Thanks for the roundup as it's difficult to keep track of all the harm being done and, seeing it all in one place sends a dire warning. Sigh, I miss being able to wake up each morning and not worry about any illegal, unconstitutional and out right mean actions taken by the President.
Question .... Our country seemed to have no problem supplying Israel with tons of weapons, often used to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians (2/3 women and children), but now are taking weapons away from Ukraine who is trying to defend their country and their children (and get kidnapped children back from Russia). Why ???
The inverse question also begs an answer: so many on the left are outraged and pushing back over the horrendous genocide in Gaza, but when it comes to the genocide in Ukraine, large swaths of the left dismiss it as a proxy war and say Ukraine should just cede territory to Russia so "the fighting will stop" (it wouldn't). Why do we condemn one genocide but not another?
The fact that a federal judge has declined to block Department of Government Efficiency employees from accessing a Treasury Department federal payment system feels a lot like when police won't do anything to help a person who is being stalked or threatened until that person is actually attacked or killed.
Trump is officially defying the judicial branch on multiple fronts, the most heinous recent example being the forced detransitioning of federal prisoners, with directions that they be referred to by the names and sexes they were assigned at birth and relocated to wrong-gendered prisons where they face an incredibly high risk of physical harm, sexual assault, and death by either suicide or acts of non-self-inflicted violence. We're officially in constitutional crisis territory, folks -- time for anyone who was on the fence to hop off into the let's-fight-this-s**t pasture.
"Reuters reported that Trump could introduce a new travel ban – akin to his first-term Muslim travel ban – as soon as next week that would bar people from Afghanistan and Pakistan, among other countries, from entering the US."
-----Why doesn't he just ban EVERYONE from entering the US from any foreign countries. The tourist industry could just all switch to mining bitcoin.
"The Social Security Administration banned employees from viewing news websites from work-issued devices. Some employees told Wired and other news outlets they use news websites as part of their job duties."
-----Keep your employees ignorant of anything that might make them more efficient in their jobs. THEN it is easy to fire them for lack of productivity. This is a part of a larger movement that has attacked education for years, not just the Dept of Education or recent attacks on universities, in order to make the whole population ignorant and pliable.
"Trump threatened new tariffs on Canada, including matching their 250% tariff on dairy."
-----Canada has protected its dairy industry for forever, aiming to keep it in house for both producers and consumers. The result has been not much in the way of exports, and thus imports by us. I'm not sure what a "reciprocal tariff" will do to counter that. Let's charge 250% on stuff we don't actually import??
This is very important that you keep documenting this. Thanks and I urge everyone to share widely. As well, I would like to ask about a supplementary documentation, namely, the individual oligarchs whose "charitable" contributions to "think tanks", e.g. Heritage, and ownership of our info sources, are deliberately aiming to kill democracy. Not just the Broligarchy (Thiel, et al) , but those behind the Scaife Foundation, Olin Foundation, DeVos Foundation. These people are notoriously sensitive to shame and a spotlight on these parasitic member of our society could be helpful.
Thanks for the roundup as it's difficult to keep track of all the harm being done and, seeing it all in one place sends a dire warning. Sigh, I miss being able to wake up each morning and not worry about any illegal, unconstitutional and out right mean actions taken by the President.
He’s apparently not following court orders: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/trump-unfreezing-federal-grants-judge-ruling.html
Question .... Our country seemed to have no problem supplying Israel with tons of weapons, often used to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians (2/3 women and children), but now are taking weapons away from Ukraine who is trying to defend their country and their children (and get kidnapped children back from Russia). Why ???
The inverse question also begs an answer: so many on the left are outraged and pushing back over the horrendous genocide in Gaza, but when it comes to the genocide in Ukraine, large swaths of the left dismiss it as a proxy war and say Ukraine should just cede territory to Russia so "the fighting will stop" (it wouldn't). Why do we condemn one genocide but not another?
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Rick Scott calling anyone a criminal - in light of his documented medicare fraud - is just so very rich.
The fact that a federal judge has declined to block Department of Government Efficiency employees from accessing a Treasury Department federal payment system feels a lot like when police won't do anything to help a person who is being stalked or threatened until that person is actually attacked or killed.
Nice summary or another horrible week for America. How can executive branch cut grants on their own? Where is Congress?
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Trump is officially defying the judicial branch on multiple fronts, the most heinous recent example being the forced detransitioning of federal prisoners, with directions that they be referred to by the names and sexes they were assigned at birth and relocated to wrong-gendered prisons where they face an incredibly high risk of physical harm, sexual assault, and death by either suicide or acts of non-self-inflicted violence. We're officially in constitutional crisis territory, folks -- time for anyone who was on the fence to hop off into the let's-fight-this-s**t pasture.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
"Reuters reported that Trump could introduce a new travel ban – akin to his first-term Muslim travel ban – as soon as next week that would bar people from Afghanistan and Pakistan, among other countries, from entering the US."
-----Why doesn't he just ban EVERYONE from entering the US from any foreign countries. The tourist industry could just all switch to mining bitcoin.
"The Social Security Administration banned employees from viewing news websites from work-issued devices. Some employees told Wired and other news outlets they use news websites as part of their job duties."
-----Keep your employees ignorant of anything that might make them more efficient in their jobs. THEN it is easy to fire them for lack of productivity. This is a part of a larger movement that has attacked education for years, not just the Dept of Education or recent attacks on universities, in order to make the whole population ignorant and pliable.
"Trump threatened new tariffs on Canada, including matching their 250% tariff on dairy."
-----Canada has protected its dairy industry for forever, aiming to keep it in house for both producers and consumers. The result has been not much in the way of exports, and thus imports by us. I'm not sure what a "reciprocal tariff" will do to counter that. Let's charge 250% on stuff we don't actually import??
This is very important that you keep documenting this. Thanks and I urge everyone to share widely. As well, I would like to ask about a supplementary documentation, namely, the individual oligarchs whose "charitable" contributions to "think tanks", e.g. Heritage, and ownership of our info sources, are deliberately aiming to kill democracy. Not just the Broligarchy (Thiel, et al) , but those behind the Scaife Foundation, Olin Foundation, DeVos Foundation. These people are notoriously sensitive to shame and a spotlight on these parasitic member of our society could be helpful.