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James Carville Is Right to Panic — Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan.

Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan. ⚠️ via @hartmannreport.com
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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.

Really scary stuff.

I think we should coin a phrase to describe the Trumpian wholesale destruction of science in favour of ideology.

The New Lysenkoism works, but it's not spectacular.

Making American Science Awful (MASAism) maybe a bit better.

Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for at least 80 million people | CNN President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans a...

When you know you're going to plunge millions more into poverty & eliminate the programs that support them, I can see why you'd want to cut the folks who establish poverty guidelines.

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

It’s propaganda. He just has to keep repeating it and it will be believed. It doesn’t matter how false. And now apparently no one is studying how to counteract this kind of propaganda…

$800 mil from Johns Hopkins. I think many don’t realize how much of the world we live in, the better as well as the worse, is a product of higher ed, now under attack.

This is very bad.

Need to scream into a void & reset.

Not pro-life

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

Love this from Denmark

$40 million to DOGE as they slash people’s livelihoods and lifelines in the name of “efficiency.”

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

This is about vote by mail. Make no mistake about it.

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

White nationalist wants the ability to modify data on tax returns. This would literally allow them to engineer data to claim tax fraud against some, and wipe clean the debts of others, and together with the banking data they want, steal from every American.

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

Very cool

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Welcome to the Dark Ages.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

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