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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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I remember my MAGA friend telling me Trump would surround himself with only the best. GW’s Brownie is looking real good these days at least he was an expert in something even if it was horses

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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“Propagandists are not “provocateurs.” Trump’s stated grounds for his abuses of power are not actual reasons, they are pretexts created for purely instrumental ends. And Kristi Noem did not “stare down” mobs of antifa terrorists in Portland.”

First up on tonight's quirky #FridayNightZillow is a "Mini-Graceland" in Northridge, California for $2.65M. One thing I've learned from looking at tens of thousands of Zillow houses: People are weird! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

No Kings is Hamas is quite a claim to make. I mean, we knew this was coming, but it’s still shocking to hear.

Wow—these are notable and alarming escalations in rhetoric. Equating peaceful protesters with terrorists only proves the need for protests.

I am not that kind of Democrat, and they are creating an entire generation of Democrats like me. Personally, I would hunt them to the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for what they did to the United States and the American experiment

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Oh my good god damn stop this fucking insane train want off!

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

BREAKING: James Comey pleads not guilty to federal criminal charges, judge sets trial date for Jan. 5

More details TK

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

No, what I have is enough historic context to know that fascism isn’t just the next stop down the road from conservativism. It is its own beast, fundamentally distinct from other forms of conservativism that have heretofore dominated US politics. Bush and Reagan weren’t fascists. Trump is

The slide to fascism from bed rock conservatism has always been a slippery slope esp considering the overwhelming influence of the bitter racism of the American Experience. Left unchecked, the right was always going to come to this, to MAGA fascism

Words & Phrases We Could Do Without ‘Armed Conflict’? Trump declares war on all of us

We face an open open question as to whether the president, anywhere, anytime he pleases, can execute or round up people he says are terrorists—without due process. That we are even entertaining such a discussion tells you how far Trump has damaged democracy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare “I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.

Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:

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Worth reading: Judge Immergut’s decision in Oregon v. Trump, granting a TRO enjoining DJT from federalizing the Oregon Nat’l Guard and deploying them to Portland. I link it at the next post in this thread, followed by some thoughts. (1/18)

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

As his FBI tenure goes from bad to worse, Kash Patel abandons the pretense of seriousness The problem isn’t that the FBI director is failing at his attempts to be a serious and capable figure. The problem is that he isn’t even trying.

The problem isn't that Kash Patel is failing at his attempts to be a serious and capable figure. The problem is that the FBI director isn't even trying.

Take his firing of a field agent who wouldn’t humiliate James Comey, for example. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

The corrosive rigidity of fascism Is America something fixed or something fluid? Is it a country founded on a perfect set of ideas or a country that has struggled to become perfect? Is it a system that works or one that sputters, one ...

I saw “One Battle After Another” in an otherwise empty theater this morning and emerged into the sunlight with some thoughts. www.pbump.net/o/the-corros...

They’re calling it poopgate. It’s great! Don’t even let em shit in peace

Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon "The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.

It was a blunt 31-page opinion issued by a judge Trump appointed to the bench in his first term in office declaring that Trump’s effort to federalize Oregon National Guard troops likely “exceeded his statutory authority” and likely violated the Tenth Amendment.

Law Dork on Saturday’s TRO:

Just remember, they (Miller, Trump) started all this. American cities were doing fine and like a sleeping dog they went up and kicked it in the head. No reason whatsoever except to inflict chaos and damage