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From a Post reporter:
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
From a Post reporter:
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This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal…
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal…
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
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NEWS by me: Dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course that ex-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos encouraged during Trump's first admin have now been placed on paid leave as part of Trump's targeting of DEI programs. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Education Dept. workers put on leave after taking diversity training during Trump's 1st term, union says
A letter to the affected employees obtained by NBC News said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and wouldn't be required to do any work-related tasks.
www.nbcnews.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
NEWS by me: Dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course that ex-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos encouraged during Trump's first admin have now been placed on paid leave as part of Trump's targeting of DEI programs. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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The Trump administration sometimes reflects cruelty braided with incompetence.
NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The Trump administration sometimes reflects cruelty braided with incompetence.
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Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
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Billionaire African immigrant previously charged with securities fraud seeks access to nation’s $6 trillion dollar Social Security fund that keeps the elderly alive & in their homes: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer, David A. Lebryk, announced his retirement. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Billionaire African immigrant previously charged with securities fraud seeks access to nation’s $6 trillion dollar Social Security fund that keeps the elderly alive & in their homes: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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NBC Exclusive:
Trump is escalating his FBI purge.
David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, has been notified that he'll lose his job.
Sundberg headed the office as its agents participated in the Trump investigations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Trump is escalating his FBI purge.
David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, has been notified that he'll lose his job.
Sundberg headed the office as its agents participated in the Trump investigations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Head of FBI Washington Field Office is forced out
David Sundberg headed the field office as its agents participated in investigations of Donald Trump, whose administration has asked for resignations from a number of top FBI officials.
www.nbcnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NBC Exclusive:
Trump is escalating his FBI purge.
David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, has been notified that he'll lose his job.
Sundberg headed the office as its agents participated in the Trump investigations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Trump is escalating his FBI purge.
David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, has been notified that he'll lose his job.
Sundberg headed the office as its agents participated in the Trump investigations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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imagine seeing someone go into a library and burning books, or into an art museum and defacing Renaissance paintings, or into a hospital and smashing equipment and throwing away medicines and records.
That’s what’s happening with the Friday Afternoon Massacre of federal websites and data now
That’s what’s happening with the Friday Afternoon Massacre of federal websites and data now
January 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
imagine seeing someone go into a library and burning books, or into an art museum and defacing Renaissance paintings, or into a hospital and smashing equipment and throwing away medicines and records.
That’s what’s happening with the Friday Afternoon Massacre of federal websites and data now
That’s what’s happening with the Friday Afternoon Massacre of federal websites and data now
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NYT reports that the crash is b/c the safety system has been gutted, the army helicopter was off course, and the ATC was trying to do 2 jobs at once. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...
Clues From D.C. Plane Crash Suggest Multiple Failures in Aviation Safety
Clues emerging from the moments before an Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet suggest breakdowns in the system meant to help aircraft land safely at the busy Reagan National Airport.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NYT reports that the crash is b/c the safety system has been gutted, the army helicopter was off course, and the ATC was trying to do 2 jobs at once. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...
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From a friend who works in the gov.
January 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
From a friend who works in the gov.
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Absolute insanity. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Absolute insanity. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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This has been an exceptionally difficult and frightening week. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.
January 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This has been an exceptionally difficult and frightening week. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.
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Worth noting: Trump is not pushing to remove undocumented people from red states like he is big city Democratic-led areas. These people are essential workers. Is it policy or is it punishment? www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/b... Trump is targeting the immigrants who will be called on to rebuild LA
Trump is targeting the immigrants who will be called on to rebuild LA | CNN Business
On the outskirts of Altadena, where one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles history had just receded, a group of volunteers worked last week to gather fallen tree branches and leaves — r...
www.cnn.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Worth noting: Trump is not pushing to remove undocumented people from red states like he is big city Democratic-led areas. These people are essential workers. Is it policy or is it punishment? www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/b... Trump is targeting the immigrants who will be called on to rebuild LA
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Universities need to coordinate coherently around DEI defense. What kinds of programming/initiatives are obviously fine? How to secure them? How could test cases work? Who's going to take the lead on what?
There's real legal risk here. But not for most of the DEI umbrella. We need a strategy.
There's real legal risk here. But not for most of the DEI umbrella. We need a strategy.
An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
www.insidehighered.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Universities need to coordinate coherently around DEI defense. What kinds of programming/initiatives are obviously fine? How to secure them? How could test cases work? Who's going to take the lead on what?
