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White House reverses course on HBCU scholarships after pressure from Jon Ossoff, other lawmakers The 1890 Scholars Program, which has been suspended, was designed to increase the number of students from rural and underserved communities.

White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers ajc.com/education/wh...

The US Marine Band has been forced to cancel their participation in a program and concert with black high school musicians from across America because the president is a disgusting racist.

This dude amassed a fortune from people who love to read - and used it to destroy independent bookshops and now a major newspaper.

This hits hard…

“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”

You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.

A woman in a suit and holding a gun in front of a computer

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February 24, 2025 Comments from survey respondents These comments are from respondents’ completed surveys and have been edited for publication. Chemical manufacturing The dynamic tariff situation is one for us to follow and seek to understand. The approach to improve export tariffs for U.S. companies seeking to deliver goods in foreign countries is good, and we believe the current tactic of reciprocal tariffs could drive improvement for U.S. export competitiveness. Tariff threats and uncertainty are extremely disruptive. Computer and electronic product manufacturing Keep lowering interest rates, please. The overall effects of administrative change have stalled consumer and customer spending. We are uncertain as to the full impact of tariffs related to our business. We procure parts from overseas. We have lost business opportunities for production of goods that goes to other countries as a result of tariffs. We may see new opportunities for products built elsewhere for companies who wish to shift manufacturing to the U.S. to avoid tariffs. There is much uncertainty at the moment as to how this will shake out. With some of the new Buy America changes and tariffs incoming, we are looking at closing the business. We are seeing broad signals of demand cyclically recovering. Personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise business are now several quarters into a cyclical recovery. We are seeing industrial and automotive inventories cleaned out, and our revenues are returning to consumption. Fabricated metal product manufacturing We are starting to see old requests for quotations starting to receive purchase orders. We are still having issues filling positions. We are still in a low-volume period but are holding steady as we’ve flexed down capacity and costs accordingly. Food manufacturing President Trump’s freeze on government contracts has had a dramatic impact on us. USAID [United States Agency for International Development] is our major customer. That as…

Miscellaneous manufacturing Sales volumes have been trending downward in the last 28 months. We have cut hours to 36 per week, and it is not enough to get profitable. Next week, we are cutting further to 32 hours and laying off three people. The uncertainty in tariff threats and general chaos of another Trump presidency is weighing heavy on our business. All customers are decreasing or pushing out orders—taking a wait-and-see posture. Automotive OEM [original equipment manufacturer] and aftermarket represents 72 percent of our sales. The outlook from automotive OEM is that production should begin to pick up in second quarter 2025, but no firm increases have been promised. The outlook is bleak. Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing It is very hard to plan. Interest rates? Tariffs? Wow. Paper manufacturing Currently it is very slow, and we started reduced production hours in the plant. Orders are also very slow. A price increase in the industry has been delayed 30 days due to softness. Plastics and rubber products manufacturing Customers, vendors and ourselves are all trying to get ahead of anticipated global trade challenges. It is stressing capacities, especially with production personnel. Primary metal manufacturing The proposed 25 percent tariffs on steel imports will directly and favorably improve the bottom line as a domestic steel manufacturer. However, uncertainty is sky high. It is A Tale of Two Cities. February was down compared with January, but our outlook remains positive due to the 25 percent Section 232 tariff on aluminum. This tariff is expected to slow the influx of foreign aluminum from Mexico and other countries. Currently, a significant amount of aluminum is being dumped into the U.S. market, with many countries subsidizing their exports to gain a competitive edge. The bottom line: If the tariffs remain in place, they will benefit our industry. However, if they are reversed, many companies in our sector will struggle to survive. Production impr…

The Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Activity Index records comments every month from its respondents (factories in southern NM, TX, and northern LA). These typically run pretty far to the right of the WSJ Editorial page. Anyhow, here's what they're saying this month:
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump's administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them. The mass resignation of engineers, data scientists and product managers is a temporary setback for Musk and the Republican president's tech-driven purge of the federal workforce. It comes amid a flurry of court challenges that have sought to stall, stop or unwind their efforts to fire or coerce thousands of government workers out of jobs. The staffers who resigned worked for what was once known as the United States Digital Service, an office established during President Barack Obama's administration after the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov, the web portal that millions of Americans use to sign up for insurance plans through the Democrat's signature health care law. All had previously held senior roles at such tech companies as Google and Amazon and wrote in their resignation letter that they joined the government out of a sense of duty to public service. Trump's empowerment of Musk upended that. The day after Trump's inauguration, the staffers wrote, they were called into a series of interviews that foreshadowed the secretive and disruptive work of Musk's' Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. According to the staffers, people wearing White House vis…

So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned.

*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS

This seems like the sort of thing you might say when you intend to steal $2 billion in gold bars when you visit Fort Knox.

It took Trump’s DOJ one month to begin running cover for GOP Domestic Violence.
That we know of, at least.

This doesn’t even include paying someone to read and make judgements on all those emails!

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

They screwed this all up.

Pure idiocy. Misinformation will explode in the vacuum they’re creating, and not only will this prevent real docs and researchers from identifying outbreaks and saving lives, but - as we’ve seen in natural disasters - the blossoming conspiracy theories will backfire against their own administration.

IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCHOOL YEAR

the richest man in the world has decided that you don't deserve to feel safe when you fly bsky.app/profile/rick...

Reddit post from a terminated federal employee: "The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

The same kind of lie that RFK Jr. believes and promotes was used to justify medical experiments like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - when African American men with syphilis were left untreated from 1932-1972.

All Right Wing thought eventually boils down to Might Makes Right.

…AND they KNOW it’s bad-because they’re trying to HIDE it!
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Unelected Billionaire Charged With Cutting Government Services Also Awarded $400M Government Contract.

My inhaler is no longer covered by my insurance.

The Philadelphia Eagles were named, in 1933, to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, part of the New Deal—the NRA’s Blue Eagle stood for protection of labor and federal oversight of the U.S. economy (pic: Library of Congress)

NIH grants that created genetic medicine cured my hemophilia in 2020. Here is what the 5-years cured blood test looked like last week. Science works! I hope others get the benefits of such research before regressive Republicans send us back to the 19th Century.

Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?

GovWayback Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 via the Wayback Machine

Another preservationist of the past Trump et al are hiding.
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❌❌ ECONOMIC BLACKOUT!! ❌❌

Buy NOTHING on 2/28. No gas, no groceries, no supplies, no fast food, nothing online. Zero! ❌

Stock up at Costco days before and buy some Ben & Jerry's! 💙💙

PERMANENT everyday boycott list:
❌ Target
❌ Walmart
❌ Amazon
❌ Hobby Lobby (Share more below)

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In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts.

This triggered three reviews, according to the NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/