James Von Hendy

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Robert Obie Holmen • Follow 6h • © Longtime Republican columnist and commentator David Brooks said the following after the White House mistreatment of the Ukrainian president on Friday. "I was nauseated, just nauseated. All my life, I have had a certain idea of about America, that we're a flawed country, but we're fundamentally a force for good in the world, that we defeated Soviet Union, we defeated fascism, we did the Marshall Plan, we did PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) to help people live in Africa. And we make mistakes, Iraq, Vietnam, but they're usually mistakes out of stupidity, naivete and arrogance." "They're not because we're ill-intentioned. What I have seen over the last six weeks is the United States behaving vilely, vilely to our friends in Canada and Mexico, vilely to our friends in Europe. And today was the bottom of the barrel, vilely to a man who is defending Western values, at great personal risk to him and his countrymen." "Donald Trump believes in one thing. He believes that might makes right. And, in that, he agrees with Vladimir Putin that they are birds of a feather. And he and Vladimir Putin together are trying to create a world that's safe for gangsters, where ruthless people can thrive. And we saw the product of that effort today in the Oval Office." "And I have — I first started thinking, is it — am I feeling grief? Am I feeling shock, like l'm in a hallucination? But I just think shame, moral shame. It's a moral injury to see the country you love behave in this way."

Really a good read.

Judge tells Trump administration it has less than 2 days to resume USAID funding A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

@mattvonhendy.bsky.social Hi there little brother!

Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency—it’s about undermining America’s global leadership. USAID counters extremism, fights diseases, and creates more markets for U.S. exports. This is reckless and dangerous.

No. He just bullies and claims whatever he's offered as a win . He can't handle losing.

Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.

Two days in and chaos in…cancer research? 👎

“It is hard to imagine a worse time to prohibit federal officials from communicating directly with the clinical laboratory community,” noting the slew of winter viruses and increasing risk of avian flu.”

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A Jan. 6 defendant tells NPR why she turned down Trump's pardon Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

🔥Why is Senator Duckworth one of the only ones who can ask questions like this, and not accept nonsense answers?

Truth. This has already started. Don’t stay silent!

“The United States of America sounds like an oxymoron. The country doesn’t look like it’s a properly functioning Democracy and it is not united at the moment.”

BBC News Commentator 1/20/25

Mush wants to bury any community on Twitter that he considers "woke". Seeing Musk get away with removing any pretense of content moderation emboldened Zuckerberg to drop even the pretense of content moderation on FB. Zuck doesn't care about communities on FB except as a platform for ads.

Yes! And that goes for me, too.

Screenshot of a Jessie Memer quote about the financial disparity between the one percent immigrants and the working poor (including many DT voters versus the ultra rich.

This!

Hey Laura! Nice to find you here .

Ditto