USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

"When you are selecting not only for loyalty, but defining that loyalty to mean affirming morally odious values and factually absurd premises, you are reducing your hiring pool to the shallowest part," Jonathan Chait writes:

This is how the American Airlines jet and U.S. Army helicopter collided in midair near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The swine actually blamed the Biden administration and DEI hiring for the accident with absolutely no facts no proof nothing he didn’t say anything about the families who lost their children their husbands their wives nothing just that it was the fault of DEI hiring. What a swine

Donald Trump’s “great federal-grant freeze of 2025 is over, but don’t expect it to be gone for good,” writes @dgraham.bsky.social. “It’s part of a carefully thought-out program of grabbing power for the executive branch.”

Kansas is grappling with what state health officials say is one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks there since the 1950s, one that has infected dozens of people.

Trump’s week-long blitz of executive orders, press appearances, and social-media posts is “a deliberate strategy,” several of his aides and allies told @JonLemire. It is “designed to disorient already despairing Democratic foes,” Lemire reports: theatln.tc/Y1rfoJmQ

The online portal through which state Medicaid departments receive federal funding stopped working Tuesday, according to state officials. The outage at least temporarily jeopardized payments the federal government legally owes Medicaid programs, which serve tens of millions of low-income Americans.

CNN's Jim Acosta signing off:

"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."

I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.

Pass it on.

I will not give in to the lies!
I will not give in to the fear!

I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.

Trump has floated the idea of using military force to reclaim the Panama Canal. Franklin Foer tells Stephanie Bai what the president is after with his pledge to take back the waterway:

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Sell your Tesla. ❌

Sell your Cybertruck. ❌

Get off Twitter. ❌

Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌

Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻

#resist