The former Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, sets the story straight.

Trump is wretched & disrespectful, as usual, regarding the tragic air crash.

#FAA #DOT #USPol

"Several top FBI execs promoted by Dir Wray were told today to resign or retire, and told they'll be demoted or reassigned if they don’t leave, mult. sources tell me. This includes about a half dozen “exec asst. directors,” who're some of the bureau’s top managers. They oversee criminal, natsec & cyber investigations -career civil servants, so can't be fired w/o cause."
-K Dilanian

Apparently Republican lawmakers have no red line. They're complicit.

#FBI #Purge #Trump #NationalSecurity #USPol

The planes were safe 'till the orange clown took over

#uspol #uspolitics #clown #fascist #aviation #safety #planecrash

Shout out to a newsletter that I was turned onto recently: WTF Happened Today.

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

With a new administration purposely causing chaos, I find that I don't always have the bandwidth to keep up with all of it. This newsletter is good at distilling the things that you should probably be aware of and leaves the deep dives or analysis to other folks. The title sums up the mission perfectly.

#news #uspol #journalism #politics #newsletter #independent #independentmedia #media

Trump demanded the FAA director resign. He did. Now planes are literally crashing into each other in the sky.

How long before republicans realize the damage they’re doing will hurt them too?

#uspol #planecrash

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/washington-plane-crash-no-survivors

Photo of the Day. FAFO alone doesn't capture it. So many people were duped by a madman and the machinery behind him. #uspol #uspolitics Edit: Looks like Snopes says it's not real. Yet.

If I had a Christian church I would simply not let fascist edgelord grifters be priests in the first place BUT THAT’S JUST ME.

#UKpol #CalvinRobinson #USPol #Musk

If you worry, like me, about a #Trump tax on #university #endowments, read this new article by Gregory Conti.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/hate-endowment-taxes-reform-the-university/

(I link to a free version at Compact Magazine. But the same article appears behind a paywall in the Chronicle of Higher Education.)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/hate-endowment-taxes-reform-the-university

First, there's far more interesting history here than I thought.

Second, he takes us through a useful exercise. Consider the strongest historical rationales for tax-exempt university endowments and ask how well they apply today. You don't have respond as he does to conclude that we should be preparing our defense.

#Academia #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Anyone wanna start some celebrity rumors?
#USPol #shitpost #lewd

"I heard Elon's fetish is getting tongue punched in the pooper by that one Jar Jar Binks lollipop..."

https://screenrant.com/jar-jar-binks-lollipop-star-wars-worst-merchandise/

Trump says he stopped $50M in funding for condoms in Gaza, noting -they were using them to make bombs.

"USAID procures condoms for ~ $0.05 apiece.

$50M would be ONE BILLION condoms.

What's going is here is NOT a B condoms for Gaza.

What's going on is that the bros at DOGE apparently can't read govt spreadsheets."
-J Konyyk

It's more nefarious -Trump & Musk are lying. Trump doubles down like he always does. By now his voters believe him.

The media & resisters must amplify the truth.

#USPol

1/ #Trump's Dept of Education announced that it:
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax

* ended the "Biden Book Ban Hoax"
* dismissed 11 complaints about book bans
* cut the staff position that monitored book bans
* "confirmed that books are not being 'banned,' but that school districts, in consultation with parents and community stakeholders, have established commonsense processes by which to evaluate and remove age-inappropriate materials"
* "rescinded all department guidance" on the removal of such materials, and
* began "restoring the fundamental rights of parents to direct their children’s education."

🧵

#BookBans #Books #Censorship #Libraries #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

The formulation of the newest empire in Christendom proceeds apace.

Memo from the bosses of the Defense Intelligence Agency to the DIA workfore on January 28th.

#USPol #USA #ChristoFascism

Just wait until Hesgeth has “fixed” the military. Give it 12-18 months. Then do whatever you want 🤷‍♀️ #USpol https://aus.social/@andyjennings/113913928058040645

Today's media fail:

In employment relations, the term severance means the additional pay and benefits an employee gets on layoff/resignation.

It does not mean "we pay you until the end of employment, go f**k yourself" as Trump's "buyout" offer as known thus far.

Again, it's not a buyout if I simply pay you until employment ends.

At best it's paid leave.

