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- 2025/01/29 23:52 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism As worded, this is about cracking down on anti-semitism, but pro-Israel interests use that phrase to refer to support for Palestine (regardless of how innocuous it may be). In other words, this order creates more ways to act against anyone (especially students) who oppose Israel's Palestinian genocide.
- 2025/01/29 22:33 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling This one basically says that trans people should not be teaching school, while reinforcing the framing of transgenderness as "surgical and chemical mutilation". It clearly violates the Constitution, threatens staff with jail time for doing their jobs, and is likely to induce further stochastic violence against trans kids and adults.
- 2025/01/29 18:00 UTC [L..T] Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers... «Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.»
- 2025/01/29 11:00 UTC [L..T] Column: The population exodus from antiabortion states is underway and may be picking up steam Research published this month by economists at Georgia Tech validates long-standing predictions that strict abortion bans in many states would drive a mass exodus to more supportive states. Specifically, the paper shows «that by mid-2023, the 13 states with total bans had suffered a combined net loss of an estimated 36,000 residents per quarter, or more than 144,000 per year.»
- 2025/01/29 00:04 UTC [L..T] Judge pauses Trump's federal funding freeze as confusion and frustration spread «A federal judge has temporarily blocked an effort by the Trump administration to pause federal payments for grants and other programs, suspending a plan that caused widespread confusion on Tuesday. / The order by U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan ensures that federal agencies, states and other organizations that receive money from the federal government should continue to receive funds beyond a previously set deadline of 5 p.m. ET.»
- 2025/01/29 [L..T] A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Youth Care Ban Executive Order «A week after a flurry of executive orders, Trump is still signing orders to target the trans community. The latest, released Tuesday, tries to ban trans youth care nationwide.»
- 2025/01/29 [L..T] Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal spending, reversing course «In the memo distributed to federal agencies, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum M-25-13 "is rescinded."» «[White House spokeswoman Caroline] Leavitt acknowledged that the initial budget office memo has been suspended but said that the administration’s broader efforts to block spending it opposes remain in effect. She said the order was rescinded to make clear that the administration will comply with the federal order pausing the freeze and to end the court case.» "We're rescinding the order" plus "we're still doing the thing it says" kind of computes to "we didn't mean for anyone to find out about this; we'll pretend to stop until you're not paying attention anymore".
- 2025/01/29 [L..T] Latest Trump highlights you need to know: Funding freeze to Laken Riley Act Judge Loren AliKhan (US District Court, DC) «has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's order to suspend hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans just minutes before it was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday», ruling «that the plan should be delayed until 5pm (22:00 GMT) on Monday.» The AJ article also covers the deportations, federal employee buyouts, the Laken Riley Act, and a few other items.
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