We have a great system, huh? He gets to do whatever he wants, and then a year later, when it's far too late to prevent the massive damage, a judge decides it was illegal all along.
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LumberBitch1 day ago
+177
And that's the best case scenario. Worst case, the supreme Court just says go nuts and f*** you I don't have to explain myself
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tarion_9141 day ago
+41
"Official act"
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LumberBitch1 day ago
+20
They can officially kiss my act
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max12324621 hr ago
+1
No it's far worse. They set precedent that means all lower courts must respect their decision for all future court cases
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the_last_0ne1 day ago
+57
I mean, the guys who set the system up did a decent job. You can't make a system that will survive bad actors, because they care nothing for the system in the first place.
The last resort was supposed to be voters. Voters should have prevented this. Instead we have 1/3 of the country who couldnt care less what happens as long as brown people get shafted, and another 1/3 who didnt care enough about it to bother to vote.
And that goes for nearly every election in the past 50 years.
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babygorgeou21 hr ago
+7
There are also a lot of people who vote and don’t even know what they’re voting for.
Then this party ensures more ignorance by decimating public schools. It’s already so bad I don’t see how there’s any hope of turning back w an even less educated next generation. How do we stop this?
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NewManufacturer42521 day ago
+2
My personal opinion, voting should be mandatory with a 3 day vacation. Parties in the streets and bbg.
Throw in a tax break
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TheBigCore1 day ago
+3
"It's easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission." - Grace Hopper
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modsiw_agnarr1 day ago
+2
Grace Hopper
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margotsaidso23 hr ago
+3
It shows how critical easy nationwide injunctions were to checking the executive branch even if it was somewhat abusable.
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babygorgeou21 hr ago
+3
Besides that it’s the lack of consequences that really gets me. How is it possible? What’s the point of even involving a court if it does nothing to stop it from happening, or happening again, at the very least
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punkasstubabitch1 day ago
+1450
That's great. In the meantime, countless organizations and people around the world have undergone irreparable harm.
1450
RenoRiley11 day ago
+615
Over a half a million people are already estimated to have starved to death due to cutting USAID. This regime has committed crimes against humanity.
615
kingtacticool1 day ago
+289
The USAID cuts are projected to cost over 13 million lives. Twice the number of jews killed in the holocaust
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speculatrix1 day ago
+123
Trump did want to have the highest numbers of any premier/president/emperor in history.
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speculatrix1 day ago
+57
That total hasn't been reached yet but the trump administration hasn't succeeded in completely stopping everything..
I found this
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts
*For FY2026, the administration has suggested further severe cuts that could lead to considerably greater mortality in line with our estimates above, but it appears Congress may largely preserve health and humanitarian funding*
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kingtacticool1 day ago
+31
Amd I've got this from 2 days ago
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/trump-administration-usaid-global-health-funding-intl
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speculatrix1 day ago
+18
Oh man, Trump is speed running his own holocaust pogrom.
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Ojntoast1 day ago
+5
He sees this as an accomplishment that he will engrave on the walls of his ballroom
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trackday211 day ago
-33
How do you estimate that? Like all those humans have no agency and can only survive on USAID? How is that remotely possible to determine?
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kingtacticool1 day ago
+22
Its actually 14 million
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/USAID-cuts-global-impact-14-million-deaths
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/usaid-cuts-lead-14-million-deaths-five-years-researchers-say-rcna216095
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trackday211 day ago
-19
So all three of these links are based on just the same one study. "multiple sources agreeing" is just them talking about one another, agreeing on one study. You added three links like that's somehow more substantial evidence- it is not.
That study presents highly uncertain counterfactual modeling in a way that may overstate confidence, causality, and precision. Peer-reviewed though it is and I DO think people will suffer from withdrawing USAID - saying it is estimated to be 14 mil is wildly speculative.
Without the Marshall plan Europe would have collapsed and millions more would have died... right? idk maybe
-19
kingtacticool1 day ago
+21
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/us-funding-cuts-could-result-in-nearly-9-million-child-tuberculosis-cases-1-5-million-child-deaths/
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
And this is from two days ago about a further 2 billion being clawed back from USAID
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/trump-administration-usaid-global-health-funding-intl
These cuts are going to lead to millions of deaths. How many million?
Does it really matter? This is unconscionable
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trackday211 day ago
-23
You're not listening
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kingtacticool1 day ago
+12
Without the Marshall plan millions more people would have died, yes. Europe's ability to care for the tens of millions of refugees after the war was minimal. Germany was a wasteland incapable of feeding its own broken people.
