Michael Reavely

If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?

Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.

My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director

If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

Trump removes Ice chief amid apparent frustration over rate of deportations Caleb Vitello reassigned as administration reportedly unhappy at slow rate of arrests and deportations Donald Trump’s presidential administration has reassigned its top official at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) after the agency’s arrests…

Trump removes Ice chief amid apparent frustration over rate of deportations

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money.

That starts with banning super PAC donations in Dem primaries.

There’s no way the party can speak for the majority of working people in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

A tweet from Anonymous ( @YourAnonNews ). The tweet includes an image of a cartoon dinosaur wearing a red "TRUMP 45-47" cap, standing on a rocky landscape with a fiery meteor descending in the sky. Another smaller dinosaur is visible in the background. The dinosaur with the cap has a speech bubble saying, "Haha! That’s really going to hurt the liberals!"

Accurate.

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

A screenshot of a tweet from The White House (@WhiteHouse), posted 33 minutes ago, quoting Donald J. Trump: "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" –President Donald J. Trump Below the tweet is an illustrated or AI-generated image of Donald Trump wearing a suit with a red tie and a gold crown on his head. He is smiling confidently against a background featuring the New York City skyline, including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The image is framed in red, with the word "TRUMP" in large white letters at the top. In the bottom left corner, white text reads "LONG LIVE THE KING." Engagement metrics show 722 replies, 1.9K retweets, 8.2K likes, and 314K views. The interface includes icons for replying, retweeting, liking, and sharing the post.

The official White House account posted this.

ninety years ago, Germany became the original Nazi Bar. it took an entire world war to restore order to the joint. does Germany want to go through that again? no, they fucking well do not — and so they’re nipping that shit in the bud. can you blame them? Germany’s leaders, as you might well imagine, are livid that two condescending American assholes are trying to tell them how to run their country.

another chunk from today's post —
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link to the whole ball of wax is here: bit.ly/3EFpcc2

Updates: confirmed measles cases, hospitalizations in West Texas Updated data and information from public health officials on confirmed measles cases in the region.

Most of the cases are among school-aged children; at least thirteen patients have been hospitalized.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

🎯 ‘It’s a relay, find your team’

Trump going to Super Bowl cost Taxpayers $20,000,000
meanwhile children are starving to death because of his shut down of USAID.

True story.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

Compliments of 🟠.

Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media

The co-founder of AirBnB is a close friend of Musk and is joining his DOGE outfit to help gut the US government. Of course he is
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” said Daryl Kimball, exec. director of the Arms Control Association,“They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons more than it is the Department of Energy.”

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

"The actions of Musk and DOGE have created moral dilemmas of a kind no American government employee has faced in recent history. Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent?"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

Huh so the DOGE website gives no audit transparency but links straight to X?

www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

from /fednews

From a 20 year employee of the IDRS (Integrated Data Retrieval System) / IRS (Internal Revenue Service)

Elon Musk was mocked after raging against "unelected bureaucrats" in an Oval Office rant oblivious to the fact that he was describing himself.

Elon's little X (HumanShield) is putting boogers all over germaphobe Grandpa RICO's desk while telling him to shut up. 🥴

If you look at the history of unionizing and union busting in this country you begin to realize how violent that period was.

The nlrb was created not just to protect unions, but to keep that kind of violence from erupting again.

Media says: Where are the Dems?
I say: WHERE the hell is the media?

📌Thousands of us stood in the cold here in Wisconsin and across the country protesting Musk's attack on our privacy, and it barely got a mention.
📌Dems are fighting, but the media has once again fallen at Trump's fat, little feet.

UNRWA: Nearly 40,000 Palestine Refugees have been forcibly displaced from the northern West Bank.

www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Same day.