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BumRushDaShow's JournalGavin Newsom Rips Key Trump Vibe: Being 'Anti-Woke' Is 'Just Anti-Black'
Source: MEDIAite
Oct 25th, 2025, 2:17 pm
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said that if you oppose “woke” policies like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that means you are undoubtedly “anti-Black,” before trashing President Donald Trump’s administration, saying it was looking to “reverse” American racial relations to a “pre-1960s world.” The prominent Democrat made those provocative claims on the All the Smoke podcast, hosted by ex-NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, on Saturday.
“All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop,” Newsom told the pair early in the episode. “All the CRT, ESG, DEI stuff, that’s all it is. It’s this great purge.” Beyond DEI, Newsom was referring to Critical Race Theory and Environmental, Social, and Governance Programs — two issues the president has used executive orders to counteract since returning to the White House in January.
Trump also issued several EOs to dismantle DEI within the federal government earlier this year. The Trump Administration, according to one of those EOs, said it was terminating “to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions,” earlier this year, as well as positions like “Chief Diversity Officer” within the federal government.
Newsom said the Trump Administration is looking to move American back decades in terms of how it treats minorities. He pointed to the Supreme Court potentially changing a key section to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as one example Republicans are looking to undo 60 years of racial progress. “They’re literally putting America in reverse, quite literally, to a pre-1960s world,” Newsom said. He added it is an “unf**king believable moment” where Republicans are “re-writing history” and “censoring historical facts.”
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/podcasts/gavin-newsom-rips-key-trump-vibe-being-anti-woke-is-just-anti-black/
He is 100% CORRECT.
When Kamala Harris made "We're not going back" one of the central themes and a rallying cry of her campaign, 45 and his white supremacist loons took that on as a "challenge" to do just that.
New immigration judges
Source: KPCC Pasadena, CA/LAist/NPR
Published October 25, 2025 11:00 AM
The Justice Department has hired 36 immigration judges, including 25 temporary ones, for its Executive Office for Immigration Review, marking the first class to join the immigration courts after months of cuts to the workforce. Judges will soon take the bench across 16 states, according to a Justice Department announcement. These include courts that saw the biggest losses of judges this year such as Chelmsford, Mass., and Chicago.
"EOIR is restoring its integrity as a preeminent administrative adjudicatory agency," the announcement states. "These new immigration judges are joining an immigration judge corps that is committed to upholding the rule of law."
The incoming class of permanent judges comprises mostly those with a background in federal government work, including EOIR itself and the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, they trained Immigration and Customs enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents, were asylum officers and worked for ICE's legal arm. One judge was originally going to take the bench at the start of the year but was among the initial class of judges fired before they could start.
The temporary immigration judges include military lawyers from the Marines, Navy, Army and Air Force. Earlier this summer, the Pentagon authorized about 600 military lawyers to work for the DOJ. The DOJ changed who could qualify as a temporary immigration judge — effectively lowering the requirements and removing the need to have prior immigration law experience.
Read more: https://laist.com/brief/news/department-of-justice-hires-immigration-judges-after-months-of-layoffs
RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts
Source: The Guardian
Sat 25 Oct 2025 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 25 Oct 2025 14.39 EDT
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services (HHS) secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans to eat more saturated fats, contradicting decades of dietary recommendations and alarming experts.
“My response and sort of counsel to myself was to stay calm, and let’s see what happens, because there was no indication given as to how, why, when this potential shift would occur,” said Cheryl Anderson, an American Heart Association board member and professor at the University of California, San Diego’s school of public health and human longevity science. “The recommendation around saturated fat has been one of the most consistent recommendations since the first edition of the dietary guidelines.”
While Ronald Krauss, a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who has researched saturated fats extensively, found that saturated fats may be less harmful than previously thought, he believes if “[Kennedy] is actually going to go out and say we should be eating more saturated fat, I think that’s really the wrong message”.
Kennedy has indicated that new dietary guidelines will “stress the need to eat saturated fats of dairy, of good meat, of fresh meat and vegetables … When we release those, it will give everybody the rationale for driving it into our schools,” according to recent reporting in the Hill. Krauss’s research shows that “saturated fat is relatively neutral” compared with what scientists have believed in the past.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/rfk-jr-saturated-fats
Head of the U.S. Death Panel™.
Trump slaps 10% extra tariff on Canada over Reagan trade ad
Source: CNBC
Published Fri, Oct 24 2025 2:41 PM EDT Updated 33 Min Ago
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was slapping an extra 10% tariff on imports from Canada in retaliation for what he says is a misleading TV ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
"Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement in Ronald Reagan's Speech on Tariffs," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now," he wrote.
