Susan Schneider
@susanschneider.bsky.social
Law professor and author with focus on agricultural and food law, climate change and food security
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
The attack on free speech and history continues. From CBS News: "Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge" www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur...
Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge
A book on the Holocaust and Maya Angelou's autobiography were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library this week.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The attack on free speech and history continues. From CBS News: "Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge" www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur...
The AP Reports that the US is ending support to the World Food Program; "The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’" apnews.com/article/usai...
The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a 'death sentence'
The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them stru...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The AP Reports that the US is ending support to the World Food Program; "The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’" apnews.com/article/usai...
Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
April 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
From Envisioning the American Dream, by Sally Edelstein
February 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
From Envisioning the American Dream, by Sally Edelstein
Fed prosecutors, IGs, and other govt employees show great courage by speaking out and resigning rather than going along w/actions they know are wrong. Why is courage so lacking among the Republicans in Congress? Trump is acting like Putin’s puppet and they don’t seem to care. Is there ANY red line?
February 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Fed prosecutors, IGs, and other govt employees show great courage by speaking out and resigning rather than going along w/actions they know are wrong. Why is courage so lacking among the Republicans in Congress? Trump is acting like Putin’s puppet and they don’t seem to care. Is there ANY red line?
Excellent analysis from Farmers Union president, Rob Larew; we may be approaching a farm/rural financial crisis with significant repurcussions www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | How Trump’s federal funding pause hurts American farmers and drives up grocery prices
How the administration's funding freeze threatens the infrastructure that keeps rural communities — and everyday America — running.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Excellent analysis from Farmers Union president, Rob Larew; we may be approaching a farm/rural financial crisis with significant repurcussions www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Thank you, Chancellor Scholz. I do not understand what defect there must be in the soul of someone who could visit the Nazi death camp at Dachau one day and then promote the party that trivializes the Holocaust the next day
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thank you, Chancellor Scholz. I do not understand what defect there must be in the soul of someone who could visit the Nazi death camp at Dachau one day and then promote the party that trivializes the Holocaust the next day
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds
February 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds
Mexico is the “largest single source of U.S. horticultural imports,” supplying 63% of our vegetable imports and 47% of fruit and nut imports. (USDA). Importers pay tariffs, passing the cost onto consumers. We can expect prices for these healthy foods to go up as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs.
February 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Mexico is the “largest single source of U.S. horticultural imports,” supplying 63% of our vegetable imports and 47% of fruit and nut imports. (USDA). Importers pay tariffs, passing the cost onto consumers. We can expect prices for these healthy foods to go up as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs.
If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
Opinion | If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health?
When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?
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February 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
What the Trump Administration is doing to our gov’t workers is horrible. Demeaning and belittling emails, thinly disguised threats, and efforts to coerce them to resign. We need these workers’ expertise, and I appreciate their service.
January 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What the Trump Administration is doing to our gov’t workers is horrible. Demeaning and belittling emails, thinly disguised threats, and efforts to coerce them to resign. We need these workers’ expertise, and I appreciate their service.
Thank you to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for issuing a forceful reply to the inappropriate, inaccurate, and completely unsubstantiated comments that President Trump made in his remarks about the DCA plane crash. www.axios.com/2025/01/30/p...
"Despicable": Buttigieg fires back at Trump criticisms after deadly plane crash
"As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying," Buttigieg said.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thank you to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for issuing a forceful reply to the inappropriate, inaccurate, and completely unsubstantiated comments that President Trump made in his remarks about the DCA plane crash. www.axios.com/2025/01/30/p...
Reuters on use of military planes to deport migrants: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class.
So much for using taxpayer funds wisely
So much for using taxpayer funds wisely
January 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reuters on use of military planes to deport migrants: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class.
So much for using taxpayer funds wisely
So much for using taxpayer funds wisely
Reposted by Susan Schneider
The IG's are not taking this lying down. IG are rule enforcers and watchdogs. They have put down a marker: static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...
static.politico.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The IG's are not taking this lying down. IG are rule enforcers and watchdogs. They have put down a marker: static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...
Trump received less than half the popular vote, 49.8%. Harris received 48.3%, others 1.7%. Trump’s actual support is reduced because only 63.9% of eligible voters cast a ballot. So only 31.8% of eligible voters voted for Trump. And some regret their vote. There is no mandate for his radical agenda
January 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trump received less than half the popular vote, 49.8%. Harris received 48.3%, others 1.7%. Trump’s actual support is reduced because only 63.9% of eligible voters cast a ballot. So only 31.8% of eligible voters voted for Trump. And some regret their vote. There is no mandate for his radical agenda
"Our task to recapture democracy begins in earnest today." Inspiring message from Jen Rubin:
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Of, For, and By the Billionaires
Musk and Silicon Valley moguls gain unprecedented power
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January 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Our task to recapture democracy begins in earnest today." Inspiring message from Jen Rubin:
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
