#trump-administration

#trump-administration

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Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the 'Woke Department,'

It's been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all - has your life gotten better? Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would or are you still waiting?

Staff members at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) seem to have done the impossible. Despite US President Donald Trump's administration laying off thousands of the agency's workers, delaying meetings to review research grants and terminating funding for some projects, the NIH seems like it will dole out its entire US$48-billion budget on deadline - by the end of the fiscal year on 30 September.

"Where are all the red hats - am I going to run into Steve Bannon?" asked one of my guests as we peered around the room at Butterworth's, the buzzy, much-publicized MAGA hangout up on Capitol Hill. His voice was urgent, even kind of excited, and he spoke in a loud, hissing whisper, like an eager tourist out on safari for the first time waiting for the lions to arrive.

The big picture: The decision follows the Trump administration's re-interpretation of civil rights laws and history to focus on " anti-white racism". The administration has been purging and rewriting federal web pages' stories about slavery and discrimination, and President Trump has ordered a review of Smithsonian museums. Trump issued a March executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," to fight "concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history," as he argues.

I want to be clear about this: it's not because I'm worried about being randomly attacked by teenagers. It is because of the presidential Administration that we have and their policies that I feel less safe now as a trans person than I ever have.

Since the start of the Trump II reign, and the attack on the rule of law that coincided with that, it's been clear that Biglaw wasn't going to be our savior. When d irectly confronted with unconstitutional Executive Orders targeting firms on Trump's list for retribution, more than twice as many major law firm were willing to promise the president nearly a billion dollars in pro bono payola for conservative causes or clients as were willing to fight the EOs in court.

He's one of scores of lawyers the Trump administration has named in executive actions, joining a list that includes big law firms and attorneys who worked for people Trump considers his opponents. There's no shortage of reasons why Donald Trump would hate Elias and want to shut him down: Elias has for decades represented high-profile Democrats, including the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and prominent liberal groups, including the Democratic National Committee.

"narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday. In a social media post just after he departed the White House for an event at Mount Vernon, Trump wrote he was nominating Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, writing that she "will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!"

One-time Gavin Newsom wife turned TV personality Kimberly Guilfoyle lost her engagement to Donald Trump, Jr when Don Jr found someone younger and blonder, but she's being rewarded for her silence by being named US Ambassador to Greece. On Thursday in the United States Senate, the Trump administration successfully rammed through an astonishing 48 nominations to various sub-Cabinet and ambassador positions, according to NBC News. They did so using a so-called nuclear option, bundling dozens of individual nominations together as a means of being able to pass the nominees with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote threshold.

Minutes after news broke that ABC had bowed to the Trump administration's threats and indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel, Ari Fleischer, the former Bush-administration press secretary, tried to explain why the thing that just happened was not actually what happened. "Liberals want to make this firing about 'free speech,'" he wrote on X, "Did it ever occur to them the issue might be accuracy? Kimmel told his viewers that Charlie Kirk was murdered by MAGA."

We have passed into the era of unhistory. The other day, it was announced that a famous 1863 picture of an ex-slave showing the crisscrossed scar tissue from dozens of whippings would be removed from a national park. And, as The Washington Post says, this was part of a general campaign on the part of the administration to quite literally whitewash American history as presented on our public lands.

Today is Constitution Day, marking the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the Constitution by the 39 delegates at the Constitutional Convention who had written its words. And 238 years later, we face the worst assault on the constitutional rights protecting academic freedom in all of American history. In less than nine months, Donald Trump's administration has engaged in more unconstitutional actions attacking free expression in higher education than all of the 44 previous presidents combined.

We're not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House. In order to turn the tide of political violence, yes, we have to reject those who commit political violence. Yes, we have to reject those who celebrate or promote political violence. but also, in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence.

The former federal prosecutor lit into FBI Director Kash Patel for botching the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination. Patel has faced intense criticism from inside and outside the administration for his handling of the high-profile case including for his announcement that authorities had a suspect in custody in the early hours after the shooting on Wednesday, only to later walk that back.

He's 31, he is very young. He founded this group, Turning Point USA, which is one of the premier, if not the premier, conservative political groups around, and it started to eclipse the Conservative Political Action Conference or Committee, the CPAC conference that's held every year. He grew very close to Donald Trump. He could certainly be said to be a Donald Trump confidant in good standing, someone who is incredibly supportive of the president

The cases the EEOC withdrew from included those brought on behalf of an Alabama hospitality group worker who alleged their manager said they needed to be "hidden" on the night shift before firing them outright; a transgender woman at an Illinois hog farm who said her coworker exposed his genitals to her and touched her breasts; and a transgender hotel worker in New York who said their supervisor referred to them as "transformer" and "it."