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Resegregation posts

Looks like Trump the bigot wants resegregation

In case anyone is still skeptical that the goal is resegregation and the lowing and reinforcement of the glass ceiling. http://www.npr.org/sections/sho…

— Tom Langen (@calocitta.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T18:42:11.583Z

Every day it becomes clearer and clearer that one of the Trump administration's objectives is a great resegregation of American life. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T14:37:44.263Z

Axios and WaPo reported yesterday that the military took down webpages celebrating Native American history. It looks like the purge was much more widespread, however — TPM found many pages describing the military's racial integration have also been removed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago…

— John Light (@johnalight.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T14:33:26.739Z

The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

Trump attacks on Administrative Law Judges (ALJ)

🚨SSA ALJs decided nearly 425,000 cases in 2024. While they hear appeals from Social Security and SSI applicants and beneficiaries, ALJs are particularly important in ensuring fair access to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Trump wants to fire them.🚨www.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Peter Morley 💙 ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T15:39:52.380Z

In Feb, the Trump Admin announced it believes legal protections against firing administrative law judges (ALJs) — independent judges who serve at exec agencies — are unconstitutional & does not plan to follow existing law that protects ALJs from being fired w/o cause. 🧵www.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T16:19:05.012Z

What’s going on with GSA’s property list?

GSA posted a list of government buildings it wants to sell, then took it down and said another list would be posted later.

I am most familiar with the buildings in Woodlawn, MD. This looks like most or all of the Social Security headquarters complex there. Most of the buildings were built around 1960 but were totally renovated in the 2000s. There’s also a building in Wilkes-Barre, PA that was built as a data center in the early 1990s. What is Trump up to? Are they going to contract part or all of SSA’s work out?

This is almost every major federal building in DC, and even includes the HEATING PLANT that supplies steam and cold water to government buildings.

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T20:25:37.544Z
Feds ID local Social Security buildings for sale, then list disappears
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/federal-buildings-sale-trump-gsa-chaos/

Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website

https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-property-disposition/noncore-property-list

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 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

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

One point on Schumer’s strategy

They’ll get rid of workers, shutdown or no shutdown

I know nobody wants to hear this, but Schumer is right. http://www.slowboring.com/p/sixteen-th…

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T00:41:48.127Z

On #9The administration would have already identified what they consider non-essential employees in case the furlough took place. I think they would get rid of the employees anyway, shutdown or no shutdown. They don’t care about norms, rules or laws.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T00:07:52.417Z

Reactions to Schumer’s bad move

Trump liked it – you know that’s bad. I think he did that so that people who opposed Schu,mer would shit on him even more.

Republicans know that Democrats won’t stand up to them in future budget battles. (I was going to say negotiations but Republicans now know they don’t have to negotiate.)

Trump opponents from AOC to Kinzinger opposed Schumer’s tactic. I doubt they agree often.

Schumer has shattered Democratic unity in Congress. A large portion of the base (including me) is furious).

Trump praises Chuck Schumer “for doing the right thing”

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T14:01:54.773Z

Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.“We liked it over here,” one said.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T02:52:54.367Z

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger both agree on a strategy, it is almost objectively the Right Thing to Do.

— cuddly but deadly! (@hikeofthemenrys.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T14:04:21.140Z

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.They own what happens next.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T23:18:01.737Z

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/democr…Time for Schumer to retire. This act of submission is disgusting.Senate Dems need a new leader NOW. And the rest of you who capitulated? Time for you to retire as well. Or be primaried. We need Dems with a backbone, not bootlickers.

— (@susanknieriemen.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T15:25:01.293Z

Jeffries and Schumer on different pages

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T03:21:24.213Z

Waiting until after Democrats caved on the CR, Trump issues a late night order to eliminate 7 agencies “to the maximum extent” allowed by law, including the organization running the Voice of America, the agency that helps fund museums and libraries in all 50 states, and so on. Order in alt text:

— Steven T. Dennis (@steventdennis.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T14:18:36.053Z

Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge…

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T17:10:17.591Z