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"On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs."

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Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

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Then comes the question of constitutional crisis: Does he ignore the court’s ruling? To do that would be to attempt a coup. I wonder if they have the stomach for it. The withdrawal of the Office of Management and Budget’s order to freeze spending suggests they don’t.

That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

Thanks to DrZykeTayler on TikTok for sharing this site, where you can see the status of all the legal challenges against the new Administration.

Does anyone else have good news aggregators they've been relying on?

Political News for Normal People. Your essential guide to the shock and awe in national politics. A sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news.

Speaking of information overload, I've been starting to read WTF Just Happened Today. Last week when there were so many things happening so fast, I found that all of the ones I cared about where listed in this digest. I also don't get as overwhelmed by it as algorithm driven socials like TT & FB.

the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”

That's all for today, I'm going to try to keep things short and sweet for now. Information overwhelm is a thing.

Now time for me to start collecting and adding users from my other socials. Welcome!

USAID takeover is unconstitutional, lawmakers say "USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress," said Rep. Don Beyer.

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Take Action - because when aid stops, everyone suffers. One policy. Thousands of jobs gone. Milllions of lives at risk. USAID programs employ Americans and save lives everywhere - and they're being gutted by an executive order. Reach out to you representative. Visit USAIDSTOPWORK.COM

USAID is one of the first government programs unconstitutionally dismantled by the new administration.

Learn more and take action here: www.usaidstopwork.com

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s power grab: a coup veiled by chaos | Editorial Editorial: The US president is testing the limits of executive authority, sidelining Congress and enriching allies while destabilising the global economy

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Self-coup - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

Today's word is self-coup aka autocoup".

"a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power through illegal means... The leader may dissolve or render powerless the national legislature & unlawfully assume extraordinary powers"

Hello there. I started this account to see if I can move away from FB and TikTok.

Now I see, I will be using it for political content for the foreseeable future.

Cheers!