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Hubby: "Let's watch the local news."
[News reports about transgender athletes and Title IX and schools]
Me: "F*ck you! Studies of two people are not studies! READ THE SCIENCE!!!"
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Me: "Sorry. But I can't help it! Grrrrr...."
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#trumpisabully
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Sounds like #China's #XiJinping wants a #FullThroatedApology from #Trump. How does it feel to have your ass handed to you, Bully-'n-Thief!
"Trump is even less sophisticated than your typical sixth-grade bully. As a lifelong grifter, he can't help but keep returning to the site of a successful shakedown, and will drain a victim dry, as long as they keep complying."
Salon.com · Harvard stands up to Trump — they get that complicity will not save youIt’s delusional to lie low and hope Trump goes away in four years
#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’
By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025
"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.
" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV
The Boston Globe · Maine Governor Janet Mills criticizes Trump administration for freezing funds
#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats
by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR
"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.
"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.
"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.
"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.
"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.
" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'
"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'
"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit
www.wbur.orgHarvard professors sue Trump administration over funding cut threatsThe suit by the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors, filed in Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The court filing says law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.
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@wolfinpdx It was an interesting 200+ year experiment, but now Trump is doing EVERYTHING the founding fathers warned us about!
#USA #Secession #TrumpIsABully
My former Classics professor is now the president of Thomas College in #WatervilleME. Give 'em hell, Dr. Uzzi! She will NOT capitulate!
https://www.thomas.edu/directory/dr-jeannine-diddle-uzzi/
#TrumpIsABully #HigherEducation #MaineResists
Thomas CollegeDr. Jeannine Diddle UzziDr. Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, joining Thomas College in November 2024, is the College's 6th President. Read more about Dr. Uzzi on our site.
#Trump administration refers #Maine to #DOJ over #TransgenderAthletes
by Brooke Migdon - 04/11/25
"The Department of Education on Friday referred a #TitleIX investigation into Maine schools to the #JusticeDepartment after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.
" 'The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda [sic] over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,' said Craig Trainor, acting assistant Education secretary for [WHAT A JOKE] civil rights.
"The Education Department in its announcement said it will also initiate administrative proceedings to determine whether to terminate federal #K12 education funding for Maine’s state education department, including formula and discretionary grants.
"'The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department,' Trainor said. 'Governor [Janet] Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.'
"Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s teams."
#TransgenderRights #FollowTheScience #Transphobia #TransErasure #ProtectTransYouth #MaineResists #TrumpIsABully #SeeYouInCourt #AbortionRights? #WomensRights? #ArrestingMiscarryingWomen? #TrumpDoesntGiveAShitAboutWomen
Court rules federal government cannot freeze #Maine's funding from #USDA
by WGME StaffFri, April 11th 2025 at 8:46 PM
"A court says the federal government cannot freeze Maine’s funding from the Department of Agriculture.
"This comes after the USDA announced it was freezing Maine’s funding when the state would not comply with federal #TitleIX interpretations.
"Under this new ruling, the court is granting Maine a temporary restraining order, saying the federal government must unfreeze and release federal Department of Agriculture funding back to Maine.
"That includes money for things like #SchoolNutrition and #FoodBank programs.
"The Trump administration cannot freeze or withhold funding while this restraining order is in place, and the two sides will have to meet in court, though a date has not been set.
"Maine Attorney General #AaronFrey says this temporary restraining order confirms the Trump administration did not follow the rule of law when it cut program funds that go to feed school children and vulnerable adults.
" 'This order preserves Maine’s access to certain congressionally appropriated funds by prohibiting an unlawful freeze by the administration,' Frey said. “No one in our constitutional republic is above the law, and we will continue to fight to hold this administration to account.' "
WGME · Court rules federal government cannot freeze Maine's funding from USDA
BREAKING NEWS!
#US #SupremeCourt tells #Trump administration to facilitate return of #Salvadoran man deported in error
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung
April 10, 20257:33 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - "The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Thursday a judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.
