Reposted by Jeff PutnamRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal? 554130335544
Reposted by Jeff PutnamProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2026NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.propublica.orgThe White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. 17127411567
Reposted by Jeff PutnamProPublica @propublica.org · 21/05/2026The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)propublica.orgIRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 MillionThe tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. 1032065865
Jeff Putnam @jeffakajefe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This is wild. Kari Lake has been play-acting at a job she was never given for the past YEAR. 021
Reposted by Jeff PutnamSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 14144551732
Jeff Putnam @jeffakajefe.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Somehow I don't think the pitching coach walked out there and said "let's see if Ohtani's weakness is a middle middle fast all" 040
Reposted by Jeff PutnamBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.yahoo.comLet’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy KimmelTrump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet. 19826136619519
Reposted by Jeff PutnamArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2025arstechnica.comRight-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violenceMost domestic terrorists in the… 13299124
Reposted by Jeff PutnamHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The defining experience of fascism is familiar to anyone who has written stuff on the internet. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...hamiltonnolan.comGetting Yelled at By DumbassesThe defining experience of fascism. 1241494
Reposted by Jeff PutnamRiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025pam bondi as porta potties: thread 23768481376
Reposted by Jeff PutnamLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/07/2025Michael Feinberg, threatened with demotion over his friendship with a former official on the FBI director’s “enemies list,” details FBI leadership’s efforts to oust him from the Bureau, and his decision to ultimately resign. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...lawfaremedia.orgGoodbye to All ThatMy resignation from the FBI. 17762268
Reposted by Jeff PutnamCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Happy No Kings Day 1129637
Reposted by Jeff PutnamAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it." 219861611397
Reposted by Jeff PutnamCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired! New ride coming soon. 38936891912093
Reposted by Jeff PutnamProPublica @propublica.org · 23/03/2025An October 2024 story about Russell Vought captured the breadth and ferocity of the coming attack on the federal government. So why didn’t this story drive more of a national conversation when it appeared?propub.liThe October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal BureaucracyHistorians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story… 64903308
Reposted by Jeff PutnamProPublica @propublica.org · 23/03/2025In the hours before IRS leadership fired some 7,000 employees for allegedly poor performance, a top IRS lawyer flagged officials that “no one” at the agency had done such an assessment. The termination notice went out unchanged anyway. By @andykroll.bsky.socialpropub.liEmails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the CourtsThe Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had… 442437939
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq)
