Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)

Trump needs to be booted from office. Stat.

He's bonkers.

Via Rupar:

I've been saying ... watch Vought... and Miller.

David Rothkopf:

Miller is a bad news. Trump knows it. Trump has elevated and super-empowered Miller knowing his racist, anti-democratic impulses. It puts the lie to the notions that Trump is just greedy or just ignorant. Miller is not pulling Trump's strings. Miller is doing what Trump wants done.

#Trumpnomics #TrumpTax

“Americans’ feelings about the US economy remain in the doldrums: Consumer sentiment continued its freefall this month, settling in at a near-record low.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/economy/consumer-sentiment-may-preliminary?cid=ios_app

#Trump and #Musk are starving people to death. #ProLifeMyAss

“Exclusive: Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation” https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/

“Forcing” people to protect themselves against health threats is somehow bad. Like, you know, vaccinating against deadly diseases.

“ #Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in public water

DeSantis called the fluoridation of water “forced medication,” saying that it violates “informed consent.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-becomes-second-state-ban-fluoride-public-water-rcna205127

Oh swell. What else would we expect from a Musk/Trump-gutted #FEMA?

Via Kyle Griffin:

Breaking WSJ:

The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/fema-hurricane-season-no-plan-39042ee

#Musk ‘s “X continued to take payments from accounts that appeared to be affiliated with Hezbollah leaders, Houthi officials, and militia leaders in Syria and Iraq, a nonprofit found. The report comes over a year after researchers warned that X may be violating U.S. sanctions by accepting such payments”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/technology/x-terrorists-verified-badges.html

📌Calendar marked! Wow!🗓️

CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/entertainment/george-clooney-broadway-play-cnn-televise

🤞🏼#SCOTUS 1/...

Via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:

I don't know if this is just my own biases but this does not seem to be going well for the DOJ.

Paraphrasing...
Kagan: Assume this is completely illegal EO. How do the courts actually stop it?
Govt: Certify a class action.
Kagan: You'll argue there's no class to certify under FRCP.
Govt: Yeah true.
Kagan: So how else?
Govt: Have every individual affected sue.
Barrett: Seriously?

2/ Keep 'em coming

#SCOTUS

Via Klasfeld:

This was quite a moment:

Barrett indignantly handed Kagan an assist after Sauer’s nonanswer to Kagan’s question.

Lee Kovarsky:

ACB big tell: "Are you really going to" answer EK that way, that you have to run through a bunch of lower court cases that certify classes.

3/ Via Gabriel Malor:

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Justice Alito gives SG Saur a layup on whether state plaintiffs have standing and class certification would solve the problem of universal injunctions and he says it would grant "broad relief," and Alito still doesn't like it. "So your answer is 'no.'

4/ EXCUSE ME?

Via Melissa Murray:

Chief Justice John Roberts: "In recent years, we've been able to move expeditiously [to resolve pressing matters]."

Me: STARES IN TRUMP V. UNITED STATES

5/ Keep 'em coming

Via Anthony Michael Kreis:

Kagan: I am suggesting in a case where the government is losing constantly... if I were in your shoes, there's no way I'd approach the Supreme Court with this case.

oof.

6/ Malor:

SG Saur says this is a case that "cries out for percolation."

Nobody pushes back, but the push back is WHY? WHAT INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS NEED INDIVIDUAL CASES? THE WHOLE EO IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. NO PERCOLATION NEEDED

7/ 🚨 #SCOTUS

Via Steve Vladeck:

Even though Solicitor General Sauer has been raked over the coals, it’s hard to see who the fifth vote is to deny the government’s applications here.

I didn’t hear *any* real skepticism from the Chief Justice or Justice Kavanaugh, and we already know where Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch stand.

Sigh.

8/ Vladeck, cont'd:

To be clear, it’s not that there are five votes to *uphold* Trump’s patently unlawful and unconstitutional limits on birthright citizenship; it’s that there seem to be five votes to hold that district courts can grant relief only to plaintiffs—so the policy would go into effect against all others.

"Staffers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Thursday that they plan to form a union in response to several waves of layoffs and what they describe as a lack of transparency from leaders at the arts institution, which President Donald Trump took over in February."
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftheater%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Fkennedy-center-union%2F

🚨🤦🏻♀️

“RAINN, the largest U.S. anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from referring callers to resources for #LGBTQ, immigrants and other marginalized groups that might violate #Trump’s executive orders to eliminate DEI efforts.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/well/rainn-dei-trump-executive-orders.html

SIX MINUTES?! ✈️🛩️

"Denver airport air traffic control went out for 6 minutes on Monday, report says

Up to 20 pilots were unable to talk to controllers, Denver7 reports"

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/05/15/denver-international-airport-air-traffic-control-outage-longmont/

Yet another #recall

"Wells Enterprises, also known as Wells Dairy, has issued a voluntary recall of 22 varieties of ice cream and frozen yogurt products distributed to more than 100 facilities across the U.S., citing the possible presence of plastic in the frozen goods."

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-cream-recalled-nationwide-products-affected-2072579