The Atlantic getting added to a Pentagon group chat confirms what we already knew. The Atlantic isn't just covering the war machine, it's an integral part of it.
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#Trump fires #USAID #IG one day after blistering report
The WH fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development on Tues evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact of the Trump admin’s efforts to significantly curtail the agency’s mission.
#law #aid #SoftPower #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/
Also out today, over @TexasObserver: I collaborated with GLAAD's ALERT Desk, which tracks anti-LGBTQIA+ hate incidents again, looking back at the year 2024 in #Texas. There were at least 30 protests against drag shows and other #queer events, among other incidents. https://www.texasobserver.org/anti-lgbtq-incidents-texas/
#homophobia #politics #USpol #news #Texas #transphobia #LGBTQIA+
"We have downgraded our 2025 US GDP growth forecast from 2.4% at the start of the year to 1.7% now (both on a Q4/Q4 basis). ...The reason for the downgrade is that our trade policy assumptions have become considerably more adverse and the administration is managing expectations towards tariff-induced near-term economic weakness."
-Goldman Sachs
Wall Street is telling the #TrumpMusk regime that its approach is wrong, it must make an about face.
#Recession #Tariffs #USPol https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz61nn99eg1o
I'm starting to become patriotic for my country. It sounds stupid, but... America is trying to take our asses.
Trump is escalating his efforts to foment fear among #immigrants. Admin: arrested & moving to deport Khalil.
Trump is moving to REQUIRE ALL NONCITIZENS AGE: >14 TO REGISTER WITH THE GOVT -require them to get fingerprinted or potentially face prosecution. Goal: to spread terror & get noncitizens to self-deport.
Rep Jayapal is introducing the No Roundup Act, leg: repeals this long-dormant IMG law that Trump's using to fuel his cruel & inhumane #massdeportations.
#USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/192628/transcript-trump-press-sec-drops-dark-hint-coming-crackdowns
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Newsletter: Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles
The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-reserves-no-public-good-no-principles/
I always say that there are no moral victories in politics, and the violent stupidity unleashed by the MAGA trifecta has already been a disaster, BUT…
If any good can come from this episode of criminal incompetence, it would take the form of a vigorous public discussion of American values.
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Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats".
Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.
Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.
Ohio Senate passes higher education overhaul bill less than a day after eight hours of opponent testimony
S.B. 1 would ban diversity and inclusion efforts, prevent faculty from striking, set rules around classroom discussion, put diversity scholarships at risk, shorten university board of trustees terms from nine years down to six years, and require students take an American history course, among other things.
Regarding classroom discussion, it would set rules around topics involving “controversial beliefs” such as climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion. #education #Ohio #USPol
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#FederalReserve Chair #JeromePowell is speaking
Says #Trump #tariffs were far higher than expected & that larger than expected tariffs mean higher #inflation, slower growth.
"We face a highly uncertain outlook with elevated risks of both higher #unemployment & higher inflation," undermining both of the #Fed's mandates of 2% inflation & maximum employment, Powell said in prepared remarks for a business journalists' conference.
I mean . . .
#Trump's nominee for US #Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has secured enough votes from US senators to be #confirmed as the nation's top health official.
#RFKJr will lead the Department of Health & Human Services, which oversees several high-profile agencies including the #Food & #Drug Administration & the Centers for #Disease Control & Prevention.
#USpol #HHS #FDA #CDC #NIH #law #idiocracy #AntiVax #vaccines #medicine #science
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-health-nominee-kennedy-secures-enough-us-senate-votes-confirmation-2025-02-13/
Trump finds that trashing the rule of law also trashes the economy. Tanks: $29T economy in 7 weeks. Plunging stock markets have lost ~$4T, Americans’ RT accts: shriveling, his trade war is set to raise prices & #recession alarms are blinking🚨.
No rules -the law is optional -no predictability to his actions. Bus ldrs/consumers: no idea what’s coming -can't plan... wrecking: economy.
“What's your strategy to lower the overall cost of living?” Reporters: kicked out.
#USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/14/trump-economy-wreck-tesla-musk/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQxOTI0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzMzA3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDE5MjQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjQ1MTI0YjQ0LTgxYjYtNDJjNi05MTcwLWQ0NGZmNzU4MTNkNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzAzLzE0L3RydW1wLWVjb25vbXktd3JlY2stdGVzbGEtbXVzay8ifQ.sh9q-W56vvY9cMZH4QcCLQDiusqyoaaKIEF5mazVcNs&itid=gfta
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1/x OK-doke, Mastodon #resistance peeps. Several morning 🧵 to-dos in the face of the CR shitstorm and *certain* spinless Dem capitulation.#USpol #Democracy
First up:
Good (and early) “Fridays in Trumpland” post from The Newsletter with ECM with phone numbers of all Dem Senators and script too: https://open.substack.com/pub/newsletterwithecm/p/fridays-in-trumpland-3132025
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#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
Holy shit
#DeSantis admits that the #WorkerShortages created by anti-#immigrant laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing #ChildLabor protection standards.
#USpol #law #immigration #economy #Trump
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html
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404 Not Found / US_Constitution #trumpAdmin #USpol
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I'm sure I'm not the only EU citizen wishing all Americans who are out on the streets today a better future. Fighting for not just your own democracy but for all of the rest of us too.
Thank you.
Stay safe!
Newsletter: Dubbing it “Operation Choke Point 2.0”, cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it.
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-industrys-debanking-smokescreen/
This week's comic: Playing the wealth card
#cartoon #comic #billionaires #uspol #oligarchy #authoritarianism #economy
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How to kill the goose which lays golden eggs. University layoffs.. censorship, research shutdowns, cuts to basic research in government foundations and agencies, universities revoking degrees, and all the crazy shit ICE is doing, I certainly painting an American education and a unique fashion.
And you can have a side of deadly preventable diseases!
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BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was not notified in advance that people were going to be fired.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #coup #USDS
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There are a lot of Canadians who don’t want to visit the US just now. But if you have to, I would strongly advise going by air, because US CBP is in the airport in Canada. So they can still arbitrarily refuse entry because you voted Liberal or your name is Nadia or whatever, but they can’t throw you into detention without recourse, which they definitely can at the highway crossings, and seem to be doing more of.