#Executive Orders

[sleepy-bebby]

Wha-

Oh you mean like Russia’s sovereign wealth fund???

[th3p0rtalmaker]

As a US citizen (who needs to do some proper research into everything Trump and his lackeys are doing in office right now) this is an extremely encouraging thought. I will be looking into the restrictions and limitations of executive orders now as well, so I have a better grasp of what Trump can and cannot do.

Food for thought

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

New York City: Rise Up for Trans Youth!

Saturday, February 8 - 1:00 p.m.

Union Square, 14th Street & Broadway, Manhattan

RISE UP FOR TRANS YOUTH! Show UP and show OUT this Saturday at Union Square at 1PM. Be in solidarity with trans youth, their families, educators, and medical professionals providing life-saving healthcare. Get connected to organizations like Transformative Schools, ACT UP NY, & Gender Liberation Movement mobilizing and supporting families and trans youth.

Hospitals NYU Langone, New York Presbyterian, and Mt. Sinai (across from union square) are preemptively cancelling appointments for young trans people. This is against NY State Law and against their oaths to do no harm. Show up and demand they reverse their decision immediately!

Have questions? Want to endorse? Email info@genderlib.org

[in4newz]

It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart.

Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted.

Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

Read next..

[socialismscienceism]

“The executive order conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth,” Judge Boardman ruled. “The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the president’s interpretation of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. In fact, no court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first.”

This is worth celebrating, y’all.

Via NYT

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sam Stein at The Bulwark:

THE PREVAILING WISDOM about Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office is that he is, to borrow a cliché, flooding the zone—releasing a torrent of information that overwhelms even the most seasoned political observer. The real story of Trump 2.0 is exactly the opposite. White House operations have so far been defined not by the spotlight they’ve commanded but by the secrecy they’ve imposed. People inside and outside of government are confused about who is staffing—or even leading—agencies. Federal employees have been thrust into a state of paranoia about the status of their jobs. Even lawmakers say they are utterly in the dark, unable to reach contacts at federal agencies to get key information about which parts of the government are functioning and which aren’t. “There’s no clarity about which federal funds are frozen and which are left untouched,” Rep. Ritchie Torres told The Bulwark in an interview. “I’m not aware of any member of Congress who has been—any Democratic member of Congress—who’s been kept in the loop about the scope of the executive order.” The crypticity is a stark difference between Trump 1.0—an often unruly, directionless, and very public mess—and Trump 2.0., which presidential aides are determined to make more efficient and consequential. And it has thrown much of Washington, D.C. into chaos, as lawmakers, civil servants, state and local governments, nonprofits, companies, and even foreign governments scramble to figure out just how dramatically our governing institutions are being altered or altogether undone. Trump’s team entered the White House on January 20 looking to swiftly enact its agenda in two ways: abruptly halting major swaths of government operations and pushing to get federal workers (whom they view as hindrances) to resign. To do both, they centralized operations, often by forcing out preexisting leadership, and kept external communications confined and vague. The first indication of this approach came in the opening days, when groups that rely on government grants suddenly discovered they could not access portals or contact officials who served as points of contact. Days later, the Office of Management and Budget issued a two-page memo saying that all federal grant funding would be frozen. That memo was subsequently rescinded. But the original executive order putting a pause on various areas of federal spending remains in place. So too has the freeze on external communications.

[...] But what if the intended result wasn’t just to spark a mass exodus but to create a culture of uncertainty, unrest, and secrecy—not to hollow out the government, but to hamstring it? On that front, some workers said, the new administration was clearly succeeding.

This Sam Stein column in The Bulwark on the Tyrant 47 Misadministration’s secrecy that is harming basic government business is a must-read.

[new-american-revolution]

Does maga think that the majority of Americans, and the world for that matter, have vision problems? Do they sincerely believe that the majority of people can’t see? Because that’s how it seems.

There are now memes popping up of prominent figures from the liberal perspective with their hand in the air giving a high wave and proclaiming, ‘See! Are they giving the sieg hail solute?.’ It’s preposterous, it’s idiotic and it’s infuriating.

I wish there was a better term, or word, for gaslighting. This word entered the mainstream vocabulary in the 2010’s despite its origins being from the late 1930’s

The idiom comes from a 1938 English play by Patrick Hamilton, called Gas Light, it would subsequently be released as a movie in the early 40’s.

The storyline is that of a husband and wife, wherein the husband engages in a plot against his wife. Their home is illuminated through gas lamps, which the husband will, unbeknownst to the wife, dim the lamps around the house. When the wife inquires about it the husband denies any involvement and that the brightness level hasn’t changed at all. She will brighten the lamps again, and when she isn’t looking he will covertly dim them. In doing this it begins to make the wife question her own sanity, she swears she brightened the lamp, she swears the illumination is far duller, she’ll ask him, he’ll say the light level is unchanged despite the obvious darkness of the room. The woman eventually begins to question reality, she swears she brightens the light, yet every time she enters a room she had lit, it’s dimmed.

