HOMEWORK 02/11/25 ~ THE RULE OF LAW?

Tuesday 11 Feb 2025

Homework

The Crisis Is Happening Now

Federal Judge Finds Trump Administration Is Still Violating Court Ruling, Orders Trump Admin. To “Immediately Restore Frozen Funding”

Courts Have Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Continuing To Withhold Money Anyway.

Federal Judge Halts Trump Administration Cuts to NIH Medical Research Funding After Attorney’s General From 22 States Sue

Trump Maintains Funding Freeze At NIH, Defying Court Order

Five Former Treasury Secretaries Sound Alarm “Our Democracy Is Under Siege”

Scholars Agree: With Trump Admin. Ignoring Judicial Rulings, We’re Now In A Constitutional Crisis [Gift Link]

 

Middle East Mess

Trump Says Ceasefire Deal Should Be Canceled If Hamas Doesn’t Release All Hostages By Saturday

Hamas Brushes Off Trump’s Threat, Insisting All Parties Must Be Committed To Ceasefire

Trump Says He May Cut Aid to Jordan And Egypt If They Don’t Take Gazans

 

Clear Corruption

Trump Halts Enforcement Of Foreign Corrupt Practices Law That Bans Bribery Of Foreign Officials

Trump’s DOJ Orders SDNY Prosecutors To Drop Charges Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams – Of Corruption & Bribery From Foreign Officials

FEMA Says It’s Halting Payments For Migrant Housing In New York After Musk Blasts Money For Hotels

Trump Fires The Director Of Office Of Government Ethics

 

Trump’s “Best” People

Sen. Dick Durbin Accuses Trump FBI Nominee Kash Patel Of Covertly Directing Trump’s Purge – And Of Lying Under Oath During Senate Hearings [Gift Link]

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination For Director Of National Intelligence Clears Key Senate Hurdle

DOGE Bag: 19-Year-Old Acolyte Of Elon Musk Known Online As “Big Balls” Has Now Taken On New Roles As A Senior Adviser At The State Dept & DHS

Donald Trump Picks Former Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Ed Martin To Be U.S. Attorney For D.C.

 

Yes, They’re Racists

Pete Hegseth Uses Loophole To Bring Back Old Confederate Name For Fort Bragg

Active Duty U.S. Army General Rips “F*cking Racist” Decision By Hegseth To Stop Recruiting At Black Engineering Event

Mehdi Hasan: What Republicans Really Mean When They Blame ‘DEI’

 

Tech Oligarch Problems

Musk Led Group Leads $97.4 Billion Bid To Control Not For Profit OpenAI

Elon Musk And Sam Altman Having A Tiff: Musk-Led Group Proposes Buying OpenAI For $97.4 Billion. OpenAI CEO Altman Says ‘No Thank You’

Robert Reich: Biden FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Warning About America’s Tech Giants Rings True – ‘Stop Worshipping Billionaire Tech Giants’

Flashback Nov. 2024: Elon Musk Predicts FTC Chair Lina Khan Will Be Fired Soon

Franklin Foer: The Hollow Worldview Of The Technocratic Engineer

 

Meanwhile

CDC Says New Strain Of Bird Flu Has Infected A Nevada Dairy Worker

Motley Crüe Lead Singer Vince Neil’s Private Jet Veers Off Runway At Scottsdale  Arizona Airport And Crashes Into Another Plane, Leaving At Least One Dead

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