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By @alejandrabee.bsky.social
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
Well played, President Ramaphosa.
22.05.2025 10:47 — 👍 730 🔁 154 💬 34 📌 6Normalcy bias is a hell of a thing. People really think it can't happen here as it's happening here. People bargain against reality in a collective delusion to avoid acknowledging how bad things are.
23.05.2025 04:04 — 👍 547 🔁 77 💬 10 📌 6
Trump’s crackdown on Harvard just exiled 6,800 international students. Futures shattered, visas revoked, degrees in limbo—all to punish a university for defying political pressure. This isn’t policy. It’s political retribution.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
Watching Project 2025 unfolding before us, it’s hard to think this is a problem of not enough information. So many Cassandras have been crying out for two years the dangers we are now seeing, only to be ignored. How many have to feel direct pain for enough to care? I’m afraid we may find out soon.
23.05.2025 04:05 — 👍 970 🔁 299 💬 52 📌 21![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A966
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. GWYNNE A. WILCOX, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 22, 2025]
The Government has applied for a stay of orders from the District Court for the District of Columbia enjoining the President's removal of a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), respectively. The President is prohibited by statute from removing these officers except for cause, and no qualifying cause was given.
See 29
U.S. C. §153(a); 5 U. S. C. §1202(d).
The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, see Art. I1, §1, cl. 1, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents, see Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 215-218 (2020). The stay reflects our judgment that the Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power. But we do not ultimately decide in this posture whether the NLRB or MSPB falls within such a recognized exception; that question is better left for resolution after full briefing and argu-ment. The stay also reflects our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty. See Trump v. International](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihpfprz3gcbibsuvscdqwzmycut2tseklgiqiug2vq7zg3b6suh7e@jpeg)
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 24A966 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. GWYNNE A. WILCOX, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [May 22, 2025] The Government has applied for a stay of orders from the District Court for the District of Columbia enjoining the President's removal of a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), respectively. The President is prohibited by statute from removing these officers except for cause, and no qualifying cause was given. See 29 U.S. C. §153(a); 5 U. S. C. §1202(d). The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, see Art. I1, §1, cl. 1, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents, see Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 215-218 (2020). The stay reflects our judgment that the Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power. But we do not ultimately decide in this posture whether the NLRB or MSPB falls within such a recognized exception; that question is better left for resolution after full briefing and argu-ment. The stay also reflects our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty. See Trump v. International
BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent.
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
Reminder:
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Where is our humanity?
06.04.2025 21:26 — 👍 33718 🔁 11277 💬 1774 📌 1099By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.
07.04.2025 04:45 — 👍 9651 🔁 2296 💬 230 📌 120
BREAKING: 60 Minutes just exposed the lie. Over 75% of those deported to El Salvador’s mega-prison are innocent. No crimes. No charges. No justice. This is manufactured fear and state-sanctioned abuse.
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-c...
Saw Matt Nathanson in St Louis at The Pageant Thursday night. One of the most amazing experiences of my life. 🥰🎶🎸
14.03.2025 05:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Go ahead, keep complaining…
11.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 16417 🔁 1775 💬 217 📌 87The cover-up…
USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”
Fact-check: True
09.03.2025 00:36 — 👍 45113 🔁 9099 💬 381 📌 263
The next time that someone aligned with the current administration blusters about how they support free speech, post this list of words federal agencies are being told to avoid using.
Heaven forbid you use the word "injustice."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
This is all too accurate.
WAKE UP AMERICA‼️
05.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 30164 🔁 8120 💬 698 📌 290
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker: "What comes next?" #3E [1]
20.02.2025 10:13 — 👍 3807 🔁 1190 💬 103 📌 119
Dark Pence is back.
19.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 90678 🔁 20661 💬 4335 📌 1725If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
Knowledge is power…
16.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 34894 🔁 13175 💬 1007 📌 701
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…
17.02.2025 03:16 — 👍 30674 🔁 8397 💬 462 📌 278
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WATCH: “ @aoc.bsky.social is 6th from the bottom in net worth in Congress, and hasn’t traded a single stock since being in Congress.”
PSA: Anyone who won’t back a ban on congressional stock trading is unworthy of your vote, regardless of party.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGHs8gg...
