Jim Baugh
@jimbaugh.bsky.social
Retired Human Rights Attorney/Philosophy Student/ Amateur musician and songwriter.
USDA Halts Deliveries to Food Banks politicalwire.com/2025/03/19/u...
USDA Halts Deliveries to Food Banks
"The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation," Politico reports. "USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food b...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
USDA Halts Deliveries to Food Banks politicalwire.com/2025/03/19/u...
Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
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Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
The Real Agenda Behind Elon's Coup & Trump's Chaotic First 3 Weeks
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March 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
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Putin's Checklist politicalwire.com/2025/03/04/p...
Putin's Checklist
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) didn’t mince words over the weekend, saying Donald Trump “looks and sounds like an ally” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The last two weeks alone offer a...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Putin's Checklist politicalwire.com/2025/03/04/p...
Kremlin Says U.S. Now ‘Largely Aligns’ with Moscow politicalwire.com/2025/03/02/k...
Kremlin Says U.S. Now ‘Largely Aligns’ with Moscow
“The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, i...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Kremlin Says U.S. Now ‘Largely Aligns’ with Moscow politicalwire.com/2025/03/02/k...
Trump Administration May Revise GDP Calculation politicalwire.com/2025/03/03/t...
Trump Administration May Revise GDP Calculation
Associated Press: “The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts.” "Doing so could potentially complicate or distort a fundamental measure of the...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trump Administration May Revise GDP Calculation politicalwire.com/2025/03/03/t...
Quote of the Day politicalwire.com/2025/03/02/q...
Quote of the Day
“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremli...
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March 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Quote of the Day politicalwire.com/2025/03/02/q...
An Alternate Theory for What Happened in the Oval Office politicalwire.com/2025/03/01/a...
An Alternate Theory for What Happened in the Oval Office
The extraordinary scene at the White House yesterday—where President Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on live television—was nothing short of remarkable. It looked like an ambush s...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An Alternate Theory for What Happened in the Oval Office politicalwire.com/2025/03/01/a...
Trump Expands Elon Musk's Power politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/t...
Trump Expands Elon Musk's Power
"President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday empowering DOGE to scrutinize how federal agencies spend money, the latest expansion of Elon Musk's cost cutting powers," Axios reports.
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February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trump Expands Elon Musk's Power politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/t...
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Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.
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February 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans newrepublic.com/article/1918... via @newrepublic.com
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Federal workers choose public service to serve our people, but the Trump administration wants to traumatize them.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
February 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Federal workers choose public service to serve our people, but the Trump administration wants to traumatize them.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
Musk’s Empire Built on $38 Billion in Government Funding politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/m...
Musk’s Empire Built on $38 Billion in Government Funding
“Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers,” the Washington Post...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Musk’s Empire Built on $38 Billion in Government Funding politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/m...
Musk Wants a Cut of $42 Billion Biden Internet Plan politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/m...
Musk Wants a Cut of $42 Billion Biden Internet Plan
"When President Joe Biden put $42 billion behind making high-speed internet accessible across the US, he committed to doing it the old-fashioned way – with miles upon miles of fiber-optic lines," Bloo...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Musk Wants a Cut of $42 Billion Biden Internet Plan politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/m...
Trump Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Medicaid Cuts politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/t...
Trump Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Medicaid Cuts
A new Hart Research poll found 71% of voters who backed Donald Trump said cutting Medicaid would be unacceptable. Voters overall were even more opposed to it, with 82% saying so.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Trump Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Medicaid Cuts politicalwire.com/2025/02/26/t...
U.S. Votes Against Resolution to Condemn Russia politicalwire.com/2025/02/24/u...
U.S. Votes Against Resolution to Condemn Russia
"The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday on a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for its occupied territory...
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February 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
U.S. Votes Against Resolution to Condemn Russia politicalwire.com/2025/02/24/u...
Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry politicalwire.com/2025/02/23/t...
Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry
“President Trump has America’s wind-energy industry at a standstill,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Developers are delaying some projects and writing down the value of investments. Plans are hangi...
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February 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry politicalwire.com/2025/02/23/t...
Thousands of Troops Guard Quiet Border Towns politicalwire.com/2025/02/23/t...
Thousands of Troops Guard Quiet Border Towns
“Border Patrol agents sit in empty parks. Active-duty soldiers drive through fields along the base of a towering black border wall. Military helicopters roam the skies,” the Wall Street Journal report...
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February 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thousands of Troops Guard Quiet Border Towns politicalwire.com/2025/02/23/t...
Trump's 'Honeymoon' Lasted Less Than a Month politicalwire.com/2025/02/21/t...
Trump's 'Honeymoon' Lasted Less Than a Month
Just one month in, Donald Trump’s post-election glow—at least in the polls—appears to be fading fast. The numbers tell the story: Four new polls show Trump’s net approval rating has turned negative. T...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Trump's 'Honeymoon' Lasted Less Than a Month politicalwire.com/2025/02/21/t...
Ten reasons for modest optimism
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Ten reasons for modest optimism
Friends,
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February 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ten reasons for modest optimism
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Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out politicalwire.com/2025/02/19/s...
Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out
New York Times: “The episode at the Social Security Administration, which did not respond to requests for comment, has played out repeatedly across the federal government. In its stated quest to root ...
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February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out politicalwire.com/2025/02/19/s...
Elon Musk's Real Power Play politicalwire.com/2025/02/19/e...
Elon Musk's Real Power Play
While political reporters fixate on President Trump's latest utterances, a story that barely registered in the political press may be far more consequential: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startu...
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February 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Elon Musk's Real Power Play politicalwire.com/2025/02/19/e...
Musk Seeks Access to Taxpayer Data politicalwire.com/2025/02/16/m...
Musk Seeks Access to Taxpayer Data
“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the c...
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February 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Musk Seeks Access to Taxpayer Data politicalwire.com/2025/02/16/m...
Libraries in Tennessee Remove Books About Slavery politicalwire.com/2025/02/17/l...
Libraries in Tennessee Remove Books About Slavery
"At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves. But they aren’t scrubbing for dust. They’re scrubbing for books that ...
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February 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Libraries in Tennessee Remove Books About Slavery politicalwire.com/2025/02/17/l...
Hang In There - Small Things Matter
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Hang In There - Small Things Matter
“The little things?
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February 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hang In There - Small Things Matter
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