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tanyev's JournalHey, remember when he said he didn't sign the proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act,
even though his signature was at the bottom of it, and his administration kept following the proclamation and not one single elected Republican expressed any concern? Seems like it just happened a couple weeks ago.
Oh, that’s because it did….
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.
“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.
The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.
“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/politics/trump-signature-alien-enemies-act-proclamation/index.html
Sanewashing. What AP says Trump said:
Exact quote of what the Deranged Lunatic posted on “Truth”Social:
"Donny's got the emotional stability of a two-year-old melting down over a dropped ice cream cone"
Oh, that’s perfect.
JSTOR (digital academic library) has joined the resistance! Good article in yesterday's newsletter.
I've been getting their newsletters for awhile for their very interesting articles on all kinds of historical topics. If they delve into politics, it's usually about something historical. This article is about our current crisis, but includes a lot of historical context.
There's a lot you can access for free on their site, but you do have to pay if you want access to everything. Also, a lot of their stuff is accessible through school or public libraries.
On January 27, 2025, a week into the second Trump administration, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo announcing that all federal financial assistance was being paused to assess programs’ “consisten[cy] with the President’s policies and requirements.”
Two days later, a second memo rescinded the first. Two major suits had already been brought by parties affected by the cutoff, and one temporary injunction issued. The rescission announcement brought a brief sense of relief, but a tweet by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hours later removed any doubts about its intention:
This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze.
It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.
Why? To end any confusion created by the court’s injunction.
The President’s EO’s [sic] on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.
—@PressSec, January 29, 2025, 1:40pm
As the week progressed, more information emerged, not only about funds being frozen, but about how the mechanisms and agencies that administrate these funds were being taken over by the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency, comprised of Elon Musk and a cadre of young men with previous experience in his companies. Private servers were patched into payment systems (there’s a lawsuit for that), legacy code bases accessed and changed, and the personal data of millions of Americans made accessible to Musk employees with no governmental experience.
We, as a country, have not been here before, but in 1974 we briefly visited the neighborhood.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-power-of-the-purse/?utm_term=Read%20More&utm_campaign=jstordaily_02132025&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email
Lutheran Services has been a joint project of two different Lutheran denominations.
The ELCA is more liberal and the LCMS, in which I grew up, is very conservative. The ELCA is a bigger denomination and may be the major player, but the current Lutheran Services website still has some LCMS people on their Leadership page.
When this story erupted, there was immediate pushback and outrage from the ELCA. Their bishop recorded a message that went up on their website and social media and there were hundreds of comments from ELCA members reacting to this.
The LCMS? Crickets. Nothing on their website, nothing on Facebook. Numerous business as usual posts on Facebook and today I’m finally seeing in the comments of unrelated posts some questions about what the LCMS response is. Hard to tell if any of those questions are coming from actual LCMS members. I’m disappointed, but not terribly surprised.
When an unstoppable farce meets an immovable offensive.
The WSJ got anything to say about Trump's energy and availability?
Or are they helpfully paraphrasing his nonsensical argle-bargle as "The president-elect expressed his irritation with [insert issue du jour] in forceful terms on social media."
I hope they have plenty of fainting couches and smelling salts in their break rooms.
They're the ones who insisted on treating the election as a race between two equivalent candidates who merely had differing philosophies.
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