April 19, 2025
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the way so many sites that left G/O media are so much better now is just the most damning indictment on that company, and it will annoy me to my grave that spanfeller wont ever face repercussions for it
Krasnov attempting to rewrite history by replacing the official government Covid website with conspiracy theories and justifications for his mismanagement of the pandemic. Pathetic.
History will show him as the worst president ever.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
D.C. Circuit order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOJ requests at D.C. Circuit:
* mandamus: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* stay: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
District court opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In re: U.S. DOGE Service, et al., Petitioners BEFORE: Pillard, Katsas, and Rao, Circuit Judges O R D E R Upon consideration of the petition for writ of mandamus and the emergency motion for a stay, which includes a request for an immediate administrative stay, it is ORDERED that the district court’s April 15, 2025, order granting in part the motion for expedited discovery be administratively stayed pending further order of the court. The purpose of this administrative stay is to allow the court time to receive full briefing on the mandamus petition and to render a decision on the petition and stay motion. The administrative stay should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that petition or motion. See D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 33 (2024). It is FURTHER ORDERED that any response to the emergency motion be filed by April 25, 2025. Any reply is due April 30, 2025. It is FURTHER ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington enter an appearance and file a response to the mandamus petition, not to exceed 7,800 words, by April 25, 2025. See Fed. R. App. P. 21(d); D.C. Cir. R. 21(a). Petitioners may file a reply, not to exceed 3,900 words, by April 30, 2025. Per Curiam
BTW, I just noticed this one, but everyone's favorite D.C. Circuit motions panel also granted an administrative stay on Friday evening blocking the limited discovery Judge Cooper authorized in CREW's lawsuit against DOGE.
Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
How did a mostly unchanging commentariat paid to reproduce takes from a fixed template of stale perspectives decade after decade fail to articulate something that didn’t fit its template?
the further you go, the less it seems like a question
"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"It was eight last week, 50 now," said Hayden Nguyen, the co-chair of SJP at ASU and a sophomore studying business policy and management. "We don't know where it's going to be next week, and we need to build a really strong movement."
www.statepress.com/article/2025...
Paying an extortionist -- where do you think it ends? Do you think he honors his side of the supposed "deal"? Really?
Meanwhile, as Big Law ill-advisedly pays the protection racket, there's a huge need for lawyers to help regular people Trump is illegally targeting:
www.cm-life.com/article/2025...
"Our parents are actively fighting for our country for us to be able to have these rights..."
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
"For now, that means the tariffs are not being collected by the U.S. government..."
🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ a "glitch" you say? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":
"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..."
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
WIRED: The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app.
Pure corruption.
“This is yet another example of a DOGE ‘report’ misunderstanding this data at best, blatantly mischaracterizing this data at worst.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Get ready.
As I was saying…
@pivotpod.bsky.social
Tonight Trump also revoked the clearances of the law firm Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion win a $787 million defamation settlement against Fox (the election wasn’t stolen; Fox lied about that)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He literally tweeted: This is a great time to BUY!
Just hours ago. And then he paused tariffs.
He’s literally committing crimes in front of the entire world. 😳
ICYMI
BREAKING: Emails obtained by Lawfare reveal that on Monday,the Department of Energy instructed employees to gather information on business dealings between government contractors and law firms caught in President Donald Trump’s cross hairs. The directive has since been rescinded.
Basically @reidhoffman.bsky.social is sane and the other guy not so much
This is fascinating and I can't wait to see where this goes. Activism as campaigning. Active primaries against everyone so we can have the best candidates. I support what Kat is doing 100%
"It doesn’t really matter where people sit. But it does matter when the White House tries to impact what questions are asked, and how stories are covered, by taking control away from an elected group." www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/m...
"This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." #Democracy
Wall Street Journal editorial board:
"Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..."
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
"We tend to assume the reason to use social media is to try to be an influencer, either you're Joe Rogan or you're a failure. But that's the wrong way to think about it," said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the University of Massachusetts' Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
