Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts


Yes, it's illegal to do that

Can you explain how it's illegal for the State Department to scale back spending on monitoring international human rights?

PP said scaling back reports, not monitoring per se, and the statement this is illegal is not accurate. The reports themselves are required by law. Trump gets to narrow what they monitor and report on what they define as human rights abuses within the confines of the laws requiring these reports as long as they comply with the statutes. Taking that last phrase with a grain of salt because they really are not about complying with statute anyway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They've also been told to ignore intelligence reports that show that Tren De Aragua is not quite the threat Trump says it is.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1269737.page

Oh, that's wonderful news! So relieved to know they're really just a sweet group of boys with good intentions.

Idiot. The whole point of using the Alien Enemies Act was that he Venezuelan government was working with MS-13 to invade the US. SCOTUS disagrees 7-2. Those who are actively involved in gangs are gangbangers, but they are not part of an organized invasion. The intelligence reports also show that.

Anonymous wrote:They've also been told to ignore intelligence reports that show that Tren De Aragua is not quite the threat Trump says it is.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1269737.page

Oh, that's wonderful news! So relieved to know they're really just a sweet group of boys with good intentions.