https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556

DOJ Says Trump Administration Doesn’t Have to Follow Court Order Halting Funding Freeze

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-spending-data-coup

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-elon-musk-plutocrat

https://forward.com/fast-forward/693601/darren-beattie-state-department-public-diplomacy

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-man-dies-after-inhaler-cost-jumps-500/story?id=118422131

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-five-alarm-fire_n_67a09574e4b0bef3e6d5754d

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5122585-trump-mcconnell-january-6-pardons

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/white-house-mexico-is-serious-canada-appears-have-misunderstood-trumps-executive-2025-02-03

https://www.advocate.com/anger-trump-voters

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-third-term-constitutional-amendment-andy-ogles-2025020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/democrats-opposition-trump

https://news.bitcoinprotocol.org/elon-musk-pushes-forward-the-idea-of-integrating-the-u-s-treasury-with-blockchain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan

https://www.ft.com/content/27ba0a6a-0d9b-4e08-8329-730b581c0481

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/899?s=1&r=1

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/content/ar-AA1ycAd7

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-waging-war-government-rcna190316

Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk’s DOGE granted ‘full access’ to sensitive Treasury systems

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-trade-war-eu-tariffs-mexico-canada

https://gizmodo.com/usaid-website-goes-offline-as-trump-continues-to-dismantle-government-2000557890

https://www.9news.com.au/world/washington-dc-plane-crash-update-russian-us-figure-skaters/ea75e230-70e7-498b-a263-9347229f5e49

https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-employees-told-remove-pronouns-email-signatures-end/story?id=118310483&cid=social_twitter_abcn

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/several-top-fbi-officials-are-told-resign-face-demotion-trump-continue-rcna190095

https://thehill.com/business/5117233-trump-mexico-canada-tariffs-threat

https://www.latintimes.com/aoc-says-trump-gutted-aviation-safety-committee-last-week-blames-him-elon-dc-crash-574130

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29

https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/tennessee-senate-passes-controversial-immigration-bill-that-some-call-unconstitutional

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-condoms-fact-check-trump-50-million-26884cac6c7097d7316ca50ca4145a82

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-buyouts-federal-workers.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-federal-funding-freeze-widespread-confusion-rcna189581

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trumps-effort-withhold-federal-funding-will-trigger-imminent-legal-act-rcna189583

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/gwynne-wilcox-trump-labor-board

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77rdy6gzy5o This is textbook disaster capitalism:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/28/illinois-other-states-lose-access-medicaid-portal-amid-funding-freeze

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-order-set-halt-supply-hiv-malaria-drugs-poor-countries-sources-say-2025-01-28

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-golf-too-busy-doral-florida_n_6798ac56e4b0ef0ddc321d95

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-administration-fires-doj-officials-worked-criminal-investigation-rcna189512

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/trump-dei-tuskegee-airmen-banned-air-force-20054637.php

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-prime-minister-phone-calls-b2685864.html Once again, we are the laughing stock of the political world.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/carrie-underwood-trump-inauguration-streaming-numbers-b2686778.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/trump-gaza-strip-jordan-egypt/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/us/video/invs-school-funding-trump-kentucky-digvid

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/adam-schiff-trump-broke-law-firing-inspectors-general-rcna189327

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/us-health-insurance-system-doctors

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/elon-musk-appears-video-german-far-right-campaign-event-2025-01-25

https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-jan-6-pardons-undermined-rule-of-law/a-71406924

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/us/ice-agents-attempt-entry-into-chicago-elementary-school/index.html

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/missouri-man-immigration-officer-kidnapped-woman-demanded-citizenship-documents-trump/63-6187037a-2cdb-4cad-b11d-5cc5deabb156

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment The Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, except to save the life of the woman. Links to the two Biden era Executive Orders relating to women’s healthcare which are revoked with this Trump Executive Order: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/07/13/2022-15138/protecting-access-to-reproductive-healthcare-services https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/08/11/2022-17420/securing-access-to-reproductive-and-other-healthcare-services