There's real legal risk here. But not for most of the DEI umbrella. We need a strategy.
There's real legal risk here. But not for most of the DEI umbrella. We need a strategy.
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An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
www.insidehighered.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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So-called? Really. She’s been a bishop for how many years so I don’t think so-called applies.
She was delivering a sermon, not a debate. Call it for what it is Donnie: she embarrassed the hell out of you. And now you’re pissed. And you’re doing what you always do: throw a tantrum.
She was delivering a sermon, not a debate. Call it for what it is Donnie: she embarrassed the hell out of you. And now you’re pissed. And you’re doing what you always do: throw a tantrum.
January 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
So-called? Really. She’s been a bishop for how many years so I don’t think so-called applies.
She was delivering a sermon, not a debate. Call it for what it is Donnie: she embarrassed the hell out of you. And now you’re pissed. And you’re doing what you always do: throw a tantrum.
She was delivering a sermon, not a debate. Call it for what it is Donnie: she embarrassed the hell out of you. And now you’re pissed. And you’re doing what you always do: throw a tantrum.
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This guy won the popular vote. That’s why I say America deserves everything we get.
January 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This guy won the popular vote. That’s why I say America deserves everything we get.
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The Budde sermon, and Trump's reaction to it, distills nearly everything I've written about for the past decade. MAGA believes they define the only true version of Christianity in America. A Christianity that sees Trump as white Christian America's savior, and all other Christianities as dead.
January 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The Budde sermon, and Trump's reaction to it, distills nearly everything I've written about for the past decade. MAGA believes they define the only true version of Christianity in America. A Christianity that sees Trump as white Christian America's savior, and all other Christianities as dead.
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Trump can’t stand a message that is essentially “love thy neighbor.”
He attacked Bishop Budde proving that he is incapable of understanding the fundamental Jesus Christ's message.
And his pride doesn't even allow him to simply let it go...
He attacked Bishop Budde proving that he is incapable of understanding the fundamental Jesus Christ's message.
And his pride doesn't even allow him to simply let it go...
January 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Trump can’t stand a message that is essentially “love thy neighbor.”
He attacked Bishop Budde proving that he is incapable of understanding the fundamental Jesus Christ's message.
And his pride doesn't even allow him to simply let it go...
He attacked Bishop Budde proving that he is incapable of understanding the fundamental Jesus Christ's message.
And his pride doesn't even allow him to simply let it go...
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Why isn't every Dem social media feed in the country elevating Budde's call-out of Trump right now?
Bishop Mariann Budde's extraordinary sermon calling out Trump also gives Dems language to highlight his coming immigration horrors. Its impact shows there's still a way to reach people's decency and humanity.
On the pod, we dig into this. Listen in this link:
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
On the pod, we dig into this. Listen in this link:
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
Trump Angered by Female Bishop’s Stunning Criticism Right to His Face
As the Bishop of Washington irks Trump with a sermon calling for “mercy” toward migrants, a leading immigration advocate reflects on whether decency can effectively combat authoritarian cruelty.
newrepublic.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Why isn't every Dem social media feed in the country elevating Budde's call-out of Trump right now?
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-Ulysses S. Grant
-Ulysses S. Grant
January 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-Ulysses S. Grant
-Ulysses S. Grant
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Who is “they”?
January 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Who is “they”?
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Sen. Chris Coons: "A simple question of constitutional interpretation: Is President-elect Trump eligible to run for another term as president in 2028?"
Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general: "No, senator, not unless they change the Constitution."
Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general: "No, senator, not unless they change the Constitution."
January 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Sen. Chris Coons: "A simple question of constitutional interpretation: Is President-elect Trump eligible to run for another term as president in 2028?"
Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general: "No, senator, not unless they change the Constitution."
Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general: "No, senator, not unless they change the Constitution."
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Trump's speech is LITERALLY a rundown of Project 2025
Funny, for a guy who tried to say he had nothing to do with Project 2025, he sure is copycatting a bunch of its content
Funny, for a guy who tried to say he had nothing to do with Project 2025, he sure is copycatting a bunch of its content
January 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump's speech is LITERALLY a rundown of Project 2025
Funny, for a guy who tried to say he had nothing to do with Project 2025, he sure is copycatting a bunch of its content
Funny, for a guy who tried to say he had nothing to do with Project 2025, he sure is copycatting a bunch of its content