Month: March 2025

Trump disobeys a judge’s order. What happens now?

My guess is not much. Even if the judge penalizes the administration, Trump’s DOJ won’t do anything.

— Jonathan Miller (@jonathan-miller.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T21:59:30.808Z

If court orders are being ignored, we’re having that constitutional crisis that everyone’s been worried about.We’re there, folks.

— Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T21:45:26.856Z

If the White House doesn’t like a federal judge’s ruling they should appeal it, not ignore it. Absent a valid justification, the government officials responsible should be held in contempt.

— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-03-16T20:43:07.283Z

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T20:23:44.931Z

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. http://www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-…

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T18:18:34.572Z

Trump is a disaster for climate change

He’ll be gone in four years but he is doing permanent damage,

#ProudBlue #BlueEarthCensoring climate change language & removing info about the damage we are all doing to our planet, won’t make the problem go away. The ignorance & pure negligence is maddening. They are putting all of us in danger daily. insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202…

— Honest and Unfiltered (@momazonrises.bsky.social) 2025-03-09T21:42:39.048Z

#ResistanceEarth#BlueEarth#Voices4VictoryAs the planet warms and displaced people flee extreme heat and weather disasters, countries will eye areas with weak or ambiguous sovereignty that are sparsely populated and likely to become more habitable.www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state…

— Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T00:24:26.870Z

In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-03-02T13:53:28.556Z

“We used to think that climate change was something that would happen to our children. We now understand it’s something already happening to our parents.”wapo.st/4jTlv2S

— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48.bsky.social) 2025-02-09T16:07:38.149Z

How climate change is upending the American dream: "Part of the problem is that many people were coaxed into living in the very high-risk areas they call home precisely by the availability of insurance that was cheaper than it should have been." @abrahm.bsky.social http://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o…

— Ian James (@ianjames.bsky.social) 2025-02-09T04:49:43.796Z

“Soaring home prices in the United States may have peaked in the places most at risk, leaving the nation on the precipice of a generational decline,” writes Abrahm Lustgarten.

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion.nytimes.com) 2025-02-03T13:07:31.601Z

NEW: How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream http://www.propublica.org/article/clim… @abrahm.bsky.social

— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T13:03:14.852Z

No matter how many lies Trump spreads, the science is clear: The climate crisis is real and it will take global cooperation to solve it.With one stroke of his pen, Trump has set us back decades in protecting our planet for future generations.

— Congressman Bill Foster (@repbillfoster.bsky.social) 2025-01-22T17:38:59.336Z

The fires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the past week were larger and burned hotter than they would have in a world without planet-warming fossil fuel pollution, a new analysis suggests.

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-01-15T03:18:10.868Z

Trump will make it harder for the feveral government to hire employees even after he is gone

I worked for the federal government for almost 38 years. It was a stable place to work before Trump. His terrible actions will make it hard to hire people in the future. Let’s say a Democrat is elected in 2028 and wants to rebuild agencies Trump destroyed. Why would anyone want to work there knowing the next president could just get rid of you? If you were a scientist, the next president could take your work and throw it in the trash.

Here are links to two Washington Post articles which show how badly Trump is treating employees – it could happen again with a future president.

Despite judge’s rehiring orders, some fired feds might not come back

Federal workers told to report to faraway offices—with days’ notice

An entire class of junior researchers not developed for example.

— Justin Zimmerman (@jztidecat.bsky.social) 2025-03-17T12:03:31.942Z

Oklahoma wants to teach the Big Lie in schools – I predicted red states would do this

NEW: Oklahoma will expect high school students to study debunked 2020 election conspiracies this fall, embedding Trump’s lies into public school curriculum.Teachers and parents are pushing back. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2025-06-28T15:01:17.812Z

See my post below where I predicted this in 2022

https://sad209898016.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=31845&action=edit

Oklahoma taxpayers will now be paying at least $33 million to teach high-schoolers to deny election results.Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters “used deceptive tactics in order to pass new last-minute changes” to the high school curriculum. open.substack.com/pub/populari…

— Dani M. (@danielleloveswords.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T14:36:17.926Z

Another loss for Oklahoma's MAGA mini-me Ryan Walters.OK's supreme court blocked new social studies standards that included conspiracy theories about covid and about Trump's loss in 2020. And they blocked the law putting bibles in public schools.

— Adam "Ask Me About Joe Lancaster" Laats (@adamlaats.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T14:49:12.209Z

Overturning NYT v. Sullivan would be terrible

Trump opposes press freedom. He doesn’t like people challenging his lies. I hope the Supreme Court doesn’t overturn NYT v. Sullivan but I don’t have confidence in this extreme right-wing dominated bunch.

I spoke to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social about my new book and Trump’s motivation for wanting to overturn Supreme Court precedents like NYT v. Sullivan that make it harder for powerful people to successfully sue the media. http://www.status.news/p/new-york-t…

— David Enrich (@davidenrich.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T01:51:44.188Z

Enrich explains that Neil Gorsuch’s recent opinion calling for reconsideration of NYT v. Sullivan is based on a law prof’s completely fact-free theory that journalists knowingly questionable information because the law disincentivizes fact-checking.

— Alison Frankel (@alisonfrankel.bsky.social) 2025-03-08T18:17:15.382Z

The push to overturn NYT v. Sullivan is part of a broader conservative campaign – involving lawsuits, investigations and govt policy – to weaken/delegitimize the media.It’s a key strategy for a White House that often uses lies and distortions to advance its agenda. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b…

— David Enrich (@davidenrich.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T11:59:57.399Z

Among the many revelations here: In 2021, Neil Gorsuch wrote an influential opinion calling to reverse the famed NYT v. Sullivan. His arguments were largely drawn from an academic article.That article, I learned, was deeply flawed. SCOTUS later quietly corrected Gorsuch’s opinion.

— David Enrich (@davidenrich.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T11:59:01.480Z

Overturning Sullivan has at least two votes on the Supreme Court — Thomas and Alito. Maybe more. I can’t overstate how catastrophic that would be for free expression in America in an environment where political and performative defamation litigation are common.

— Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T16:08:02.085Z

Schumer should be more like McConnell

If we enter a shutdown, Congressional Republicans would weaponize their majorities to cherry-pick which parts of government to reopen.

— Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) 2025-03-14T00:33:53.417Z

Ask McConnell what he would do if he was you. He was a much more effective leader. Please take me off Democratic fundraising mailing lists.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T00:38:43.580Z

In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week – a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill – hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

— Steven T. Dennis (@steventdennis.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T12:14:37.420Z

Bad New York Times headline

Materials on the Arlington National Cemetery website highlighting the graves of Black and female service members have vanished. The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-03-15T13:45:06.844Z

They didn't lose them. That sounds like they misplaced them. This was a deliberate effort to comply with Trump's disgusting policies. I assumed the only reason they are restoring them is public outcry.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T15:58:57.136Z