The husband deliberately tries to make her think shes crazy, that she’s losing her mind, that she can’t believe what she sees right in front of her own eyes.

Mental health professionals commandeered the term to classify it as a form of emotional abuse where a person is attempting to manipulate you, to make you think that what you perceive isn’t real.

This is a common tactic of the right and maga. To tell us a thing didn’t happen, or that it wasn’t what we saw, even though we saw it.

I believe this, like a child in an abusive home, trickles down from positions of authority. Donald Trump, and the people he surrounds himself with, as well as a large swath of Republican lawmakers, are dishonest, manipulative people. Same with right wing media. Some of the vantage points they juxtapose onto their viewers is absurd, skewed and misleading .

The most apparent of this is the January 6th insurrection. “It was a day of love”, “These were peaceful protesters”, these are incorrect statements. There is undeniable, indisputable, well documented video evidence of the violence that day. There are text messages, chat room logs, group chains, voicemails that undoubtedly confirm that the proud boys, and the oath keepers, each had their own intent in the seizure of the electoral certificates and to disrupt proceedings.

In spite of the irrefutable evidence, the happenings that day are denounced as uneventful, with GA Representative,Andrew Clyde going so far as to say, “If you didn't know that TV footage was a video from January the sixth, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit,” and his GA colleague Rep. Jody Hice declaring, “It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others,”

Some Republicans would try and paint the rioters as heroes , much like Trump did in the 2024 campaign with Rep Paul Gosar of Arizona saying that Capital Police were, “harassing peaceful patriots.”

This goes in direct contrast to what we can see with our own eyes. The capital was ramshacked that day in defiance of any allegation that it wasn’t.

It’s difficult to say whether or not the maga faithful have been manipulated and truly believe what they are being told from politicians and right wing media, or if their refusal to admit the truth, and refute the lies, is their attempts of the manipulation on those who believe what they see.

Currently we live in a period where factuality is irrelevant. A time where people believe what they’re told and that what they saw isn’t real. Where the words of others contradict the events seen in plain sight.

I don’t know about you guys, but I swear I had increased the brightness in here, yet it hardly lit, and difficult to see through the darkness.

[liberalsarecool]

Executive orders do not change the Constitution or laws passed in Congress.

Push back. Use your voice. Stay engaged.

DO NOT SUBMIT IN ADVANCE.

There are more of us than them.

[saywhat-politics]

Trump just rescinded an Executive Order issued by President Biden to lower prescription drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.

[ladyknight33]

Hey. International people.

Keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico or whatever your term is for it. Do not allow the Republican regime to label that body of water the Gulf of America to the world. The name came from a the term Mexica, what the Aztecs called themselves. It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico since the 1600s.

Keep calling it Mount Denali. The original name before it was Mount McKinley. Don’t let the First Nations be erased.

It may sound stupid and petty. But it is an attempt to rewrite history and make us forget the origins. It is a literal white washing of history. This type of censorship is a beginning to greater evils.

[reality-detective]

Day 1 - No Time Wasted 🤔

[srldesigns6277]

Executive Order on Education Part. 2: Changes to History Education from "Anti-American" to Patriotic Education.

Sec. 3.  Ending Indoctrination Strategy.  (a)  Within 90 days of the date of this order, to advise the President in formulating future policy, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall provide an Ending Indoctrination Strategy to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, containing recommendations and a plan for: (i)   eliminating Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology; and (ii)  protecting parental rights, pursuant to FERPA, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, and the PPRA, 20 U.S.C. 1232h, with respect to any K-12 policies or conduct implicated by the purpose and policy of this order.

This order calls to fundamentally change History Education to explicitly make discussions of Racism and anything 'Anti-American' like discussions of the Civil War and its causes or Segregation and Civil Rights inherently wrong as it discusses the wrongs of America. It also calls for changes to promote more 'Patriotic Education' to showcase 'American Exceptionalism'

THIS IS CENSORSHIP IN ACTION; DO NOT FORGET THE HISTORY OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT TREATED VARIOUS PEOPLES THROUGHOUT THE PAST 250 YEARS!!!

[socialismscienceism]

Blitzkrieg is the term used for the battle tactics utilized by the Nazi forces during WWII. Blitzkrieg is characterized by its sudden, surprising, and overwhelming show of force. The Nazis won many initial battles using this strategy. It is demoralizing and feels absolute.

But blitzkrieg is not sustainable. The cost of an overwhelming show of force early in a battle is a lack of stamina to endure when the battle doesn’t go the way you want. If the Allied forces were able to maintain defense during the initial strike, they had the opportunity to fight back and win.

