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- 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.»
- 2025/01/30 21:36 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety «This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Obama Administration implemented a biographical questionnaire at the FAA to shift the hiring focus away from objective aptitude. During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence. But the Biden Administration egregiously rejected merit-based hiring, requiring all executive departments and agencies to implement dangerous "diversity equity and inclusion tactics, and specifically recruiting individuals with "severe intellectual" disabilities in the FAA.» Parts of this are clearly lies, while others are just misleading. It would seem to be a follow-up to comments apparently made to reporters after the crash.
- 2025/01/30 21:03 UTC [L..T] Trump Acknowledges He Doesn't Have Evidence DEI Caused D.C. Plane Crash When pressed on the issue of whether there's any evidence for a connection between the crash and DEI, Trump throws out more attacks, distractions, and lies (but no evidence).
- 2025/01/30 19:05 UTC [L..T] Trump falsely claims military restored water to California «No water supply from the Pacific Northwest connects into California's systems, contrary to claims from US President Donald Trump. Federal and state agencies outside of the White House and independent experts said Trump's claims that the military "turned on the water" for fire-ravaged Southern California are false.»
- 2025/01/30 12:59 UTC [L..T] 'Making it very difficult to arrest': Trump's Border Czar supposedly hates that migrants know their rights «Homan whined that undocumented migrants living in sanctuary cities are too "educated" about their rights, and that makes them "very difficult" to arrest. Homan's statements are another example of the Republican habit of saying the quiet part out loud, implying that the Trump administration blatantly and criminally intends to violate the rights of migrants, and would rather keep those migrants uninformed of their rights in order to facilitate unlawful deportations.»
- 2025/01/30 [L..T] Trump baselessly criticizes DEI in D.C. plane crash; 67 feared dead «President Donald Trump suggested without evidence that the crash may be linked to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the Federal Aviation Administration. He accused Democratic former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama of lowering hiring standards at the agency. Trump also announced the appointment of acting FAA administrator Chris Rocheleau.» Later that day, Trump issued an Executive Order elaborating on these talking-points.
- 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 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] 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] 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.»
- 2025/01/28 22:49 UTC [L..T] California water regulators deny Trump's claim that US military 'turned on the water' in the state «California water officials said this week there's no truth to President Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. military has entered California and "turned on the water."»
- 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 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 11:30 UTC [L..T] A new Supreme Court case would force the government to create religious public schools «The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between church and state, at least in the context of public schools.» / Each of the cases seeks to force state governments to fund an existing religious public school.
- 2025/01/28 04:35 UTC [L..T] 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] 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 [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.
- 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] 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] 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 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.»... further results
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