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In win for Trump, Supreme Court blocks disclosure of DOGE operations​


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In win for Trump, Supreme Court blocks disclosure of DOGE operations

A watchdog group wants to learn more about DOGE's role in President Trump's efforts to dramatically downsize and reshape the federal government.
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“The Department of Government Efficiency doesn't have to turn over records and answer questions about its operations for now, the Supreme Court said on June 6, intervening in a dispute between the Trump administration and a watchdog group over DOGE's role in slashing federal jobs and remaking the federal government.

In response to an emergency request from the administration, the court's conservative majority ordered a lower court to narrow the information DOGE needs to disclose.

In a brief, unsigned order, the majority said "separation of powers concerns counsel judicial deference and restraint" when directing the executive branch to hand over internal communications.

… A federal judge had said Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is allowed to question the head of DOGE and receive certain documents to help make its case that DOGE must comply with the nation's premier public disclosure law. …”

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So in back to back decisions, the six conservative justices of SCOTUS tell Americans that DOGE can have our personal data but we can’t get data on who DOGE is and what they are doing (for now) …
 
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“… After dismissing thousands of probationary employees for fabricated “performance” issues, the IRS reversed course and told them to show up to work in late May.

And some staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development, dismantled in the first days of the Trump administration by a gleeful Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the U.S. DOGE Service, checked their inboxes this month to find an unexpected offer: Would you consider returning — to work for the State Department?

… Trump officials are trying to recover not only people who were fired, but also thousands of experienced senior staffers who are opting for a voluntary exit as the administration rolls out a second resignation offer. Thousands more staff are returning in fits and starts as a conflicting patchwork of court decisions overturn some of Trump’s large-scale firings, especially his Valentine’s Day dismissal of all probationary workers, those with one or two years of government service and fewer job protections. …”
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I remember in these forums people actually debating if indiscriminately firing government workers en masse was a good approach to downsizing.
 


Really interesting story. I did not realize that American Samoans do not get birthright citizenship. They cannot vote in federal elections but can vote in local elections in Samoa, which apparently has tripped up some Samoans who move to a State and assume they can vote in local elections there.
 

Cards in deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed​

Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.


“… The [travel ban] announcement was the latest example of how the Trump administration has dipped into its large reserve of proclamations and executive orders — many of which have been long in the making — to drive its chosen narrative, push the president’s priorities and sometimes change the subject when news coverage focuses on topics that Trump officials prefer to downplay.

Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape, a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.
Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said. Others are teed up the night before they are signed depending on impulse, political strategy and the overall mood within the White House, the official said.…”
 
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Really interesting story. I did not realize that American Samoans do not get birthright citizenship. They cannot vote in federal elections but can vote in local elections in Samoa, which apparently has tripped up some Samoans who move to a State and assume they can vote in local elections there.
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Why prosecute them, then? They are Americans. They should get citizenship. Instead they get shit and then when our dumbass system confuses them, they get thrown in fail? Fuck that.

Samoan football players need to realize their power and boycott states with retrograde policies -- like prosecuting Samoans for innocent behavior. If Samoans were to decide to no longer go to BYU or Boise State, those football programs would crumble.
 
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THIS IS SUCH BULL SHIT. The May 2025 jobs report shows a labor market that added 139,000 jobs, but at a slower pace than in recent years. The Annual average monthly job gains in 2024 were 186,000 which was lower than in 2023 when the average was 225,000 per month. Adding 139k jobs in a month is nothing to brag about Donald. The US economy added 4.5 million jobs in 2022, the second-strongest year for job growth in the past 40 years. Today, the unemployment rate remains relatively low, but has risen slightly from its lowest point in recent years. This suggests a continued but more moderate economic expansion compared to 2021 - 2024 when the dead and soulless Biden was in office.

And the bull shit about "tariffs bringing in billions" - this is total gas-lighting. He's trying to make it sound like the U.S. has gained billions of dollars from foreign countries - but in actuality, American businesses, companies and consumers have been paying BILLIONS more for goods, services and supplies.

Have you been to the grocery store lately? Are you paying WAY more for products now than this time last year? Of course you are. Just one example: a bottle of "value wine" at the grocery store - let's use an inexpensive Rosè from France or a Pinot Grigio from Italy. 6 months ago one could purchase - from the local grocer - a bottle for $9 or $10 bucks. Now, that same, cheap - yet highly drinkable "value wine" is more like $13 and $15 bucks per bottle. And we're talking CHEAP, INEXPENSIVE wine here folks. This stuff is NOT supposed to be top shelf... this is the basic "table wine" found on the bottom shelf. Don't even look at the top shelf stuff now.

For you wine snobs - go to your local Wine store, where you go to get the "good stuff"... compare those prices NOW as to just one year ago.

Imported wine is just ONE example of how all those "billions have been pouring in". Somebody has been pouring in the billion$ - it's the American consumer that's who! What a dumbfuck trump is.
 

Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early​


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Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early

This is the second year in a row the service has met its recruiting goals.
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“The Army has met its fiscal 2025 recruiting goal four months early, signing 61,000 contracts for new active duty soldiers, officials announced Tuesday.

… The goal was 10% higher than the 55,000 recruits the Army sought last year. Average contracts per day exceeded last year’s levels by as much as 56% during the same period, according to the release.

… Last year marked the first time the Army had reached its recruiting goals in two years.

In 2022, the Army added 44,901 new soldiers to the active Army, reaching about three-fourths of its goal of 60,000 recruits, according to Army data. In 2023, the service recruited 54,000 soldiers, falling 11,000 short of its “stretch goal” of 65,000 recruits.

However, in 2024, the Army exceeded its goal by 11,000 recruits, who were placed in the service’s delayed entry program for this fiscal year.

The service has reached its retention goals for seven years straight.…”
 
nycfan said:

Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early​


www.armytimes.com

Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early

This is the second year in a row the service has met its recruiting goals.
www.armytimes.com www.armytimes.com

“The Army has met its fiscal 2025 recruiting goal four months early, signing 61,000 contracts for new active duty soldiers, officials announced Tuesday.

… The goal was 10% higher than the 55,000 recruits the Army sought last year. Average contracts per day exceeded last year’s levels by as much as 56% during the same period, according to the release.

… Last year marked the first time the Army had reached its recruiting goals in two years.

In 2022, the Army added 44,901 new soldiers to the active Army, reaching about three-fourths of its goal of 60,000 recruits, according to Army data. In 2023, the service recruited 54,000 soldiers, falling 11,000 short of its “stretch goal” of 65,000 recruits.

However, in 2024, the Army exceeded its goal by 11,000 recruits, who were placed in the service’s delayed entry program for this fiscal year.

The service has reached its retention goals for seven years straight.…”
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Signs of an economic downturn.
 
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