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This long simmering conflict gets kinetic.

These emoluments just happening right in the open and nobody is doing anything about it.

So the birth rate in the US has become an issue - particularly on the right where people like Elon Musk have gone on at length about how the birth rate in the US presents a long-term national security issue. Of course, on the right talk about birth rates often ends up suggesting that they're...

This appears like its going to need a thread of its own: there have now been multiple whistleblower reports about what DOGE is doing (and not doing) on federal information systems. We still don't know what they have been installing or why - and there has been zero transparency about it from day 1.

The wild irony here is that no one has filed or had filed on his behalf more frivolous or meritless court paper than Donald Trump.As a matter of history, no free and just society ever takes down the judges and the lawyers. It’s 100% a symptom of authoritarian darkness...

Trump has demanded judges who rule against his administration be impeached. Elon has agreed. MAGA in Congress has introduced articles of impeachment. Of course, this is blatantly unconstitutional and it's also wildly pathetic. Instead of being strong and law-abiding but taking their case to...

We’ll see if this makes it into anything official but it seems pretty stupid to me - I don’t think there are any requirements on how a pardon is signed, only that the president endorsed it.

According to recent fillings in federal court, the FBI and EPA have instructed Citibank to freeze funds associated with a Biden-era greenhouse gas program on the basis that fund participants including Habitat for Humanity may have committed fraud against the United States...

Apart from this being a blatant First Amendment violation and highly fascist - the craziest thing about this whole "the president can cut off all federal funding for anything at any time" is that its going to come back around - and the next president will have a different agenda and do the same...

Musk has been after this contract since 2022 - it's currently held by Verizon. There's no one else that I'm aware of saying the ATC system is failing rapidly. The AP is reporting that Starlink equipment is already being deployed.1. Special Government Employees like Musk are supposed to not...

I don’t know if this kind of thing needs statutory authority, I suspect it does.

From farmers in the midwest losing their USAID contracts to residents of north Alabama losing their energy supplement, impacts are beginning. This is the part that Elon said "be a period of pain" . . . of course Trump never said that because he wouldn't have been elected...

The GOP in both the House and Senate have released their budget resolutions. Both aim to produce $1.5T to $2T in tax cuts- while slashing spending.The Senate budget committee is hearing their resolution today and resolving over 200 proposed amendments.The House has released their budge...

President Musk has now made it official US policy to strongly reject South Africa’s post-apartheid land equity program - and encourage Afrikaners (the SA descendants of European settlers) to emigrate to the US...

Now that the AG is in, she appears to be ready to do Trump’s bidding.

Following the Project 2025 playbook, in the last week, Trump and his newly installed loyalists have moved to (1) dismiss federal officials deemed unreliable to do his bidding (including 17 inspectors general) - many of which have protections from arbitrary dismissal, (2) freeze all science and...

Most disasters in this country are at least 90% funded by the federal government - mostly through FEMA.

Oh, but he's only joking - well, maybe, so they say. Or sort of joking with Canada, and maybe not joking with Greenland - saying that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity" doesn't sound like a joke . . . and um, not sure about what the about Panama Canal thing is...

Yesterday Mike Johnson announced a CR for the House to pass - to continue funding through March (so the new Congress can take it up) and provide additional disaster relief. It also includes a raise for Congress.Today Trump blasted the resolution and Elon threatened anyone who votes for it...