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Why should anyone expect Trump to follow the law?
Fact Check: The Bill does not give FOTUS the authority to delay or cxl elections
— Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T21:57:27.477Z
You’re assuming Trump obeys laws. He has shown repeatedly that he will break or ignore the law. He’s a convicted felon. I expect Democrats to be favored to win the House in 2026. I expect Trump to try to oppose that by preventing or invalidating elections or declaring a bogus emergency.
— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T22:43:21.593Z
Another example of Trump’s willingness to violate laws http://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u…
— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-07-04T03:21:12.628Z
Reagan was a bad president
The megabill's war on the poor is built on a decades-old lie. Ronald Reagan's mythic "welfare queen" turned voters against social programs. #VoteHellNo http://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb…
— 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 (@photoframd.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T13:31:40.689Z
So back in the 1980’s when Reagan shut down mental health care, remember the buses of homeless dumped in US Cities? This reduction in funding led to the closure of many state mental hospitals and the release of patients into communities with limited resources and support systems. It was overnight.💔
— Miaganga (@miaganga.bsky.social) 2025-07-02T11:57:56.305Z
I literally argued with a with a staunch Reagan loving republican friend in 1995 who couldn't understand why Reagan wasn't a great president. Sure, he had moments, all politicians do, but he ruined the future of America.
— Auntie Jelli (@jellibeanz.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T14:25:45.420Z
Reagan hated the "proletariat’s" access to education and resented the “undesirables’” right to protest the establishment. An "educated proletariat" threatens @GOP.FREE friend link to "The Student Debt Crisis: Republican Class Warfare and Fear Politics."medium.com/armedwithrea…
— Bryan Dawson (@bryandawsonusa.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T23:10:32.880Z
Trump’s cuts to cancer studies
As a two-time cancer survivor, I am appalled by this.
Around $170 million in cuts were for studies of cancer, which remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, claiming more than 600,000 lives each year. Cuts in cancer research will cost lives by delaying the discovery of cures and better methods…www.nytimes.com/interactive/…
— RoseMarie (@rosesbloom24.bsky.social) 2025-06-30T18:52:17.736Z
Medicaid work requirements are a bad idea
Over 60 percent of people on Medicaid who don't qualify via SSI/SSDI work full-time or part-time. Republican politicians never cite this number. http://www.politico.com/live-updates…
— Julia Métraux (@juliametraux.bsky.social) 2025-06-29T18:10:58.183Z
Low enrollment, high costs, a backlog of more than 5,000 applications: Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program — the only one in the nation — offers a window into how the GOP’s nationwide proposal could impact your state 👇
— ProPublica (@propublica.org) 2025-06-28T03:15:13.628Z
#ResistanceUnitedDon’t fall for the straw man argument that the Big Ugly Bill will only throw people off Medicaid who don’t meet work requirements. Work requirements just mean more paperwork and confusion and more cost to the states. Repubs want to trip people up then blame them for falling.
— Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) 2025-06-28T22:41:10.380Z
Republicans want to add work requirements for Americans to get Medicaid. Is that a necessary step to fight "waste, fraud, and abuse" or a sneaky way of cutting the social safety net?
— NPR (@npr.org) 2025-06-26T12:28:13.632184Z
Yup. The entire point of “work reporting requirements” for Medicaid is to kick as many people off the program as possible without openly admitting that that’s the point.The process is deliberately as cumbersome as possible.
— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charlesgaba.com) 2025-07-05T19:30:27.150Z
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
— James Brandt (@jamesbrandt.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T16:33:23.557Z
More posts on the destruction of the Voice of America
Judge chastises Trump administration in Voice of America hearing
Hundreds of VOA employees set to be axed amid legal fight with Trump
Several Voice of America employees based in Washington who received termination notices last week had those notices temporarily rescinded on Friday.
— Politico (@politico.com) 2025-06-28T18:49:24.957Z
Trump administration fires more January 6th prosecutors – terrible move
They have it backwards. Trump supports the criminals and punishes the prosecutors.