Congress and our Judiciary do not move as fast as the Executive Branch. Trump is able to carry out these orders largely because he has a small group of dedicated saboteurs behind him. But a number of his executive orders have already been challenged in court, where they will most assuredly be struck down. Congress will pass laws that will make it harder for future presidents to conduct this behavior. We the people will endure, and when Trump runs out of steam, we will be there to fight back.

It feels demoralizing because that is the point of this tactic. It is meant to make us feel powerless. Now is a time to resist and defend as much as we can. Prepare to fight back, because there will be a turning point.

[unsolicited-opinions]

Please reblog this post? North American Jewish media hasn't started talking about this issue.

The Trump administration is using both Israel and US Jews as a political wedge. Today's examples are about how he's using US Jews.

Y'know how Trump/Hegseth's Department of Defense canceled "identity" (heritage) months?

Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women's History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month.

Ask yourself why Jewish American Heritage Month was not similarly canceled.

I checked, and the US armed services generally do observe Jewish American Heritage Month. Here's the article from the US Army on that topic from May of 2024.

At the same time the Trump/Hegseth's DOD is delegitimizing all these heritage months, they're leaving Jewish America Heritage month alone. So...why was Jewish American Heritage Month left out of this list?

How do you think this will impact the way Jewish US military service members are viewed by their colleagues whose heritage has been erased as a part of the US military?

Trump is trying to kill all DEI programs, attack LGBTQ+ folks, and end meaningful education about the history of race in the US at the same time he's trying to aggressively punish antisemitism in post-secondary education institutions.

What effect do you think this will have on the perception of what Jews believe about other marginalized groups? What conclusions might members of these groups draw about the political alignment of Jews, regardless of the fact that at least 70% of Jewish voters voted against Trump?

US Jews are being used as a political wedge.

If we're going to mitigate the inevitable backlash against US Jews, we need to:

- Start grasping the danger of what Trump is doing by using US Jews as a political wedge

- Start denouncing it loudly, not just among ourselves, but with US gentiles who will listen.

- Loudly opposing every undemocratic/unconstitutional thing Trump does, especially when he's abusing his power to attack those who attack us.

Abuse of power, even leveraged against those we don't like, endangers us.

Please reblog this. Please write to the liberal Jewish newsrooms you value.

[hello-worldshitposting]

trump single handedly fixed the wage gap and forcibly transed every male in america

[patricide1885]

Regarding Trump's executive orders

https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/1i6bbxd/a_legal_researchers_guide_to_trump_antitrans/

With misinformation going wild on this forum and all over the internet, and me having spent the entire day trying to put out the fire, I am going to set the record straight for what Trump's anti-trans executive orders do and don't do:

[1] They DO kickoff a rulemaking process to ban Passport gender changes, but DON'T ban them right away: There will be at least a 60 day comment period before Biden's old rules fall. If you put in an expedited application for a gender change right now (even if you haven't finalized your name change yet for those in process, you can amend your name later but not your gender), you can still self select your new gender if you move NOW! Posting this at the end of inauguration day.If you are able to amend the gender/sex on your Birth Certificate in your birth state and are not nonbinary, you are unaffected as you can apply anew (with surrendering any old Passports beforehand if applicable) with an amended Birth Certificate under both any new or old rules.

Do NOT update your passport. It's too late. Marco Rubio has expedited the change. Only exception is if you never had a passport before and all your documents don't say amended or anything that would tip them off that you're trans. They can see past passports. If they don't know you're trans they will likely just give you a passport based on the info you give none the wiser. There have been reports of people not getting their documents back if they know you are trans.

[2] They DON'T impact Social Security records: Social Security is an independent agency not subject to the whims of the President nor Executive Orders, ran by an official who can only be fired for cause and not for disobedience. Gender change bans on records are not happening right now.

[3] They DO setup effective permission for transphobic officials to try any action through lawsuits, threats, or the rulemaking process any other intimidation of the trans community or attempt to restrict our rights. The traditional institutional guardrails have been taken off. Of course, we will fight many of these in the courts and win (even if SCOTUS decides against protecting trans rights constitutionally) due to most of the big changes he wants needing legally to go through Congress.

[4] They DON'T affect name changes at all, these are managed by states and there is no proposal to change that or not recognize our name change orders.[5] They DON'T change any rights your state gives to you (read up on your state constitutional and state civil rights laws), your federal Civil Rights protections (even if the executive branch refuses to enforce it, you can still take them to court), federal law, the constitution, or anything like that. This ONLY affects how the Executive Branch operates, not anything or anyone else.

[6] Finally, updated Passports with amended gender markers cannot be reversed due to being validly issued under different regulatory regimes. They normally last for ten years before expiring, we will outlast this clown.