"The Justice Department had asked the court to throw out an April 4 order by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis requiring the administration to 'facilitate and effectuate' the return of #KilmarAbregoGarcia. The judge had issued the order in response to a lawsuit filed by Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland and has had a work permit since 2019, and his family challenging the legality of his deportation."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/
#SCOTUS #IllegalDeportations #TrumpIsABully #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism
THIS IS BULLSHIT! (AND ILLEGAL!!!)
Pressed for evidence against #MahmoudKhalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
By Jake Offenhartz, April 10, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel #noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests.
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against #Israel’s treatment of #Palestinians and the war in #Gaza.
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.
"He said that while Khalil’s activities were 'otherwise lawful,' letting him remain in the country would undermine 'U.S. policy to combat #AntiSemitism [sez the folks who do the #Nazi salute] around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.'
"'Condoning anti-Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,' Rubio wrote in the undated memo.
"The submission was filed Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.
"Attorneys for Khalil said the memo proved the Trump administration was 'targeting Mahmoud’s #FreeSpeech rights about #Palestine.'
"'After a month of hiding the ball since Mahmoud’s late-night unjust arrest in New York and taking him away to a remote detention center in Louisiana, immigration authorities have finally admitted that they have no case whatsoever against him,' the attorneys, Marc Van Der Hout and Johnny Sinodis, said in a joint statement. "
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34
#TrumpIsABully #FreeMahmoudKhalil #IllegalDeportations #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal
AP News · Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
#Trump admin declares emergency in #California's #federal #forests
The executive action spans the entire state
By Erin Rode, Contributing LA Outdoors EditorApril 8, 2025
"A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of #Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s #NationalForests, which could dramatically reshape the landscape of popular recreation areas in California."
Read more:
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/california-national-forests-logging-20263873.php
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/K6esm
So yeah. This REALLY pisses me off! I have friends who work for the #MaineStateLibrary. Grrrrr....
Maine State Library issues layoffs, cites inability to access federal funding
The Maine State Library announced Wednesday 13 staff members, whose positions are supported by federal funding, were laid off.
April 9, 2025
"The Maine State Library announced layoffs on Wednesday, citing an ongoing inability to access federal funding.
"The announcement comes after President Donald #Trump signed an executive order in March deeming the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 'unnecessary' and slated to be dismantled, later placing the entire agency's staff on administrative leave.
"The Maine State Library said in a news release that IMLS funding represents 30 percent of its annual budget and has not received any communication from IMLS on if or when funding might be restored.
"The state library said it last received funds from its 2025 federal award advance through the IMLS on March 24.
"Thirteen employees whose positions are supported by federal funding have been laid off, the state library said. Those employees represent approximately 30 percent of Maine State Library staff.
"The Maine State Library said the layoffs could be rescinded if funding is restored.
"Starting on Thursday, the Maine State Library will close for a two-week reorganization period where its location at 242 State St. in Augusta will not be open to the public.
"'Losing access to this Federal funding harms Maine residents and will have negative consequences in communities across the state," Maine State Librarian #LoriFisher said in the release. 'Despite these significant cuts, the Maine State Library remains committed to advancing the mission of libraries in Maine and to serving every library patron to the best of our ability.'
"In 2024, the Maine State Library says it received $1,526,754 from the #IMLS Library Services and Technology Act Grants to States program which supports services including #HighSpeedInternet for public libraries; #InterlibraryLoans, #EBooks, and #audiobooks; services for #VisuallyImpaired patrons; and professional development for library staff.
"The library says it is continuing to evaluate the range of impacts on library services from the funding cuts and hopes to provide further updates as they become available.
"Following Trump's executive order, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey joined 20 other attorneys general in a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from dismantling a handful of agencies, including the IMLS."
www.newscentermaine.comBefore you continue to YouTube
The Gender Police -- Targeting Maine yet again!
#PamBondi: #JusticeDepartment cut funding for #Maine corrections department over #transgender inmate
by Brooke Migdon - 04/08/25 4:51 PM ET
"The Justice Department revoked funding for the Maine Department of Corrections over the state’s placement of a transgender woman in a women’s prison, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday.