Canada generally pays a 35% tariff on goods sold in the U.S., with exceptions for certain products covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and other specific product exceptions, such as steel and aluminum, which are tariffed at 50%.
Trump on late Friday blasted the Ontario provincial government in Canada for waiting until after the first two games of the World Series to pause the Reagan ad. “They could have pulled it tonight,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he headed to fly to Asia. “Well, that’s dirty play,” he said. “But I can play dirtier than they can, you know.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/trump-canada-doug-ford-reagan-trade-tariffs.html
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143553098
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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was slapping an extra 10% tariff on imports from Canada in retaliation for what he says is a misleading TV ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
"Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement in Ronald Reagan's Speech on Tariffs," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now," he wrote.
Canada generally pays a 35% tariff on goods sold in the U.S., with exceptions for certain products covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and other specific product exceptions, such as steel and aluminum, which are tariffed at 50%.
Trump late Friday blasted the Ontario provincial government in Canada for waiting until after the first two games of the World Series to pause a television ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. "They could have pulled it tonight," Trump told reporters at the White House as he headed to fly to Asia. "Well, that's dirty play," he said. "But I can play dirtier than they can, you know."
Electric heat to cost more this winter, federal agency projects
Source: The Hill
10/25/25 1:32 PM ET
Heating U.S. homes with electricity is expected to be more costly this winter, especially when compared with natural gas or heating oil, federal officials estimate.
In projections published this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said the average U.S. consumer who relies on electricity to heat their residence will see expenditures rise 4 percent to $1,133 from November through March 2026. During that period, the price of electricity per kilowatt hour is expected to be 5 percent higher overall, the EIA said.
The cost of electricity varies geographically. People in the Northeast will pay an additional 24 cents or more per kilowatt hour — the highest rates in the country — and fork over a total of $1,519 this winter. By comparison, people in the South will pay between 14.68 cents and 15.54 cents per kilowatt hour, for a total of $1,031 over the same period, according to EIA estimates.
About 42 percent of U.S. households reported using electricity to heat their living space, the EIA said, citing U.S. Census information.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5572753-electric-heaters-more-costly-winter-agency-estimates/
Link to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) REPORT - https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/perspectives/2025/10-winterfuels/article.php#tab2
Newsom Says Trump Is 'Rigging the Election' With Federal Poll Monitors
Source: KQED San Francisco, CA/NPR
Oct 24, 2025 Updated Oct 25, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure.
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of the state’s Nov. 4 special election.
In an interview with KQED’s Political Breakdown, Newsom said the move was a “setup” for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the potential victory of Proposition 50 — a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines to advantage Democrats.
“They are creating the pretext that after we’re successful with Prop. 50, after there is a Democratic governor in New Jersey — and will be one in Virginia, unquestionably — that they can suggest somehow these were fraudulent, these elections were rigged against them,” Newsom said. “This is a preview of 2026. Wake up, everybody.”
Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/12061445/newsom-says-trump-is-rigging-the-election-with-federal-poll-monitors
The shutdown layoffs at health agencies followed a familiar, DOGE pattern
Source: Politico
10/25/2025 07:00 AM EDT
The mastermind of President Donald Trump’s effort to downsize the federal workforce, Russ Vought, promised to use the government shutdown to advance his goal of “shuttering the bureaucracy.” Presented with a layoff plan that would have moved in that direction, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services scaled it way back, POLITICO has learned. It was another example, like several during the layoffs led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency this spring, in which Trump’s agency heads have pushed back successfully against top-down cuts they viewed as reckless.
POLITICO obtained an HHS document from late September, the shutdown’s eve, that said the department wanted to cut nearly 8,000 jobs, based on guidance from Vought’s budget office. On Oct. 10, HHS only went ahead with 1,760. In the two weeks since, the number has dwindled to 954, as the department has rescinded nearly half of the total, blaming a coding error. The disorganized handling of the layoffs is reminiscent of Musk’s DOGE effort, in which employees were rehired after being fired, sometimes on court orders, sometimes because agency officials objected.
In each case, the layoffs rattled agency managers and traumatized employees, as Vought wanted, but haven’t gone nearly as far in downsizing the government as forecast. While the nearly 8,000-person layoff plan this month was largely scuttled by top agency officials who intervened before the cuts could be made, the whiplash manner in which it was proposed and then scaled back shows that the administration is still following the DOGE playbook.
