A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

[HMSGoose]

That Nazi “civility-enforcer” hair tho…

[nungesser]

@MalevolentPixy

Stop whatever you’re doing and read the @WhiteHouse plan for complete reorganization of the entire federal government. I have tweeted some highlights, but honestly can’t begin to capture the horror.

I did, but I’d like to hear more from people who work in these departments as to how ‘horrific’ it is or whether any of the proposals are sensible. I’m trained by BB to assume that everything the administration does is for the worst possible reasons and to harm Americans as much as possible, but I don’t know enough about governmental structure and organization to know if, say, combining various redundant departments would aid in efficiency or be a horrorshow in some way.

[nungesser]

@alahmnat

It is absolutely essential that, in the name of civility, people who spearhead policies aimed at entrenching white people as the dominant demographic in America through abuse and torture of non-white people and get photographed making white power signs not be called white nationalists, okay?

I have no doubt that Miller has the interests of white people in mind more than any others, and there’s anonymous reports that he giggles at child death and such, but Snopes casts shade on that ‘white power sign’ image.

[Melz2]

What the actual fuck:

Veteran Long Beach fire captain is gunned down while responding to explosion at...

[alahmnat]

I’ll take their point that it may just be an unfortunately-timed photograph of him adjusting his tie and buttoning his blazer simultaneously (okay…). However, I do think that the ADL saying “Miller can’t be a white supremacist, he’s Jewish” is… silly. It’s like saying “X can’t be a Republican, they’re gay!” Yes, white supremacists are probably going to have Jews on their short-list, but not before they get through the rest of the Browns, and in that, Miller is apparently more than willing to find common cause. You can be a bigot and lack critical amounts of self-awareness.

[nungesser]

@alahmnat

However, I do think that the ADL saying “Miller can’t be a white supremacist, he’s Jewish” is… silly.

That reasoning is incredibly ignorant and idiotic on their part. Somehow Hitler managed to be a staunch advocate for an Aryan race of virile blonde-haired blue-eyed Germans while being a scrawny, drug-addled, black-haired Jew. I think Stephen Miller’s quite capable of inflicting pain and hatred on Mexicans, no matter what his background is.

[RickMycroft]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/trump-congresswoman-clash-as-tempers-flare-over-immigration-idUSKBN1JL1DS
Oh, he mad, very low IQ. Dumb. But scroll down to the ACLU part:

In one declaration filed with the brief, a mother identified only by her initials E.J.O.E. said that “the government told her that she would be reunited with her son if she renounced her statement of fear,” a first step in asking for asylum. The mother did so, but was then deported without her 8-year-old son.

Blackmail to get her to renounce her refugee status, then separate them anyway.

[blondie]

It’d be better if Trump reconsidered. But I guess that’s not happening, eh?

[blondie]

I’ll go out on a limb and say that combining the departments of education and labor will lean to the horrorshow side. The corporate overlords will love it though. So there’s that.

[Wanderfound]

A thread from the fringes of the empire:

Rin Chupeco (RinChupeco)

[Wanderfound]

@Wanderfound

People often ask what it’s like running for office as me against this large machine. It looks like this: in this article by a local newspaper, they mention my age and not that of my male opponent.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[Wanderfound]

David French (DavidAFrench)

The NRO isn’t terribly interesting, but this is an interesting thread in response:

Matt Ford (fordm)

[Akimbo_NOT]

FUCK YOU Roberts!

“Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the government “has set forth a sufficient national security justification” to prevail.”

U.S. top court upholds Trump travel ban targeting Muslim-majority...

[nungesser]

I give up. He’s got control of all the branches and is a dictator now.

[Akimbo_NOT]

The Russian Mission Accomplished Party is just around the corner.

The good news is that he probably won’t get much of anything done for the remainder of his (first?) term. However, he will continue to install his judges nationwide.

[ficuswhisperer]

The experiment failed. RIP America. 1776-2016.

[ficuswhisperer]

The Supreme Court horror show continues unabated today…

Supreme Court sides with anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" in First...

[Akimbo_NOT]

Clearly timed for today’s primaries.

[nungesser]

@Akimbo_NOT

The good news is that he probably won’t get much of anything done for the remainder of his (first?) term. However, he will continue to install his judges nationwide.

Once again, I’d like to thank those members of BoingBoing’s forums who repeatedly insisted that there was no discernible difference between Trump and Hillary for helping to install ultra-conservative jurors with lifetime appointments. Well done.

[alahmnat]

This may be a bit tangential, but “use the courts to diminish the power of the disadvantaged” seems to strike the right tone.

Judge deals blow to women suing Microsoft over gender discrimination

Particularly galling from Microsoft is this:

The company also argued it would be a mistake to lump together the situations of thousands of different women across the company. Microsoft argued that plaintiffs failed to identify any specific Microsoft policy that produced the allegedly unequal pay between men and women.

“Just because thousands of women all complained about the same thing doesn’t mean you can draw any inferences about our broader behavior”, says company that powers an entire industry of behavior-based analytics. “And besides, it’s not like we were stupid enough to put “pay women less” in the employee handbook, so fuck you.”