Trump defiance of court orders

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: http://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w…

Frank Figliuzzi (@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social) 2026-02-15T02:25:11.617Z

Rep. Kennedy: "Do you believe your agency has a legal obligation to follow court orders?"ICE Director Lyons: "Yes."Rep. Kennedy: "You have a very strange way of showing it, with a federal judge finding that your agency is in violation of 96 orders in one month alone."

jen sometimes aph 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) 2026-02-10T17:54:57.979Z

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. http://www.politico.com/news/2026/02…

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T16:33:32.028Z

“Trump hasn’t defied a single court order” is a wild thing to say

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T04:00:48.291Z

IMPORTANT: It appears there’s a chance that the Trump-Vance White House is going to defy a federal court order to allow Pope Leo’s top ally Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Catholic clergy to enter the facility for Ash Wednesday Mass. This would be a historic confrontation between Trump and Leo.

Christopher Hale (@christopherjhale.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T15:26:24.352Z

Trump is trying to add to friendly media

Trump-friendly media is already dominant.

Huge scoop from @jonathanalter.bsky.social on the Trump administration's work behind the scenes to kill a Netflix-Warner Bros. merger and help Paramount win instead. The intended result: a Trump-friendly conglomerate that's basically state-owned media.washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/17/t…

Anne S Kim (@anne-s-kim.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T13:50:43.759Z

Trump’s bad foreign policy is alienating allies and pushing countries toward China

Eswar Prasad: Trump is scoring so many self-goals right now that China could win the geopolitical game by default ft.trib.al/lfdTYLI

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T03:35:23.360Z

First Trump pushed out career national security experts working to counter cyber threats posed by China.Now he’s shelving critical safeguards they put in place.Why is the Trump Administration so eager to do Beijing’s bidding?

Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) 2026-02-13T18:01:34.067Z

Senator @gallego.senate.gov warns that Trump’s "mob boss" foreign policy is driving our closest allies straight into the arms of China. While Trump picks fights with neighbors, Beijing is building the future of the Americas. Read the full op-ed:

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-02-13T20:52:49.086Z

Trump is moving the US backward, while China is moving forward.e360.yale.edu/digest/china…

Bryan Godbe (@bryangodbe.bsky.social) 2026-02-14T20:39:57.295Z

More posts on Trump’s bad actions on Social Security

This is terrible. He has done permanent damage to SSA’s reputation and public trust of the agency.

The training issue is very concerning.. I worked in an SSA field office for almost five years between 1976-1981. It takes a couple of years to really feel knowledgeable about the procedures.

7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T19:27:06.905Z

Social Security is a very successful, very popular program. Its financing challenges are real, but can be managed with common-sense changes. It emphatically does NOT need a radical restructuring, as several new proposals suggest.More from Wendell Primus et al:www.brookings.edu/articles/ins…

Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T15:36:04.137Z

Another ICE lie

Questionable? Outright wrong? Can’t you say they lied?

When an immigration agent shot a man in the leg last month in Minnesota, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man. It was the latest instance of the U.S. government providing an account of a shooting that later proved questionable or outright wrong.

The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-02-15T00:00:08.841981Z

More posts on Black maternal health

Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. If you wondered why, here is a clear example of the medical racism we suffer from.It is inexcusable that wealthiest nation on Earth does not guarantee equitable care for ALL women.thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/18/v…

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (@repbonnie.bsky.social) 2025-11-21T19:09:13.239Z

The Post has caved in to Trump on climate

The opinion section is mostly right-wing trash now.

Days after laying off many of the great climate change reporters I once worked with, the Washington Post published an editorial applauding Trump for ripping up the federal government’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Important column by @sammyroth.bsky.social

Stuart Leavenworth (@sleavenworth.bsky.social) 2026-02-15T16:58:23.192Z

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.

Emily Atkin (@emorwee.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T22:49:47.507Z

More on the destruction of CBS by Bari Weiss

CBS has fallen. Anyone with any journalistic integrity needs to leave before they get Bari Weiss's stink on them.www.mediaite.com/media/cbs-ev…

JonZoidberg (@jonzoidberg.xyz) 2026-02-12T15:35:04.103Z

As CBS News staff quietly brace for another round of layoffs, Status has learned key new details about the cuts executives are planning behind the scenes.Details in @status.news: http://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l…

Status (@status.news) 2026-02-12T23:42:19.737Z

In ‘CBS Evening News’ Exodus, 11 of Around 40 Staffers Take Buyouts Amid Bari Weiss Overhaul

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Ben Mullin (@benmullin.bsky.social) 2026-02-12T03:22:26.039Z

CBullShit Newswww.yahoo.com/news/article…

Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T02:28:48.219Z

prior post:

Immigrants have cut the deficit by $14.5 trillion

Immigrants Delivered $14.5 Trillion Surplus to US Economy Over Last 30 Years: Report http://www.commondreams.org/news/do-immi…

(@skybeare.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T21:41:01.020Z

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.1/3

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-02-04T19:08:08.937Z

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.Here’s the Cato Institute report:www.cato.org/blog/cato-st…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-02-04T19:08:08.939Z

Immigrants:📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free rideUndocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.2/3

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-02-04T19:08:08.938Z