NEW: Since rebuffing Trump's order barring transgender girls from girls’ sports, Maine has been investigated or pressured by 6 federal agencies: • Education • Justice • Agriculture • HHS • NOAA • Social Security With @bangordailynews.bsky.social - ThreadSky

propublica.org • 16 hours ago

NEW: Since rebuffing Trump's order barring transgender girls from girls’ sports, Maine has been investigated or pressured by 6 federal agencies:
• Education
• Justice
• Agriculture
• HHS
• NOAA
• Social Security

With @bangordailynews.bsky.social

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jokadhd.bsky.social•15 hours ago

11th province?

tee2seven.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Just make all sports co-ed and then they can't say anything about boys and girls playing the sport together.

bafairbend.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Janet Mills is no pushover. Keep standing strong. So glad to live in this state

alicewanders.bsky.social•16 hours ago

So much for leaving things up to the states!

shamanwallace.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The NOAA? Lmao what did they threaten not to report the next tide?

progbrittania93.bsky.social•16 hours ago

They are going unleash the weather machine!/s. Also what's agriculture going to do? Lol

mindorese.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Department of Agriculture = school lunch program

progbrittania93.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Ahhhh, gotcha. Thank you!

bizmartin.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Lobsters.

ad5m1th.bsky.social•16 hours ago

...though subject to change, Title IX is still in effect...⚖️

trekkerp.bsky.social•12 hours ago

What is your point?

ad5m1th.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Hello!! It will take the Courts to decide what the State's will eventually do!!!

elainett.bsky.social•16 hours ago

nychicksinger.bsky.social•15 hours ago

NOAA?

naddasaint.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I thought he was gonna go to court,must of realized he would lose.

progressiveprince.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Petty little man.

chiilla.bsky.social•16 hours ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

ahippogryph.bsky.social•13 hours ago

NOAA, really? Ag is a stretch you have to squint for, but NOAA? I expect Rod Serling to start speaking from the corner while smoking a cigarette any minute, in glorious black & white. 🤯

co2ley.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I think the NOAA listing is bc of the shutdown of Maine Sea Grant. But I’d guess that was a DOC-level action bc the actual humans who run Sea Grant love Maine.

60194.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Disgusting

sorencookie.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Trump Mafia

notsogreatscott.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Expecting the state’s legal team to fight back?

anarcho-slut.bsky.social•15 hours ago

wait they aren't for states rights?

🤯

klausflouride.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Seems like weaponization.

lmtresist.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Don't give in, don't back down

azuckerman.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Maine resistance

azuckerman.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Maine Resists! See alt text.

mainemary.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Fabulous reporting. I am going to make a new protest sign:
We Won’t Be Bullied By Felon 47!

grewalg.bsky.social•16 hours ago

If there are more than two genders then why are Trans playing in girl’s sports? Pathetic issue y’all keep digging yourself into. Such stupid issues are the reason we are where we are. Why not create Trans teams for trans folks? Trans bathrooms for trans folks? Matter resolved. Not that complicated.

grewalg.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Create 50 genders for all I care.

hedonista75.bsky.social•15 hours ago

1) it's discriminatory to exclude trans kids from sports.

2) there are not enough trans athletes in the damn country to form entire leagues in various sports.

In the NCAA, for example, there are 235,00 female athletes, and 10 are trans women.

Piss off.

pirx26.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Your house has a gender-neutral bathroom.

soehl.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Even if you don't accept Transgender people for who they are because of your personal religious beliefs, keeping them out of sports that align with their personally identified gender is completely antithetical to the core purposea of sports.

afrowe.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So much for the independence of the states and their protection of their citizens!

kinosminion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

What was it Republicans were saying about Biden? Oh, right, "something, something...lawfare...something" and something, something "weaponizing government".

