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Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers An executive order signed by President Donald Trump aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars of grants that are awarded by federal agencies.

Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers

L.A. has been terrorized by his goon squad for months. I’m teaching in DC this fall, and it’s going to be the same over there.

If you think they’re not coming to your city to snatch up anyone they don’t like, you’re dead wrong.

Immigration, homelessness, any excuse for intimidation will do.

Mayor Eric Adams
Canada
Ukraine
Brazil
Panama
Greenland
Apple
Paramount
Skadden Arps
Wilmer Hale
Covington
Skadden Arps
Brown University
Penn University
George Mason University

Okay help me out here, because there’s no way I can remember them all: can we identify all the entities that Trump has personally extorted or tried to extort since taking office?

Just to start:
Columbia University
Harvard University
UCLA
NVIDIA
AMP
Perkins Coie
Paul Weiss
Japan
The EU

The irony is not lost on many in Washington that Trump says spitting on a DC cop is justification for hitting/punching back "hard" when he pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted those same cops — and said attacks on them that day were "minor."

Breakthrough the noise:

This step in DC is a pilot project for militarizing other American streets.

President Trump just said so.⬇️

Even when DC violent crime is down 26 percent.

Reminder of August leaked memo (via @gregsargent.bsky.social): newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Trump could’ve deployed the D.C. National Guard on Jan. 6, 2021 to prevent the image below from happening. He didn’t.

Instead, he deployed them today as part of his effort to undermine Democratic governance in cities and portray himself as a strong leader. Dangerous.

Trump says Pam Bondi is taking over the DC Police Department

Violent crime in Washington, D.C. is at a thirty-year low.

Donald Trump has no basis to take over the local police department.

And zero credibility on the issue of law and order.

Get lost.

Inside the CDC, Shooting Adds to Trauma as Workers Describe Projects, Careers in Limbo - KFF Health News Fired-then-reinstated workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worry about the future of public health amid proposed agency downsizing.

The view inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: HIV workers describe chaos and low morale over canceled or stalled projects, as funding disappears or is delayed.
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Breaking News: Trump Speaks for One Hour Without Explaining Where U.S. Citizens Arrested in D.C. for Being Homeless Will Be Taken When He Puts Them in Custody and Sends Them "Far Away"

One perverse aspect of Trump calling up the D.C. National Guard while crime plummets to a 30-year-low: Trump REFUSED to call up the D.C. Guard on Jan. 6 to counter an insurrection that he himself incited.

If Congress won't give D.C. statehood, at least give us control over our National Guard.

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

US on the brink of major public health failure Under the watch of Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr a vaccine-preventable disease has continued to spread across the US.

"It's a complete and utter failure of public health for us to lose our elimination status for a vaccine-preventable disease." 🧪

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.

🧪 I had posted this last week, but I think it is worth noting again, fraudulent science is growing faster than legitimate research. The academic pressure for quantitative metrics has fueled a black market of "papermills" selling fabricated papers, authorships, and citations. #AcademicSky #PaperMills

Paging Dr. Freud. 📞

Now, imagine what's going to happen when the inventory of pre-tariff idiocy cars runs out, the price of a car jumps 20-30%, nobody can afford to sell entry level cars and nobody has the money for the trim levels that make dealers money.

Looking forward to the 6-3 SCOTUS decision saying the President can transfer a state to a foreign government at his sole discretion.

Also, the 4channer's buddies are peddling this fantasy that he saw a random woman getting carjacked and valiantly ran into the fray to protect her. The police report says it was his girlfriend, not a stranger, and it was his car.

A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.

As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.

John Oliver Says There’s “No Need” For Dean Cain To “Wear A Mask” As An ICE Agent Because There’s “F—ing Zero” Chance Anyone Will Recognize Him Last Week Tonight's John Oliver piled on Dean Cain during his telecast after the actor announced earlier this week he would be joining ICE.

As if we needed another reason to love John Oliver. flip.it/_66zA9

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

E.U. nations must recognize legal gender changes across bloc, top court rules The court sided with Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a transgender man who sued his home country of Romania for refusing to accept the gender identity changes he initiated in Britain.

Top E.U. court rules that member states must recognize gender identity changes - “Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity,” the court said in a news release accompanying its ruling.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

Putin’s warlord ally flying migrants into Europe Libyan strongman helping Kremlin trigger fresh crisis on EU’s eastern borders, flight records suggest

#Putin #warlord ally flying migrants into #Europe

Putin appears to have teamed up with #Libya warlord Gen Khalifa #Haftar to trigger a fresh #migrant #crisis in the European Union.

Flights between Libya #Benghazi and #Belarus #Minsk are increasing.

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example Echoes of the Argentine experience have reverberated in the U.S. since Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, accusing the agency of rigging jobs figures.

"Mishandling economic statistics or improperly accessing the confidential information used to compile them is a felony..."

www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

YouTube video by Ricardo Duarte Nina Simone - Go to Hell (live)

"Go to Hell," Nina Simone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RGi...