[Thank you for attending my TOOTTalk, 🙂]

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ebo.asp

#uspol #media

#uspol

If Trump wants to clean out #Gaza, perhaps he could give all the displaced people a safe home in the US.
#Israel #Palestine #USpol

"This is what I mean when I say it is important to describe what Trump's doing as trying to change things. In the US as it has existed since 1789, Congress has controlled spending.

Trump is trying to replace that system with one where HE PERSONALLY controls spending.

Important to describe what he's doing as trying to change things -trying to replace that system with one where HE PERSONALLY controls spending.

The media keeps failing."

-W Stancil
NYT⬇️

#USPol #OMB #ArticleOne

Republicans bring hunger, disease, and death to Americans. Because they are evil.

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Um, did everyone not notice that #PaulKrugman was and is a garbage centrist econ pundit, and his cockamamie opinions, coupled with his influence on The Democratic Party's policy positions, were responsible for leading us to this hellscape?

His quitting the New York TImes is not newsworthy. The New York Times made its political shift to the right ages ago, and Krugman fit right in.
#USPol #Journalism

This is some Gilead shit.

At this point, the rest of the world needs to start disconnecting from the US and let them descend into the christofascist failed state the right in that country clearly wants to create.

As a nation, the American Experiment has failed.

#uspol
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/post/3lgtjtfjs622e

Edward Luce (FT) on what will happen over the next 4 years:

'Trump will sow distrust about America’s word. Deals will start to dry up. Large parts of the world long ago gave up on the notion of a US-led liberal international order, which makes them sanguine about the ascent of the “ugly American”. Yet they will be hunting for insurance. It would be no surprise were China in the near future to win more friends and influence in Trump’s hemisphere'

So, a general (further) pivot to china?

#USPol

If you are a serious journalist, maybe don't use a chatbot as a source? MAYBE?

#AI #Media #Journalism #USpol #USA #ChatGPT

Make Genocide Great Again!!!

New backlash over Trump plan to move people out of Gaza
https://www.rawstory.com/new-backlash-over-trump-plan-to-move-people-out-of-gaza/

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #Gaza #Palestinians #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Henry Maher (USydney), bravely, tries to makes some sense of Elon Musk... and actually he does a pretty good job of explaining quite what Musk seems to be doing (or seeking to do).

as he points out:
'Much of Musk’s online persona is part of a deliberate alt-right populist strategy to stoke controversy, upset “the left” & then claim to be a persecuted victim when criticised'!

But there's more to Musk than just this as Maher makes clear...

#ElonMusk #USPol

https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-now-has-an-office-in-the-white-house-whats-his-political-game-plan-248011

Hmmm.... as the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant eyes up Greenland as a possible 'target for acquisition' so Denmark increases its Arctic defence budget & expects to deploy new security assets on & around Greenland.

Denmark may be looking to make any (actual) move by the USA more costly & less easy than the Orange one might have thought?

In any case, we can expect the politics of Greenland to be shifting as we wait....

#Greenland #Denmark #security #USPol

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5661xd3no

FWIW, folks I follow used these hashtags today: #law (27) #tech (24) #autosum (24) #legaltech (24) #scotus (8) #uspolitics (5) #uspol (5) #lawfedi (3) #trump (3) #dailystats (3) #holocaust (2) #holocaustremembranceday (2) #lafires (2) #ClimateChange (2) #project2025 (2) #migratierecht (2) #privacy (2) #raadvanstate (2) #tariffs (2) #technology (2) #heritagefoundation (2) #Climate (2) #Cybersecurity (2) #auslaw (2) [#DailyStats]

So using a non-google maps app is possible & probably a good idea. Giving your location to google is not safe going forward.

Been using & experimenting with some & I think you might want to find some too.

Apps: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/navigation-apps

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/27/google-maps-to-show-gulf-of-america-after-government-updates.html

cc @european_alternatives

#maps #navigation #google #infosec #USpol #location #DataEthics

The Financial Times, not exactly known for their progressive credentials.
https://archive.ph/CxPzA

The world is moving on to trade without the US. Many nations have been responding to Trump tariffs not by retaliating but by courting other trade partners

originally posted at:
https://www.ft.com/content/07eac548-6607-4c88-bfe3-4f1d6e3b8cf2

#uspol #ft #trump

Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing—“clean out that whole thing” was his phrase!—but the NYT manages to make him sound like a humanitarian.


