That's Fucked Up

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

  • June 2025

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    June 27, 2025

    • Supreme Court sides with Trump on nationwide injunctions — ruled 6-3 in Trump v. CASA limiting district courts’ power to block executive orders

    June 25, 2025

    • Sued all 15 federal district judges in Maryland — unprecedented legal action over a standing order slowing deportation efforts; major escalation in war with judiciary

    June 20, 2025

    • Mahmoud Khalil released on bail — after more than three months in Louisiana detention center

    June 6, 2025

    • Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to U.S. — after Trump agreed to “call up the president of El Salvador”; government then announced plans to deport him to Eswatini, Africa

    June 5, 2025

    • Trump-Musk feud explodes — Musk called for Trump’s impeachment, warned tariffs would spark recession, claimed Trump’s name in Epstein files; Trump said relationship was “over”

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  • May 2025

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    May 2025 (Various Dates)

    • 94% of federal rulings went against Trump — U.S. district court judges ruled against administration at unprecedented rate
    • Harvard rejects antisemitism accusations — federal judge ruled funding strip attempt lacked evidence and violated due process
    • Government oversight employees report retaliation fears — detailed in Senate report

    May 30, 2025

    • Revealed: Most deported Venezuelans had no U.S. convictions — administration knew most of the 238 people sent to CECOT prison had no criminal records

    May 18, 2025

    • Trump attacks Supreme Court — unleashed on justices after Court blocked Tren de Aragua deportations

    May 12, 2025

    • Agencies reduced to skeleton crews — some federal agencies cut to as few as 1 person by DOGE

    May 6, 2025

    • Supreme Court allows transgender military ban — justices blocked lower court order halting enforcement; Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented; up to 8,000 service members affected

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  • April 2025

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    April 2025 (Various Dates)

    • “Liberation Day” tariffs unveiled — sweeping tariffs on almost every country in the world; stock market tumbled
    • Columbia University briefly placed on federal “watchlist” — federal judge issued temporary injunction blocking punitive action
    • DOJ ordered investigations of multiple campuses — threatened to review tax-exempt status of universities

    April 11, 2025

    • Campus Accountability executive order — directed Department of Education to withhold federal funding from universities deemed “hostile environments” under Title VI
    • Louisiana judge rules Khalil can be deported — affirmed Trump administration’s argument that his beliefs “threaten national security”

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  • March 2025

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    March 2025 (Various Dates)

    • 238 Venezuelans deported to CECOT prison in El Salvador — held indefinitely without trial in maximum security facility with human rights concerns
    • 158 deportees had tattoos used as “gang evidence” — law enforcement experts in multiple countries said tattoos are not indicator of Tren de Aragua membership
    • Intelligence concluded gang not directed by Maduro — U.S. officials found reports suggesting Venezuelan government control “not credible”
    • Invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — claimed Tren de Aragua gang was “invading” at Venezuela’s direction
    • Executive orders targeting law firms — revoked security clearances, terminated contracts for firms that had opposed Trump
    • Chief Justice Roberts issued rare public rebuke — called attacks on judges “not an appropriate response to disagreement”
    • Trump called Judge Boasberg “lunatic” — allies demanded impeachment of judges who ruled against administration

    March 15, 2025

    • Kilmar Abrego Garcia wrongly deported — Salvadoran with protected legal status sent to CECOT prison; administration admitted “administrative error”
    • DOJ attorney fired for refusing to sign appeal — Erez Reuveni terminated after refusing to sign brief in Abrego Garcia case

    March 14, 2025

    • Second student arrested for Columbia activism — continued crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters
    • Receivership imposed on Columbia University — federal government took unprecedented action against university

    March 8, 2025

    • Mahmoud Khalil arrested without warrant — ICE seized Columbia graduate student from apartment while pregnant wife recorded; detained and shipped to Louisiana
    • Green card revoked by Secretary of State — Marco Rubio personally ordered deportation using rarely-used 1952 statute
    • White House accused Khalil of “siding with terrorists” — provided no evidence for claim

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  • February 2025

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    February 2025 (Various Dates)

    • Musk threatened mass firings via email — demanded list of weekly accomplishments; “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation”
    • “Fork in the road” buyouts — thousands of federal employees paid to exit government early
    • Agencies forced to rehire DOGE-fired workers — GSA and other agencies reversed firings after courts ruled DOGE “went too far, too fast”
    • IRS allowed some resignation-takers to stay — reversed course on buyout acceptances
    • Judge blocked birthright citizenship order — Judge Coughenour later reported being swatted at home, family members threatened
    • 178 Venezuelans held at Guantanamo Bay — detention camp prepared for “tens of thousands” of immigrants; 126 had criminal records

