Sara Rich Dorman (@srd.bsky.social)

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:08 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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Filed 10/11/26
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

@joshpizpom.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:38 PMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

EXC: The University of Edinburgh could rescind its adoption of a prominent definition of antisemitism, with staff citing concerns over its impact on academic freedom.

@heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2662863...

@direthoughts.com Oct 12, 2026, 2:15 PMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

@ithx1138.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:03 PMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

" The LARCH‼️ "

🍁Happy🇨🇦Thanksgiving🍁
Wishing EVERYONE
a very Awesome Day,
wherever you may be🍁
#thanksgiving #photography

through the Orange backdrop of a B🐝autiful Canadian🇨🇦 day comes the Sunburst Splendor or the Mighty LARCH TREE
- as it basks in the autumn sunshine....awaiting its next victim‼️ boooohhaaahahaha
Have a Great Day Everyone 😃

@srd.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:57 PM

Very keen to see data on this, and many other debates - including the Sahel.

@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:35 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

#UrbanPrehistory

@melissaontheroad.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:36 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Eritrea has asked the United Nations to take “deterrent measures” after what it called Ethiopia’s “declaration of war” in the conflict over the Tigray region.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

@ctimmermann.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:45 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Is anybody surprised? I don’t think so. But it’s good to have data.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

@srd.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:52 PM

Caused many complicated outcomes in colonies - the same laws were replicated, but people still believed in witchcraft. Tricky to navigate.

@srd.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:34 PM

Imagine this in Edinburgh…

@ewangibbs.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:08 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Today’s Daily Record has a feature about my research on the closure of Cardowan colliery in Lanarkshire. It was pivotal in the build up to the 1984-85 miners’ strike and breaking union power. For more on Cardowan, read my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class.

@deevybee.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:10 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

This is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts.
muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/07/j...

@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:16 PMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Donald Trump's Russian diesel "deal" has little to do with actual diesel or actual US market. The point of this brilliant Kremlin op is to use the WH as a disinfo tool for vilifying Ukraine: by falsely portraying Ukrainian long-range counterstrikes on Russia as "harmful" for the United States.

@us.theguardian.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:52 PMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like 'us,'" writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. "But modern genocide is the product of the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."

@nobelprize.org Oct 9, 2026, 9:12 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

@minibubbly.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:29 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay of International Court of Justice

Past winners include Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Malala Yousafzai

www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:29 AMReposted by @srd.bsky.social

Congratulations! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Free Palestine

@srd.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:04 AM

Not dead yet.

@srd.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:56 AM

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@srd.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:29 AM

A small contribution also from
me: africanpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/14/s...