Tucked into the Big Bad Bill is the provision that prohibits any state from regulating AI for the next decade I wonder if that has anything to do with Elon Musk, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Ruth Porat of Google and Andy Jassy of Amazon traveling to Saudi Arabia with POTUS recently

The Trump administration this month scrapped a Biden-era proposal that would have required state Medicaid programs and allowed federal Medicare to pay for some GLP-1s for obesity treatment, reports @chatlanis.bsky.social.

So sweet while she’s sleeping. Ornery when she’s not❤️

Nick Kristof travelled to South Sudan to talk to people who are dying because Elon Musk cut their 12-cent-a-day HIV meds:

The only win here would be to kick these miscreants out of the government and begin to fix all the things they've broken.

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

Exclusive: A growing number of House Republicans are urging the party to preserve the clean energy tax credits in Democrats’ climate law — and warning they may oppose the party’s budget bill if those incentives get axed.

The Administration is attempting to strip our TSA workers of the union protections they deserve. These hardworking officers keep our airports & our skies safe. My @laborcaucus.bsky.social colleagues & I know union busting when we see it. apnews.com/article/coll...

I think a big reason you might feel crazy right now is the evolving nature of authoritarian takeovers. There is no longer a singular bright line that countries cross between democracy and authoritarianism. That complicates things for everyone. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/coups-arent-...

Major media outlets seem very into the prevalence of threats right now. I care a lot less about Republican senators getting mean emails than I do about immigrants who have been in the US for decades cowering in fear. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight

NIH research cuts threaten the search for life-saving cures and jobs in every state

He will tank your 401k and destroy social security... for what? So he can grift off some crypto scam? So he can boost the Russian economy? So he can avoid standing up to Elon? All of the above? www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/i...

Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone

Zuckerberg’s Meta considered sharing user data with China, whistleblower alleges

The DOGE minions claim to be upgrading the IRS software. If they ever get access to the code, I expect to see an "author_is_elon" exemption to tax audits. Seriously, this article makes me want to cry. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

Rubio and homeland security confirm arrest of Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests

Over the weekend, we published a feature on the little-known gov. agency that maintains federal buildings across the country, GSA. Under Trump and DOGE, it's being decimated: threatening agencies' ability to offer public services from Social Security to tax help. www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...

'Holtz-Eakin said there are initial signs of voter discontent over the pace, depth and chaos of the cuts. “The usual way you visit that on a president is you wipe out his party in the midterms,” Holtz-Eakin said. “You never evade the voters.”' apnews.com/article/trum...

'“You look around — who else is doing it? No one,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said of Sanders’ efforts. “My hope is that the dam will break in terms of Democrats going on the offense ... We need to take the argument directly to the people.”' apnews.com/article/bern...

DJT is now deporting green card holders whose politics he disagrees with. When are all the "if they come here legally, I'm good with them being here" folks going to cry foul? Our democracy is in the rearview mirror. www.npr.org/2025/03/10/g...

While everyone focused on Trump & Elon falling out, it’s actually Trump’s newly appointed cabinet members that are up in arms about DOGE. Turns out it’s bad enough being unqualified for the job of running a government department, let alone dealing with Elon firing half your competent workers.

NEW: After 4-hour hearing, judge gives Trump administration new deadline of Monday to pay bills for past foreign aid work, but only for aid groups/contractors that filed suits. Judge Amir Ali said he was taking 'very seriously' #SCOTUS order in the cases www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump during his address to Congress - The Associated Press apnews.com/article/fact... via Google News

The war profiteers needed a new way to pilfer money, so they became space profiteers. Charging the taxpayers obscene amounts of money with NO results. Call it what it is. same old song and dance my friend SpaceX’s Starship explodes in space raining debris over Caribbean www.cnbc.com/2025/03/06/s...

My belief has long been that Trump will find the SCOTUS far less receptive to his Constitutional overreaches than he imagines. In his world, loyalty to him is the only virtue. But that's not their world. Stand tough against the thugs, Amy. And God bless you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

If I'm an astronaut stuck on the Space Station I'd be very worried about getting on Elon Musk's Space Coffin made by SpaceX. Very worried.

US judge reinstates Democratic labor board member fired by Trump

SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion

Former Trump VA secretary: ‘I don’t know any system that slashes its way to excellence’ https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5180814-david-shulkin-veteran-affairs-cuts/

“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

Mad King alert

Warren Buffett acts like the U.S. stock market is in bubble territory. He might be onto something - FORTUNE

An independent federal board has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to temporarily reinstate close to 6,000 employees fired since Feb. 13, finding reasonable grounds to believe the agency acted illegally in terminating them www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...

Amy Coney Barrett knows…

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Isn't this stock market manipulation? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

#WompWomp Loser. “ #Trump drew 36.6 mil viewers, reported Nielsen..# of viewers was lower than in any of Trump's first 4 addresses to Congress in his previous admin. Pres Clinton retains highest rating in pres addresses to Cong w 66.9 mil viewers in ‘93” www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

Where's my doubters now? www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

DOGE In a closed-door luncheon, Republican senators informed Elon Musk that his proposals to reduce federal government size require congressional approval, emphasizing the necessity of respecting Congress budgetary authority. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

China says it’s ready for ‘any type of war’ with US. “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.” China’s embassy said on X. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman’s CEO Lawson Whiting says Canadian provinces taking US liquor off store shelves is “worse than a tariff” & a “disproportionate response” to those imposed by Trump. Awww, maybe Lawson should be bitching at Donald Canada Strong 🇨🇦 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“DOGE website offers error-filled window into Musk's government overhaul. In its latest update…DOGE either modified or removed more than 1,000 entries on its list, nearly half of the spending arrangements it had listed the week before, the Reuters examination found.” www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

"Three deportation flights to India cost $3 million each." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Emmanuel Macron Macron warns Russian aggression ‘knows no borders’ in televised address French president says Europe must prepare for a future without guaranteed US support, warning Russian threat could extend beyond Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling U.S. alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff

DOGE suffers biggest loss yet as thousands of probationary USDA employees ordered back to work

Let’s hope it’s permanent soon www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...