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The Trump administration said it would move quickly to challenge such injunctions. However, the ruling by the court's 6-3 conservative majority contained exceptions, allowing federal judges to continue to issue sweeping rulings blocking key parts of the Republican president's agenda. [...] In the short time since the ruling, lower-court judges have already blocked Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border, prevented his administration from ending temporary deportation protections for Haitian migrants and forced the government to restore health websites deemed to run afoul of Trump's efforts to squash "gender ideology."

 

In addition to laying off employees, The Verge reported Rosenberg as saying that NOAA has canceled a lease for the building which houses the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) in Maryland, which produces information for the National Weather Service, Air Force, Navy, and Federal Aviation Administration. As confirmed by an anonymous NOAA employee, NOAA has also canceled a lease for the Radar Operations Center in Normon, Oklahoma.

 

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its subsidiary, the National Weather Service. But until recently, he also ran a financial firm, Cantor Fitzgerald (which he placed under the stewardship of his two twentysomething sons), that invests in companies vying to replace the weather agencies’ labor.

 

At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 38 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

No wonder he got that brainworm.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've come to suspect the war with Iran was just an excuse to justify not helping Ukraine.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Personally, I'm just going to continue to call it what I've always known it as for years: Twitter. It's just as valid as calling it Xitter or Shitter.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Good point. MAGA is obsessed with polls, but we can ignore them.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

I was thinking the same thing. xD

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

Second only to Trump himself, of course.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 52 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Welcome to taste of our world, Fetterman.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

If so, glad I posted now.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

No kidding. I've been iffy about the service since experts were skeptical about their custom encryption algorithm (I think) they created.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

He probably knows more about Russia than America.

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