"We are not just at the moment of perhaps the greatest challenge to the US system since 1865. We might be at one of those 'hinge moments' globally where you will see the most significant changes to the international system since 1945.
Everybody is involved in this."
"There was always a dangerous trap in the idea of the 'West' and even the idea of the 'liberal international order' that it had to be the US that leads them"
The 'banality of evil' described by political theorist Hannah Arendt is taking hold in the United States.
What she saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America.
#Nazis #TrumpMusk #Deportations #Fascism #Coup #Dehumanization #Immigrants #Racism #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler
A #DOGE engineer removed fed officials’ permissions to post to http://Grants.gov w/o telling them. Now decisions affecting $Bs in grant opportunities are set to flow through a DOGE-controlled mailbox.
The Trump admin has taken multiple steps to delay or halt fed grants, e.g. delaying $Bs in research grants issued by agencies such as the #NIH, freezing or term grants to higher-EDU insts...
The #TrumpMusk regime destroys lives, livelihoods & futures.
#Resist #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/
"Absolutely unacceptable. This'll cut so many good jobs in Houston & beyond.
We all know that NASA, & the contractors that support it, fuels new innovation.
We must have *bipartisan* outrage against this to quickly remove these bad cuts from Trump’s disastrous budget!"
-I Martin
"Destroys #NASA -cuts a telescope that’s already assembled -closes NASA CENs..."
-Astro Alexandra
There's nothing altruistic, noble, artistic, visionary, scientific... in the #TrumpMusk regime.
"The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found."
There're so many concerns with the #TrumpMusk regime. At its core are corruption, nefariousness, lawlessness, & retribution.
#Surveillance #Spyware #NationalSecurity #Corruption #Trump #Republicans #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/nso-group-the-vogel-group-lobbying-trump-administration/
"Heightened scrutiny at the US border means everyday tourists, conference attendees & business travelers—including those hailing from traditional US allies—are getting caught in the crosshairs."
Tourism, Democracy, Goodwill, US$, National Security, Trade, Troop Readiness, Science, Medicine, Rule of Law, Education, Human Rights, Altruism, DEI, Public Safety... all
America is failing with the #TrumpMusk regime & #Republicans in charge.
#USPol #Tourism #Fascism #Resist
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-08/is-it-harder-to-visit-the-us-canadians-europeans-cut-back-travel
"Supreme Court has stayed a federal judge's order requiring the rehiring of probationary employees at six federal agencies. The nonprofit plaintiffs lack standing, the justices ruled.
But this isn't the end though because another judge has issued a more sweeping order in a lawsuit brought by the states, whose standing issues are different and not resolved yet."
-K Cheney
#SCOTUS #Courts #Firings #DOGE #TrumpMusk #Resist #USPol
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25888808/24a904-order.pdf
"Voter bribery is a crime. It’s illegal. Despite this, #Musk has been flagrantly bribing voters. He's attempted to evade prohibitions on vote-buying in a number of ways.
Thefelony is defined in fed law (18 USC § 597) & (52 US Code § 10307(c)): “Whoever . . . pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for reg to vote -fined not >$10K or imprisoned...
We must strenuously reject this kind of elite impunity."
Amplify: #TrumpMusk admin's #Corruption #Bribes...
#USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-elon-musk-vote-buying-is-against-law-federal-wisconsin
Fed employees: Trump's fed RTO order has resulted inchaos (incl bad Wi-Fi & no TP), with productivity plummeting & public services suffering.
At the CDC one employee says that the focus on RTO mandate has meant a lot of chaos for ppl who actually need to do their jobs in person. "All the chaos has made it more difficult for the lab ppl. I'd say with everything they get 2-3 hours less of meaningful work out of me each day.”
#Sabotage #DOGE #TrumpMusk #Firings #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-rto-chaos/
"Cuts of 30 to 70% are rumored at USDA next week. NIH & NSF funding is being destroyed & the agencies themselves facing cuts.
