Trump’s acting FEMA chief fired day after breaking from the administration | CNN Politics Cameron Hamilton, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, was escorted out of FEMA’s headquarters on Thursday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

Trump’s acting FEMA chief fired one day after breaking with the administration

Didn’t support dismantling it
Inexcusable

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Ortiz was placed on paid administrative leave as the process to remove her from the position she’s held for over six years begins.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is moving to fire Judge Karen Ortiz, who became a symbol of resistance after speaking out against a Trump administration directive that ordered the agency to pause discrimination investigations.

I spent the evening in the middle of the Alps eating Brazilian churrasco and listening to American music (mostly Bruce Springsteen) with an Austrian Soccer team.

Globalization is not so bad.

With so many of our coalition members laid off due to DOGE’s government cuts, money is top of mind for everyone right now.

Trump claims eggs and gas are cheap, but we’ve seen eggs go up along with toys, baby items, and more. What price hikes have you noticed?

We want to take a moment to talk about tariffs because honestly, we didn’t realize how bad it was getting until we started comparing notes with friends and family. Stores across the country are already raising prices, and some of the increases are steep.

One interesting idea he adopted from a Dutch commission: a champagne case that converts into an urn.

The idea is that once a year you open it up with your loved ones and give thanks for life’s ups and downs, and another year here.+

He specializes in custom work, but has a few “ready mades” on hand for those who need them in a hurry.

Okay, so LARPing is something I’ve never contemplated (not counting going full kit wanker a few times in my youth) but if I did, the mystery of where to get outfitted has been solved….
Comic-fantasy.de in Lindau Germany.

Some days I don’t comment on the actions of the Trump administration because the combination of stupidity and lying is too much to bear.

Senate confirms Trump's pick to run Social Security amid upheaval at the agency Tech CEO Frank Bisignano will be leading the federal agency that runs programs providing retirement, survivor and disability benefits, as well as supplemental income for the very poor.

Senate Republicans handed over the keys for Social Security to a man who says he’ll do whatever Trump and Musk want.

I won’t stop working to protect Social Security—and I support a bill to expand benefits by $2,400 a year and extend the program’s solvency.

Biggest scam they have tried to legitimize via government in my life……

Kander: This is a trade war of choice to support Trump's ego, I guess.

Gupta: And his bank account. He's leveraging the pressure of tariffs to get favorable private deals for the Trump enterprise...

Kander: What an argument! You have to be able to afford less so that the President can get richer.

Deporting migrants to Libya, where torture, slavery, and arbitrary detention prevail, is a flagrant violation of international law. The administration’s plan mirrors a deliberate abandonment of human rights, outsourcing cruelty to a system that dehumanizes with impunity.

America won’t be destroyed by immigrants or protests.

The party that claims to be the party of Lincoln is now leading the charge to destroy the very freedoms he fought for.

Proud of you, Canada 🇨🇦 and Australia 🇦🇺 with love from your American allies.

About the easiest task
for any American president
is to deal with Canada.
A very low bar.
A no-brainer.
Any idiot can do that.

When was the last time
we had a serious spat
with Canada?
Some border scuffles
during our Civil War?
Decades of rational diplomacy
shat away
by the orange
convicted felon & seditionist.

I’m at a softball game where there are probably 350-400 people. 75% of the adults are farmers. There’s not a Trump shirt, hat, or bumper sticker to be found. Frankly, I’m shocked.

Rural North Missouri softball. A good ball field, and then thousands of acres of woods and farmland…all around it. San Diego was a great place to live for many years, but my roots…are here.

According to multiple credible sources on X, Israel killed more than 100 people in Gaza just today, including women and children. The US continues to supply the weapons.

Protests continue (although arrests and deportation threats have had a chilling effect).

Thread of deaths:
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[I]n 2025, the top health official in the United States, a man without degrees in either medicine or public health, appears to be rejecting germ theory and reshaping the nation’s medical system around his own dedication to a theory that was outdated well over a century ago...
-Heather Cox Richardson

104 days of falling into Fascism 20 January 2025: 
“I do solemnly swear
that I will faithfully execute the Office of
President of the United States,
and will to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States.” 

 4 May 2025:
Do you have to uphold
the Constitution of the United States
as President? “I don't know.”

Rep Mike Lawler from NY had this woman removed from his town hall. He forgot his constituents are his boss, not the other way around.

I need our elected officials to stop playing nice ! Listen to Beto !!

Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump (Gift Article) Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.

“A contest…has played out across Europe, the US and the Middle East in recent days as President Trump’s two older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name and power...”

The self-dealing and selling access continue.

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“.. If they don’t change the tariffs, it’s going to be an extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event,” he told me. “Only these aren’t dinosaurs. These are dynamic, healthy businesses.”

@wsj.com
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This.

Also the move, if implemented, would involve restrictions with First Amendment implications.
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