Amy Ruffo

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

The correct terms for this whole process are political purges and illegal rescission.

But Trump officials (including Elon Musk) say “efficiency” and “private sector” and “waste, fraud, abuse,” and a lot of people—including much of the press—buy it. At least enough to miss the unsubtle big picture.

Ah, he is a Christian Dominionist…

I have hit up the offices of every House GOP leader on this. Let's see if any have anything to say about Ogles' comments.

GOP leaders are:

Mike Johnson
Steve Scalise
Tom Emmer
Lisa McClain
Kevin Hern

E Pluribus Unum

Depressing the power these young men were given. Their world view is so skewed.

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

"One week into President Trump’s war on Iran, the most severe shock to energy markets since the 1970s is cascading through the world economy." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

Screenshot of an X post by Jeremy Loffredo saying Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash that liberating the Iranian people is not a goal of the war and that he would accept an undemocratic religious leader if they treated the U.S. and Israel “fairly.” Below is a CNN image of the White House with a graphic saying Trump told CNN he is not worried whether Iran becomes a democracy.

So, like Venezuela, but a lot bloodier and costlier. Great. All for what?

(I watched the clip. She’s asked about a possible draft but when she says all options on the table, she seems to be talking about whether ground troops are going in. Not that I mind her causing a firestorm with her sloppiness.)

Elon Musk * x @elonmusk X.com True iamyesyouareno • @iamyesyouareno • 2d Tucker: "Every other group in the world has a right to its own homeland except White people? What? Explain how that makes sense." White people deserve a homeland. FATI rOCKeL: SHOW 12:43 AM • 3/7/26 • 21M Views

Seems bad that these two guys who have the ear of the US president are out here promoting Richard Butler-style white nationalism.

It wasn’t accidental either.

It was precise, and it was planned.

One thing Trump has done is imbue one of his core beliefs into government practice: frivolous legal actions are powerful.

Threaten to sue someone. Actually sue them! He did this a lot as a businessman. Now DOJ does it. Does not matter if they lose - the legal hassles imposed are the punishment.

“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Last month, 22-year-old Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Before the officers could handcuff her, Maria Estrada Juarez asked if she could hug her daughter one last time.

New data reveals the U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February as the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%

The private sector lost more jobs than any month since December 2020.

Text from OpenAI article on its educational programs: "Agency does not emerge from basic AI use alone. Students must progress from simple tasks to deeper applications such as studying, building, creating, coding, and managing agents. But among college-age users, we see a widening global “capability overhang,” defined as the gap between what AI tools can do and how people actually use them. Even advanced student users still operate roughly 90% to 99% below how power users of ChatGPT are engaging with our tools. Educational institutions play a central role in closing that gap. Faculty and educators can help students harness AI’s full potential by embedding authentic AI use cases into coursework—assignments that use AI and mirror real professional work, such as analyzing a market, designing a product concept, evaluating a policy trade-off, or building a simple agent"

Shouldn't let OpenAI puff about education get to me, but its claim students need AI skills for future jobs and "agency", then letting slip it really means making students into GPT "power users", and making that an educational imperative, *and* planning to measure it ... 😦 openai.com/index/ai-edu...

From Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social

ICE Wants to Buy Warehouses for Mass Detention. Communities Are Fighting Back. People across the political spectrum are realizing these federal detention warehouses will harm their communities.

The overdue firing of Kristi Noem will have no bearing on the continued plans for unwanted warehousing of human beings across the country.
The spotlight should focus on these warehouses (de facto concentration camps) during Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing.
truthout.org/articles/ice...

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

Trump screwed them 3 times and dared to ask for a 4th.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Every sycophantic ass-kissing unqualified loser hanging around Mar-a-Lago for the last 4 years saw Trump’s presidency as an opportunity to fleece taxpayers with one corrupt scheme after another knowing they could get away with it because the boss is worse and Congress won’t care.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

When Trump fires someone like Kristi Noem, while we might rejoice, he always replaces them with someone just as bad,
or worse.
And, please know, Steven Miller is still in charge.

The PWHL has announced the games at TD Garden (BOS) and Madison Square Garden (NY) have sold out.

Ticket sales indicated this was coming anyway, but the post-Olympics boom is REAL.