, including officials who enforce clean air and water laws and others dedicated to helping poor communities disproportionately harmed by pollution in the Midwest. [/] The disconnect highlights how Trump, his aides and fellow Republicans in Congress repeatedly attempt to gut environmental protections while promising to guarantee Americans have clean air and water.»
2025/02/07 11:57 UTC [L..T] Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair «President Trump announced his intention on Friday to bring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington more firmly under his control, saying he would dismiss several board members and install himself as chairman. [/] "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. [/] Mr. Trump said he would "immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture."» Dear Leader Envy, anyone?
2025/02/07 11:08 UTC [L..T] Lawmaker Quits DOGE Caucus Live On TV With 'Dynamite' Slam Of Elon Musk «Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.) on Thursday announced to NewsNation's Chris Cuomo that she is leaving the fledgling, efficiency-seeking DOGE Caucus in Congress – and she directly blamed billionaire Elon Musk's actions in President Donald Trump's second term for her resignation. [..] Hoyle argued it is "just not possible" for the bipartisan group of lawmakers that make up the caucus to have any success with their mission to cut fraud and public spending waste and be "good stewards of taxpayer dollars" when Musk is just "blowing things up."»
2025/02/07 00:38 UTC [L..T] FEC chair says Trump has moved to fire her «Federal Election Commission commissioner and chair Ellen Weintraub said Thursday evening President Trump has moved to fire her, but she indicated she won't be removed from office without a fight.»
2025/02/06 22:59 UTC [L..T] Congressional Democrats denied entry to EPA headquarters «A group of House and Senate Democrats said they were denied access to the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. [/] Why it matters: It is the third time this week that Democratic lawmakers were blocked from an agency that has been targeted by President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.»
2025/02/06 16:47 UTC [L..T] Trump's global policy ideas have some wondering how the president went from America First to America Everywhere «President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn't waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-off wars and nation building. [/] But just weeks into his second go-around in the White House, the Republican leader laid out plans to use American might to "take over" and reconstruct Gaza, threatened to reclaim U.S. control of the Panama Canal and floated the idea that the U.S. could buy Greenland from Denmark, which has shown no interest in parting with the island.»
2025/02/06 15:29 UTC [L..T] Let's Fight RFK's Anti-Vaccine Grift «So! Let’s talk about RFK, Jr. Yes, again. Previously, two years ago I made a video very clearly pointing out that RFK is a disgusting, anti-vaccine kook who should be driven from the public stage at all costs. I went over his DECADES of dangerous anti-science bullshit, including of course the completely debunked, ridiculous, stupid idea that vaccines cause autism. No one with two firing neurons believes that, including the people most famous for spreading it.»
2025/02/06 15:13 UTC [L..T] Trump announces task force to 'eradicate anti-Christian bias' «President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination. [/] Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular. [/] "While I'm in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares," he said. "And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God."» Won't somebody think of the overdog.
2025/02/05 16:52 UTC [L..T] Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China «Amendment. Regarding the Executive Order of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties to Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China), the following shall replace subsection (g) of section 2: [/] "(g) Duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321 is available for otherwise eligible covered articles described in subsection (a) of this section, but shall cease to be available for such articles upon notification by the Secretary of Commerce to the President that adequate systems are in place to fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue applicable pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for covered articles otherwise eligible for de minimis treatment."»
2025/02/05 16:42 UTC [L..T] Former NLRB board member sues Trump over firing «An ex-member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), whom President Trump fired last month, filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging her dismissal and asking a federal court to reinstate her to the board.» ... «The suit [...] comes as the agency is without the quorum it needs to fulfill its role enforcing the nation's labor laws – and protecting workers' rights.»
2025/02/03 20:52 UTC [L..T] U.S. attorney hints at prosecutions over 'targeting' of DOGE employees «U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. on Monday pledged his D.C. office's support to billionaire Elon Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency," vowing to "pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people." [/] Martin's letter backing Musk’s White House team, which is charged with recommending overhauls to the federal bureaucracy, was posted on Martin’s personal account on X, Musk's social media platform.»
2025/02/03 17:33 UTC [L..T] Lawmaker introduces bill to demolish workplace safety agency, slams 'bloated federal government' «Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., introduced a bill Monday that would abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) – the federal agency tasked with overseeing workplace safety.» The article includes some background on OSHA and Biggs.
2025/02/03 10:09 UTC [L..T] Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. «BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."»
2025/02/01 19:38 UTC [L..T] Orange Felon Wants To Privatize The Government «The Orange Felon finally came clean with why he has put a hiring freeze on federal employees and offered current employees a buyout. He's planning on putting the government on a fire sale and privatizing it».
2025/02/01 13:42 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Imposing Duties to Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China «I previously declared a national emergency with respect to the grave threat to the United States posed by the influx of illegal aliens and drugs into the United States in Proclamation 10886. Pursuant to the NEA, I hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in that proclamation to cover the failure of the PRC government to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept chemical precursor suppliers, money launderers, other TCOs, criminals at large, and drugs.»
2025/01/31 21:20 UTC [L..T] 'Flashing red warning light': Analyst lists many ways Trump could be blamed for D.C. crash «"If we’re recklessly assigning blame, we might just as easily point out that, before Trump took office, there hadn't been a major commercial plane crash in the United States in the previous 16 years; that, in the week before the crash, Trump sacked the head of the Transportation Security Administration, disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, failed to name an acting head of the FAA, and imposed a hiring freeze that apparently includes air traffic controllers; and that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last year celebrated his 'landmark victory' in expanding the number of flights out of National," wrote Milbank.»
2025/01/31 16:37 UTC [L..T] U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an order Friday afternoon... «BREAKING: U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an order Friday afternoon blocking Trump administration temporarily from blocking grants or loans to 22 states and DC that sued over the funding "pause" announced by the Office of Management and Budget.»
2025/01/31 13:56 UTC [L..T] What to know about the suit against FAA diversity policies critics blame for crash «Scrutiny on the Federal Aviation Administration after a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C. has brought renewed attention to a class-action lawsuit alleging that the agency committed racial discrimination in hiring policies. / The lawsuit was originally filed on Dec. 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C., federal court during the Obama administration. The complaint argues the FAA denied jobs to upward of 1,000 qualified applicants to meet diversity hiring targets, a policy critics suggest played a role in the staffing crisis in air traffic control.»
2025/01/31 13:38 UTC [L..T] Did FAA Reject Air Traffic Controllers Based on Race? What We Know «Complaints about the Federal Aviation Administration's hiring policy have resurfaced following the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport aircraft disaster, including claims that candidates were rejected based on race.»
2025/01/31 [L..T] C.A. No. 25-cv-39-JJM-PAS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER «Consistent with the findings above, and to keep the status quo, the Court hereby ORDERS that a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER is entered in this case until this Court rules on the States' forthcoming motion for a preliminary injunction, which the States shall file expeditiously. During the pendency of the Temporary Restraining Order, Defendants shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate Defendants' compliance with awards and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the States, and Defendants shall not impede the States' access to such awards and obligations, except on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.»

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