About 3,500 nonfederal entomologists depend on these agencies. We'rerisking research that protects #ecosystems & #foodsecurity."
It's difficult to keep up with all the atrocities, but we amplify the gravity of the losing these experts, the firings, existential threats... of the #TrumpMusk admin.
#DOGE #Firings #Science #USDA #NIH #NSF #USPol https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/04/some-usda-rif-plans-take-shape-department-warns-employees-major-cuts/404247/
“A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction blocking the plan to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%. The judge highlighted that the policy would have caused “imminent risk of halting life-saving clinical trials” and “disrupting “innovative medical research and treatments.”
-Dr K Young
The NIH is still being gutted, but this is good news, but will be appealed by the anti-science, #TrumpMusk regime.
#NIH #HHS #PublicHealth #Science #USPol https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/nih-indirect-costs-federal-permanent-injunction/
"IRS layoffs are underway as DOGE moves to eliminate 25 percent of the workforce. The tax agency will lose roughly 20,000 jobs, including workers in its civil rights office, as part of the Trump admin's downsizing of the government."
The oligarchs have impunity, but everyone else has to pay their taxes. The agency will no longer provide adequate service, & dedicated employees are fired, needlessly.
The #TrumpMusk regime is decimating the #VA.
These #DOGE operatives appear to have no work experience that’s remotely close to the VA in terms of its scale or complexity. VA: administers all the govt benefits afforded to vets/their families for ~10M ppl: EDU, loans, disab pymts, & HC. Lavingia is Gumroad's CEO, a platform that helps creatives sell their work & takes a cut of each sale. More recently, Lavingia launched Flexile, a tool to manage & pay contractors.
#USPol https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/
"From what I can tell National Endowment of Humanities has unilaterally & immediately CXL all its grants to state humanities councils & last night placed most or all the NEH's staff on leave. They're on leave but must remain available by phone to answer Qs from the ppl dismantling the #NEH."
-J Marshall
The NEH action alert has been updated in response to #DOGE’s term of previously awarded
NEH grants
.
Humanities & the Arts are dead under the #TrumpMusk regime.
#USPol https://www.statehumanities.org/action-alert-neh-targeted-by-doge/
Democracy Dies in Darkness:
"Hearing the entire FOIA office at CDC has been eliminated."
-D Boguslaw
"And apparent mechanism to request (as required by law) …"
-A Morey
"The entire CDC FOIA office — nearly two dozen people — received RIF notices. FOIA personnel at FDA & NIH were also dismissed. The CDC has seen a massive uptick in FOIA requests this year. It’s the second busiest year since Covid."
-J Leopold
"Hard to overstate how badly the WH is torching potential for econ activity."
-G Pearkes
Most Americans are livid with the #TrumpMusk regime:
TX SVC SCTR Outlook Survey comments:
"Erratic behavior by the current admin makes us increasingly uncertain about the economy & our bus'.
Uncertainty -unclear policies of the current admin -on-again-off-again tariffs: steel & aluminum -inconsistent & probably unconstitutional immigration & deportation actions-."
#USPol #Economy
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/surveys/tssos/2025/2503#tab-comments
"The #HHS is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies: #NIH, #FDA, #CDC...
Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email.
HHS victims of the (RIF) employees who’ve received letters are being told it’s for performance, citing their most
recent performance.
But multiple employees have told me the NUMBERS ARE COMPLETELY FABRICATED & don't actually reflect performance stats."
-M Kabas
"WH aides have drafted a proposal that'd levy tariffs of ~ 20% on most imports
WH advisors cautioned that several options are still on the table, meaning the 20% #tariffs may not come to pass. Another plan being considered is the C-by-C “reciprocal” approach.
Apr 2 has loomed over WS. Unlike the tariffs already announced by the admin: the new plan: expected to be more widespread & perm-.
Not an April fools' joke, the fools are #TrumpMusk, Rs, enablers...
#USPol #Coup https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/white-house-considering-roughly-20percent-tariff-on-most-imports-report-says.html
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