I went out and signed some petitions.
I’ve got a lot of great news for you today. I hope it gives you some relief from the Trump and Musk garbage—and shows some examples of how folks are fighting this tyranny.
Yesterday, judges once again stood up to Trump, with one blocking his attempt to ban refugee admissions, calling it an “effective nullification of congressional will.” And another judge ordered the Trump Administration to pay out at least hundreds of millions in frozen funds for USAID projects—by tonight.
A teachers union filed suit over the Trump Administration threatening to withhold funding from schools, unless they eliminate diversity programs by the end of this week. The lawsuit calls it “an unlawful attempt...to impose this administration’s particular views of how schools should operate as if it were the law.”
Farmers and environmental groups are suing the USDA for purging climate change data from its website. Jeffrey Stein, an attorney for Earthjustice—one of the groups who sued—said: “USDA should be working to protect our food system from droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather, not denying the public access to critical resources.”
Hampton Dellinger, the watchdog who was reinstated by a judge after Trump tried to fire him, has filed petitions to undo the terminations of 6 other federal employees. He is also considering seeking relief for a much larger group of folks, who have been wrongfully fired by Trump.
Over at DOGE, 21 employees submitted a joint resignation letter, saying: “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution…However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments” at DOGE. Good. Every last one of them should resign.
DOGE was also caught deleting the 5 biggest spending cuts it touted last week. It had errors in the billions—claiming $8B was cut from ICE, when it was actually $8M, counting $655M in cuts to US AID 3 times, and more.
At a US House hearing, AOC slammed Elon’s minions for their failures: “We have not heard a single concrete number of the amount of waste and abuse that has been identified. There’s kind of this vague magic wand around waste…What’s being suggested is that…people seeing the doctor is a waste…These are peoples’ lives that are on the line and we cannot laugh them away.”
A grassroots campaign calling for a nationwide economic blackout is gaining steam. Folks are being asked to avoid spending any money online or in-stores for 24 hours this Friday, in protest of corporate greed and rising prices. It excludes purchases for medicine, food, etc. And there are similar, week-long actions planned in March and April against Amazon, Nestlé, and Walmart.
Lastly, we just released my awesome interview with fmr. federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner this morning—be sure to check it out. In it, when talking about the importance of contacting our Members of Congress, he said, “pressure bursts pipes.” Which is exactly what we aim to do.
Here is something to mull:
Perhaps the "Best By" date on the convenience store eggs was rapidly approaching or had passed.
ReplyDeleteHad a nice laugh about the Florida eggs. 😊
Nope. The eggs were selling like hot cakes.
DeleteThanks for the Dworkin summary old news, mostly the judiciary showing it has a spine. It's heartening.
ReplyDeleteSummary of the news, dangit.
DeleteI understood you, even without the dangit!
DeleteI wonder if fewer people are buying eggs and then the vendor has too many and is selling at cost? Or are they working side deals? It is not a transparent system, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteMy egg lady's chickens are healthy and proficient. so far so good. This week I got my egg order for $3 a dozen and she had 3 extra dozen so I took them for my son, daughter and neighbor. I know I am super lucky to be friends with her.
No. That's not it. One of the stores was telling customers that they'd sold out, but had a delivery the next day. Just for giggles, we checked the price at another store of the same chain. They had just received a shipment and were selling at 2 dozen for $6. The eggs were going so quickly that they had to go out back and open another box of them.
DeleteThanks for the news ..I'm back with my original hosts here and fox is still touting its Dems do everything wrong spiel...and Republicans right...and nothing about what is really happening.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the red hat brigade mostly believe this.
It just amazes me that people are swallowing this stuff whole. I am so tired of hearing people try to convince me that what is happening is good, or business as usual. It isn't. Not at all.
DeleteWe paid $5.49 for the last dozen eggs we bough at Safeway in Tucson. Re the USAID decision, Trump's DOJ did an emergency appeal to SCOTUS and that reptile John Roberts issued an administrative stay until next week. The rest of Dworkin's summary is positive, thx for sharing.
ReplyDeleteTrump is trying to install his personal lawyers in top positions at the DOJ to use against all the lawsuits against him. That was disheartening. So much for blind justice.
DeleteThe New York Times had an article about price fixing by some of the giant egg producers. Is Hillendale a big brand? I don't know it (I buy eggs from a small nearby organic farm). So maybe the convenience store is buying from a smaller producer?
ReplyDeleteHillandale is one of the top 5 producers. Checking with other stores, they use different brands, and they are all double the price or more. The cage free are closer to $9. So...cage free eggs for $3 a dozen boggles my mind. Normally, we buy from my niece. She charged $3 a dozen, but just raised her price to $4 a dozen because feed prices went up.
DeleteReading about that, this was a case from 2023, and they were found guilty in Feb 2024. Interesting that it might be happening again.
This is an interesting video about Musk.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y40RU5Nx6U&list=PLmfksZWxpxd9j_Sw6VSwywfIYERGGkH4i
Thanks for the link, Pixie. He's a very strange man, isn't he? Interesting about Space X. How the government threw money at him when really we were not talking about a program that didn't have a very good track record. Stuff is still blowing up.
DeleteWe import hundreds of thousands of eggs from Turkey.
ReplyDeleteDo we really??? Off to read more about eggs.
DeleteI think I would be testing those eggs to see if they sink or float. I’m sure you do.
ReplyDeleteNo. We don't. They are from the store. The expiration dates are good. In fact, they went out back to open up a box of eggs from the previous day's delivery to give Tim his second dozen.
DeleteThis is interesting... just today at my local Kuhn's (supermarket). Kuhns eggs are $7.40 a dozen, but the Hillendale "cage free" eggs were $4.49. I did get them.
ReplyDeleteSo you're seeing it too! What is interesting, Doug, is that one of the other convenience stores that sells the Hillandale eggs is selling them at a much higher price than the two stores we know of. (Same chain, which is fascinating).
DeleteI love Maya Angelou…
ReplyDeleteI have spent my spare time today reading reports about how the Canadians are fighting back. Most people think it is reprisal against the tariffs but I believe it is mostly re the insults about the 51st state. The rest of the world can see what he is doing as well. I am in Scotland.
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