"Bondi made the announcement during an interview with Fox News, saying the department pulled all 'nonessential' funding from the state corrections department on Monday after federal officials learned 'a guy' was serving time in one of the state’s two women’s facilities. Bondi said the inmate was convicted of murder.
"The loss in funding for the department totaled upward of $1.5 million, according to Fox News. The Justice Department did not return a request for comment.
"In a news release, Maine’s corrections department said it received formal notice from the Department of Justice on Monday that certain federal grants 'are being terminated because they ‘no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities.' The cuts will impact state-run initiatives related to #SubstanceAbuseTreatment and support for #children with incarcerated parents, the corrections department said.
"The notice from the Justice Department, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, does not mention transgender inmates. 'While the Department is aware of related public statements by the United States Attorney General, the notice is the only communication that has been received by the Department,' Maine’s corrections department said.
"The move by the Justice Department is the latest development in a monthlong battle between the Trump administration and Maine over the state’s refusal to ban transgender student-athletes from girls’ and women’s sports as ordered by the president."
Read more:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5238890-maine-corrections-funding-justice-department/
#TransgenderRights #Fascism #ResistFascism #TrumpIsABully #MaineResists
First #Trump Targeted #ProPalestine #Students. Now All Kinds of Foreign Students Are at Risk.
Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “#NonWhite” Students for Deportation
Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.
By Jonah Valdez, April 8, 2025
"With little or no justification, the Trump administration is revoking the visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of international students under the Student Exchange and Visitor Program, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation, according to attorneys representing international #scholars who have filed new lawsuits against the Trump administration."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/08/trump-immigration-international-student-visas-deport/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Dt7JN
#MarcoRubio #KristiNoem #USPol #TrumpIsABully #Deportations #Braindrain
The Intercept · Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation
#DemocracyNow: “#BlackAmericans Are Not Surprised”: #ChristinaGreer on #Trump’s Attacks on #Students, #DEI & #History
Story April 08, 2025
"'There has been a systemic erasure of #BlackHistory.' Professor Christina Greer discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history. The erasure of the history of racism and resistance is not only intellectually dishonest, says Greer, but will also cause the U.S. economic and social harm. 'We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past,' she says."
Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trump_immigrants_black_americans
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #ViewerSupportedNews #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsARacist #USPol
Democracy Now! · “Black Americans Are Not Surprised”: Christina Greer on Trump’s Attacks on Students, <span class="caps">DEI</span> & History
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
#Maine takes #Trump administration to court in first lawsuit over #TitleIX dispute
The lawsuit, filed Monday by Attorney General Aaron Frey, challenges the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision to halt federal funds over Maine's policy regarding #TransgenderAthletes.
April 7, 2025
"Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to withhold federal funds over Maine’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls high school sports.
Frey’s office said funds withheld by the administration are used to feed children in schools, child care centers and after-school programming, as well as disabled adults in congregate settings.
"It is the first lawsuit to result from the Trump administration’s actions targeting Maine over trans athletes.
"'Under the banner of keeping children safe, the Trump administration is illegally withholding grant funds that go to keeping children fed,' Frey said in a written statement. 'This is just another example where no law or consequence appears to restrain the administration as it seeks capitulation to its lawlessness. The President and his cabinet secretaries do not make the law and they are not above the law, and this action is necessary to remind the President that Maine will not be bullied into violating the law.'"
Archived version:
https://archive.md/5pQdU
#MaineResists #SeeYouInCourt #JanetMills #ProtectTransYouth #ProtectTransKids #TransgenderRights #Resistance #TrumpIsABully #USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet
Press Herald · Maine sues Trump administration in 1st case involving Title IX disputeThe lawsuit, filed Monday by Attorney General Aaron Frey, challenges the USDA decision to halt federal funds because Maine allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.
Well then. Let's see. Mucking about with #SocialSecurity, and now #DOGE / #Trump is crippling #LIHEAP -- because, you don't have to pay social security to #seniors who have frozen to death! WAY TO SAVE MONEY, ASSHOLES!
#USPol #TrumpHatesSeniors #KillThePoor #TrumpIsABully