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-salute-controversy-with-a-bunch-of-nazi-jokes_n_67925d50e4b07025a739deef

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trump-tells-world-economic-forum-us-doesnt-need-canadian-oil-gas-autos-or-lumber

https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-day-4-updates#00000194-946d-de7d-afbd-d57f6ee80000 A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status. U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled in the case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, which argue the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court case…

Among the claims on his official biography on the White House website are that he won “a landslide victory” last year and he “defines the American success story.” But it leaves out what might be Trump’s most infamous assertion — his false insistence that he won the 2020 presidential election. Instead it describes his 2016…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-defends-birthright-citizenship-order-court-first-rcna188851 My assumption here is he is hoping it will eventually be kicked up to his buddies at the Supreme Court. Here’s hoping that justice actually prevails, as opposed to rolling over and showing its belly.

https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson So historians think it’s a nazi salute… The nazis think it’s a nazi salute… His daughter thinks its a nazi salute… It just so happens to be exactly like a nazi salute (I’m sure you’ve seen the videos/gifs), like not just waving your hand awkwardly, not just putting over your chest and then following…

Andrey Gurulev, a pro-Putin MP and retired Lieutenant General, and Vladimir Solovyov spoke on state TV to call for a nuclear attack on London, or a massive atomic bomb test on the remote Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. Gurulev, 57, appeared on ‘Pryamoy efir’ to blast Trump for posing as ‘the master of the world’…

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-58s-sam-kuffel-is-out-after-criticizing-elon-musk-arm-gesture/77883983007 “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” That Orwell quote has become terrifyingly applicable over the last two days

https://abcnews.go.com/US/jan-6-rioter-case-tossed-after-trump-pardon/story?id=117982390 Daniel Ball, 39, was taken into custody Wednesday morning, according to an arrest warrant, on a separate indictment returned by federal prosecutors in Florida last summer that charged him for unlawfully possessing a gun as a felon. He had at least three previous felony convictions — one dating back to 2017 for domestic violence…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/23/trump-deputizes-federal-agents-arrest-immigrants/77914576007

https://apnews.com/article/civil-rights-division-justice-department-trump-2dcb45cca7c9c9cdaea78282d4279c35

Notably, the order prohibited discrimination in hiring based on race, religion, skin color, sex, or nationality. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-civil-rights-and-merit-based-opportunity-by-ending-illegal-dei On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The order is targeted at what the president describes as “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies that:  . .…

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/trump-threatens-russia-with-sanctions-tariffs-if-putin-doesnt-end-ukraine-war.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvged988377o Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, told the BBC that there should be no pardons for the riot on 6 January 2021. “Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” she said.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/instagram-donald-trump-follow-meta-facebook-b2684253.html Clarification: These people were follow the account POTUS and VP, which were owned by Biden and Kamala. However Trump and Vance now own those. People didn’t get a new follow for Trump, the account they already follow just changed owners. “This is the same procedure we followed during the last presidential transition. It may…

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-voting-machines-trump-investigation-2018890 I genuinely cannot believe it has taken this long. This isn’t even the only weird thing he said in the lead up to the election. He straight up said that he and his MAGA cronies had “a little secret about the election.” The week before the election, he literally told a rally full of…

Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in ‘horribly shortsighted’ decision

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-executive-action-world-health-organization-withdrawal/index.html https://time.com/7208937/us-world-health-organization-trump-withdrawal President Trump is making good on his pre-election pledge to withdraw from the World Health Organization. In one of many orders issued after his inauguration, he announced the start of the process for terminating U.S. membership in the U.N. agency that oversees global health issues. Trump’s frustration with WHO goes back to the…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o Since nobody else seems to know, this was a campaign promise Trump made at the Libertarian National Convention to buy their votes. Ulbricht was a big issue for them, for some reason. So, Trump didn’t exactly select the guy himself. He also said no to pardoning Snowden, which would have been sweet. But the…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/vivek-ramaswamy-quits-doge-elon-musk Just so we’re entirely clear what’s going on right now: the richest man in the world is going to hold an unelected public office in which he personally decides how the federal government spends our tax dollars.

