BREAKING: A federal judge just ruled that 14 states can move forward with their lawsuit against Elon Musk and DOGE, accusing them of illegally accessing federal data and firing employees.
Cantankerous vegan, ska fan, anti-disenfranchisement, US Navy spouse. [Note: there will be a lot of political re-posts. Seriously.]
BREAKING: A federal judge just ruled that 14 states can move forward with their lawsuit against Elon Musk and DOGE, accusing them of illegally accessing federal data and firing employees.
It’s highly unusual for judges to use even one exclamation point in their rulings. Leon used a total of 26.
https://trib.al/ZpaHioH
Apple’s API Review team is hiring.
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200605934/api-review-design-engineer
The job description says “you’ll have a unique opportunity to help shape the technologies that inspire developers” and that’s no exaggeration.
#ChrisHedges, with the most honest and spot-on 40 seconds of truth you'll ever hear about #Trump. 🎯🎯🎯👇
LexisNexis leaked social security numbers and other personal data for over 364,000 people https://www.theverge.com/news/675702/lexisnexis-data-broker-breach-social-security-numbers
The #SaveVOA campaign stands in solidarity with our NPR colleagues as they launch their lawsuit, which raises identical issues as ours: The administration is acting on viewpoint-based discrimination and usurping Congress' power to direct how federal money is spent.
Casar: "The only way to push back on this is for Democrats to be really clear that if we win back a majority, we aren't just going to let bygones be bygones. We have to go and investigate who paid Trump, who paid Musk, who made money off of these pardons because that is really serious."
VOA plaintiffs, in the two cases against Kari Lake/USAGM, filed this morning a motion with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite, before the end of July, the appeals process amid expected imminent firings of nearly all of our workforce.
This is not a #US presidency, it's a mobster running a criminal enterprise out of the White House. In #American history, we've never seen a criminal like #Trump:
The corrupt, serial lying conman pardoned tax cheat Paul Walczak after his mother bribed Trump with $1 million at a #MarALago dinner.
Walczak stole from his employees to fund an extravagant lifestyle — and was pardoned by Trump before he ever reported to prison.
"Selling vintage T-shirts from concerts you actually attended."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-gen-x-can-make-money-in-this-economy
Build it to respect customers' time and They Will Ride:
"Passengers made more than 52 million trips by train between Beijing and Shanghai last year, while only about 8.6 million people took a flight between the two cities.
Business travellers especially are increasingly viewing high-speed rail as a superior option, experts said, with China Railway’s fastest service now able to travel the 1,300-kilometer route in just over four hours."
There is a new term in financial markets - “TACO trade”, where TACO stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out."
FT commentator Robert Armstrong, who is credited with coining the term earlier this month wrote - "The recent rally has a lot to do with markets realizing that the U.S. administration does not have a very high tolerance for market and economic pressure, and will be quick to back off when tariffs cause pain."
https://www.barrons.com/articles/taco-trump-trade-a2cf0bca
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When it comes to Trump’s pardons, it’s worth marveling at the brazenness. The pretense of propriety is gone.
He’s corrupting the pardon process; he knows that he’s corrupting the pardon process; he knows that we know that he’s corrupting the pardon process; and he’s doing it anyway. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-reward-celebrity-tax-cheats-pardon-adding-scandalous-list-rcna209398
“We don't take an #oath to a wannabe #dictator”
“We take an oath to the #Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"
- General Mark Milley
#MemorialDay2025
Satellite image received from NOAA-15 on 27 May 2025 starting at 19:55. #SatelliteImagery #NOAA #Oakland #California #Weather
After Trump moved to defund NPR, the network considered how to respond. One thing was off the table from the beginning, though, CEO Katherine Maher told me: private negotiations with the White House.
Details in @get_status: https://www.status.news/p/npr-sues-trump-funding-katherine-maher-interview
Released 36 years ago today
Energy, the only studio album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy, with this track Freezer Up
Operation Ivy - "Freeze Up" live at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, California (June 24, 1988)
#punk #punks #punkrock #ska #skapunkrock #operationivy #energy #history #punkrockhistory #otd
36 years ago today
Energy is the only studio album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy, released on this day in 1989.
#punk #punks #punkrock #ska #skapunkrock #operationivy #energy #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Of the many of law firms targeted by the White House, only four agreed to fight rather than appease Trump.
At least so far, those four firms are undefeated in their cases against Trump’s offensive — including a breakthrough win today. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/judge-strikes-trump-executive-order-targeting-law-firm-extending-losin-rcna209344
Federal judge strikes down Trump executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale, calling it "unconstitutional"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-strikes-down-trump-executive-order-wilmerhale/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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