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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
After Trump’s memecoin launch, several countries and politicians have launched or promoted cryptocurrency tokens (or appeared to). It’s not gone well.
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
#uspol #uspolitics #Project2025
This government is doing exactly what they promised in Project 2025. Here is the tracker:
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
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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.
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
ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES
If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emailsAllison Gill (The Breakdown)
Protect public media in the United States.
#PublicBroadcasting #NPR #PBS #PublicMedia #Autocracy #Censorship #DonaldTrump #MAGA #USPolitics
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
The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen
Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying itMolly White (Citation Needed)
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
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.Just Security
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
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
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…
Update. "Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal"
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"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
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.Alexander Tin (CBS News)
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."
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.
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.
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
ProPublica Confirms Additional Staffers Helping Elon Musk and DOGE Dismantle U.S. Agencies
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the billionaire.ProPublica
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
King Abdullah rebuffs Trump’s push for Jordan to take in displaced Palestinians
Egypt also rejects idea, saying it planned to present vision of reconstruction in Gaza for Palestinians to remain on landGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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
Reporter: You said you would take Gaza but you said you wouldn't buy it with tax money, how?
Trump: "We won't buy Gaza, we'll just take it"
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #Israel #gaza
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.
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.
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.
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
Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act became law in 1977. In 2024, the Department of Justice announced 24 cases related to the anti-bribery statute.Eamon Javers (CNBC)
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.
‘I became collateral damage’: the trans pilot falsely targeted over Washington DC crash
Without evidence, Trump blamed diversity after the crash, leading some to accuse Jo Ellis of being one of the pilotsRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
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.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #usaid #Politics #uspolitics #uspol