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Trump faces growing Republican revolt on Capitol Hill over "awful" DOGE cuts

Up to 13,000 federal firefighters will be fired or not hired back for the fire season, which starts in Spring.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tr…


After Trump’s memecoin launch, several countries and politicians have launched or promoted cryptocurrency tokens (or appeared to). It’s not gone well.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Individuals no longer want to buy #elmo #ElonMusk products
His only major customer is
THE GOVERNMENT
Doesn't that tell you something??

#Oligarch in the White House
#Politics #USpolitics #CDNpoli #EUpolitics #News #UKpolitics
#ConstitutionalCrisis


Reposting Adam Kinzinger from Bluesky:
#uspolitics


#uspol #uspolitics #Project2025
This government is doing exactly what they promised in Project 2025. Here is the tracker:

project2025.observer/


Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy

Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.

propublica.org/article/usaid-p…

#News #USAID #Trump #USPolitics #Diplomacy


No, #Trump isn't causing a constitutional crisis. The Constitution has mechanisms in place to address everything that's happening here. There's no crisis, there's just a need to apply the constitutional order.

But, I just keep thinking that #Democrats yelling constitutional crisis must be referring to their own crisis wherein the Constitution just doesn't provide them with the tools to impose their political preferences on the country after voters rejected them.

It's a crisis of party, not of Constitution.

They should put forward better candidates than this.

#USPolitics


HHS employees, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL


HHS employees, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL.

Not without reading this first.

They’re going to cut off your network access as soon as you read your email, so you need to download a bunch of things first. Details at the link.

DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL WITHOUT READING THIS FIRST.

See also the firings in the Epidemic Intelligence Service.

#datascience #fascism #medicine #politics #science #uspol #uspolitics


Sending much love and solidarity to all the public health workers who have been inexplicably fired from government agencies today. The world is far less safe as a result.


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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.

citationneeded.news/crypto-ind…

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


As both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported today, the big winner from all the cuts to the government has been Musk himself, who has eliminated the agencies that were scrutinizing his businesses. #USPolitics


Update. #OMB is telling #DOGE to stop using #Slack. Why? Because Slack messages are subject to #FOI requests.
404media.co/doge-employees-ord…

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics


Update. If you're following this thread, you might also follow Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to #Trump Administration Actions, from #JustSecurity.
justsecurity.org/107087/tracke…

#USLaw #USPol #USPolitics


Update. "Intense backlash prompted the reinstatement of some online resources. But guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care remain missing."
nytimes.com/2025/02/03/health/…

#CDC #Censorship #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics


Update. "White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation"
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

" 'This kind of cut would kill American science and boost #China and other nations into global science leadership positions,' [said] Neal Lane, who led the #NSF in the 1990s during Bill Clinton's presidency."

PS: I've never liked #nationalist arguments for funding or fostering science. Science is international. But the #Trump admin is putting us in a dilemma. Either we see deep cuts in US science funding. Or we use nationalist arguments to avert those cuts.

There are non-nationalist arguments to fund US science. For example, good science is usually expensive and those who do it well should be funded for the benefit of all. Unfortunately that argument is not likely to work on Trump admin officials. It's not US-specific and applies everywhere, even in China.

#Nationalism #USPol #USPolitics


Update. The @WashPost does a good job showing the breadth of govt science and info taken down by the #Trump admin.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/in…

#Censorship #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics


Update. "Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal"
cbsnews.com/news/trump-officia…

"Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. The interference included dictating what to cover and withholding studies on the growing bird flu outbreak."

PS: Just curious. How do Trump officials decide that covering bird flu is bad for their agenda?

#Medicine #ScholComm #Trump #USPol #USPolitics


Over at @deltathink, Dan Pollock and Ann Michael estimate the impact of #Trump executive actions on academic publishing, starting with the #CDC.
deltathink.com/news-views-spec…

"The proportion of CDC-authored papers is tiny [0.1% of global output and 0.6% of US output], and so their suppression is unlikely to lead to a drop in publishing output. However, should the orders spread to other areas of health research, then the effects could be profound – especially for journals and publishers relying heavily on US-authored papers."

#Censorship #USPol #USPolitics


Update The #Trump admin has taken down the #OSTP #NelsonMemo.

It was formerly at this URL.
whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uplo…

You can still find it in the @internetarchive #WaybackMachine, as recently as Jan 18, 2025.
web.archive.org/web/2025011802…

We can't tell yet whether it was taken down because Trump officials didn't like the #OpenAccess policies it laid out, didn't like its use of #DEI language — or both.

h/t fediscience.org/@jnonfiction@s…

#Censorship #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics


I'd like to make the following observation. Yesterday's Oval Office press briefing with Elon Musk was not a projection of strength. They are getting defensive. They know a lot of people are pissed at them and the walls are closing in.

I'm saying this because right now I'm seeing a lot of doomerism permeate the online discourse. This is not all inevitable. Keep fighting because whatever we doing, is getting to them. And it shows.

#USPolitics


WTF Apple? It showed the CORRECT name initially then it changed right in front of my eyes. Way to pander to Orangina Shitweasel, Tim. #USPolitics


ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

propublica.org/article/elon-mu…

#News #ElonMusk #DOGE #Government #USPolitics #Trump


Vought Restores CFPB Procedure That Sustains Mortgage Markets
The situation reveals that sometimes, even arsonists need the building they’re burning down to stay upright. By David Dayen prospect.org/economy/2025-02-1… #USPolitics


AP says it was blocked from covering an event in the Oval Office because it has not aligned its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order on changing the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol


Donald Trump Has Found a New Way to Threaten the Economy
The markets haven’t freaked out about the president’s weird contention that he might renege on a portion of the national debt yet. But if he keeps talking about it—watch out. newrepublic.com/article/191367… Your president is not a well man. #USPolitics


It’s likely that they will soon request to pause ongoing enforcement cases against companies including Coinbase, a company which has alone spent more than $100 million on political lobbying over the past two years.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #Binance


The original complaint alleges that not only did Binance lie about trying to prevent fraudulent behavior on Binance.US, one of the primary companies involved in illegal wash trading on the exchange was controlled and operated by Binance’s founder and Binance employees.

Despite claims from the SEC’s new leadership that they intend to provide “sensible, clear rules” without providing a “haven for fraudsters”, this action definitely seems to reveal their true marching orders.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #Binance


Although early reporting suggested the SEC would likely look to “potentially freeze some litigation that does not involve allegations of fraud”, the first case the SEC has proposed freezing is SEC v. Binance: a case alleging serious fraud and knowing violation of US securities laws.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #Binance


President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits U.S. companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.

CNBC reports: flip.it/Kj6ilM

#Trump #Bribery #USPolitics #Politics #News #Justice


People don't seem to realize that pretty much EVERY administration defies the will of the courts in their terms. #Biden did, #Obama did, going on back. There were ALWAYS occasions where presidents did things in violation of court order.

It just doesn't always get much press coverage, for better or worse.

Such defiance isn't new or outside of the structure of the #Constitution. No, the Constitution anticipates and provides for a solution from Congress.

In the end, it's up to the people voters elect to represent them in Congress to judge appropriate responses, ranging from defunding through impeachment.

So hold your representatives accountable. They escape accountability all too often.

#USPolitics


As a person who also doesn't normally reply to those emails, I've been replying quite a bit lately.

I received a fundraising email from Senator Mark Kelly today. He had the gall to say, "I am going to use every lever of power at my disposal as a United States Senator to defend NOAA from Elon Musk and the White House as they try to slash our country’s vital infrastructure to the bone."

I guess "every lever" doesn't include voting against 47's nominees.

#USPol #USPolitics