Wong Wing v. United States (1896), US Supreme Court case in which the Court found that the 5th & 6th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbid the imprisonment at hard labor without a jury trial for noncitizens convicted of illegal entry to or presence in the United States. #kilmarabregogarcia

I work for a small manufacturing business in the US & these tariffs are drowning us. American made products, but some parts have to come from China. Not available anywhere else. Our profit margins are destroyed. These tariffs aren't helping American businesses AT ALL. #tariffs #trump #smallbusiness

"What does Vladimir Putin have on you?"

This needs to be everywhere.

In response to the president's "Make America Healthy Again" executive order, if I hadn't had SSRI's at 13 I would be dead. Full stop. The federal government has no business in children's doctor's offices. #trump #47 #president2025 #executiveorder

USDA Freezes Conservation Funds, Other Programs, Leaving Some Farmers in Financial Limbo Farmers are learning their conservation payments are frozen because those contracts were funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The White House has frozen IRA dollars across the federal gov...

Some #farmers are in danger of losing their farms because they're relying on #USDA gov't funds which are now frozen. Freezes mentioned are related to conservation and climate-smart programs (surprise, surprise).

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They are dismantling what protects Americans:

Monitoring weather patterns so folks can escape hurricanes, floods, & wildfires (NOAA)

Improving medicine & health guidance (NIH, CDC)

The safety of the food we eat (USDA)

Our National Defense system (Pentagon, USAID)

THE FUCKING US TREASURY.

Farmers facing economic ruin after Trump backs away from grant 'guarantees': report President Donald Trump's across-the-board suspension of federal payments is now hitting farmers directly in the pocketbook, The Washington Post reported on Monday.The key problem is programs like the ...

www.rawstory.com/trump-usda-f...

USDA freezes farmer funding for some programs, conservation contracts The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that programs helping farmers would not be affected in the government overhaul.

The Trump Administration is hurting American farmers.

By freezing USDA conservation grants for farms and ending USAID, which buys 10-20% of the whole export market, Trump is taking direct aim at our farms.

"They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them indeed know better but as you will discover people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger in the minds of most white Americans is the loss of their identity...Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks ones sense of ones own reality. Well the black man has functioned in the white mans world as a fixed star as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of place heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations...those innocent's who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality....we with love shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change...we can make America what America must become...you know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free."

My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation by James Baldwin 1962 #jamesbaldwin
#equality #racism

Judge temporarily blocks Trump's federal government employee buyout Just hours before the deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration's deferred resignation offer, a judge has temporarily blocked the buyout offer.

abcnews.go.com/US/judge-req... "when vacant positions become politicized, as this Administration seeks to do, partisanship is elevated over ability and truth, to the detriment of agency missions and the American people."

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

Everyone should do this! #socialsecurity
#ssa #elonmusk

"The system could give the Trump administration another mechanism to attempt to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress, a push that has faced legal roadblocks." If the money has already been approved by Congress, how is this legal??

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Incredible. Thank You!

Among the USAID reports now taken offline by Elon Musk's "Doge" is the one I used on Tuesday to prove the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million — false information the White House press secretary said she got from Elon Musk's "Doge" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

This is why Congressional Democrats should be breaking down the doors of whatever facility manages payments and seizing control of the federal treasury because people are going to die as a result of the budget they passed and the money they allocated not being distributed according to the law.

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

FDR 1938

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

www.npr.org/sections/sho... if all public information is online, instead of on paper, is this the same as government sanctioned book burning?

No one voted for Elon Musk.
No one confirmed Elon Musk.

Why does he have this level of power over our government?

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

I am very much in favor of merit-based hiring and high standards for jobs with life and death implications. Which is why I oppose confirming Pete Hegseth, RFK JR, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Thursday April 11, 2019 The federal aviation administration today announced a pilot program to help prepare people with disabilities for careers in air traffic operations. A key focus for the FAA's Office of Civil Rights to identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce. The FAA will enroll up to 20 people in the Aviation Development Program. They all train for up to one year at 10 Air Route Traffic Control Centers throughout the US.

Candidates for the Aviation Development Program must meet the following criteria: United States citizenship. The qualifications for Schedule A Direct hiring authority. Meet office of personnel management ATC qualification standards. Pass air traffic skills assessment AT-SA Aptitude test

No more than 30 years of age. Pass a medical/security review. Be proficient in English. Education and/or work experience three years of progressively responsible work experience or a bachelor's degree or a combination of post secondary education and work experience that totals three years. People who are interested in applying for the pilot program should follow the instructions on the Aviation Development program website. The website also has a schedule for in person information sessions.

www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa...
Started during 45th presidency. "Candidates in this program will receive the same rigorous consideration in terms of aptitude, medical, and security qualifications." 47's dehumanizing/ demonizing tactics while addressing a tragedy is despicable. #47 #FAA #aviation #trump

Hi Ken, I'm a pilot and received this email from an airport manager about an issue that has been a growing problem for years in the Bay Area, and is now growing even worse; San Carlos airport is an airport within 10 miles of San Francisco International airport, and it will have no air traffic controllers starting on February 1st. The departure route for San Carlos directly overlaps the arrival path of San Francisco. San Carlos also hosts two of the areas largest flight schools. This means you now have a situation where inexperienced pilots will be departing into highly complex airspace, using solely their own judgement and reading of charts, so as to not collide with aircraft landing at San Francisco. This happened because the airport operates off an FAA contract for staffing controllers, rather than the FAA directly providing controllers. This system has always been tenuous. It was previously not uncommon for the contractor to only provide a single controller for all traffic; there are recordings on Youtube of the tower needing to shut down because the controller had to use the bathroom and no one else was working. Now, a new contractor has underbid the existing, and decided to remove cost of living adjustments for staff. All controllers have left, and the new contractor plans to operate the airport with no controllers (this means the pilots need to coordinate with each other instead).

system has always been tenuous. it was previously not uncommon for the contractor to only provide a single controller for all traffic; there are recordings on Youtube of the tower needing to shut down because the controller had to use the bathroom and no one else was working. Now, a new contractor has underbid the existing, and decided to remove cost of living adjustments for staff. All controllers have left, and the new contractor plans to operate the airport with no controllers (this means the pilots need to coordinate with each other instead) . I've been disturbed by the operation of contract towers ever since becoming a pilot. During the first Trump administration, I feared what privatization of all air traffic control would bring. After Trump posted about ATC being at fault in last night's mid air collision in DC, I'm concerned they will use this as a spring board to push for more private towers. I write this to you to say that this will bring more safety risks, and more people need to understand a real life example of what chaos a contract tower can create when put in such busy and complicated airspace. Thank you for your time, sorry to bother you with an email, but the accident last night has been a tipping point and I don't know how else to spread awareness.

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Medicaid didn't go offline because it was too "woke."

School lunch programs weren't put at risk because of immigrants.

Funding for cancer research wasn't on the chopping block because of trans people.

All of this (and more) was jeopardized because of one person: Donald Trump.

Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.