The day after President’s Day, Trump's DOGE has arbitrarily fired staff at the JFK Presidential Library, forcing it to close its doors. Shutting down this vital place of learning, engagement, and revenue creation, if even for a day isn’t just wrong—it degrades the very office of the President.
Where Trump, Musk and DOGE Have Cut Federal Workers So Far
By Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Ashley Wu, Jon Huang and Elena Shao
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I've just published the sequel to this - charting the oppostion to the Trump administration's actions and what we can learn...
BlueSky thread incoming!
But here is the substack post
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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‘The Social Security Administration’s records include all Social Security numbers, comprehensive medical records for those who have applied for disability benefits, bank information, earnings records and more..
“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is”’
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New favorite song:
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1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information.
The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"
Let’s roll !
Trump and Musk’s irresponsibility knows no bounds.
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Not to pick on the NY Times, but I use it as my barometer of whether headlines convey the sense of crisis we are in and usually the answer is no
Empowered kids and military spouses protest Hegseth’s visit in Germany.
“The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults who booed the defense secretary — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.”
wapo.st/4hVKdO1 (gift article)
Musk’s tweet ‘USAID is a criminal organization’ is justifying the persecution of USAID beneficiaries and suppression of civil society by autocrats abroad.
‘“people who received funding from USAid… should be made to “publicly confess and repent on Red Square”’
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Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo Are Being Held by Military Guards
The Times has obtained a list of 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has put in a wartime prison built to hold Al Qaeda suspects. @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..."
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The United States State Department is now planning to spend $400 million in taxpayer money to buy Tesla Cybertrucks.
what's a 80 year old promise among friends?
As we prepare for the largest protest event in American history on Monday, February 17, here are some tips for protesting peacefully and safely. #NationalDayOfProtest www.law.nyu.edu/centers/race...
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The fact that NBC can (accurately) call the Administrative Procedure Act “obscure” just shows how little Americans know about how their government works.
It literally is one of the most important laws ever enacted by Congress.
A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding.
Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…
The COUP has just extended to hiring decisions across the government.
Agency heads must consult with a DOGE Team Lead for all hiring and report hiring to a US DOGE Service (USDS) Administrator.
Musk has become the CEO of our country, with Trump as Chairman of the Board.
Petty bully Trump is upset AP won’t go along with his absurd name change. In selectively denying press access he is ticking another box on the authoritarian checklist.
AP style guide for Gulf of Mexico: www.ap.org/the-definiti...
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‘Trust me bro.’ When asked about conflicts of interest during their press event today Musk said there is complete transparency and if you see a conflict just point it out, ignoring the numerous conflicts across the government NYT published this morning. See the graphic.
Stop Musk’s gaslighting.
ABA standing firmly for the rule of law
Rachel spells it out. @maddow.msnbc.com
Mainstream media - by failing to call out AUTOCRACY by name YOU are leaving your audience in the dark and endangering our country.
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