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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

"some girls are cool like that" - 2 dudes talking about how some girls just let them (boyfriends) claim their kids on taxes???

Trump is undoing all the anti-corruption measures put into place after Watergate

“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”

DJ Unk, known for his hit track “Walk It Out,” has died, according to a post from his wife.

Gay Times [Jan 1] -- A study of 21 cisgender & 23 transgender women who were all competitive athletes found the trans athletes had lower lung function & weaker lower body strength than cis athletes. All 23 trans women had been on hormones for more than a year. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

This is a big deal. The inspectors general system was created after the Nixon era to be watchdogs for all the government agencies. They run independent of the agency they oversee and while they're imperfect they do incredibly important work.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Now everyone’s medical records are fair game.

Guest on Megyn Kelly this week: “So, that's the thing is the funniest joke we ever pulled on the Democrats was convincing them that Project 2025 wasn't real…it's over, we won, yes, we're going to do Project 2025. And the other thing is, it's good.”

"A video describing the exploits of the [Tuskegee Airmen], who flew combat sorties during World War II, has been removed from the instructional curriculum for new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training." -- www.expressnews.com/news/article...

Really is infuriating how we kept being told by Dems that there was nothing Biden could do about abortion or trans folks for years and now Trump is basically making himself king of the US via executive fiat.

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Bloomberg and (to my surprise) Axios launched Project 2025 trackers this week, connecting Trump's moves to the wildly unpopular manifesto. This is a really good opportunity for Democrats to run riot over this already plowed and seeded terrain and keep their grip on the Project 2025 narrative.

🚨 PSA: If you are trans, do NOT mail in your passport to attempt to change your gender marker. The State Department is currently collecting them unchanged and will not give a public timeline for returning them. You could be without a passport indefinitely.

It’s wild that the man Trump has installed to run the most powerful military in the world is connected to a network of Christians who believe in biblical domination of the world. Here’s a thread on the Christian nationalism surrounding Pete Hegseth. First, meet the TheoBros:

This is a wide coalition of Christians with many differing opinions but are coalesced around their shared idea that America is and should be a Christian state. Now from SCOTUS to the military our government is enmeshed in evangelism in powerful ways.

These men are openly and proudly Christian nationalist. And there’s a whole network of them. This is a strong and convicted group of Christians who are using this moment of American politics to enact their vision on the country.

The same people having a temper tantrum over DEI just confirmed the least qualified Secretary of Defense in US history because Trump liked him on TV.

Specifically it rescinds the Sept. 24, 1965 EO banning federal contractors from engaging in racial (or many other kinds of) discrimination in hiring or setting rates of pay.

⚠️ Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purge The dismissals could clear the way for the president to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government. Gift link: wapo.st/4azdaNb

These are the folks who write the standards for ADA compliance. It's a small legislative body. Half are from various federal departments. The other half are supposed to be public citizens appointed by the president, the majority of whom must be disabled. We'll see if that holds.

We can assume Hegseth will say yes if Trump says he wants to employ the military to shoot protestors.

The Trump family a few weeks ago vowed not to do new deals that involve foreign governments. The hotel would be built on land owned by government of Serbia.

NEW: Trump family has signed a new hotel deal that involves a Abu Dhabi real-estate developer, Jared Kushner and the government of Serbia. It illustrates the continued ambitions of the Trump family to forge new international deals even with DJT in the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Today: (AM) In interview Putin says hes waiting for Trumps signal to "negotiate the war" (Afternoon) Trump issues E.O. ending all Foreign Aid & directs our most immediately capable unit to a fake crisis (PM) Woman hating, christian nationalist drunk confirmed to oversee all of our armed formces

NEW: OPM has ordered the termination of every DEIA employee across all federal agencies.

Every day I am heartbroken and infuriated by what this country has done to these families

The entire MAGA movement is apparently built on daddy issues

An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.

I have family members with advanced parole permits who are being advised by customs agents not to travel outside of the US (not even to see family) because they could be revoked at any moment. However ugly you imagined this will get, I assure you it’s going to be worse.

This is it. The next earthquake. The next Dobbs. Fully funded public religious schools. Is it possible the magnitude of what was coming was suppressed prior to the election? Yep. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

👇On the Supreme Court taking up separation of church and who is behind it -- same legal teams behind Dobbs, and Amy Coney Barrett's close family friend.

Maga picket signs - "MAKE ASSPESTUS GREAT AGAIN"

If Trump gets rid of FEMA, he'll still find ways to allocate plenty of funds to red states after future disasters – but he'll let blue states die on the vine.

Omg there fighting about literal garbage (again)

The Nazis incentivized citizens and collaborators with bounties to report or capture Jews and other targeted groups, creating widespread fear and compliance. Similarly, deputizing civilians to enforce policies against marginalized populations echoes these mechanisms of control and persecution.

🍊🤡 : "Do you know who the hell I just pardoned!?" (Notice the PB MAGA hat) 🧑‍💼👉: "One, there is no damn giant faucet; & two, IdgaF"

The answer will be Yes. They are a Christian nationalist Supreme Court. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Justice Barrett’s recusal makes this grant that much *more* telling (and, to me, ominous). If the Court splits 4-4, the decision below is affirmed without any opinion. That the justices granted certiorari *despite* Barrett’s recusal suggests that there may well be five votes to side with Oklahoma.

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Breaking HIPPA and leaking confidential health documents of Transgender people is now completely okay in the eyes of the government. Trump is letting the world know that as long as you are targeting the people he hates, you can get away with anything you want.

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Capitol Breach Cases page is now down, as predicted - that's why it was archived earlier this week. This page linked to over 1200 Jan 6 cases, with charging documents (indictments, statements of fact, sentencing memos, etc.). This material is still on PACER but is also saved as a collection. 1/

Ah cool, Trump just made all of the cops into Super Cops

This Trump presidency is happening in dog years.