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Howdy!! I’m just an snarky old slug. I post, I lurk, I occasionally figure things out. Come for the chaos, stay for the grapes.
Happening live: Donald Trump is expected to sign a far reaching executive order banning trans people from sports, which can range from disc golf to darts and even dancing and chess, in mere moments.
I'll be covering it live. Watch along with me:
www.youtube.com/live/vbZH0eZ...
A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax that drives up prices on everyday goods. They disproportionately hurt the working class and poor who bear the brunt of higher costs while wealthier consumers feel significantly less impact.
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One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.
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If you think that trans people are getting our rights ripped away "because the left went too far," you're a moron.
Everything happening to us today was written up and planned by the Family Research Council in 2015. The document is still public. It's all there. www.frc.org/transgender#...
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again.
There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire!
orwh.od.nih.gov
…for a little minute. Others are being fed the utterly mad idea that this is all about DEI. It’s created this bizarre dichotomy where a chunk of people are just going about their business taking their kids to soccer and whatnot, and another large chunk is (correctly, I think) freaking the fuck out.
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Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives:
Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could.
That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed or edited references to transgender people, gender identity and equity from its website Friday, racing to meet a late-afternoon deadline imposed by the federal Office of Personnel Management.
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1. the subtext of these talking points is that nobody can do jobs as well as white guys, so if a woman or person of color is in a role they are inherently suspect
2. do we even know if a woman or person of color had anything to do w/ the DCA crash? or just making assumptions?
Pinned Elon Musk @elonmusk Under the Biden administration, the FAA and other government agencies had absolutely insane hiring practices that endangered the public. President @realDonaldTrump and his team are working rapidly to restore competent personnel to all positions involving your safety.
FAA Leader Quit Before D.C. Plane Crash Thanks to Elon Musk The world's richest man apparently thought it was a good idea to bully the Federal Aviation Administration chief out of his job. The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Michael Whitaker, resigned from his position on January 20 after repeated demands from Elon Musk that he quit, leaving the agency without a Senate-confirmed leader during a major crisis in the wake of the D.C. plane crash. Musk called for Whitaker's resignation in September after the FAA chief proposed fining Musk's company SpaceX over $600,000 in civil penalties for failing to follow license requirements during two launches in 2023. Whitaker told a congressional panel at the time that fines were "the only tool we have to get compliance on safety matters."
Elon Musk suddenly going into overdrive to blame DEI, Obama, Biden...
likely because he doesn't want you to know that the FAA was without a leader during the DC plane crash thanks to him
To recap, Trump:
-Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence
-Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers
-Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee
-Blamed the DCA crash on DEI
This is disastrous leadership.
In GA?
31.01.2025 01:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well this is a hellscape
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TRUMP'S DANGEROUS FREEZE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL HIRING Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions. "The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public." "Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our
the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
30.01.2025 02:59 — 👍 12583 🔁 4930 💬 179 📌 389If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.
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Just released memorandum from OPM:
Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.
It will go into effect on the 31st.
It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.
This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
Andrew Taake, 36, was sentenced to 6 years in prison in June 2024 after pleading guilty to assaulting officers with bear spray & a whip-like weapon during the attack in Washington D.C.
Read more at www.tpr.org/government-p...
Major news:
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
Breaking news: The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
28.01.2025 02:07 — 👍 457 🔁 244 💬 100 📌 142Arrived to blue sky,
how it works, I do not know —
millennial woe.
How do you work this thing?!
28.01.2025 01:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m here!!!
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