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Teacher, advocate, truth teller, creator.
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nortygirl.bsky.social
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June 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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cyynbadd.bsky.social
Active Duty Military & National Guard -
You do NOT have to follow unconstitutional orders.
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June 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
ruby-dice.bsky.social
Working on this beautiful blanket 🩷
June 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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May 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I’ve been working on this beauty at the ball fields! 🥰
May 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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April 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we find ourselves thanking a Trump appointee—so thank you, Judge. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia announced after a hearing that he would issue a temporary restraining order to halt the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees.
February 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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usctrojanage.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Yes, nothing says "I should be in charge of honoring America's fine arts at the Kennedy Center" quite like being a low-brow philistine schmuck who broke tradition by refusing to go to the Kennedy Center to honor America's artists. I just never thought I'd see Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan get the award.
February 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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A new OMB memo lists programs *potentially* affected by Trump's (illegal) funding freeze. The list does nothing to dispel confusion, since it includes programs (SNAP, Head Start) that OMB now claims are unaffected. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

First reported by @jennifershutt.bsky.social
Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13 All Federal agencies that provide Federal financial assistance are required by February 7, 2025 to complete the attached spreadsheet and submit it to OMB. The information requested must be provided for any program that has funding or activities planned through March 15. Agencies are encouraged to complete this task for all their programs as soon as possible. OMB will be following up with additional deadlines for subsequent periods. Using the spreadsheet provided, locate or filter the spreadsheet to isolate the agency's list of Federal programs (by Assistance Listing number) and complete the requested information for each program (represented in columns C-G). Agencies should add additional lines to the spreadsheet to include any programs not listed in the spreadsheet. Column B: Column C-G: Column H: Column 1: Column J: Column K: Column L: Column M-T: Column U: Sub-Agency or component. These columns contain pre-populated information on each Assistance Listing program. Identify the email of the senior political appointee responsible for overseeing this program. Indicate if the program has any pending funding announcements. Indicate if this program has any anticipated obligations or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025. Indicate if this program has any statutory requirements mandating the obligation or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025. Provide the estimated date of the next obligation or disbursement of funds. Provide responses to each of the questions (Yes/No). Provide any additional relevant information on program or project activities. Submit the spreadsheet no later than February 7, 2025 to: FFAPlans@omb.eop.gov. OMB will review each agency submission and will communicate additional information to each Federal agency through the agency Senior Financial Assistance Official and the Points of Contact provided. Screenshot of first page of spreadsheet (very small text, hard to read, just posted as visual example—follow link in post for full text)
January 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Here's the full OMB clarifying memo on Trump's illegal funding freeze, via Punchbowl (partially screenshotted earlier by Jeff Stein of WaPo) punchbowl.news/file_9917/
In implementing President Trump's Executive Orders, OMB issued guidance requesting that agencies temporarily pause, to the extent permitted by law, grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs that are implicated by the President's Executive Orders. Any program not implicated by the President's Executive Orders is not subject to the pause. The Executive Orders listed in the guidance are: Protecting the American People Against Invasion Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements Unleashing American Energy Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Enforcing the Hyde Amendment Any program that provides direct benefits to individuals is not subject to the pause. The guidance establishes a process for agencies to work with OMB to determine quickly whether any program is inconsistent with the President's Executive Orders. A pause could be as short as day. In fact, OMB has worked with agencies and has already approved many programs to continue even before the pause has gone into effect. Any payment required by law to be paid will be paid without interruption or delay. Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance? A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President's Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest. Q: Is this a freeze on benefits to Americans like SNAP or student loans? A: No, any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause. Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused. If agencies are concerned that these programs may implicate the President's Executive Orders, they should consult OMB to begin to unwind these objectionable policies without a pause in the payments. Q: Is the pause of federal financial assistance an impoundment? A: No, it is not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act. It is a temporary pause to give agencies time to ensure that financial assistance conforms to the policies set out in the President's Executive Orders, to the extent permitted by law. Temporary pauses are a necessary part of program implementation that have been ordered by past presidents to ensure that programs are being executed and funds spent in accordance with a new President's policies and do not constitute impoundments. Q: Why was this pause necessary? A: To act as faithful stewards of taxpayer money, new administrations must review federal programs to ensure that they are being executed in accordance with the law and the new President's policies.
January 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM