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🔵 CEASEFIRE
Citizen Frank
May 10, 2025
Good morning. It’s Saturday, May 10.
The US brokered a “full and immediate ceasefire” between Pakistan and India, President Trump announced Saturday, a move expected to end the violence which recently erupted in the Kashmir region.
“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Trump wrote in a morning Truth Social post.
“Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
A federal judge is halting the Trump administration from carrying out, under a February executive order, mass firings or major reorganizations of multiple agencies going forward.
Senior District Judge Susan Illston on Friday evening granted a temporary restraining order sought by federal employee unions, local governments and outside organizations that rely on federal services, who argued the administration was acting outside the bounds of the law.
The judge’s order, which lasts two weeks, blocks the administration’s approval or implementation of plans –- known as Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans, or ARRPs – for conducting mass layoffs and for shrinking or eliminating entire components of an agency. She is also pausing any orders from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, cutting programs or staff in accordance with Trump’s executive order and the related directives.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week and held in custody for several hours.
Baraka was released shortly after 8 p.m. and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: “The reality is this: I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Baraka said he could not speak about his case, citing a promise he made to lawyers and the judge. But he voiced full-throated support for everyone living in his community, immigrants included.
President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, according to a spokesperson from the Library of Congress.
It is not clear why Hayden was being removed from the position.
Hayden served as the 14th Librarian of Congress after being appointed to a 10-year term by President Barack Obama in February 2016 and confirmed by the Senate in July 2016.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced that she will not run for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
In a lengthy post on X, Greene decried the Senate as corrupt and worthless. She argued that nothing gets done in the Senate, with true power players being wealthy donors.
“Someone once said, ‘The Senate is where good ideas go to die,’” she said. “They were right. That’s why I’m not running.”
President Trump signed an executive order Friday authorizing government-funded flights and financial incentives to illegal migrants willing to self-deport.
The program, dubbed “Project Homecoming,” tasks government agencies with facilitating travel for migrants without travel documents, providing flights “at no cost to illegal aliens,” offering concierge service at airports to assist with travel bookings and granting illegal migrants an “exit bonus” to leave the US.
“We are making it as easy as possible for illegal aliens to leave America,” Trump said in a video posted on Truth Social.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter died at age 85, the high court confirmed in a statement on Friday.
The retired justice “died peacefully yesterday at home in New Hampshire,” the Supreme Court statement said. “He was 85 years old. Justice Souter was appointed to the Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, and retired in 2009, after serving more than 19 years on the Court.”
The court did not provide his cause of death.
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