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What could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?
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You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.
The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.
As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration. Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” to the Office of Personnel Management. This appointment does not appear to have been announced anywhere else.
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"One of the ppl arrested this week -was arrested coming out of a church service -no criminal record -had a job at a local tire store -an ankle monitor so #ICE knew where he was at all times & still in immigration court.
Does that make us safer?"
-A R Melnick
The Trump admin isn't prioritizing detaining & deporting criminals, many of those they're arresting are undoc. #immigrants w/o criminal records -filling jobs needed for the economy.
Amplify their cruelty & dishonesty.
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In today’s post on @medium, I describe how the @internetarchive and @wikipedia are preserving a record of the changes made by the #Trump administration.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
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Corporations will not stand up to fascism. They are engines to create profit for shareholders so protecting profit is their only guiding principle. They will bend to the felon-in-chief rather than face costly repercussions from a petty tyrant who wields unconstitutional power without any oversight.
REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news
#Trump Hands the World to #China
#Xi Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American #power.
By Michael Schuman
American global leadership is ending. Not because of “American decline,” or the emergence of a multipolar world, or the actions of US adversaries. It’s ending because President Donald Trump wants to end it.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/
Donald Trump has a secret plan to turn the United States into a dictatorship, and we now see the contours of the fierce political battle ahead.
The US senators are shocked as they realise, Trump tries to copy the dirty tricks of disgraced president Richard Nixon to become all powerful.
Watch my latest political analysis on YouTube in 4K:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTIFRUpItn0
Go get him!
A Missouri Republican has introduced a federal abortion ban in the House
https://www.fastcompany.com/91268914/bill-banning-abortion-introduced-house-missouri-republican
Making vacation plans? Be sure to consider--then dismiss--Florida!
#BoycottFlorida #NoConcentrationCamps #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Ridiculous who elected #ElonMusk anyway?
The highest-ranking career official at the #TreasuryDepartment is departing after a clash with surrogates of #billionaire Elon #Musk’s #DOGE who sought access to sensitive payment systems.
#law #Treasury #economy #USpol #FederalAgencies #kleptocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
The current US regime is violating several articles in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
If you have have information that could help the ICC to issue international arrest warrants for people in the current US regime, you can send your evidence and information to the ICC here, anonymously or using your real name:
"Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel 'Parable of the Sower' that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian 'President Donner.'
"That day is today."
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month
@bookstodon #bookstodon #OctaviaButler #books #USpol
I wonder when the US Congress is going to do something about the "do what you did to Twitter to the Federal government" stuff. Are they still alive in there? What's up? Should we turn Congress off and then on again?
#USPol
#USPol
Canadian - This Man is Your Friend. He Fights for Freedom.
US Office of War Information World War II poster, series of anti-fascist allies.
Like @joaocosta suggested we need to do more than just posting on this platform to support Ukraine. I agree.
Actions speak louder than words.
If you have the means, please support Ukraine with a donation.
I've just donated to
https://u24.gov.ua/
This seems to be run by the Ukrainian government & allows you to pick goals you feel comfortable with: e.g. defence, demining, medical aid & more.
🇪🇺 🇺🇦
I don't have any idea how likely this is to make it out, but some fucked up Rs are trying to remove Washington state's amazing voting through mail in ballots. This morning is a great time to do a quick "NO THANK YOU" comment on this bill: https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1584
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The US Democratic party needs to be dismantled and rebuilt. It has failed, continues to fail, and its core ideology has been a failed one for approximately half a century. The leadership needs to go, the constellation of consultants needs to go, the court jesters need to go.
#USPol #Democrats
#USPol #Democrats
An open letter to journalists everywhere:
Until we know ***exactly*** and in great detail what leverage the Trump/Musk/Vought triumvirate has over the Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives, we're just putting our fingers in the dike holding back the flood of lies that is poised to drown the rule of law. Republicans in Congress are pretending not to know these details. 1/2
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an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine
identifying the lackeys: illegal
NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.”
It seems obvious that Trump and Musk are running the basic play we’ve seen before from Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires–move fast, break things (with “things” very much including the law), and then dare folks to try and do something about it.
The Democrats "gotcha! lol" approach to politics is negligent. There's no mystery here about what to do nor what needs to be done--they're simply not doing it. They prefer tweeting and fundraising to doing their jobs, it
seems. The entire party needs to be fired.
#USPol
Dozens of Democratic senators have so far voted in support of Trump’s Cabinet nominees when they should be opposing them at every turn
Dead political party. It needs to go, being no longer fit for purpose. They're unable to read the moment and/or unable to act appropriately. Complete failure of situational awareness. That's not going to be fixed by the newly-elected DNC chair or whatever; it reflects deep dysfunction.
There's a phrase in that linked article that the Democrats brought a cheese stick to a knife fight. No. They're sharpening the knives.
#USPol