Yes. The Marshall plan saved millions of people over a long enough timeline. Undoubtedly.
USAID *has* saved 93 million people since its introduction in 1961. 75 years. That means *at minimum* 1.24 million people a year are dying without its programs. Considering the HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation programs and the malaria programs that have been shuttered that number is likely higher and will grow the longer it is gone.
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GoarSpewerofSecrets15 hr ago
-2
While cutting USAID is a massive blow to soft power of the US, it also isn't a crime against humanity to choose how to spend your people's monies.
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BallinCock12 hr ago
Is your IQ as high as your body mass divided by ten?
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GoarSpewerofSecrets11 hr ago
USAID is a good thing, yes, even if it's dressed up propaganda. It's how things work for big dogs, even the Romans paid out treasure to keep their territories in line.
We luckily never got to the place where it would be one of the nails in our coffin for spending, unlike the Soviets. Trump managed to cause the opposite, though.
It still isn't a crime. Other than one against the people of the United States by robbing us of our generational wealth in soft power.
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BallinCock11 hr ago
+1
Mr President: if you are going to line your deep pockets with my hard earned money—that you tax a disproportionately high percentage of relative to people who make unspeakably more money than me—you can rest assured you are morally bankrupt. There is no doubt.
Whether you call it a crime means nothing. Call it what you want. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s behavior fit for an astoundingly reprehensible husk of a human being.
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trackday211 day ago
-17
What are you estimating, the number or that they starved?
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MrBrawn1 day ago
+43
Harm is the point.
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JohnBrownSurvivor1 day ago
+13
That was the only real goal anyway.
He might eventually replace them with something else, once he figures out a grift he can run.
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Ditka8514 hr ago
+2
This has always been the plan. Do something that negatively affects a race/country/demographic, and by the time the courts get around to it, the damage has been done and the harm that was intended has occurred.
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Kind_Advisor_352 days ago
+253
DOGE alone was enough grounds to charge Trump with impeachment because it trampled all over Congress's constitutional power of the purse. DOGE was the first of many actions by the second Trump administration that showed a complete disregard of the law. No other administration has lost this many court cases on constitutional grounds. Enough is enough. No matter how bad the gerrymandering gets, turn out to vote against Republicans in November. The new maps do not account for unprecedented turnout and Republican voters turning on what the party has become. It's not about individual issues, it's about law and order. There will be none at the highest levels until the Trump administration is at minimum severely handicapped in Congress.
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bigredthesnorer1 day ago
+28
Well said.
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DrusTheAxe1 day ago
-5
Now tell me where’s enough grounds to convict Trump
Until enough Congresscritters find their balls and honor their oath impeachment is just edging without release
-5
Mythranite861 day ago
+27
Now do something about it please
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hoppyandbitter1 day ago
+20
The most unsurprising part of this is that DOGE and the Trump admin claimed they were blameless because ChatGPT was the one doing all the work
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failingmyself1 day ago
+1
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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subsignalparadigm1 day ago
+67
Everything this regime does is unconstitutional.
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BrimstoneMainliner1 day ago
+28
They don’t give a f*** about the constitution
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PleaseHelpFlorida1 day ago
+9
The party that literally walks around carrying a Constitution in their pockets.
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AdjNounNumbers1 day ago
+5
They do the same with the Bible, yet have read and understood neither. They're both just documents to hold up to appeal to the uneducated that want to justify their hatred and bigotry when wielded by those hungry for power and wealth
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RMRdesign1 day ago
+23
I mean doesn’t this all come down to Trump having unchecked powers? Sure DODGE did the dirty work, but Trump could have just written something out and canceled what he wanted. It’s all bullshit and someday hopefully he’ll answer for his crimes.
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Big-D-TX1 day ago
+9
Elon did what he wanted, gaining information and destroying valuable information.
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jupiterkansas1 day ago
+30
So what? The grants were cancelled and nobody will be punished.
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Phillies20021 day ago
+17
If you click on the article you're responding to, the grants weren't canceled. This ruling stopped the grants from being canceled.
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Mutant-Cat1 day ago
+28
It's worth noting the Trump admin has ignored a separate judge's ruling telling them to restore funding to a variety of [UC Berkeley research grants.](https://apnews.com/article/trump-uc-berkeley-research-grants-a95e3df65d9d6d26e947e381dd150cc6)
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Trumperdammerung1 day ago
+3
No, that's not what the article says at all.
