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Trump Claims He's Made 200 Deals on Tariffs. His Cabinet Members Can't Name One President Donald Trump claimed he has made 200 trade deals, but Sec. Scott Bessent and Brooke Rollins couldn't name which countries agreed to them.

referring to this from last year www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I read the “Save America Act” bc I wondered why MAGAs were expending so much energy on it. Creating obstacles 4 married women w/ name changes is part of it but I wasn’t convinced it was all of it bc it wld impact conservative women too. What I found is alarming & underreported. #VoterPurges ⬇️

a chart showing high new EV sales (close to 100% for 2025) but slow change in usage, registration and emissions drops

Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow.

Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!

Oh wow, 14 months into the term you realized disaster relief might actually be important!?!?!?

On the proposed disintegration of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Subject: Response to DCL – NCAR Restructuring and National Research Continuity

My letter to NSF to #saveNCAR

@ncar-ucar.bsky.social @neguse.house.gov @ametsoc.org @agu.org @ucs.org

The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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Fort Polk, Louisiana: the first Army base to move all its housing over to ground-source heat pumps. Gonna save $2.6 million a year on energy & operational costs.

Some all-time hall-of-fame Fell For It Again Award winners profiled here.

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Like everything else in our timeline, our version of "callow young white boys blithely fuck everything up, never appreciate the damage they did, and face zero accountability" is just so f'ing ham-handed & over-the-top. Not believable. Terrible writing.

Is anyone out there saying, "Hey, if Trump hadn't cut the electric vehicle industry off at the knees, a lot more Americans would be driving EVs and high gas prices would be causing much less suffering"? Anyone?

We are experiencing, yet again, the dire effects of dependence on fossil fuels. It's unfolding all around us, like a preschool lesson some deity arranged specifically to patiently teach us the lesson.

Is any organized constituency making that point? Are average Americans hearing it?

Eye Doctor Named to Air Pollution Advisory Board Draws Pushback

"The Trump administration has tapped an eye doctor with no background in air pollution science to advise the Environmental Protection Agency on what levels of air pollutants are safe to breathe."

Sigh.

The SAVE Act, an aggressive anti-voting bill, could come up for a vote in the Senate as early as next week. We’re fighting back to keep elections free and fair. Stay informed by subscribing to The Briefing, our free weekly newsletter: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM

Republicans reject proposal to reopen much of DHS, including TSA As the second month of the Homeland Security shutdown gets underway, GOP senators keep rejecting credible Democratic plans for partial solutions.

Senate Democrats have presented some credible proposals to reopen and fully fund TSA while the broader fight over Homeland Security funding continues.

It’s tough to defend Republicans rejecting these plans.
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To say nothing of the insult involved imposing this condition when Robert Bowers killed 11 in the Tree of Life shooting because he believed Jews were behind the great replacement conspiracy theory. You protect a place of worship because it is used by people under threat in your care, full stop.

In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina’s Allendale County has looked overseas for help. The superintendent praises the international educators — mostly from Jamaica and the...

In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up
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How Trump hacked the judiciary His fake "emergencies" are pushing the country toward autocracy.

New in PN: How Trump hacked the judiciary

"The DOJ hit on a strategy that works: exploiting little-known, sometimes never-before-used laws as the basis for Trump’s constant states of emergency. Because of gaps in the law, Trump is able to exploit the judiciary’s deference to the executive branch."

Starbucks 'failing it's hometown' as it shuts five more stores Starbucks is facing backlash from the union representing its organized stores after the company announced that four of the five shops it plans to close are unionized.

4 out of 5 Starbucks shops closing in Seattle are unionized. "...Starbucks shut roughly 400 stores across the US last year – including 59 unionized locations. ....The company announced last week it is opening a new corporate office in Nashville..." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

Opinion | Tucker Carlson Endorsed Him. Young People Love Him. Is This 31-Year-Old the Future of the G.O.P.? James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.

James Fishback, a 31-year-old running for governor in Florida, “doesn’t represent the mainstream of the Republican Party today, but he’s showing us one vision of a post-Trump Republican future,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

Carl withdrew from the nomination process today.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB The credit bureaus have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.

Experian and TransUnion Are Leaving More Mistakes on Credit Reports — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/cred...

‘Lies that undermine our democracy’: Arizona governor slams FBI election probe “Arizonans are tired of election conspiracies."

NEW: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) and several Democratic officials have denounced the FBI’s decision to subpoena records related to the 2020 election in Arizona’s Maricopa County, characterizing it as an attempt to undermine trust in elections.

Bravo, @60Minutes.com, on your big scoop — finslly, definitively, finding that the alleged microwave ray weapon, apparently Russian-made and used against U.S. government employees overseas, is real. share.google/fZkItq1j9HBf...

CBS: Virginia's legislature has passed a bill prohibiting schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest." 💙
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

It must be so so so so bad for the Rupert Murdoch owned WSJ to run this

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”