Assholes! What they just did: The new administration has launched a brazen attack on critical government programs that millions of Americans rely on for survival. On January 27, 2025, the administration began cutting off grants that Congress had already appropriated on the basis that they contribute to “Marxist equity” or “green new deal social engineering.” These steps amount to an Continue Reading
If you were taking a measured approach to see how things played out once Trump took office, the waiting is over. It’s a five-alarm fire at the Justice Department. Ousting independent career prosecutors is just Step 1, a prelude to Step 2, which is using the Justice Department to protect Trump and his administration from accountability for their wrongdoing. Step Continue Reading
Not even news anymore. There’s NOTHING he’s involved in that doesn’t involve some “deal” for him, or some inane bone he’s throwing to his base. Nothing is for the greater good. He’s actually, as an Anti-Christ, one who works against anything for the Greater Good. Source: Trump plays politics with California’s water as wildfires burn
Real assholes The conversations about ousting these government watchdogs began during Trump’s transition back to the White House. Source: Trump fires 17 indepen dent watchdogs at multiple agencies in late-night move
We are seeing a triumph of illiberalism unlike anything in our recent history, when cruelty is not obscured but exalted. I think for me the single most disheartening news of the past week—not close to the most important, but somehow the most illustrative—was the news that the Air Force would no longer be telling its new recruits about the history Continue Reading
It is hard, watching the richest men on earth grovel before the new king, not to feel a little fear. I have some early morning bouts myself—perhaps I’ve caused enough trouble over the years for the fossil fuel industry that they will come for me. Those fears are tiny next to those of the millions of immigrant families who must Continue Reading