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HippyDM1 day ago
+7
Doesn't matter. Hundreds of thousands have already died due to the lack of food, and many of the groups that got that food to people are gone. The damage is done.
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Phillies20021 day ago
+19
Are we talking about the same humanities grants here? The humanities grants in the article we're talking about? I'm open to the concept that hundreds of thousands of artists and writers have starved to death due to a temporary delay in grant funding, but that seems pessimistic for this particular case
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skwerrel1 day ago
+19
I suspect our friend here misread it as "humanitarian" though I could be wrong, and perhaps they just don't understand the difference
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Little_Noodles1 day ago
I think they’re confused about the nature of the grants, but I don’t think they’re wrong.
If you’re a small to medium sized organization and these grants funded a meaningful part of your operations, having that reliable funding stream disrupted really is a problem.
Like, if the best case scenario is that all the originally granted funds were just temporarily partially in limbo, that’s still going to account for a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of scrambling, and a significant shift to figuring out what nct funding year looks like
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godspareme1 day ago
+10
Where's the running tally of the amount of unconstitutional acts committed by Trump?
Has it broken 100 for this term alone yet?
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SigmaK781 day ago
+7
If anyone thinks Trump is going to stop doing what he wants to do, regardless of who gets hurt, because a court says so, I have a slightly used bridge to sell you.
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PTBAFC246011 day ago
+3
And?
With the current administration, does this ruling matter at all?
“Nothing to see here. Keep moving.”
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sooojew1 day ago
+3
Little baby trumpy is found to be doing 10-20 illegal things everyday. Doesn’t mean a thing if nothing is done and no one held the slightest bit accountable.
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thegamenerd1 day ago
+6
"I'll take 'No shit Sherlock' for $200 Alex"
The power of the purse is a congressional power, not executive.
So we gonna actually impeach him for it or is the House gonna keep sitting on their hands and "praying for a better tomorrow"?
EDIT for context:
[For those unaware a democrat rep literally offered "prayers for the administration to stop" about trump threatening to end Iran overnight](https://bsky.app/profile/gluesenkampperez.house.gov/post/3miwqyato2c2y) rather than sponsor the articles of impeachment that were going through the chamber at that time.
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FourWildJokers1 day ago
+6
EVERYTHING this child f***** is doing is unconstitutional.
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draivaden1 day ago
+2
Its nice to knowSOME of the wheels of state are still functioning as normal
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chefjayprez1 day ago
+2
His whole presidency is unconstitutional, happy 250 America.
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jquas211 day ago
+2
About everything he does is and yet this scotus backs him again and again. The whole system needs new leadership for the people and by the people. Not for special interest, Trump vanity projects or from the corporation a not trying to expand our middle class.
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Independent-Towel-471 day ago
+1
If there’s anything Trump has shown it’s that the judiciary is the weakest branch
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LOC_damn20 hr ago
+1
I thought that said human rights. And I wasn’t shocked. 😭
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TuckerCarlsonsOhface12 hr ago
+1
And who enforces such rulings again, DOJ? Cool, cool…
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ricosmith19861 day ago
-1
How many times is he allowed to wantonly and deliberately violate the constitution with no consequences?
-1
hyper_espace1 day ago
+1
The congress can remove Trump. Anything else could be deemed a coup.
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Kind_Advisor_351 day ago
+1
As long as Congress lets him. Since the Republicans refuse to hold him accountable, as many as possible need to be voted out in November. Blatant disregard of the law should draw bipartisan opposition, but unfortunately it's not.
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TheBigCore1 day ago
+1
Like Trump cares what the courts think?
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fjf10851 day ago
-1
Now hold him responsible personally financially for those unconstitutional acts.
-1
trackday211 day ago
-2
If this is truly a crime against humanity of unprecedented proportion where are the stories about benevolent peoples extending a helping hand? Europe? Asia? A hurricane can create an outpouring of aid in a few hours - wth is this?
-2
ginrumryeale1 day ago
Thanks for the slow af ruling.
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SelfDepricator1 day ago
-1
He'll appeal to the supreme Court who will overturn the decision. Meanwhile he'll continue to not fund humanitarian grants because everyone is too chicken shit to stop him. Shit is so fucked it's depressing
-1
EuphoricCrashOut1 day ago
-6
So they did an illegal thing. When do they get arrested? If they don't get arrested, I don't give a f***. It's not illegal then.
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