uuldika

I frequently see removed in a lot of posts and comments. I'm guessing there's some kind of filter at work? I checked my Voyager settings and I don't see that I've blocked any words, is this happening server side?

From context, it looks like the censored words are pretty common, and not especially potent, curse words. Is this really necessary?

Noob question, but are any major Lemmy instances blocked by lemmy.ml? I checked the blocklist at https://lemmy.ml/instances, but I can't easily tell how big those instances are, or what they're blocked for. I'm guessing we don't federate with NSFW servers and spammers but are there any large communities I'm not seeing?

Trump's lawyers are petitioning the Court to restrict the Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) imposed by the lower courts to the named plaintiffs only, which they frame as a "modest" request. This is absurd. The subject of the TRO is a policy change, and it's the policy itself that's likely illegal. TROs are supposed to preserve the status quo while litigation proceeds. Grandfathering a handful of litigants in while letting the change go through in no way preserves the status quo. Striking down the power of lower courts to issue so-called "universal injunctions" would likely be an Equal Protection violation, or it would at least flood the lower courts with tens of thousands of plaintiffs individually filing cases to get the same relief.

How do you think the Court will rule on this? I'm inclined to think (hope?) we'll have the same 5-4 majority uphold this TRO as we had in USAID v. AVAC last week.

From a few days back, but I'm surprised this didn't hit harder on the news. Perkins Coie was the law firm contracted to do oppo research on Trump during his 2016 campaign, which sourced the infamous Steele Dossier from FusionGPS. The EO strips the firm of all its contracts, directs EEOC to investigate their (past!) DEI initiatives and hiring, forces all contractors to inform the government if they do any business with Perkins Coie (even as part of other contracts), blacklists every employee from ever being hired by the government, strips them of their security clearances, prohibits Federal employees from interacting with anyone from Perkins on official business, and even bans employees from setting foot in any Federal building! It also threatens other large law firms.

Trump's administration has done plenty of heinous things so far, but this blatant exacting of revenge against entities external to the executive branch feels like a new low.