Patrick Coan

Greetings from Houston.

"It doesn’t make any sense. These are the people that were brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces. They did not come to the U.S. illegally. They did not go across Mexico and then try to enter the United States. So, why attack this group? It's simply inexplicable."

Republicans Target Federal Anti-Hunger Program as They Prepare Trump Tax Package

NEW: Republicans just proposed significant new restrictions to food stamps as they ready Trump's tax package. More severe work requirements for more Americans, including some with kids, and states must pay some costs. Millions could lose aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

This would make the Rock hall actually worth having

Hasan Piker, Popular Left-Wing Streamer, Says He Was Detained at Airport

Hasan Piker, a popular Turkish American online streamer, said he was stopped and questioned for hours about his political beliefs by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after flying back to the United States from overseas on Sunday.

The plane truth

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officials Betar US is among far-right groups supporting Trump effort to deport students involved in pro-Palestinian protests

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

America, watch and learn.

abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views

State-sponsored kidnapping

The Trump admin took people by force, based on flimsy accusations & sent them not to their home country but to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador—in defiance of a court order.

Holding people against their will through deception and threat is by definition—kidnapping.

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...

tesla just speedrunning into enron territory

That doesn’t sound very efficient.

Very good analysis here.

Secession. What they're describing is secession.

www.wired.com/story/startu...

I've never been a big fan of Hakeem Jeffries, and I think he's really shown he's not built for this moment. I didn't always agree with Nancy Pelosi, but the good thing about her was she'd slit your throat if you crossed her. Jeffries comes across as overly cautious and he pulls punches

Wow, Wall Street has had it with Trump!
“Trump’s policies have given a boost to markets outside the U.S., causing some on Wall Street to quip that MAGA has been replaced by MEGA—Make Europe Great Again.”

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead

"Blink and you might have missed that Trump and his fellow Republicans have largely abandoned their concerns about inflation to focus on government 'waste'," writes Malaika Jabali, a public policy attorney, writer, and activist.

This has summed up my entire conversational life now.

In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.

"The oligarchs kissing the ring, the lawsuits against the media, the constraints on which media should be in the White House pool, and which are not — all that sounds familiar": How Trump's Washington feels like the early days of Putin's Moscow. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Judge blocks Trump from cutting billions in medical research funding Major universities and 22 states sued over administration’s proposal to slash National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants

A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked Donald Trump’s administration from cutting scientific research grants from the NIH after 22 mostly Democratic-leaning states sued.

Elon's fraud search exposed as a fraud DOGE is supposed to root out waste, fraud, and abuse-- but thus far, it's only served Elon Musk's personal interests.

"That is why Elon’s commission looks, sounds, and smells like a sham. Because thus far, the biggest beneficiaries aren’t working class Americans, but rather Elon Musk himself. You don’t get credit for rooting out abuse if your execution raises more questions than it answers."

TOTE ASTRICT COLOR DOCTORS FOR AMERICA, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al., Defendants. ORDER Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8] Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that 1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1]; 2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall, by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

USAID

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Guess what company those charging stations would have competed with

More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target Uncertainty about whether they will get paid not to work through September is deterring employees who face a Thursday deadline for taking a buyout.

It’s not just that the buy-out won’t be honored; it can’t be honored.

They have neither authority nor appropriations to honor the promise. “Fraud in the inducement.”

Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection. The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away. When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned why: The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely. Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.

the human cost

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...