Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social), page 3

"Americans disapprove of Trump on broad range of issues—crime, econ, immig, foreign wars—by double-digits...majority of Americans still say they want Democrats to control the next Congress “as a check on Trump.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/19/trump-poll-crime-immigration-economy-tariffs/

“As Trump’s deployment of federal agents in DC enters its second month, the effects are becoming clear. …other investigative work of the F.B.I. is being delayed, frustrating law enforcement officials and leading some to quit.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-dc-crackdown-fbi-prosecutors.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"Senate confirms 48 Trump nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich

Republicans this month triggered the "nuclear option," changing Senate rules to confirm nominees en bloc, calling it an attempt to overcome Democratic obstruction" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-confirms-48-trump-nominees-kimberly-guilfoyle-callista-gingrich-rcna231946

As expected 🙄

“Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, named new CEO of Turning Point USA
Late co-founder previously expressed that he would want his wife to lead in the event of his death, organization says”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/charlie-erika-kirk-turning-point-usa-tpusa?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Keep 'em coming

Via Josh Gerstein:

BREAKING: Judge issues preliminary injunction barring Trump administration from returning unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. Trump appointee Timothy Kelly says administration's 'explanation crumbled like a house of cards.' Doc: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv2942-49

I can vouch. I sent registered letters to Target during pandemic to demand they enforce in-store COVID rules.

It worked.

Via Bsky randos: Address:

Disney-ABC Home Entertainment & Television Distribution
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-3515

response to this:

"Been a soc media mgr for 10 yrs. If upset w a co. I BEG you to write a physical letter & put it in a mailbox. 10K soc media comments=meaningless annoyance that execs brush off. A single letter can send a company into a panic."

2/ ICYMI:

🚨"Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way."

Fascism SHOULD NOT BE EASY.

One more thing before I get offline, in light of the insanity of our fascist govt silencing Kimmel.

We can multitask. We are not "distracted."

Kashyap Patel imploded today, and Trump knows it.

Why did he implode? Among other things,
the #EpsteinFiles .

1/...

Saudi Arabia has signed a 'strategic mutual defence' pact with Pakistan, signalling to the US and Israel that the kingdom is willing to diversify its security alliances as it looks to bolster its deterrence
— Financial Times

Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction over abysmal conditions at a New York City immigration detention facility.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.647291/gov.uscourts.nysd.647291.96.0.pdf

“Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is resigning from the ice cream company he founded in 1978, saying the brand’s freedom to speak out on social issues has been stifled by parent company Unilever”—Boston Globe

Keep 'em coming

LATimes: "UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for ‘financial coercion’ over UCLA cuts

UC faculty, students & staff on sued Trump over $1.2-mil penalty against UCLA & fed demands for campus changes. They argued that the actions are unconstit, would harm whole UC system"

#California

Democrat Xp Lee won a special election Tuesday to fill the #Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated.
Rep. Melissa Hortman, of Brooklyn Park, held the seat until her death in June.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-legislature-special-election-melissa-hortman-712d68209d59dfffc3c57421f095b437

Via Letitia James:

Today is National Voter Registration Day!  

The right to vote is the core of our nation’s democracy. 

New Yorkers, make sure you are registered to vote to get out and make your voices heard at the ballot box! 

https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org

Um... wut.

Via Kyle Cheney:

Kash Patel says the FBI has NO information that Jeffrey #Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself.

SEN. KENNEDY: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?"

PATEL: "There is no credible information, none ... that he trafficked to other individuals."

#EpsteinFiles

OFFS!

"Misconfigured platform used by DHS left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people

"Now a data leak affecting DHS's intel arm has shed light not just on how DHS gathers/stores that sensitive info—incl about its surveillance of Americans—but on how it once left that data exposed to 1000s of govt, priv sector workers, even foreign natls who were never authorized to see it"

https://www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-data-hub-exposed-sensitive-intel-to-thousands-of-unauthorized-users/

Trump has called for US companies to stop reporting quarterly results, adding that a shift to publishing figures twice a year will save them cash and allow executives to focus on their businesses
— Financial Times

To be fair, Trump is very knowledgeable about "white everything"

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

REPORTER: Do you think Maduro is not telling the truth when he said it's a fisherman's boat?

TRUMP: Oh, give me a break. You could see it. You saw the bags of white everything, right through the bags. It's nonsense.

Trump/MAGA-GOP strike again:

"Long-term unemployment at post-pandemic high, straining workers & economy

More Americans are experiencing joblessness for 6 mos or more, a sign of labor market’s weakness" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/15/long-term-unemployment-workers-jobs/

Keep ‘em coming

“NEW: #Missouri voters have sued to stop Gov. Kehoe’s Trump-ordered gerrymander.

The lawsuit says Republicans rushed through an ‘unconstitutional’ mid-decade map to dismantle Kansas City’s 5th district and silence Black voters.” https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/missouri-voters-sue-to-block-unconstitutional-gop-gerrymander/