Well, that's precisely what this is.

n83z01qbui.bsky.social•16 hours ago

@erininthemorning.com @esqueer.net

jhmidsummerdream.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Be strong Maine. Let the world know what’s happening. Don’t go it alone. We as Americans stand with you.

infobesity.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It's the fascism everybody! Wake up! Push back
Resist the beginnings (Principiis Obsta)

karinzegt.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Very efficient. Where is DOGE when you need him?

karinzegt.bsky.social•16 hours ago

**them

alexahawaii.bsky.social•15 hours ago

If they were shuttered, how? In any event what a waste of time.

ryanmichael80.bsky.social•12 hours ago

First, Janet Mills will go down as a hero.

Second, this seems like A LOT of “waste, fraud, and abuse” to target two transgender people. I wonder if DOGE could offer a cost analysis of 6 agencies targeting 2 transgender people.

crobertbuchanan.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The only thing keeping Trump alive is his unquenchable need to hurt people. Because he's a sociopath.

googoogaloo.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Maybe the chair of the Senate appropriations committee could chime in...

trekkerp.bsky.social•12 hours ago

twitter is over there----->

googoogaloo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It was irony lost on you. Susan Collins, the missing Republican senator from Maine, is the chair of the Senate appropriations committee.

rpcsas.bsky.social•14 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/RvLJsBN2TXM?si=bXLj6cmea_N5td5P

chibebe5.bsky.social•15 hours ago

So pathetic that these poor children that already face bullying and chastising to have to face the biggest bully and his bully kkklan just to exist!

kavavita.bsky.social•16 hours ago

What a harrowing read.

john3-16.bsky.social•14 hours ago

So is the Trump administration also going to go after having able bodied persons who participate in wheelchair sports ?

duzarn.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Well the good news is the people put in charge of these agencies are F'ing morons.

thatdemmargie.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Quick. Somebody alert Not President Musk. I detect abuse and misuse of funds. Maybe even fraud too!!

kblakek47.bsky.social•9 hours ago

submit or else! 😵‍💫😓

montork.bsky.social•16 hours ago

States rights where?

drg2.bsky.social•16 hours ago

If they spent 1% of their time on making our country better rather than culture wars we might see their merit…..no

carolannesundahl.bsky.social•16 hours ago

"Transgender girls" are boys. Boys should play on boys' teams.

trekkerp.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Read up on the process of becoming trans, and you won't spout such degrading posts.

rozeofgold.bsky.social•15 hours ago

What a middle school definition of gender you have there. Might try advancing into high school or college biology.

carolannesundahl.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Gender wasn't even mentioned when I attended college (San Francisco State 1966). Sex was made up of males and females--and still is.

rozeofgold.bsky.social•9 hours ago

That explains a lot. Been a lot of scientific advances since then. You live your whole life with 1966 technology? Also, just because you say it doesn't make it so.

carolannesundahl.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I do like this Canadian examination of gender vs sex.

What is gender? What is sex? - CIHR
'Sex' and 'gender' are often used interchangeably, despite having different meanings.
https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

zognorp.bsky.social•14 hours ago

What is NOAA going to do? Make it rain?

schmutzie.bsky.social•16 hours ago

He's a vile little man.

bikeguy2024.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Oppose every single FASCIST act or policy from FOTUS!

waggingtale.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Welcome to the Divided States of Personal Vendettas 🙄

drewsolo.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Someday a parent is going to actually fight back. Some of us are unstable.

waggingtale.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's coming sooner rather than later

bobbimurray.bsky.social•16 hours ago

And here’s this.

bobbimurray.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Hopefully, they won’t have a natural disaster because he will withhold funds from them

bizmartin.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This article says that DOJ sent a letter to California threatening lawsuit if they don’t comply with the same EO. 🤔

bizmartin.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Also Minnesota.

norfolknway.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Point of emphasis—this is not normal. It was always possible to operate a federal govt this way. We gave it power and consent because it said it would not act this way unless specific, enumerated, criteria were met. The current behavior is criminal.

nonayerbiz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This looks like: USC. 1985 conspiracy

crosetti.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Trump is a bully who can just go fu*k himself!

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