Rlswrites

What a tragedy.
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Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.

Opinion | We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Peril (Gift Article) We underestimate the manosphere at our peril.

This opinion piece by @rlswrites.bsky.social is important

Opinion | We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Peril (Gift Article) We underestimate the manosphere at our peril.

My latest for @nytopinion “We live in a new world, where words like “women,” “gender” and “trauma” are banned or limited in research studies… The fringe went mainstream, and then became the U.S. government.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

Congress has to pass a budget, and if the Republicans who represent most of rural America wanted, they could demand that the farmers who got screwed by the Trump administration be made whole.

Of course, that would require standing up for their constituents. Wonder what they'll do?

It’s amazing that one person can run six companies, manage the entire federal bureaucracy, and be model parent to 13 children.

Truly a triumph of time management.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

White House forcing out top leadership at National Archives in major shakeup | CNN Politics The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the National Archives and Records Administration in a major shakeup, according to a source familiar. President Donald Trump has been highly...

Breaking - White House is forcing out top leadership at the National Archives.
“The exodus of senior staff is seen as a huge loss for the agency, which is considered nonpartisan and dedicated to the preservation of history and documents.”

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

Top two stories on WSJ right now make quite a pairing:

The Washington Post refers to “a clash between the White House and the AP” when in fact it’s the White House unilaterally punishing a news outlet for using a historical place name that would-be dictator Trump doesn’t like. “Clash,” my ass. It’s a fascist attack on the free press.

Brilliant, brilliant. I see the de-duplication ya did there. 🤫😜 Is there no way we can get rid of get rid of him?

Same. Hauntingly, same.

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The Back Forty Will Westmoreland. Rural campaigns and elections expert! Father, grandfather and agroforestry farmer. I’m Pops!

He has a YouTube channel too
youtube.com/@westmorelan...

I mean, who do voters think they are?

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

Honey, you have it backwards

I honestly feel like I am losing my mind because the scale of what is happening just does not seem to be registering for most people and is not being reflected on the pages (or webpages) of our national newspapers.

A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

An excellent resource for federal civil servants.

www.civilservicestrong.org

Oh. My. God.

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

the richest man in the world has been installed in the government and he is very clearly trying to subvert it for his own ends.

a woman in a suit is smiling while standing in front of a microphone . ALT: a woman in a suit is smiling while standing in front of a microphone .

We could have had a competent president, lower drug prices, home buyer assistance, a Cabinet filled with qualified adults and not sociopaths, global respect, and national sovereignty...

F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR’s and PBS’s sponsorships.

Three things:
1. This is a nonsense inquiry and basically all this Trump minion has got. Not impressed.
2. NPR gets less than 1 percent of direct funding from the feds. This will impact local stations, which have broad support.
3. Brendan is an unctuous toady.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Amazon Sues to Block Records Request From Jeff Bezos-Owned Washington Post The lawsuit seeks to prevent the imminent release of records to the outlet. Amazon maintains that some of the information shouldn't be handed over because it contains trade secrets.

Nothing to see here www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...