About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

What the f?

How incompetent are these people?

[We know the answer]
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

The AJs still do a good job.

True.

It’s not even “if.” They are pulling the ICE-tracking apps from the store. They have fully caved to this Administration.

Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
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Yes. Sadly, nothing prevents the agency from going back and doing it right. But there is value in making them do it right.

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

That’s my point. If they don’t follow their plan, and I seriously doubt they will, it’s an illegal RIF.

Well, someone’s getting fired (or got a RIF notice and said f it.)

It happens. 😝

Reduction in Force. And character limits are a bitch.

If the Department fails to follow its plan, its decision is reversible. One of the key rules of federal employment law is that, while the Agency gets to set many of the rules, it is legally bound to follow the rules that it sets. When it fails to do so, its action is improper and will be reversed.

Every federal department has a RIF plan. And back in February, they were all ordered to update them. RIFs can be legal, if they follow the plan. But based on the President’s comments yesterday, there is good reason to believe that (a) they aren’t, or (b) the plan itself is illegal. My bet is (a).

Fair enough. As I said last night, that statement would be Exhibit 1 in any MSPB appeal I filed on behalf of a client who was a Democrat.

And (3) the “Muslim ban” comments were largely during the campaign, before he was President. The Court gave a lot of leeway to that aspect as well.

It’s not just a First Amendment issue. The Civil Service Reform Act specifically prohibits personnel actions based on partisan political affiliation. Even a probationer can appeal that termination to the MSPB.

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Even the cricket fans are complaining about the length of this game

At this point, they’re going to have to delay Game 1 of the ALCS, because Game 5 of the ALDS will still be going.

Exhibit A, even for probationary terminations. Partisan political reasons is one of the few things a probationer can appeal to the MSPB.