But after pressure and outcry from the readers, they changed their title to reflect the outrageous words of orange Hitler.

#NYT #Media #Trump #Hypocrisy #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #Jordan #Egypt #Israel #Gaza #Politics #USpol

@palestine group @israel group

James Sherk authored the joint Office of Management and Budget and OPM memo (archive) on return to office implementation plans. The guidance in the memo echoes a November 20, 2024 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlining their “Doge Plan”, where they wrote: “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome”.4 The memo has earned criticism from the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which expressed that the directive would “undermine” the government’s effectiveness by limiting their ability to attract talented employeees and maintain continuity of operations in emergencies. Sherk also authored the joint OMB and OPM memo (archive) providing guidance on the federal civilian hiring freeze — another effort towards the goal of slashing the size of the federal workforce.

James Sherk was announced as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy on January 18. A White House official during Trump’s first term, Sherk was a key figure in Trump’s endeavors to purge civil servants and replace them with loyalists through an effort known as “Schedule F”. After Biden was elected, he repealed Schedule F, and Sherk slunk off to the America First Policy Institute to continue efforts to advance Trump’s policies. Prior to these positions, he was a staff member at the Heritage Foundation.

While Project 2025 and similar initiatives have been public about their plans to reshape the federal workforce, Trump and other figures in his administration have denied or downplayed links with the initiative. These documents show that implementation is already well underway, with designated personnel quietly drafting policies that were intended only to be publicly attributed to those in charge of the federal agencies.

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters

2/2

#USpolitics #USpol #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation

“My office has received multiple reports from Navajo citizens that they have had negative, and sometimes traumatizing, experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants in the Southwest,”

Navajo Nation: #Navajo citizens are reporting being questioned and detained in #immigration raids | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump/index.html

#Trump #fascism #politics #USpol #news #Indigenous

CW: #uspol #trump #gaza

On Saturday, Trump reiterated his dream [about Gaza] to reporters, saying: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know, it's over.'" Invoking his inner real estate developer, he referred to Gaza as a "demolition site."

Trump's plans will no doubt be of interest to the many (normally Democratic) voters there who voted for Trump to teach Joe Biden a lesson. Maybe the real lesson will be to the voters: If the lesser of two evils is 1000x better than the greater of two evils, go with the lesser.

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Items/Jan27-2.html

So according to the absurd Executive Order, I am trans now, because everyone is. "At conception," we are all female. We don't develop male parts until later.

I'm using my newfound transness as an excuse to buy some pro-trans merch from folks that support stuff like The Trevor Project. I will make it more visible that they have allies.

T-Shirts and stickers aren't much help. They're basically better than nothing. I'm also looking for more material ways to help.

(lest anyone misunderstand: no, I don't identify as trans. Not trying to take anything away from real trans people with real struggles. I'm trying to mock the EO for being dumb and say how it motivated me to support trans causes more. I identify as SWAMP: straight, white, anglo, male, protestant. But I want to help.)

#uspol #trump

Ben Jennings on the relations between Donald Trump, Keir Starmer & Elon Musk...

#USPol #politics
#ElonMusk #KeirStarmer #DonaldTrump

“I think he doesn’t understand how terrorism investigations work.”

Our top story: Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent contract at one of the country’s most prominent MAGA-aligned television networks. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-border-propagandist/

#border #politics #media #Trump #DonaldTrump #police #news #USpol #politics

oy gevalt, google Chris Butler. According to the Science of Identity website "Jagad Guru appeared in this world in 1948 as Chris Butler." #Gabbard, god forbid she -- not even a Manchurian Candidate because she doesn't even try to her closeness to #Putin (and #Assad) gets confirmed, and #Hegseth might have some interesting, hilarious religious discussions that might lead, I'm afraid to Hegseth acting upon his warrior ethos.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/27/are-there-any-real-left-tulsi-rfk-jr-offer-them-a-chance-to-stand-up/

#TulsiGabbard
#UsPol

#Maine Law Firm Tells #PublicSchools to #ResistICE Enforcement by Destroying #Immigration Records

https://www.themainewire.com/2025/01/maine-law-firm-tells-public-schools-to-resist-ice-enforcement-by-destroying-immigration-records/
#ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #AbolishICE #ICERaids #USPol #MaineSchools