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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction
February 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction
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Holy shit.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Holy shit.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
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This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter
December 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter
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*this morning at Halas Hall*
GEORGE: Hey, Kevin, why is Eberflus at the podium?
KEVIN: Uh… hold on… Hey Ryan, you fired Flus, right?
RYAN: I thought George was going to do that.
GEORGE: I thought Kevin was … Holy hell he just said he’s going to coach against the 49ers
VIRGINIA: Oh FOR FUCKS SAKE
GEORGE: Hey, Kevin, why is Eberflus at the podium?
KEVIN: Uh… hold on… Hey Ryan, you fired Flus, right?
RYAN: I thought George was going to do that.
GEORGE: I thought Kevin was … Holy hell he just said he’s going to coach against the 49ers
VIRGINIA: Oh FOR FUCKS SAKE
November 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
*this morning at Halas Hall*
GEORGE: Hey, Kevin, why is Eberflus at the podium?
KEVIN: Uh… hold on… Hey Ryan, you fired Flus, right?
RYAN: I thought George was going to do that.
GEORGE: I thought Kevin was … Holy hell he just said he’s going to coach against the 49ers
VIRGINIA: Oh FOR FUCKS SAKE
GEORGE: Hey, Kevin, why is Eberflus at the podium?
KEVIN: Uh… hold on… Hey Ryan, you fired Flus, right?
RYAN: I thought George was going to do that.
GEORGE: I thought Kevin was … Holy hell he just said he’s going to coach against the 49ers
VIRGINIA: Oh FOR FUCKS SAKE
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Republicans have gone from threatening the spouses of Jordan holdouts yesterday to today asking God for divine inspiration. Tomorrow they will be doing Ouija boards. Saturday they'll be speaking in tongues.
October 19, 2023 at 7:10 PM
Republicans have gone from threatening the spouses of Jordan holdouts yesterday to today asking God for divine inspiration. Tomorrow they will be doing Ouija boards. Saturday they'll be speaking in tongues.