https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-executive-order-diversity-834a241a60ee92722ef2443b62572540 Federal employees also been directed to anonymously report anyone connected with DEIA, or those using “coded language” to hide their affiliation. Failure to do so within 10 days will result in “adverse consequences.” (For those who don’t know the A stands for accessibility; or people with disabilities.) This is right out of the Project…

https://abc7chicago.com/post/18-states-including-wisconsin-michigan-challenge-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-cutting-birthright-citizenship/15822818 Honestly, this one is a scary one. I know not every country has birthright citizenship, but it’s a terrible thing for people to be stateless in our modern world and this would primarily affect kids if it goes into effect. Not to mention the question of who else suddenly loses citizenship. You have to…

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-trump-approves-raids-arrests-924259 https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-ice-raids-school-2d899678264f44fe1021847ee385fd15 Oh,we’re gonna send raids to schools? So am I to understand law enforcement can’t raid a school to save kids from active shooters, but they can find the courage to arrest children for being born in the US?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution It’s still on the national archives for now. We will see how long that lasts. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

https://newrepublic.com/post/190506/donald-trump-fetal-personhood-executive-order [According to the Executive Order] “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” the order reads in part. “‘Male’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.” Unfortunately, there seems to be a misunderstanding by the executive order’s authors:…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-dollar-for-dollar-retaliation-1.7436983

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-classified-documents-jack-smith-special-counsel-report A federal judge in South Florida Gee, I wonder which one? Could it be the one who dismissed the case, which has been dropped, and now has zero jurisdiction on the matter? S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said in a 14-page order she is granting a request from Mr. Trump’s co-defendants to keep the…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o They also blocked #michelleobama, #joebiden, #kamala, #kamalaharris and #berniesanders, but soon reversed their decision from backlash. They seem to be testing new features to use during this administration. The goal isn’t to hide results, but to manipulate. Keep your eyes open. Share what you see and hear. Most importantly: Delete anything under the Meta/Twitter…

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-misses-deadline-to-end-ukraine-war/index.html The more confident Trump is about solving a problem, the more you know he has absolutely no clue on how to solve it. We learned that in his first term, too often.

This is the best proof that the Republicans just want to hurt people; there’s not even a political justification for this. “Make Medicare and Medicaid cost more” is purely feeding corporations on the taxpayers dime.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-lift-pause-2000-pound-bomb-supply-israel-walla-news-reports-2025-01-20 “I’m voting for Trump because Biden hates Palestinians!” Well, that aged well….

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trumps-remarks-on-birthright-citizenship-explained Donald Trump re-entered the White House today after a 4 year break and attempted to end birthright citizenship by executive order. Now, I know that the 14th amendment gives children born in America automatic citizenship. It’s in plain English, and written in a way that cannot be interpreted in any other way than what…

As for the autism claims? It’s pathetic, and downright offensive. I think this comic nailed it: Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words…

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-paris-agreement-drilling.html A perfect example of why the US is no longer a reliable long-term geopolitical partner: Its commitments are only valid for 4 year increments. If one administration won’t honor the commitments of the last administration, you can’t really depend on your agreements with the American government.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-sworn-in-47th-president-united-states-1235241770 “I give the people back their: Faith (pandering to white Evangelicals); Wealth (more massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy); Democracy (Now that SCOTUS gave me immunity, I will rule with lawless abandon). Freedom” (except birthright citizenship and women’s autonomy). Trump said he will declare a national emergency at the southern border. “We…

https://www.politico.com/video/2025/01/20/trump-elon-musk-knows-those-vote-counting-computers-1496478

Mitch McConnell Calls Trump ‘Unfit for Office,’ Describes Him as ‘Not Very Smart, Irascible, and Nasty,’ While Blasting the MAGA Movement as ‘Completely Wrong