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Fining Trump officials won’t work

Against a defiant White House, the courts should use this powerful tool

This Washington Post column suggests fining officials if they don’t obey the court. See my comment below. I don;t think it would work.

Why would you expect the Trump administration to obey the court and pay the fine when disobedience is what got them there in the first place? Look at Trump’s personal history. Have fines changed his disgusting behavior? If the fines are paid (which I doubt). Trump and his cabinet of billionaires will provide the money if lower officials don’t have it.

More on the brain drain caused by Trump

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-05-14T19:03:27.758Z

In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development.www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t…

— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T15:59:17.968Z

good for europealso this is extremely small potatoes tbf

— Zander Furnas (@alexanderfurnas.com) 2025-05-12T20:37:28.064Z

The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes for promising work that could lead to medical treatments and cures.Now, many are looking abroad.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-05-10T00:15:04Z

I think racism is a main reason Trump won

This doesn’t get discussed much. Trump voters aren’t going to tell pollsters they are bigots. I think what’s happening is that white Christians know that they will be the minority in a few decades and they worry that minorities will treat them as badly as they have treated minorities for 400 years. (I think minorities won’t do that.

“In the 1990s, when one of his advisers mentioned a news item projecting that nonwhite people could become the majority in the United States, Mr. Trump shot back that there would be a revolution should that happen. “This isn’t going to become South Africa,’” http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u…

— City Nolan (@ndhapple.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T01:15:25.847Z

Sociologists are shocked, shocked.

— Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) 2025-05-20T03:32:06.190Z

the "multi-racial, working-class" Republican revolution has resulted in a coalition that is… 82% white

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-05-20T13:27:34.810Z

shoutout to certain of my peers who called this overblown back in 2016 slate.com/news-and-pol…

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-05-22T00:27:21.662Z

DOGE’s terrible and risky plan to replace Social Security’s COBOL programs

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!and they want to do it …… in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi…) …… so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here1/9

— Clive Thompson (@clivethompson.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T18:41:36.369Z

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

From COBOL To Crisis? DOGE’s Plan To Rewrite Social Security’s Code In Months Sparks Fears Of Payment Disruptions

IT leaders on DOGE’s bold COBOL ambitions: Pure folly

Trump’s racist “Low IQ” comments

Fresh words ✨allyfromnola.medium.com/why-low-iq-i…

— Dr. Allison Wiltz (@allyfromnola.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T16:47:13.414Z

“Trump’s rhetoric: his obsession with labeling critics, especially Black individuals, as “low-IQ.”This pattern is not just a political strategy; it’s a deliberate psychological weapon rooted in America’s painful legacy of racialized intelligence narratives.”#MomSky

— Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T21:08:35.079Z

ChatGPT Was Asked To List Everyone Trump Has Called ‘A Low-IQ Individual’ — And It’s Pretty Racist

I listened to President Trump call Rep. Jasmine Crockett a "low IQ individual" and I realized I had heard that before, so put the question to ChatGPT.

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social) 2025-05-04T21:41:08.483Z

Trump demeans three women of color members of Congress as "stupid," disses Chuck Schumer as a "Palestinian," and calls Queens "filthy, disgusting, crime ridden"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-24T14:16:40.623Z

Trump criticizes Ocasio-Cortez in demeaning terms after she floats impeachment