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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 2h

I don't recall who was doing the polling, but I received two separate polls in the last two days via text msg. One was focused on governor and US senator races, the other was governor and state house races. Both polls asked to rate Trump.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And medical aspect aside, it affects all areas of life. They have to be extra careful socially, they've struggled emotionally, they've lost friends and family relationships. They'll be transferring to an out of state college b/c AL is so hostile to trans folks.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We drive to Birmingham 4-5x a year to get gender affirming care. And while that's a hassle, I'm grateful that we have excellent insurance coverage that allows us to do that affordably. Many aren't as lucky. We had no trouble legally changing their name but have not changed their gender marker.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thank you for speaking out about this issue. As the parent of a college age trans child, I know it's not as cut and dried as folks would like to believe. We purposely delayed starting gender affirming care until they were 18. We shouldn't have had to wait for medical care for political reasons.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was rooting for both teams. I always pull for a Manning (except when they're playing my teams), but #1 losing is good for Bama. 🤷. It was a good game!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think whatever health issues Trump has going on make it pretty unlikely he's gonna see 2028. 🤷

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There's nothing quite like it, is there? Glad you've found one!

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Julian Americanus @julianimperatorus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean… did we just find the truest thing Trump ever said?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ways to freak out your wife #7621: Hubby's favorite holiday is Halloween. Unbeknownst to me he left this in the garage, not realizing it was positioned directly in my eyesight from the driver's seat of my car. 😳😂

werewolf mask sitting on a shelf in a garage, various tools are behind it on a pegboard.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They are burying restrictions or demands on what can or can’t be funded at the Smithsonian in footnotes to apportionments. And some of those footnotes are VERY precise…

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's cool enough in the mornings to leave the window open and listen. Looks like they're back for winter!

screenshot of a list of birds heard outside my window this morning using the Merlin app, list includes eastern bluebird, northern cardinal, house finch, blue jay, American robin, bald eagle (highlighted in yellow), red-shouldered hawk, northern mockingbird, and carolina wren.

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𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 @bethyvampireslayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a dogwhistle to every transphobic supremacist that they can murder us with a ready defense.

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Erinn @erinnm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

United States: fails to execute a person twice, rushes the prisoner to the ER So they can try again

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Sheboyboy @yeetski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How long do think it would take you to fully, 100% believe you were really alive after that? If that isn’t the def of torture it needs rewriting

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is on the shirt I wear to all protests.

"Remember the ladies and be more generous to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." quote by Abigail Adams, written to her husband John Adams while he was away working with the Continental Congress and debating independence.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"There’s so much hypocrisy in this society. And if we want America to be a free society we have to stop telling lies. Because we’re not free & you know we’re not free." ~Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964. Civil rights activist/organizer Hamer was born in Mississippi OTD in 1917. Image: Library of Congress.

This black and white photo shows a Black women in a dress, Fannie Lou Hamer, seated at a table. She has a microphone clipped to the front of her dress.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can they do CD players next? 🤞🤞🤞. I miss road trips with my car CD's. I could swap them out one-handed, click thru to the tracks I wanted, and never take my eyes off the road. #nostalgia

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Things I learned on Monday: my guitar and piano playing abilities are greatly improved when I wear my reading glasses. 😂🤓🎹🎸 #duhSteph

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is what we're watching them attempt to do. Keep the FORM of elections -- so they can claim, "we won fairly!" -- while preventing elections from being free or fair.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Caught sun dogs on our drive home from Nashville on Saturday.

sun in a slightly cloudy sky, flanked on both sides by sun dogs-- two muted glowing patches of light resembling mini-suns within a faint circular halo.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Proof that we can still grow and change in middle age-- hubby loves candy corn, I think it's gross. But every year I eat one piece just to confirm its' grossness. Except this year it's less gross. Not sure what to think about this development, but I haven't told him yet. 😂

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sept 3rd began our Month of Discontent. Yesterday I got to hang with some of my favorite people (especially these two!), share tears and laughter, and hopefully set the tone for a better finish to the year.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bama resident here. Senator Tuberville is running for governor, and it's a much closer race than he expected. So the R's think Trump can help shore up support for him. The rally tonight is also spitting distance to FL, so they're just trying to fire up whatever's left of his base in the Gulf area.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

vote411.org

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No accident that he's going to the largest red city in Alabama. The two larger cities (Hsv and B'ham) lean blue.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hang on to your hopes, my friend That's an easy thing to say But if your hopes should pass away Simply pretend that you can build them again ~"Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon & Garfunkel

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s always a good time to re-share this.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, I'm air drumming along. No, I'm not using knives as drumsticks.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Making dinner playlist: Green Day, because people were peopling too much today. 🫤

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.

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💀spooky eunuch™🕸️ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you cant criticize men or theyll just get worse and join a fascist movement conveniently this mindset makes women the problem and absolves men of agency

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since the news seems to be full of ridiculous today-- here's what's growing in my perfectly normal fall garden.

medium sized orange pumpkin still growing on the vine, some green leaves around it.

acorn squash, not fully ripened yet and still on the vine, garden dirt and more green vines nearby.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She will never get my vote, but I will give her credit for having slightly more sense than the other Senator from Alabama. 🫤

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you've lost an Alabama Senator... 😂

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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