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thewayneAh, sometimes life takes a good turn.
A District Judge ruled that construction on the White House Ballroom must stop, and that it can only continue if approved by Congress! The ruling is notable in the number of exclamation marks present. I do love this quote: ""The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!" Leon wrote."
The Rose Garden can be reconstructed, I have no idea if those were the original rose bushes that Mrs. Kennedy planted all those years ago. But rebuilding the East Wing? That will be one huge job. Of course, guaranteed The Felon will go whining to higher courts and ultimately to the SCOTUS, so we'll see if he gets his way.
His latest White House project is to tear out Tennessee (IIRC) flagstones on a walkway and replace them with black marble. No slip hazard there! It would be nice if he were forced to walk that every day next winter and during rain storms.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-halt-white-house-ballroom-construction-unless-congress-oks-it_n_69cc1df6e4b039d10fc770c5
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768446/judge-rules-white-house-ballroom-construction-must-halt-until-congress-oks-it
Another District Court ruled that The Felon violated the First Amendment when he ordered funding for NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be withdrawn which had already been approved by Congress. Again, it'll be appealed to infinity. If the funding should be reinstated, what happens with CPB? They've shut down, their people scattered to the winds. I suppose it can be resurrected, but a lot of institutional knowledge has been lost forever.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768399/npr-pbs-trump-federal-funding
On March 2, a Federal Appeals Court rejected an appeal from the administration to delay refunding people and companies from the excessive tariff fees that they paid that were found unlawful by the Supreme Court in a ruling in February. The administration asked for 90 days to make plans to start the refunds and to appeal, the court said no. Theoretically they could appeal to the Supreme Court, but since they were the ones who found the tariffs unlawful in the first place, I would expect that they would refuse to hear the case.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-appeals-court-rejects-trump-tariff-refund-delay-supreme-court/
A District Judge ruled that construction on the White House Ballroom must stop, and that it can only continue if approved by Congress! The ruling is notable in the number of exclamation marks present. I do love this quote: ""The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!" Leon wrote."
The Rose Garden can be reconstructed, I have no idea if those were the original rose bushes that Mrs. Kennedy planted all those years ago. But rebuilding the East Wing? That will be one huge job. Of course, guaranteed The Felon will go whining to higher courts and ultimately to the SCOTUS, so we'll see if he gets his way.
His latest White House project is to tear out Tennessee (IIRC) flagstones on a walkway and replace them with black marble. No slip hazard there! It would be nice if he were forced to walk that every day next winter and during rain storms.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-halt-white-house-ballroom-construction-unless-congress-oks-it_n_69cc1df6e4b039d10fc770c5
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768446/judge-rules-white-house-ballroom-construction-must-halt-until-congress-oks-it
Another District Court ruled that The Felon violated the First Amendment when he ordered funding for NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be withdrawn which had already been approved by Congress. Again, it'll be appealed to infinity. If the funding should be reinstated, what happens with CPB? They've shut down, their people scattered to the winds. I suppose it can be resurrected, but a lot of institutional knowledge has been lost forever.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768399/npr-pbs-trump-federal-funding
On March 2, a Federal Appeals Court rejected an appeal from the administration to delay refunding people and companies from the excessive tariff fees that they paid that were found unlawful by the Supreme Court in a ruling in February. The administration asked for 90 days to make plans to start the refunds and to appeal, the court said no. Theoretically they could appeal to the Supreme Court, but since they were the ones who found the tariffs unlawful in the first place, I would expect that they would refuse to hear the case.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-appeals-court-rejects-trump-tariff-refund-delay-supreme-court/
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Date: 2026-04-01 06:37 am (UTC)Result... NOTHING happens and the disgusting fascist abuse just keeps on happening. You do realise your midterm elections are not going to happen? A "state of emergency" will be declared and they will be cancelled.
The only thing that might work is a GENERAL STRIKE. A proper one, not "taking a few hours off in the afternoon and then going back to work to make up the hours all fucking evening."
A full fucking day, everyone, feign illness if you have to. It will not be enough.
Because it will need to be followed by 2 days.
Then 3, and then more.
And sooner rather than later, food shortages and economic collapse are coming, and the fucking draft. White nazis thought they would be safe, but they'll be the ones sent to war to die, everyone else will be imprisoned, murdered or deported already.
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Date: 2026-04-01 01:50 pm (UTC)No slip hazard there!
PLEASE let him be the first one. :) :) :)
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2026-04-01 03:22 pm (UTC)The only solution is if the Dems manage to take Congress by a significant margin, AND grow a spine! AND that's if we actually have mid-term elections in November. All of the shit he's trying to do to disrupt things, there's no telling what'll happen that far down the road. My vote's for embolism, and for Mike Johnson to be taken by space aliens along with JD.
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Date: 2026-04-01 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-04-01 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-04-01 10:45 pm (UTC)I know. It might cause positive change, it might not. The Founding Fathers never considered such an insufferable ass might get elected to the highest office, especially with a brown-nosing collaborator as Speaker of the House. But we can hope for improvement, especially with the results of today's SCOTUS birthright citizenship hearing where he got slapped down soundly, even by two of the three super-conservative justices!
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Date: 2026-04-03 04:42 pm (UTC)