Before he had left the U.S. Capitol, where he was inaugurated, three lawsuits raised legal questions about his appointment of Tesla founder Elon Musk to run the nongovernmental “Department of Government Efficiency.” The public interest groups behind the lawsuits say the “DOGE” panel violates laws on transparency for government advisory groups.
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In a complaint obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its filing, the public interest law firm National Security Counselors says that the DOGE panel is breaking a 50-year-old law, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, that requires advisory committees to the executive branch to follow specific rules on disclosure, hiring and other practices.
“DOGE is not exempted from FACA’s requirements,” states the lawsuit, written by Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors. “All meetings of DOGE, including those conducted through an electronic medium, must be open to the public.”
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And on Tuesday, a coalition of 18 states filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts, saying the birthright citizenship executive order violates the constitutional rights of thousands of children and imposes undue costs on local jurisdictions that would lose federal funding tied to Medicaid and children’s health insurance.
In addition, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers for Civil Rights filed separate legal challenges in New Hampshire and Massachusetts on behalf of parents whose children would not be eligible for citizenship under Trump’s order.
From my lens, I see the fight dwindling more and more. After the election, the response from those who didn't vote for Trump was oddly quiet compared to 2016 (apathy). Silicon Valley (corporate...
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From my lens, I see the fight dwindling more and more.
After the election, the response from those who didn't vote for Trump was oddly quiet compared to 2016 (apathy).
Silicon Valley (corporate America as a whole, rather) is buddying up with the new administration.
Traditional media outlets are not leaning into the "ragebait," e.g., Elon's nazi salute. It appears to me that they're trying to position themselves favorably.
I hope I'm way off base on this, but the general sense I get is that people and institutions are preparing for a more fascist America in the future and choosing to fall in line (or blend in) rather than speak up and risk retribution.
I think this is the biggest one. Everyone showing up to have their bread buttered is a little gross but not unexpected in a world with a vindictive president looking to enrich himself and his...
Silicon Valley (corporate America as a whole, rather) is buddying up with the new administration.
I think this is the biggest one. Everyone showing up to have their bread buttered is a little gross but not unexpected in a world with a vindictive president looking to enrich himself and his friends.
As for the other two, I think people are starting to learn it's better to keep the powder dry when dealing with Trump. The constant reporting and rage cycles only help people tune out any Trump criticism at all. I think we'll be much better served waiting for Trump to fuck something up before banging on the drums.
It is definitely now the time for the media to start doing proper reproting and investigations on actual politics. We have basically been getting nothing but speculation and rage over what if...
It is definitely now the time for the media to start doing proper reproting and investigations on actual politics. We have basically been getting nothing but speculation and rage over what if scenarios for years now. It gets tiring and leads nowhere. Hold Trump accountable for the real consequences of his politics instead of the constant focus on all the non sense he is saying all the time.
Where does our rage and frustration get us, other than harming our own mental health? I followed all of it pretty closely last time, I protested and what changed? Not a whole lot. What changed...
Where does our rage and frustration get us, other than harming our own mental health? I followed all of it pretty closely last time, I protested and what changed? Not a whole lot. What changed about Trump or his administration when we got mad about this or that? What will happen if we give Musk the attention he so clearly craves and become outraged? We talk about it in our little bubbles here and not much else.
Instead, we'll give to the organizations willing to put up the fight and assist with our labor if we can manage it. Maybe that will make a change, maybe it won't, but at least I'm not doomscrolling about the latest things Trump said or did and getting angry in an utterly impotent and damaging manner.
I'm with you, but it seems even the protesting has dwindled (I keep using that word). Didn't we have the largest women's march ever immediately after Trump's first inauguration, or am I...
I'm with you, but it seems even the protesting has dwindled (I keep using that word). Didn't we have the largest women's march ever immediately after Trump's first inauguration, or am I misremembering? And to your point, it didn't result in any sort of a tide change -- in fact, Roe v Wade was overturned a few years later. The optimist in me wants to believe that protesting, if done properly and at scale, can affect change in this country. It works, sometimes, in other countries.