“These appear to be leftovers from DOGE. I don’t know anyone — including in the White House — who supports such cuts,” a senior administration official told POLITICO in explaining the pullback from the promised mass layoffs. The official, granted anonymity to discuss confidential matters, pointed to the involvement of a staffer who was part of the DOGE effort in producing the administration document.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/hhs-shutdown-layoffs-doge-vought-00620786
Dozens of former federal judges use Alexander Hamilton to warn SCOTUS about Trump's purportedly 'unreviewable' tariffs
Source: Law & Crime
Oct 25th, 2025, 12:15 pm
President Donald Trump does not have "the unlimited power to set tariffs on all goods imported from all our trading partners," more than 30 former federal judges told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.
In their 21-page amicus brief, the amici identify themselves as "31 former federal judges appointed by presidents of both major political parties." The onetime jurists say they "retain a continuing and abiding interest in preserving the independent role of the federal judiciary."
That role, the brief warns, is threatened by the Trump administration's position in the high-stakes tariffs case currently before the high court.
"They seek to ensure that the separation of powers is respected and that any delegation of legislative power to the President is subject to meaningful judicial review," the missive intones.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-very-definition-of-tyranny-dozens-of-former-federal-judges-use-alexander-hamilton-to-warn-scotus-about-trumps-purportedly-unreviewable-tariffs-powers/
Full headline: 'The very definition of tyranny': Dozens of former federal judges use Alexander Hamilton to warn SCOTUS about Trump's purportedly 'unreviewable' tariffs powers
Link to AMICUS BRIEF (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1287/380483/20251024111950872_24-1287-25-250%20%20Amici%20Brief.pdf
Link to Federalist 47 - https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-41-50#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493412
(As a note, although the Federalist Papers were submitted "anonymously" and written by multiple people, Federalist 47 had been presumably written by James Madison, although these judges are apparently referencing a source that attributes some Alexander Hamilton contribution to it in their filing)
Pennsylvania city divided over Trump as it reels from economic whiplash
Source: The Guardian
Sat 25 Oct 2025 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 25 Oct 2025 09.04 EDT
It was set to be the most expensive project that the beaten-down manufacturing sector of Erie, Pennsylvania, had seen in decades. In a blighted corner of town, a startup planned a $300m plant that would turn plastic waste into fuel for steel factories.
Neighborhood advocates in Erie’s impoverished east side hoped the facility would provide the jobs and prosperity they needed. Environmentalists decried the pollution they expected the plant to bring. Unions got ready for what they hoped would be hundreds of jobs created by its construction, with more to come once it opened.
And then it was over. Mitch Hecht, founder of the company pursuing the project, announced that a Department of Energy loan crucial to the plant’s funding was put on hold as a result of Donald Trump’s policies, which “had a severe and immediate impact on our ability to move forward”.
It was the latest bout of economic whiplash to strike the county on north-west Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie shoreline, just months after its voters helped return Trump to the White House. Those who backed the president say they are sticking with him, even as his administration’s spending cuts have upended projects and budgets and tariffs have created new uncertainties for businesses.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/erie-pennsylvania-trump-policies
The "but give him more time" MAGats are brain dead.
Furloughed federal workers file for jobless benefits, but aid isn't easy to get
Source: CNN Politics
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2025, 11:09 AM ET
Right after setting her out-of-office email on October 1, one furloughed US Department of Agriculture worker filed for unemployment benefits to help her pay for food, rent and other necessities during the federal government shutdown.
More than three weeks later, her application is still listed as pending – forcing her to borrow from family and friends as the impasse continues with no end in sight. The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance told her she may have to wait up to three months to receive her first payment, though she will receive a lump sum for all the missed weeks of claims. “But that doesn’t help me now,” said the worker, who asked for anonymity for fear of retaliation. “The rent is due on November 1.”
The USDA staffer is among the nearly 20,600 furloughed federal employees who have filed for unemployment benefits during the first three weeks of the shutdown, according to Andrew Stettner, director of economy and jobs at The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank. Initial jobless claims for federal workers have soared to their highest level since the record 35-day shutdown that ended in January 2019.
That compares to 635 initial claims filed by federal workers for the week ending September 13, according to the most recent data published by the US Department of Labor before the impasse. Maryland and Texas have the highest number of initial claims, with more than 3,100 filings each, said Stettner, who analyzed unemployment data filed in 49 states and territories.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/politics/furloughed-federal-workers-unemployment-claims
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