Connie Rooke

🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.

Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.

There's a petulant idiot from Queens, New York in the White House who is going to tank the American economy because he's too simple-minded to understand how tariffs work.

There's another petulant idiot from Pretoria, South Africa trying to dismantle the US government.

Most Americans: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, maybe, the stunt of casting a write-in vote for Nikki Haley last year wasn't in the best interests of your constituants?

Something big is coming

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

How do we get folks to flood these email addresses with - oh I don’t know- the text to the I have a dream speech?

amanda.scales@opm.gov
DEIAreports@opm.gov
DEIAtruth@opm.gov

These are the addresses in the OPM memo about shutting down DEI

BREAKING —CDC officially ordered by Trump White House to cease working with the WHO effective immediately.

This is the first time in almost 77 years since WHO’s founding after World War 2.

This is a very dark day, and puts us all at risk (except billionaires).

The White House has to "check back" about whether or not they just shut off the program that funds health care for 2 million Arizonans?

I can tell you the answer: Arizona's Medicaid payment portal has been turned off.

This is absurd.

#NeverForget

‘It’s absurd’: Mexicans mock and shrug off Trump’s order to rename Gulf of Mexico | CNN When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted ...

When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.

Trump ally coasts in special House primary to fill vacant Florida seat The Associated Press projected that Republican state Sen. Randy Fine easily won a primary to succeed former Rep. Mike Waltz, who became Trump's national security adviser.

Trump-endorsed state Sen. Randy Fine easily won a special House primary Tuesday in northwest Florida, setting him up to fill a vacant, deep-red seat as voters picked nominees in two congressional districts in the state.

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The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes…

Trump order seeks to change the name of North America's tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.

Trump seeks to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley. Sen. Murkowski opposes, calling Denali its “rightful name” given by Alaska’s Koyukon Athabascans, who’ve stewarded the land for millennia. Read more: loom.ly/wCbBBT8

Trump removes US Coast Guard chief, official cites DEI focus The Trump administration has fired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday.

The Trump administration has fired US Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department of Homeland Security said reut.rs/42kHuZV

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.