Trump's FY2027 budget proposed $8 billion in cuts for K-12 programs, and $2.7 billion in cuts for higher education. But tax payers (you and me) are going to pay $1.8 billion to pay Trump and people who violently tried to undo the 2020 election. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Yesterday $1 billion for "security" for Trump's ballroom was struck from the budget for immigration enforcement (ICE and CBP) in the US Senate. apnews.com/article/whit...

Last week the Congressional Budget Office reported Trump's Golden Dome for America (missile defense program) (of course it has to be golden) will cost $1.2 trillion. Trump said it would cost $175 billion. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

On Friday a Kansas District Court Judge blocked enforcement of a Kansas law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 18, a law aggressively pushed by Trump, because the law violates the Kansas state constitution. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Trump has 7 concentration camps (that is what they are) in California, run by for-profit companies. Conditions are worsening for people held in these camps: Overcrowding, undercooked food, inadequate clothing, clean drinking water, access to medical care ... www.usatoday.com/story/news/c...

Judges have ruled 10,000 times (90% of cases) against Trump's anti-immigrant policy of detaining anyone in the US who is eligible for deportation without providing a chance for a hearing. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

This is what I'm listening to. From 1989. I don't think I've listened to this in some time. Parts leave me verklempt I would say. Reaction to side two is remembering a Jeff Buckley lyric: "I miss my beautiful friend."

Yesterday a US District Court Judge ordered Trump to bring a Colombian woman back to the US from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after she was deported to the African country that had refused to accept her because it cannot provide sufficient medical care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The names Hamnet and Hamlet were interchangeable, as were Anne and Agnes.

Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories, saying Trump violated Albanese's free speech rights by imposing sanctions (barring entry to the US) ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from confidential transgender patient information from a Rhode Island hospital that provides gender-affirming care. apnews.com/article/tran...

I'm not going to call out the person who made the specific comment, but does a parking lot not "destroy the architectural integrity of the entire streetscape"?(I think the building looks cool!) www.pressherald.com/2026/05/13/p...

Yesterday the South Carolina legislature blocked Trump's effort to redraw the state's congressional districts and eliminate the district for US Representative Jim Clyburn, the state's only African American in the US House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yesterday the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit (Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee) blocked Trump from indefinitely holding people with pending immigration cases without a bond hearing, saying the policy violated the US Constitution. www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2026-05-11/6...

This is what I'm listening to.

May 5, 2026: "Mass deportations are coming." wnyc.org/npr/g-s1-120...

Reminder that Trump aims to remove (deport) 1,000,000 immigrants per year. stateline.org/2026/05/12/s...

The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition said that there has been a recent increase in reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions and encounters in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2026/05/11/i...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifts the mandate for Alabama to use a U.S. House map with two majority-Black districts.

On Wednesday the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit (Florida, Alabama and Georgia) blocked Trump from detaining immigrants in his concentration camps without bond hearings and release while individual civil cases are adjudicated. www.gpb.org/news/2026/05...

On Thursday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from terminating > $100M in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations, because Trump's actions to end the grants were illegal. bookriot.com/judge-rules-trumps-cancelation-of-humanities-grants-unconstitutional/

On Thursday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump's investigations of 2 medical groups -- Endocrine Society and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) -- supporting gender-affirming care. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/judg...

On Thursday the US Court of International Trade blocked Trump's 10% import tariffs because Trump's actions are illegal: the US Congress controls tariffs. www.cato.org/news-release...

On Thursday a US District Court Judge ruled Trump continued to arrest immigrants without probable cause despite an order from 2025 requiring a warrant to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

Maine should increase its vehicle registration fee. It's $35. One needs a residence, like a second home or camp, in Maine to register a vehicle in the state. In Massachusetts, the vehicle registration fee is $60.

Immigrants voluntarily choosing not to pursue remaining in the US. 7 times as many under Trump as under Biden. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

👎 Today the Supreme Court of Virginia blocked the congressional map approved by voters. www.wric.com/news/politic...

Study and recommendations Santa Barbara's City Council reviewed and approved are here. santabarbaraca.gov/sites/defaul...

Santa Barbara, California updated its Inclusionary Zoning regulations to increase in-lieu fees which were determined to be too low and inflexible. 15% of for-sale units and 10% of rental units are to be affordable. www.independent.com/2026/05/06/s...

Yesterday a US District Court Judge called horse mittens on Trump's assertion that he can cancel already-awarded federal grants when they fund programs that do not align with Trump's political (or personal enrichment) objectives. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

A former immigration law judge in California is suing Trump arguing she was fired because she is a Democrat, a woman, over 40 years-old, fluent in Spanish and previously advocated for immigrants. www.ktvu.com/news/concord...

A Chicago former immigration law judge is suing Trump arguing she was fired based on her previous work as an immigration lawyer, and her race and sex. abc7chicago.com/post/former-...

Trump lost the 2020 election because he is a moron, and he lost the popular vote and electoral college vote. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Un...

👎 Yesterday a US District Court Judge allowed Trump to keep Fulton County (Georgia) ballot boxes, which Trump is using to continue to investigate debunked claims he lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud. Trump didn't lose the 2020 election because of fraud. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Albany weakened (but increased the in lieu fee) for its Inclusionary Zoning ordinance. Req now is 5% of rental units affordable to people earning up to 70% of AMI; and it was 13% of units affordable to those earning up to 60% of AMI. www.wamc.org/news/2026-04...

... I applaud the use of the word "equity" in the current US political environment. It's absolutely legit terminology for how what we should want to strive for socioeconomically. Trickle-down economics not-so-much. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...

Background on housing and IZ in Pittsburgh. I don't understand the whole of argument Inclusionary Zoning works against equity goals. Even with downward filtering, which can take years to reach lower income people, production of market rate housing leads to gentrification, but...

Lawrenceville's Inclusionary Zoning says 10% of rental units must be affordable to people earning up to 50% of AMI (area median income): $37,600 annually for a household of one, $43,000 for a household of two. Units for sale must be affordable to people earning up to 80% of AMI.

Inclusionary Zoning in Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) is allowing people driven out of the neighborhood to move back into it. www.wesa.fm/development-...

🚨📢ATTN: Tonight from 6-7pm EST, I'm hosting a Zoom meeting to discuss Janet Mills' exit from the U.S. Senate race, some concerns that I have, and what I see as the path forward to victory. Hope to see you there! You can sign up with this link: calendly.com/laflammeform...

This is what I'm listening to. From 1984.

Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from attempting to halt processing immigration applications for citizens of countries listed under Trump's travel ban, because Trump's attempt was unlawful and discriminatory. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Today a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from ending legal protections that ⁠have allowed nearly ​3,000 immigrants from Yemen ​to live and work in the US. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Trump wants to deport 1.3 million people from 17 countries. (For starters.) So a ruling for Trump with regards to Haitian and Syrian immigrants will have larger implications. www.aclunorcal.org/tps-at-scotus/

This morning the US Supreme Court is hearing arguments by Trump (and in opposition to Trump) to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Haiti and Syria. WNYC is discussing, and taking calls from immigrants, and it's going to broadcast the arguments. www.wnyc.org/story/new-ri...

"Among those who were [kept by Trump in Trump's concentration camps] by the new mandatory detention policy were people eligible for legal status, even those with long-pending immigration applications who have been waiting years due to administrative backlogs."

"Among those who were [kept by Trump in Trump's concentration camps] by the new mandatory detention policy were people eligible for legal status, even those with long-pending immigration applications who have been waiting years due to administrative backlogs."