Bernadette

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Old Hippy Chick, I can speak 7 languages, working on #8. I have 60,000 books, and it's not enough. I play 3 musical instruments- would love to learn more! Always try to be kind. "We are stardust-we are golden"

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before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.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 Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR Document 76 Filed 10/11/26 Page 2 of 4 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 3 Case 1:26-CV-00477-ACR Document 76 Filed 10/11/26 Page 4 of 4 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.
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The judge told the administration to cancel any remaining ads, including any set to air Sunday night. “We are pleased the court acted swiftly to prevent more taxpayer dollars from being used for such blatantly unlawful political propaganda,” the plaintiffs said in a statement by Democracy Forward.

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A bipartisan group of seven senators so far have called on President Donald Trump to “immediately reverse course” on buying diesel from Russia as part of his plan to lower gas prices. Four Republican and three Democratic senators signed onto a joint statement Sunday protesting the deal.

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President Donald Trump’s mental state is rapidly declining before the American public, and it’s only going to get worse in the coming weeks. Trump is a “guy who has gotten everything he ever wanted, but he still is “so manifestly miserable,” which explains how he reacts to political setbacks.

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Police arrived to find the two women dead outside. After deploying a drone and robot, they went inside and found the bodies of a 5-year-old boy; a 1-year-old girl on the first floor; two more women and two young men in a stairwell; and the shooter on the second floor.

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Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

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Showing the execution, when seen by a sane person, it could be a deterrent to them committing mass murder. But mass murderers are not sane. For a potential insane killer, they might be encouraged by it. As a sane person, I would never want to see that. I wince when people are slapped on TV.

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This is inevitable, and behind the scenes they've been talking like it's a done deal. They don't think women should be allowed to control their own bodies, and they believe it's up to them to take away that right.

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I think that people that are gun nuts want to minimize mass shootings. Also, some US News organizations do not want to give mass murders attention, because there are mentally ill people that are fascinated by the topic, and will make mass murderers into heroes in their minds. It leads to copy cats.

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Trump brazenly lied about having seized Greenland during a Friday midterm campaign rally. “I got Greenland. I hope you’re happy about that. Remember they all said, ‘Oh, he’s never going to get it.’ No. We got Greenland. And for the right price, you know what we paid. Right? Zero.”

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