Let me just get this completely straight.Pardon all the January 6 criminals.Fire all the prosecutors who secured over 1k J6 convictions?This is a criminal & corrupt administration from top to bottom. And the Supreme Court is locked in & fully corrupt.Uh huh. 💩🤢www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus…
— Steve (@stupotus.com) 2025-06-28T14:58:53.238Z
Trump’s Justice Department launches sweeping cuts targeting Jan. 6 prosecutors, FBI agents
Pam Bondi just fired more than 20 Justice Dept. employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases and Trump's handling of classified documents.The firings are part of a massive purge aimed at clearing DOJ of attorneys and staff who took part in Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump. http://www.axios.com/2025/07/12/p…
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T17:40:05.535Z
Law firms were wrong to cave in to Trump
They will regret it,
BREAKING via ABC News “Judge permanently blocks Trump executive order that targeted the law firm Susman Godfrey, describing it as "unconstitutional from beginning to end."Law firms who have fought back are now 4/4 in securing permanent injunctions. DOJ has not yet appealed any of the rulings.”
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-06-27T22:01:52.301Z
BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T17:33:21.099Z
Glad to see this—Paul Weiss deserves to go extinct after its cowardly capitulation to Trump. Every partner and associate with any integrity should flee ASAP. The firm is irredeemable. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b…
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T22:04:14.051Z
“Many clients see the deals as a weakness and, increasingly, are pulling work away from the firms that [capitulated] to the Trump administration. … Attorneys are leaving the firms that caved to Trump, hoping to get the stink of capitulation off their resumes.”
— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T22:26:18.966Z
The law firm caved. The lawyers didn’t. “The agreement now is pushing more lawyers to leave…spurred by anger that the firm capitulated to Trump instead of fighting back against an administration campaign that many in the industry believe to be unconstitutional.”www.wsj.com/us-news/law/…
— L’Etat C’est Moi (@letatcestmoi.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T22:12:08.284Z
The five big law firms that caved to Trump—Kirkland, Cadwalader, A&O Shearman, Latham, and Simpson—are trying to defend themselves against the indefensible.They chose to collaborate with tyranny.Any new clients are suspect too.They’ll be known as cowards always. http://www.law.com/nationallawj…
— L’Etat C’est Moi (@letatcestmoi.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T19:53:16.522Z
What Republican, Democratic judges said about Trump’s law firm orders reut.rs/45PXNjq
— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-06-30T15:35:08.548Z
A shameful display of cowardice by the nation's largest law firms. This article should be required reading in every law school ethics class in the country.If you are a partner at one of these firms, know that the money will never be enough to wash away the stain. http://www.reuters.com/investigatio…
— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-08-03T20:53:04.072Z
“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco saidobvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit
— Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) 2025-07-22T16:12:06.340Z
ProPublica: Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration
Chairman of the law firm that initially caved to Trump’s demands is in the Epstein files… imagine that…
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-01-31T14:45:54.729Z
Paramount should not cave in to Trump on his CBS lawsuit
Trump should lose in court.
WSJ ed board warning Paramount not to pay Trump’s bribe!“The better alternative for Paramount: Win the legal case, vindicate its CBS journalists and 1st Amend & trust FCC has enough integrity to operate as something more than the President’s personal protection racket.” http://www.wsj.com/opinion/para…
— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T03:54:34.789Z
That sentence is so insane
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T01:23:24.203Z
Sen. Wyden tells me that if Shari Redstone settles Donald Trump's "bogus case" against CBS News to push the Paramount-Skydance merger through "is illegal and offensive to anyone who values the First Amendment."More in @status.news: http://www.status.news/p/senators-w…
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-05-21T02:41:45.777Z
partisan sorting, especially once one side becomes authoritarian, is simply incompatible with a business model for news that pursues attention from as many people as possible to sell advertising. as i told Semafor, once you're writing stories "for everyone," you're writing stories for no one
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-05-20T13:19:11.268Z
Instagram post on the old Lord Baltimore theater
another post on old Baltimore movie theaters: