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Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/judge-frees-columbia-student-activist-whom-trump-administration-wants-to-d

BURLINGTON, Vermont — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of a Columbia University student who was detained by immigration authorities and targeted for deportation over his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests.

Je note ce commentaire de Scott Horton :
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En ordonnant la présence de l’étudiant de Columbia dans sa salle d’audience et en ordonnant sa libération sur-le-champ, un juge fédéral a privé Trump et son équipe de la possibilité de défier son ordonnance, qui a été immédiatement exécutée par les agents du tribunal.

Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse - POLITICO
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535

The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.

The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.

#under_his_eye

Trump’s new executive order victim: Your shower
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/trump-shower-water-pressure-executive-order-00283036

“In my case I like to take a nice shower, to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump told reporters while signing the order in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes till it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”

#le_gorafi_tout_ça

Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147

The number would be a significant increase from the $892 billion funding Congress allocated for national #defense programs this year, which includes the Pentagon, nuclear weapons development and security programs at other agencies. It also comes as the armed services seeks to cut 8 percent of their individual budgets and reinvest the money in modernization efforts.

Hegseth is also planning to slash tens of thousands of department civilian employees across the globe as the Pentagon starts work on what is expected to include consolidation of domestic and overseas bases.