The Week Ahead March 16, 2025

The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Climate, energy agencies bring back probationary employees The moves were in response to recent court decisions, the administration said.

The Energy Department, along with EPA and NOAA, hired back many probationary employees who had been laid off in a round of cuts last month.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

YouTube video by Democracy Forward The Trump Admin's Lawless Action to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act

"Instead of going through that [legal] process, which of course the President would do if he were confident that these individuals shouldn't belong in the country, he has sought to circumvent it with a lawless action to invoke the Alien Enemies Act," said CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social on @msnbc.com

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

Today’s hearing in J.G.G. v. Trump shows that this is far from over, but Democracy Forward will do whatever it takes to push back against the president’s unprecedented and unlawful actions to invoke the Alien Enemies Act during peacetime.

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

Education Department’s workforce. Additionally, the order requires agencies to offer reinstatement to recently laid-off probationary employees and expands its scope to 18 agencies, up from the six mentioned in the earlier case.

A federal judge in Maryland issued an even more sweeping restraining order on Thursday, surpassing an earlier one from the same day. The order broadly prohibits the Trump administration from implementing any future “reductions in force,” such as this week’s directive to terminate half of the

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”

WOW. Planes in air must turn around.

A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

The Seattle Times "There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON's account." Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead. That was for payments he'd received in December and January. Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled. He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Can’t know specifically why this happened. But the DOGE boys were leafing thru the files and canceling some individual accounts that didn’t look right to them and there have been daily computer crashes at SSA after DOGErs canceled a number of the computer servicing/maintenance contracts

CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social was on @msnbc.com with
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social last night to highlight the ways in which litigation is working and judges of all stripes are standing up for the American people. Learn more about our work at democracyforward.org.

UPDATE: Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Trump from Removing Some Immigrants in U.S. Using Alien Enemies Act

“We will work to ensure those impacted by this dangerous move — to invoke war time powers when the nation is not at war — are protected.” said CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social bit.ly/4iSwAzD

Woman Stunned After Learning Why Her Spirit Airlines Flight Was Forced To Deplane You know things are bad when...

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U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD offic...

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They are all about erasure, but they are also the stupidest people ever put in charge.

A screenshot of an X post by Paul Graham (@paulg ) posted 13 hours ago on March 7, 2025, asking which American Republican leaders are bold enough to respond to a question posed by Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun ). Inna Sovsun's post challenges those suggesting Ukraine give up Crimea and Donbas for peace by asking them to name a specific region in their own country they would surrender if Putin started bombing their cities.

Oooh! Oooh! I know! Mar-a-Lago.

Oh they are so going to fake DOGE find some connection. Calling it now. They’re going in with a hoped for result that validates RFK’s whack job conspiracies.

NIH has paused patenting of discoveries, slowing their use in developing treatments Freeze on communications and contracts blocks NIH from sharing research materials with collaborators and patenting discoveries.

Donald Trump is blocking the development of life-saving medicine.

How does that help you?

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

Digital billboard in Boston's subway station that reads: "Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof."

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚡

Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

Trump plans to sign an executive order barring certain student loan borrowers from eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. This popular federal program forgives a portion of student debt for individuals who work in government or qualifying nonprofit jobs for ten years.

A federal judge signaled that he will require Elon Musk’s team to begin preserving any documents that could potentially be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. This move is part of an effort to overturn a

58 missiles and 194 drones fired on Ukraine last night.

That's how Russia "wants peace" while Trump keeps twisting Ukraine's arms.

Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift Corruption doesn’t get much more blatant than this.

New in PN: Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift

"It’s a kind of farm subsidy, but for billionaires making digital magic beans instead of food."

From someone who actually knows him…👇

Thoughts?!