Helen McConnell

Shameful

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

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Patrimonialism—the word that best describes Trump’s governance—well-described and set forth here in this excellent article.

A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, Trump officials continue to blame Fauci for missteps — and are minimizing his presence on his old campus.

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A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, Trump officials continue to blame Fauci for missteps — and are minimizing his presence on his old campus.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Schumer does not believe we are in a Constitutional crisis yet…and that is why he voted for the CR. Revealed last night on Chris Hayes’ show on MSNBC.

A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.

ERASURE! An effective fascist technique and one of the Trump regime’s approaches to annihilate the factual contributions of prominent figures in American history.

Column | Trump’s plan to downsize government could put downtown D.C. up for sale As we await a revised list of properties the GSA deems “noncore,” a critic ponders the fate of Washington’s historic landscape

On Tuesday, Trump's GSA proposed selling hundreds of federal buildings, including key parts of the monumental core of Washington. Is there precedent for this massive invitation to corruption? Yes, the privatization of the post-Soviet economy.
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Trump’s Most Inexplicable Decision Yet The tariffs are real, and they are spectacularly foolish

“Usually, when elected officials implement foolish policies,” Rogé Karma writes, “they believe the political upside outweighs the substantive downside. What makes Trump’s tariffs so unusual is that the politics of them also appear to be terrible.”

This is a sad decision by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. The BLM mural is a historic monument to a time when all of America was focused sharply upon the egregious racism that brutally cost the life of one man by choking before all of our eyes. The mural should remain.

It’s surreal that I have to go to a foreign leader to hear someone describe the full derangement and malignancy of my own president in plain language, because our own “free press” and opposition leaders won’t do it. Bravo Trudeau

President Trump says rates of pediatric cancer are way up, but his incompetent fanatics on DOGE fired my guest tonight, Dr. Lauren McGee, a remarkable pediatric cancer researcher who was sacked from NIH as part of Musk’s Valentine’s Day onslaught.

Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.

The great @eugenerobinson.bsky.social recounts how during Watergate, Mrs. Graham took Woodward and Bernstein's notes to her own home each night so that if the government tried to subpoena them, they would have to come through her. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Zelensky Urges ‘More Truth’ After Trump Suggests Ukraine Started the War The remarks by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine were some of his most pointed yet about President Trump’s views on the war.

A day after Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine "started" the war that Russia launched against it, Zelensky says the U.S. president is “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.

For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Nearly 1,000 former federal prosecutors ⬇️⚖️⬇️

Proud to join almost 1,000 other DOJ alumni supporting those who are standing up for the non-partisan administration of law. The oath we all took is to uphold the Constitution, not to advance a president’s political agenda.
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If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.

Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”

What?!

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Yes! Stand up for the First Amendment with the AP!

Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Such a tragedy. Mehdi is right.

I agree with Conway. I saw this interview by Ali Velshi of Rep. Crockett and thought to myself that she was spot on!

I saw this and tho if he just the same. A great and perspicacious woman!

We've gathered in solidarity wherever federal workers, federal programs and our Constitution are under attack.

The majority will defend representative democracy against the cyberbarons.

Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad.

I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.

And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Jamie Raskin:

"Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.”

Amen!!

Pete Buttigieg: “Even the greatest country, if it loses the rule of law, will not have much left.”

REPOST if you stand with Pete Buttigieg!

Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...