I’m wondering when a reporter is gonna ask where that formerly tough-talking head of FEMA is hiding these days. If 
says something like that guy’s doing “a heck of a job,” they’d better ask for proof (pictures or videos of him actually doing something useful since the disaster).
When he said, “I will run right over you,” did he mean on his way to the airport or a bunker?
(excerpt) “Dozens of judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents have ruled against the administration. And they have often used tough, blunt language.” According to Adam Bonica of Stanford University, "Judges from across the ideological spectrum are ruling against administration policies at remarkable rates,” and the selection pulled together from 48 judges by the Times appears to bear that out.
NYT compiles stunning list of judges bashing Trump administration’s lawyers - Raw Story
For everyone who isn’t aware, California has already partially caved on this issue, allowing cis student athletes who failed to qualify to advance in state competitions to advance if they lost to a trans student athlete. And Governor Newsom is on record saying that he thinks allowing trans women to compete with cis women is “deeply unfair.” This is yet another example that throwing vulnerable populations under the bus in order to avoid being punished by the Trump Administration will never work. It’s an ineffective strategy. Do the right thing instead, and support vulnerable people. Learn something from Zohran Mamdani.
Nothing to hide at all, you guys.
I actually think the Rosie O’Donnell stuff is Trump trying to distract MAGA and get them to shut up about the Epstein files. It doesn’t appear to be working.
ah the old “Stop reporting on stuff! Or we’ll stop you from reporting on stuff!” threat.
oh that ‘the media’ (that is all but fox"news") would just call their bluff. but nooOo. -sigh-
I mean, what reporter wouldn’t take the risk of losing access for what must obviously be a huge and career defining sto…oh, wait, there’s no real social safety net? I see then.
I wonder if the Streisand Effect will eventually be eschewed for the Trump/Epstein Effect.
I mean, sheesh, Republicans seem to be running a lot these days. Running Man Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, this FEMA guy. It’s like the start of the New York City marathon over at the GOP.
I’ve been struggling with the fact that you do have these wealthy people supporting Trump, even as he destroys the very things they rely on for their wealth (functional universities, science research, educated immigrant workers, free trade, etc.). What I really wasn’t taking into account was the pure racism, as the recent article on Marc Andreessen made clear was in play, is actually more important than material benefits for them. They’re absolutely fine with burning everything down to maintain white supremacy. (Here the fact that the Republican party is the party of capital rather than business is also relevant - they have their money, and that the ability to form new businesses - or even maintain what exist - doesn’t matter.) Although to be fair, like Trump, they’re seemingly too stupid to realize what the consequences of what they’re trying to do are going to be to the US economy (but also, like Trump, they don’t seem to care).
The investor described a “counterattack” against universities in his messages and called for the National Science Foundation, a federal research funding agency, to receive “the bureaucratic death penalty.”
Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
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(excerpt) The Trump administration has suffered its second loss in as many months over a policy to change the rules regarding sex marker designations on U.S. passports for transgender and nonbinary people.
In late June, U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, a Joe Biden appointee, blocked the U.S. Department of State from making two significant alterations to its passport policy regarding sex markers.
In turn, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dissolve the injunction and have the judge stay her own order as the government appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
On Thursday, Kobick nixed that request.
(excerpt) [U.S. District Judge] Xinis did not much appreciate the delay and took umbrage at the thought of taking the government’s claim on any measure of faith.
“From day one you have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it, in my view,” the judge said, according to a courtroom report by Washington, D.C., CBS affiliate WUSA reporter Jordan Fischer.
The judge overseeing Abrego Garcia’s civil deportation and habeas corpus case made clear she has road-weary reasons to doubt the government’s assertions – after months of unlawful behavior.
“I’m deeply concerned that if there’s not some restraint on you that Mr. Abrego will be on another plane to another country with no notice to his lawyers,” the judge told the DOJ attorney. “Because that’s what you’ve done before.”
(excerpt) U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Joe Biden appointee, granted two temporary restraining orders: one for individuals who allege their constitutional rights have been violated by deportation dragnets in Southern California; the second for attorneys who claim they are being blocked from meeting and conferring with their clients – also in violation of the Constitution.
Jesus, these dipshits are dumb and unhinged…
I agree with Bondi but not in the way she would like “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing”. No, it should’ve been more.
They don’t see it that way. They think they are rich because they are supposed to.
