Ira Chinoy

The pain of having to defend Trump now couldn’t happen to a more deserving crew of politicos from Kentucky. I’m going to enjoy watching them squirm, especially Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie and the perpetually confused James Comer.

Wow. Musk wants a hero medal for destroying USAID. He is even more of an arrogant narcissistic sociopath than I realized.

USAID headquarters in Washington are blocked after Musk says Trump agrees to close the aid agency The developments come after Elon Musk said that he had spoken with President Donald Trump about the aid and development agency and “he agreed we should shut it down.”

How can an agency that’s been in place for six decades with Congressional funding be completely shut down with no notice on the whim of a Nazi-loving billionaire interloper? Where is Congress? Handwringing isn’t enough.
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Nazi America Day 15: Who wins if USAID is dismantled? It is a tiny part of the US budget. The death of USAID will give Russia and China a golden opportunity to be seen around the world as the good guys. Musk is not elected. He must be called in to testify before Congress.
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Nazi America Day 15: This is just so wrong. Where the heck is Congress? Where are the Democrats around the country? Where is Kamala Harris? After all, she got 75 million votes. They all need to be heard from - now.
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Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond The tariffs, if sustained, could cause inflation to significantly worsen, threatening the trust that many voters placed in Trump to lower prices.

“An undeniable sense of betrayal from the country’s North American neighbors.” There is no rational world in which these tariffs make sense. We need to find the “lurking variable” - unseen but like a dark star, exerting a strong gravitational pull on his actions.
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What it means to have a president devoid of empathy: “Staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die.”

“Tariffs are going to make us rich as hell”
Donald Trump claimed when he took office. He wants us to think we’re getting something for nothing.
But major US industries are pushing back, saying these new tariffs will jack up the prices of imported goods, costs they will pass on to US consumers.

Nazi America, Day 13: Can Trump carry out a mass purge of the FBI? Not legally: “FBI agents can be terminated for cause (but) there is typically an extensive disciplinary process (with) written justification outlining the standards … they are accused of violating.”
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Nazi America, Day 12: Blocking the government’s access to the government’s own data is now on the frontlines of Elon Musk’s evolving coup - because that’s what this is. If Congress can’t stop him here, the situation is dire. He will not stop.
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New York Doctor Indicted in Louisiana for Sending Abortion Pills There The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.

Nazi America, Day 12: Cultural terrorism.

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'Incompetent as the man they work for': Analyst slams Trump aides for crippling 'blunders' A series of "blunders" in the first few weeks by some of Donald Trump's closest aides has given rise to a belief that his plan to overturn government norms will face more problems than were previously...

When the competent people don’t want to join you and you’ve fired a boatload of people who are qualified, this is what happens. It’s what happens when a serial failure with the emotional intelligence of a six-year-old is in charge.

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Trump administration moving to fire FBI agents involved in investigations of Trump, AP sources say Trump administration officials are moving to fire FBI agents involved in politically sensitive investigations involving President Donald Trump.

Nazi America, Day 12
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Stock Market Today: Dow sheds 300 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq mixed after White House says tariffs on Mexico, Canada, China to begin Saturday Follow how markets are reacting to inflation data, company earnings and tariff developments.

Trump’s tariffs will torpedo the affordability of housing by driving up the cost of imported construction materials. But in the fall Trump promised “dramatically more affordable” housing. Will voters feel betrayed? He’ll blame Biden.
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Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday | CNN Politics At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department ...

Nazi America, Day 12: The purge. Try to imagine how much leverage Trump will have when he can execute a squeeze play and get some person or company to do what he wants while his new loyal minions at the FBI play the role of coconspirator - bad cop, bad cop.

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Trump was challenged after blaming DEI for the DC plane crash. Here's what he said President Donald Trump began his White House briefing with a moment of silence and a prayer for the victims of Wednesday’s crash at Reagan National Airport.

Nazi America Day 11: Trump is going to continue blaming Biden for every catastrophe over the next 4 years. The cherry on top will be blaming diversity in hiring - with no evidence. Every day he shows how sleazy and unfit he is & how much he is a captive of social media.

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F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR and PBS’s sponsorships.

Nazi America Day 11: NYT story needs more context. The Republican war on public broadcasting is decades old. Trump’s FCC head is a Project 2025 coauthor & didn’t come up with the idea for this probe out of thin air. This is the Trump regime’s war on the news media.
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Democracy Docket Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.

Marc Elias of Democracy Docket: Trump “believes in nothing, is willing to deal away any policy or principle & will betray a friend or ally if it helps him… He fears democratic institutions because they threaten to place restraints on him.” Free & fair elections are his enemy.
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Watching the 1st press conference with updates on the crash. All sorts of local, state & federal officials, representatives of the airlines and airport, and others. But MIA: the new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Oh, he did post a message on X. Gee. Are you kidding me? His absence speaks volumes.

After 6 days away, we flew into Reagan National Airport 6 hours before yesterday’s crash. The investigation will take time. But what comes to mind for me is Trump, Musk & Heritage, their demonization of government workers & regs, and their broad-brush approach to slashing both. That way lies danger.

Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...

Just last week. “The aviation security committee…will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines & airports...The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years”
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RFK Jr. grilled on his views on vaccines and abortion in first confirmation hearing Kennedy, Trump's nominee to be health and human services secretary, also stumbled under questioning from a GOP senator on Medicaid.

Nazi America Day 10: The nomination of RFKjr to be in charge of the nation’s vast public health system is unconscionable. It could only have been made by a president who is a complete sociopath. Kennedy is a lunatic who would be nowhere without his famous name.

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Nazi America, Day 10. This speaks for itself. The attempted coup on Jan. 6 led to hundreds of court cases. Now a lawyer who was part of the conspiracy to overturn the election is in charge of investigating the prosecution. Insane.

Target is ending its diversity goals as a strong DEI opponent occupies the White House Discount store chain Target says it’s joining rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Nazi America, Day 10: An authoritarian regime grows its stranglehold on culture by silencing difference. A $65 billion dollar corp cowers in fear. We’ll be boycotting. We won’t be alone.
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Thank you!

Thanks, Carolyn

Thanks, Greg

I’ll translate: The new White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, just said that the Constitution is unconstitutional. So Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kayleigh McEnany and Kellyanne Conway no longer have to worry about going down in history for being the most moronic Trump spokesperson.

Is BlueSky really working? If you see this post, please “like” it or reply to it. I’m trying to figure out why, with several hundred followers, I see that a typical post gets only one response. Even when I post pics of the adorable Xena.

White House says Medicaid portal 'will be back online shortly' after Trump funding freeze blamed A funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration has sparked widespread confusion about its effects on government programs such as Medicaid.

Nazi America, Day 9: Tax cuts for billionaires, but screw the people who can’t afford health care without Medicaid. This failure to ensure that payments continue is tantamount to “Let them eat cake.”
Can crowds with pitchforks and torches be far behind?
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