The regime is violating court orders?!? I’m shocked, shocked I say!

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpVengeanceMachine #ImpoundmentControlActViolation #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #CourtOrdersDefied #AccountabilityNow

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order

“Environmental lawyers say two new White House directives—designed to greatly expand executive power to strike down federal energy and environmental regulations—are not likely to hold up in court and represent an attempt to move far beyond the established boundaries of presidential authority.”

#Politics #USPolitics #EnvironmentalPolicy #FederalRegulations #EnergyPolicy #TrumpVengeanceMachine #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #DemocracyVsOligarchy

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12042025/new-trump-administration-directives-to-repeal-environmental-regulations-en-masse-make-no-sense-legal-experts-say/

“The guidance also includes exclusions for other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar cells, flat panel TV displays, flash drives, and memory cards.These products could eventually be subject to additional duties, but they are likely to be far lower than the 145% rate that Trump had imposed on goods from China.”

#Politics #USPolitics #TariffWar #TrumpTariffsAreStupid #TrumpTariffTax #Technology #DemocracyVsOligarchy #SupplyChainStability

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-tariffs-apple-dell.html

“Scholars often note that the American Revolution of 250 years ago was a movement not to change the status quo but to protect it. The colonists who became revolutionaries sought to make sure that patterns of self-government established over generations could not be overturned by officials seeking to seize power.

We seem to be at it again….”

#Politics #USPolitics #HandsOffProtests #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #DOGEbros #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2025

“Despite the attempt of right-wing media to hide the [economic] crisis, more than half of Americans have heard unfavorable business news coverage of the government’s policies. While MAGA continues to approve of Trump, he’s rapidly losing support among the rest of the coalition that put him into office.”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpTradeWars #TradeDeficitMyth #TrumpTariffs #EconomicSlowdown #RecessionRisk #DemocracyVsOligarchy #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-4-2025

Having an anti-labor governor sucks.

“The bill is expected to pass the Colorado House and be fast-tracked to Gov. Jared Polis, who will ultimately decide its fate. ... Though a Democrat, he’s previously drawn the ire of Colorado’s labor movement by vetoing several pro-worker bills. Labor leaders suggest that if he continues down that path, he may damage his future prospects.”

#Politics #USPolitics #UnionStrong #LaborRights #DemocracyVsOligarchy #WorkersRights

https://prospect.org/labor/2025-04-03-americas-only-half-right-to-work-state-colorado-unions/

“The budget deficit is not due to the salaries of civil servants, who are being wantonly fired, or to the government’s R&D spending, on which our future prosperity depends, but rather to the combination of tax cuts for the rich, and reckless spending on America’s perpetual wars…”

#Politics #USPolitics #Economics #TradeWarImpact #TrumpTariffs #BudgetDeficit #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #TaxTheRich #RecessionPossibility

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-tariffs

“What Sanders has been doing recently is highly instructive—and Democrats don’t need to be die-hard enthusiasts of his particular policy portfolio to extract the key lesson and act on it: Identify the victims of Trumpism, give them a voice, and get their stories told.”

#Politics #USPolitics #BernieSanders #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DefeatTrumpism #TellPeoplesStories #EconomicPopulism #NotMeUs

https://newrepublic.com/article/192744/bernie-sanders-anti-oligarchy-tour-trump-victims

*Now* can we eat the rich?

“The unglamorous but key federal office that sent out a mass ‘deferred resignation’ offer to federal employees on Tuesday has reportedly been taken over by people with ties to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump.”

#Politics #USPolitics #OPMTakeOver #BillionairesShouldNotExist #DemocracyInDanger #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyVsOligarchy #ElectionsMatter

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-opm

And no one has been sworn in yet: “Civil war has broken out within the MAGA Republicans. On the one side are the traditional MAGAs, who tend to be white, anti-immigrant, & less educated than the rest of the U.S. … On the other side are the new MAGAs [lead by Musk] who appear to have taken control of the incoming Trump administration.”

#Politics #USPolitics #MAGACivilWar #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #DemocracyVsOligarchy #BillionairesShouldNotExist #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2024

F*cking billionaires: “This is now the second American newspaper, after The Los Angeles Times, to kill a Harris endorsement at the owner’s behest. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong similarly blocked a planned endorsement, prompting the newspaper’s editorials editor to resign in protest.”

#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #Endorsements #WashingtonPost #ElectionsMatter #DemocracyInDanger #DemocracyIsOnTheBallot #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyVsAutocracy #Project2025

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24279602/jeff-bezos-washington-post-kamala-harris-endorsement