    Tariff Impact (Cumulative)

    • Average household tax increase: $1,100 in 2025 — projected $1,400 in 2026
    • Highest average tariff rate since 1943 — weighted average 15.8% on all imports

    February 27, 2025

    • China tariffs increased again — additional 10% beginning March 4, on top of existing tariffs

    February 20, 2025

    • Haiti TPS partially rescinded — Secretary Kristi Noem’s action left hundreds of thousands of Haitians vulnerable to deportation by August 2025
    • National Law Enforcement Accountability Database deleted — DOJ confirmed erasure of database created to prevent rehiring officers with misconduct histories
    • 177 of 178 Guantanamo migrants deported — one sent to U.S. detention facility

    February 14, 2025

    • “Valentine’s Day Massacre” firings — DOGE terminated thousands of probationary federal workers without explanation
    • Workers in critical roles fired — included cybersecurity specialists, nuclear weapons overseers, infrastructure project managers

    February 11, 2025

    • Pentagon bans transgender enlistment — all new accessions for individuals with gender dysphoria paused
    • Gender transition procedures halted — all scheduled medical procedures for service members paused

    February 7, 2025

    • Defense Secretary memo on trans ban — Pete Hegseth formalized ban on transgender military service

    February 6, 2025

    • NGO funding review ordered — presidential memorandum to “stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest”

    February 4, 2025

    • 10% tariffs on China take effect — first wave of new China tariffs implemented

    February 1, 2025

    • 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico signed — plus 10% on China using IEEPA authority

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  • January 2025

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    January 29, 2025

    • Guantanamo Bay ordered prepared for immigrants — Trump ordered detention camp readied to house “tens of thousands” of immigrants

    January 27, 2025

    • Transgender military ban signed — executive order banning trans service members from Armed Forces
    • Military DEI programs gutted — ordered elimination of all DEI offices, programs, and initiatives
    • Air Force removed Tuskegee Airmen training — materials featuring historic Black pilots classified as DEI content requiring elimination
    • WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) training removed — also classified as DEI content

    January 25, 2025

    • 18 Inspectors General fired in Friday night purge — violated federal law requiring 30-day notice to Congress
    • Watchdogs blindsided by termination emails — received notice from Presidential Personnel Office that positions “terminated, effective immediately”
    • SpaceX investigator among those fired — Defense Department IG Robert Storch’s office had been reviewing SpaceX compliance
    • DOJ reversed position on Black voting districts — abandoned support for second majority-Black district in Louisiana; Supreme Court requested re-argument
    • Senior civil rights officials reassigned — DOJ officials overseeing transgender rights, police misconduct, and anti-discrimination issues removed
    • Top FBI officials told to resign or be fired — purge of executives promoted under Director Christopher Wray
    • DOJ attorneys fired for prosecuting Trump — career attorneys involved in Trump cases terminated

    January 20, 2025 (Inauguration Day)

    • Pardoned ~1,600 January 6 defendants — blanket clemency for all convicted or awaiting trial
    • Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders’ sentences commuted — including Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Dominic Pezzola (first to breach Capitol)
    • 600+ pardoned for assaulting police — 170 for using deadly weapons; ~140 officers had been injured with cracked ribs, smashed spinal disks, brain injuries
    • Restitution requirements eliminated — costing victims an estimated $1.3 billion
    • Pardoned defendants include those convicted of rape, domestic violence — at least 33 have since been rearrested for other crimes

    Executive Orders (26 signed — most ever on first day)

    • DOGE created — Department of Government Efficiency established with Elon Musk given unprecedented access to government systems
    • Federal hiring freeze — froze civilian hiring across entire executive branch
    • Birthright citizenship order — attempted to deny citizenship to children of undocumented parents (blocked by courts, now at Supreme Court)
    • Transgender military ban signed — ordered removal of trans service members; affects up to 8,000 people
    • DEI programs ordered eliminated — across all federal agencies
    • “Extreme vetting” immigration order — restored prior vetting standards from first Trump administration
    • Independent agencies targeted — ordered FEC, FCC, SEC, FTC to submit regulations to White House for review

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