To me, the general sense is one of apathy and "what's done is done." (or you feel like you have a target on your back and it's time to either blend in or GTFO).
I hope I'm just writing all of this from a position of too much doom scrolling. I hope that things are more optimistic outside of our little bubbles.
I think the general feeling of apathy is the fact that we've survived this before. Yes he's back and he's vindictive, but he always has been. We got through it 4 years ago and things were starting...
I think the general feeling of apathy is the fact that we've survived this before.
Yes he's back and he's vindictive, but he always has been. We got through it 4 years ago and things were starting to look better under Biden and now we'll see a regression again, but we'll get through, as we did in the past. Maybe that sounds dismissive, a lot of people will hurt through this administration, we'll probably see a regression in our rights, but again, we've done this before.
I don't think it helps to be in our little bubbles. Since 2016, I've tried to do a lot of escape mine and while I'm still in it to some extent, I'm more focused on living my life and responding as necessary and doing what I can, when I can. Right now, there's nothing I can do beyond just be angry, which isn't to my benefit. I still need to get my kids to school in the morning, I still need to cook dinner in the evening, I still need to do an oil change on my car, life still needs doing and being angry about something I'm completely impotent to change isn't going to help me in those tasks.
On the flip side, specifically about the rage bait, it didn’t move the needle at all. If it did, Trump wouldn’t have pulled off the ol’ Grover Cleveland. It’s a series of nothingburgers that...
On the flip side, specifically about the rage bait, it didn’t move the needle at all. If it did, Trump wouldn’t have pulled off the ol’ Grover Cleveland. It’s a series of nothingburgers that masquerades as informing the citizens.
It’s like they prematurely blew their #resist in 2016, when the chaos limited the capacity for harm. Now that competent evil is in place, they have no gas in the tank.
I wouldn't word it as negatively as you did, but from across the pond it definitely seems like the 2016 election was viewed as an anomaly that needs to be resisted and never repeated again,...
I hope I'm way off base on this, but the general sense I get is that people and institutions are preparing for a more fascist America in the future and choosing to fall in line (or blend in) rather than speak up and risk retribution.
I wouldn't word it as negatively as you did, but from across the pond it definitely seems like the 2016 election was viewed as an anomaly that needs to be resisted and never repeated again, whereas nowadays people whose job it is to follow similar changes in society (imo 100% correctly) realized that Trump is a part of a larger political and social shift that is not going away because it's not dependent on Trump anymore and they need to adapt, just like they probably needed to adapt to the previous status quo.
I only hope that democrats find a way to adapt to this as well, and soon, so that they really become competitive again and somewhat tame the cultural shift.
You could've predicted this exact headline, verbatim, on November 6th. This is Trump's MO, throw a bunch of shit at the wall and not give a damn what sticks. Inevitably a bunch of these orders...
You could've predicted this exact headline, verbatim, on November 6th. This is Trump's MO, throw a bunch of shit at the wall and not give a damn what sticks. Inevitably a bunch of these orders will get overturned, defanged, or end up not having any real world implications. But his base will never hear about that, all they'll remember is Trump's opening volley made them feel like winners in their spiteful little hearts.
The country will be irreparably damaged—again—by the Trump administration. All we can do until midterms is hope that his appointees and cronies are too incompetent to execute their hateful agenda efficiently.
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Gonna be a long 4 years. But I'm glad there's some some fight left in the country
From my lens, I see the fight dwindling more and more.
I hope I'm way off base on this, but the general sense I get is that people and institutions are preparing for a more fascist America in the future and choosing to fall in line (or blend in) rather than speak up and risk retribution.
I think this is the biggest one. Everyone showing up to have their bread buttered is a little gross but not unexpected in a world with a vindictive president looking to enrich himself and his friends.
