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The SCOTUS actions are unAmerican

The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. (2025) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at _ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It’s what Russian papers must do so let’s absorb that for what parallel it is 💁🏻‍♀️

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NOT ME!!

Who voted for this?

@fetterman.senate.gov hypocrisy created conditions for the American Revolution. Are you trying to contribute your own energy to the next war on American soil??

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

New: DHS tells police to brace for the anti-ICE movement to grow much bigger in threat bulletins last month that lists ordinary behavior, like riding a skateboard or livestreaming, as threatening to law enforcement.

By me w/ records by @propertyofthepeople.org:

another perfect Rolling Stone headline: MAN AFRAID TO RIDE SUBWAY NAMED HEAD OF NASA Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space program on an interim basis

Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Yes, much like the 9/11 terrorists were only at war with our landmarks, not America

Does _anyone_ in the Trump administration hear how deranged they sound?

Vance goes on TV this morning and says it’s not about regime change. Then his boys Trump and Lindsey pissed all over him.

ENTEN: “.. Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue.”

@cnn.com

The Overstory

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My marrow aches to see and smell and adore this in person

I had no idea!

So he raised the tariffs, paused that raise, paused that pause, then paused that pause of the pause. And no-one knows if it'll be paused again (and if such a pause will be unpaused) or what happens when (or if) the pause whose pause was paused concludes.

Elon Musk on Political Spending: ‘I Think I’ve Done Enough’ At the Qatar Economic Forum, Elon Musk and Mishal Husain talk about the Tesla backlash, AI regulation and DOGE’s success rate.

Read the transcript of the brilliant ⁦‪⁦‪Mishal Husain’s‬⁩ interview with Elon Musk & see just how annoyed he gets at very simple & basic questions & how he childishly lashes out, & also ask yourself why US media interviewers can’t do interviews like this.

May she heal may she speak may she LEAD may she remind us why we have inalienable rights

Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum.

You’ve misunderstood the purpose of furniture, she says

Trump's farm bailout has cost taxpayers more than double the auto bailout The U.S. government has been making direct payments to farmers for a long time. But the size of those payments is growing rapidly.

www.freep.com/story/money/...

Trump added $28 billion to the deficit to bail out farmers from a trade war with China that didn’t generate enough revenue.

It was a money losing policy.
This is what to get people to add up- Connect the dots. Don’t be « against farms, farmers », be against Trumps deficit-causing tariff war.

Actually…. They voted for exemptions or bailouts- Bc last time he did (too late for many) bailout packages for farmers- 2 times bigger than Obama’s bailout of the auto industry (and the auto industry paid 93% of it back)

DO NOT BE AGAINST FARMERS.
BE AGAINST BAILOUTS THAT INCREASE THE DEFICIT.

Production Managers Index was already down in March. Manufacturing is likely to contract under Trump, not expand.

Facebook whistleblower, ‘Careless People’ author says company’s arbitration demand is keeping her from speaking to Congress | CNN Business Former Facebook executive-turned-whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams wants out of a court order that’s blocking her from speaking to lawmakers about her experiences at the company and her new book, acco...

My FB account was shut down for an hour when I shared this link in FB messenger
It doesn’t shed a positive light on FACEBOOK folks
AT ALL, and her report includes documentation
Not sure that’s Y my account was locked for only the 2nd moment since I opened it in 2008/9

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

For those of us who grew up in the Reagan 80s, when the spectres of Stalin, Mao & Castro were invoked as terms of harshest condemnation by the GOP, it is almost unimaginably disorienting to find ourselves in a right-wing dystopia led by people who apparently view Stalin, Mao & Castro as role models.

Seems they should be held n contempt