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Scorecard since Trump took office
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Scorecard since Trump took office
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees.
March 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the Black Lives Matter mural, painted in the summer of 2020 on a street near the White House, will be removed as part of planned changes to Black Lives Matter Plaza.
March 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the Black Lives Matter mural, painted in the summer of 2020 on a street near the White House, will be removed as part of planned changes to Black Lives Matter Plaza.
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I am utterly convinced now that, if Trump were to move to seize land from Canada, Greenland, or both, not a single Republican in Washington would meaningfully resist him. And a great many would just chant USA!
March 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am utterly convinced now that, if Trump were to move to seize land from Canada, Greenland, or both, not a single Republican in Washington would meaningfully resist him. And a great many would just chant USA!
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A not-insignificant portion of the younger Trump movement just sounds like this now because this are precisely the kinds of ideas, views, talking points, etc., that the online right has been incubating for the past 9+ years. It's just been normalized.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This Pentagon press secretary has a long history of bigoted and xenophobic posts
“Be unapologetically right-wing. It will pay off.”
www.motherjones.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A not-insignificant portion of the younger Trump movement just sounds like this now because this are precisely the kinds of ideas, views, talking points, etc., that the online right has been incubating for the past 9+ years. It's just been normalized.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"For all that talk — and Trump and Republicans’ claims they would support veterans — this administration has made its stance clear: veterans are not a priority, and their careers, livelihood, and health don’t matter." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Loves Our Military. He Just Hates Taking Care of Them
In his address to Congress, Donald Trump said people “love being in our military again” — as he continued his attacks on veterans’ jobs and benefits.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"For all that talk — and Trump and Republicans’ claims they would support veterans — this administration has made its stance clear: veterans are not a priority, and their careers, livelihood, and health don’t matter." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
#GrifterInChief
#GrifterInChief
March 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
#GrifterInChief
#GrifterInChief
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One thing to keep in mind with Trump's tariffs is that he (and many other people in Washington!) genuinely believe that US trade deficits mean other countries are cheating and trade deals have been unfair to US.
They are wrong but they genuinely believe it. And that leads to bad US trade policy.
They are wrong but they genuinely believe it. And that leads to bad US trade policy.
March 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing to keep in mind with Trump's tariffs is that he (and many other people in Washington!) genuinely believe that US trade deficits mean other countries are cheating and trade deals have been unfair to US.
They are wrong but they genuinely believe it. And that leads to bad US trade policy.
They are wrong but they genuinely believe it. And that leads to bad US trade policy.
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We are witnessing a historic and frequently illegal dismantling of the government by the richest man in the world.
Lets check in on the Congressional committee whose job it is to monitor what is happening in the executive branch:
Lets check in on the Congressional committee whose job it is to monitor what is happening in the executive branch:
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We are witnessing a historic and frequently illegal dismantling of the government by the richest man in the world.
Lets check in on the Congressional committee whose job it is to monitor what is happening in the executive branch:
Lets check in on the Congressional committee whose job it is to monitor what is happening in the executive branch:
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The AI system will then determine whether an employee should be terminated.
Because, of course, letting AI decide people’s livelihoods seems like a great idea.
Because, of course, letting AI decide people’s livelihoods seems like a great idea.
February 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The AI system will then determine whether an employee should be terminated.
Because, of course, letting AI decide people’s livelihoods seems like a great idea.
Because, of course, letting AI decide people’s livelihoods seems like a great idea.
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OPM has stated that a response is not necessary. However, if a response were required, here is their plan: Musk-directed emails to government employees, requesting details on their work over the past week, are expected to be fed into an AI system to assess job necessity.
February 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
OPM has stated that a response is not necessary. However, if a response were required, here is their plan: Musk-directed emails to government employees, requesting details on their work over the past week, are expected to be fed into an AI system to assess job necessity.
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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
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Shocking the extent to which a lot of the GOP is committed to killing their own voters
February 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shocking the extent to which a lot of the GOP is committed to killing their own voters
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This is potentially a huge deal, since it is an internal appeals board laying out criteria saying some probationary firings were illegal, e.g. for citing performance rationales with no evidence.
Could rippled out to include many more employees.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Could rippled out to include many more employees.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated
The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.
www.govexec.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is potentially a huge deal, since it is an internal appeals board laying out criteria saying some probationary firings were illegal, e.g. for citing performance rationales with no evidence.
Could rippled out to include many more employees.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Could rippled out to include many more employees.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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We love merit, don’t we folks?
Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1
America’s Food Safety Is Now in the Hands of Don Jr.’s Hunting Buddy
As federal health agencies are gutted with abandon, a Florida attorney with a history of hunting with the president’s son has been put in charge of food safety at the FDA, overseeing the nation’s food...
www.vanityfair.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We love merit, don’t we folks?
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This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
February 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/
There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.
Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/