Stefanie Malone

The #Emmys countdown clock of winners' speeches + reduction of funds for a poor nonprofit organization that supports children is TERRIBLE. These actors have worked so hard, let them have a moment to thank people without feeling like they're robbing the Boys & Girls Club. Distasteful and awful.

Katherine Graham stood up to Nixon.

Jeff Bezos bows down to Trump.

Decline is a choice.

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Not feeling great about flying right now 😬

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

It’s not “Black history”, it’s American history! But this administration is bending over backwards to label anything that isn’t white male as “DEI” or “woke”.

Truth.

One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands. The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and ...

A little-known office in the FAA safeguards the public during commercial rocket launches. Elon Musk says it works too slow. Now he’s in a position to change that. New:

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Trump fires USAID inspector general one day after blistering report Paul K. Martin, appointed by President Joe Biden in December 2023, was informed of his dismissal through an email from the White House.

Trump and Musk claim they are trying to reduce waste, fraud and abuse.
This is the job of Inspectors General, whom Trump is firing.

Two days ago, the USAID IG explained how shutting down the agency created the risk of billions in fraud. Next day he was fired.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency | CNN Politics The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agen...

NEW: Trump fired the USAID Inspector General just one day after the IG filed a report critical of Trump's dismantling of the agency. www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/p...

Just going to leave this here…

Women lifting up women. Love #SerenaWilliams and #TaylorSwift

From the American Bar Association: "The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair."

For the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Reporter: Why do you want to be chairman of Kennedy Center board?

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace.

Reporter: Have you seen any shows there?

Trump: No, I didn’t go.

The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. https://buff.ly/42NeEl6

Oh man, that hurts.

U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”

If these questions are designed to hire people with no grasp on reality, U.S. national security is at significant risk.

Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”

Was the 2020 presidential election “stolen?”

Who were the “real patriots” on January 6?

Who won the 2020 election?

Who is your “real boss?”

Why would anyone be celebrating the end of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders We put them all in one place.

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...

Not a Parody.

"The White House says Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his companies."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...?

The ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ of the United States Government Elon Musk’s bureaucratic coup is under way.

Taxpayer-funded systems vital to Americans are being dismantled, often without public awareness. This gifted article from The Atlantic explains what's happening.

While everything is being torn apart around us, at least we get to see Doechii celebrate her Rap Album win by celebrating Black women and watch Chappell sing a song about the radical joy and freedom of gay bars and witness Beyonce win Best Country Album after everything they put her through

History you need to know: The Montgomery Bus Boycott went on for almost a year.

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

You're always a step ahead!

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