As for the other two, I think people are starting to learn it's better to keep the powder dry when dealing with Trump. The constant reporting and rage cycles only help people tune out any Trump criticism at all. I think we'll be much better served waiting for Trump to fuck something up before banging on the drums.
It is definitely now the time for the media to start doing proper reproting and investigations on actual politics. We have basically been getting nothing but speculation and rage over what if scenarios for years now. It gets tiring and leads nowhere. Hold Trump accountable for the real consequences of his politics instead of the constant focus on all the non sense he is saying all the time.
Where does our rage and frustration get us, other than harming our own mental health? I followed all of it pretty closely last time, I protested and what changed? Not a whole lot. What changed about Trump or his administration when we got mad about this or that? What will happen if we give Musk the attention he so clearly craves and become outraged? We talk about it in our little bubbles here and not much else.
Instead, we'll give to the organizations willing to put up the fight and assist with our labor if we can manage it. Maybe that will make a change, maybe it won't, but at least I'm not doomscrolling about the latest things Trump said or did and getting angry in an utterly impotent and damaging manner.
I'm with you, but it seems even the protesting has dwindled (I keep using that word). Didn't we have the largest women's march ever immediately after Trump's first inauguration, or am I misremembering? And to your point, it didn't result in any sort of a tide change -- in fact, Roe v Wade was overturned a few years later. The optimist in me wants to believe that protesting, if done properly and at scale, can affect change in this country. It works, sometimes, in other countries.
To me, the general sense is one of apathy and "what's done is done." (or you feel like you have a target on your back and it's time to either blend in or GTFO).
I hope I'm just writing all of this from a position of too much doom scrolling. I hope that things are more optimistic outside of our little bubbles.
I think the general feeling of apathy is the fact that we've survived this before.
Yes he's back and he's vindictive, but he always has been. We got through it 4 years ago and things were starting to look better under Biden and now we'll see a regression again, but we'll get through, as we did in the past. Maybe that sounds dismissive, a lot of people will hurt through this administration, we'll probably see a regression in our rights, but again, we've done this before.
I don't think it helps to be in our little bubbles. Since 2016, I've tried to do a lot of escape mine and while I'm still in it to some extent, I'm more focused on living my life and responding as necessary and doing what I can, when I can. Right now, there's nothing I can do beyond just be angry, which isn't to my benefit. I still need to get my kids to school in the morning, I still need to cook dinner in the evening, I still need to do an oil change on my car, life still needs doing and being angry about something I'm completely impotent to change isn't going to help me in those tasks.
On the flip side, specifically about the rage bait, it didn’t move the needle at all. If it did, Trump wouldn’t have pulled off the ol’ Grover Cleveland. It’s a series of nothingburgers that masquerades as informing the citizens.
It’s like they prematurely blew their #resist in 2016, when the chaos limited the capacity for harm. Now that competent evil is in place, they have no gas in the tank.
I wouldn't word it as negatively as you did, but from across the pond it definitely seems like the 2016 election was viewed as an anomaly that needs to be resisted and never repeated again, whereas nowadays people whose job it is to follow similar changes in society (imo 100% correctly) realized that Trump is a part of a larger political and social shift that is not going away because it's not dependent on Trump anymore and they need to adapt, just like they probably needed to adapt to the previous status quo.
I only hope that democrats find a way to adapt to this as well, and soon, so that they really become competitive again and somewhat tame the cultural shift.
You could've predicted this exact headline, verbatim, on November 6th. This is Trump's MO, throw a bunch of shit at the wall and not give a damn what sticks. Inevitably a bunch of these orders will get overturned, defanged, or end up not having any real world implications. But his base will never hear about that, all they'll remember is Trump's opening volley made them feel like winners in their spiteful little hearts.
The country will be irreparably damaged—again—by the Trump administration. All we can do until midterms is hope that his appointees and cronies are too incompetent to execute their hateful agenda efficiently.
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