#SCOTUS on Tues blocked a ruling from a federal judge in California that had ordered the #Trump admin to rehire 16k of fired #FederalWorkers who had been on probationary status.

The court’s brief order said the nonprofit groups that had sued to challenge the dismissals had not suffered the sort of injury that gave them standing to sue.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040825zr_1b8e.pdf

“ #SCOTUS on Tues halted a federal judge's ruling requiring several federal agencies to reinstate 16K workers #Trump admin had sought to fire.

Sotomayor & KBJ dissented from the unsigned decision.

The order indicated that the some nonprofit groups that sued may not have legal standing”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-pauses-judges-order-reinstate-federal-probationary-worke-rcna197840

#MaxUllrich meinte gerade auf #RadioEins (es ging um die #Zölle und teuer(ere) #iPhones), dass er glaube, dass #Trump das alles nicht so richtig zu Ende gedacht habe.

Dem musst ich aufs Entschiedendste widersprechen: Das würde ja voraussetzen, dass er jemals mit dem #Denken angefangen hätte ...

Musk reportedly made several pushes for #Trump to back off global #tariffs surge - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/musk-trump-tariffs seems the face-eating leopards are coming for #musk too...

"Clearview is already well positioned to capitalize on Trump’s xenophobic plans. Today, one of the company’s top customers is US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a relationship cemented during Joe Biden’s presidency, as the agency inked bigger deals with the startup. Under the Biden administration, ICE records show, the agency deployed Clearview widely, even as officials there charged with monitoring the technology were in the dark about how it was being used and by whom. As the agency executes Trump’s emboldened mission—“Border Czar” Tom Homan has vowed to unleash “shock and awe” against undocumented immigrants—the dragnet surveillance outlined by Ton-That during the company’s earliest years may already be underway. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.)

During Biden’s presidency, the trappings of oversight still existed. But Trump has fired many of the inspectors general who review the use of technology such as Clearview and guard against abuse. And Trump’s early actions have shown his administration has little regard for the legal, congressional, and constitutional guardrails that have constrained his predecessors.

Immigrants aren’t the only people at risk. With Trump pursuing “retribution” against his political enemies, Clearview offers a range of frightening applications. “It creates a really disturbingly powerful tool for police that can identify nearly every person at a protest or a reproductive health facility or a house of worship with just photos of those people’s faces,” says Cahn."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

Mad King is Mad

....and also a Rapist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/08/trump-tariffs-masculinity-family-fox-news

"Most notably, about 700 Forest Service employees terminated in mid-February’s “Valentine’s Day massacre” are red-card-carrying staffers, an agency spokesperson confirmed to ProPublica. These workers hold other full-time jobs in the agency, but they’ve been trained to aid firefighting crews, such as by providing logistical support during blazes. They also assist with prescribed burns, which reduce flammable vegetation and prevent bigger fires, but the burns can only move forward if there’s a certain number of staff available to contain them. (Non-firefighting employees without a red card cannot perform such tasks.)

Red-card-carrying employees are the “backbone” of the firefighting force, and their loss will have “a significant impact,” said Frank Beum, a board member of the National Association of Forest Service Retirees who spent more than four decades with the agency and ran the Rocky Mountain Region. “There are not enough primary firefighters to do the full job that needs to be done when we have a high fire season.”

ProPublica spoke to employees across the Forest Service — which manages an area of land nearly twice the size of California — including staff working in firefighting, facilities, timber sales and other roles, to learn how sweeping personnel changes are affecting the agency’s ability to function. The employees said cuts, which have hit the agency’s recreation, wildlife, IT and other divisions, show the Trump administration is shifting the agency’s focus away from environmental stewardship and toward industry and firefighting.

But notwithstanding Trump’s stated guardrails, the cuts have affected the Forest Service’s more than 10,000-person-strong firefighting force."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-cuts-forest-service-firefighting

Hmmm..
Just asking.
Have you asked yourselves why the #StockMarket is up today? Might it be because maybe the orange turd signaled to the #billionaires that now is the time to start buying stock?

Yeah, the rich just got richer

#Trump fordert, dass die #EU für 350 Mrd. #Energie kaufen solle, um ihn bei den Zöllen zu besänftigen.

Erpressbar sind wir wegen der Energiepolitik von #CDU + #SPD, Stichwort #Nordstream2. Das hat #Putin ausgenutzt, nun tut es die #USA.

Einzige Lösung: Unabhängigkeit durch #Erneuerbare.

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So, it seems that #Trump is using typical abuser behavior against us all. Abusers often isolate their victims, they can control them financially, they can be abusive while telling the victims that they are doing "x" for their own good (gaslighting). The American public is suffering from being in a relationship with an abusive, #manosphere-embracing bully. And those who voted for him are also victims who don't know they are victims (though they are slowly finding out).
#StudentLoans #WithholdingFunding #SocialSecurity #SNAP #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsAnAbuser #USPol #USIsolationism

#Trump plans to fine #migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-fine-migrants-998-day-failing-leave-after-deportation-order-2025-04-08/

The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

When you can just hear the poison #Trump has poured in #Starmer and #Reeve’s ears…surely a ‘Buy British Campaign’ is a political no-brainer right now?

Reeves even previously supported one in 2021.

It would help farmers, the High Street and cut down on air miles, making it both environmentally positive and in our national interest.

Guess they still want a trade deal with fascists…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/08/rachel-reeves-rejects-calls-buy-british-campaign-us-tariffs

"The big, long-term question: what does the global trading system look like? The thing to watch for is whether the kind of deals Vietnam and others are making with the US end up destroying the most-favoured-nation principle underlying the World Trade Organization by giving the US special treatment. I’m moderately optimistic on this one. Label these deals as preferential trade agreements (which is pretty dodgy under WTO rules, but there are plenty of weak PTAs about already), recognise that many won’t make much difference to US exports anyway and move on. It strikes me that, if anything, attachment to the multilateral system, particularly in open trading economies like the south-east Asian nations, has increased as a result of the US threatening it. If countries are looking for a framework of international trade law, the WTO provides it. Unfortunately, though, I don’t see much sign that India is going to stop playing its spoiler role and paralysing the negotiations part of the WTO (as the US tried with the dispute settlement system)."

https://www.ft.com/content/3a6c0561-0628-43e4-86f0-bd3db881667b