Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away
One thing I’ve been attempting to track under Trump 2.0 are all the nice things Americans used to have that Trump has deliberately taken away. This is the running list, which will be a page (like my DOGE Debunking and lawsuit declaration pages) here.
I’m posting this now in super raw form for several reasons.
- I’m missing a ton! Especially datasets that have been taken down (some of the stuff that was memory-holed appears in the main list). Let me know what I’m missing below.
- I’m wondering how this will be most useful. Obviously, right now I’ve just been capturing links when I see stories. Are these links sufficient?
- Steal my work! I’m hoping someone with more resources can do a better version of this. So if you want to steal this list and expand on it, feel free!
General EOs
Lower drug prices
Infrastructure
Free wind energy
Health and Science
NIH matching funds
Immunotherapy cancer cures
Bird flu (rehired)
Telehealth and cheaper broadband
Protections for the disabled
USAID programs targeting polio, malaria, TB, HIV, and malnourishment
Indian Health Services (rehired)
Fentanyl disruption in Mexico
Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam
Education
Energy and Environmental
Grants for farmers in IRA
Renewable energy for farmers
Other farm grants
2.5 billion gallons of water
Halting EV plug-ins (including at government buildings)
Bonneville Power Service (rehired)
New oil drilling
Weather forecasting stations
Volcano warnings
Keeping the Colorado River flowing
National Park Service (partly rehired, plus seasonal hires)
Michigan sea lamprey eradication
Prairie education
Food aid for schools
Financial
Investigations for rich tax cheats
Consumer protection from financial entities
Privacy protection from tech platforms
Easy tax returns
Experts on complex tax collection
Affordable housing
Security
National Security research
Terrorism research
FAA Litigation (tracking pilots who shouldn’t fly and flight schools who shoudn’t teach)
Union protections for TSA workers
Bird flu workers (attempted reversal)
NNSA (attempted reversal)
Justice
Complaints about tech companies
International
Finding kidnapped Ukrainian children
Data
Climate change
Air quality (internationally)
Personnel
Eight Inspectors General who found $183B in waste, fraud and abuse (from this complaint)
USAID economist Dean Karlan resigns
NIH principal deputy director Tabak resigns
NIH head Francis Collins resigns
Genome project lead Eric Green ousted
David Lebryk leaves Treasury
Doug O’Donnell leaves IRS
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Also reneging on the USMCA trade agreement (that was negotiated and signed in Trump’s first term), thereby starting a trade war and tanking the US economy.
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Not sure which list it goes under: the Institute for Museum and Library Services, which provides federal grants and other funding to institutions across the country. Some statements on the EO:
https://www.everylibrary.org/statementimls2025
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services
And thanks for this, and all of the other work you’re doing.
I am heartsick about IMLS. They are currently funding a wonderful project I work on for my employer (a tribal govt.), & have funded other important work of ours in the past. They are the best & most supportive funder I’ve worked with in 20 years of related work, & I can only imagine how much good they do when my experience is multiplied by the hundreds of other organizations & projects they support. I wrote our grants contact person today & will be writing to our Senators & Reps to light a fire under them to defend IMLS. They do a lot of good in our region & no doubt all over the country.
TY for the reminder, a hugely important one.
I want to see a library oriented protest, just like the science protests.
My neighbor is a retired librarian (Hungarian language specialist) from LOC. She told me about the cuts to IMLS — and said it was 0.003 % of the federal budget.
Remembrance of lost times. I’m keeping @emptywheel’s sad sad infuriating list in my shirt pocket because I might need to shove it in someone’s face. Of course I blame Biden.
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Why are you blaming Biden? For his late resignation? Get over it. We have bigger fish to fry.
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Blaming Biden? Blame yourself! What we are witnessing now is the consequence of allowing amateurs to run an large-scale operation with virtually zero experience. Worse yet, they are not well-meaning amateurs but small-minded vindictive individuals with a limited worldview, thinking they are smart. We will now pay a perhaps extraordinarily steep price for our ignorance in allowing this to transpire. Biden is not at fault, or at least certainly not the only or main one, the rest of us are. We get the governance we deserve and it looks like we deserve to go down in history in utter, failed ignominy. Good luck and best wishes, Phillip.
The Kennedy Center
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They announced yesterday that the Kennedy Centers Honors program would henceforth be posthumous awards. I guess no living artist would show up to accept so they made the award for the deceased. Supposedly, Elvis will be first.
Under Personnel – Kennedy Center board
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Love this list! Much needed. As an aside, not being too fluent in the legal world, how is your lawsuit declaration page different than these two:
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
https://www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders?_bhlid=05e8d4fd2fc24fcb4b9b27a3f974351905787019&utm_campaign=114-ai-hating-vegan-death-cults&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=www.courtwatch.news
It’s entirely different. These track the actual lawsuits. I’m trying to make the declarations — the stories that people tell about being DOGEd more accessible, w/o having to understand the lawsuits themselves.
Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate you tracking these declarations.
Dept of Defense – erasing the contributions of soldiers of color, sexual orientation and women from it’s history files.
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Bureau of Land Management
The local BLM office had been trying to get some positions filled for several years and, recently, were able to bring on people with critical, but scarce, skills. They were feeling pretty good getting their vacancy numbers under 20%.
The DOGE and “POOF!”. This included a loss of all their GIS people, which is a big deal for a federal land-owning agency.
And GIS involving land is harder than sales/marketing stuff. You have to gt the boundaries right.
(I was in GIS at a utility company, where we were doing a special database for their more critical stuff. It including GPS locations to 8 (!) decimal places – that’s a small fraction on an inch in accuracy. I read maps, work orders, aerial photos, land-based photos…)
Absolutely! The GIS system those folks put together was created as the front end of the lidar integration — measures building and tree line heights, topo at 2-foot intervals, utilities, even road grading and depths of water bodies, plus rectified aerial photography. Amazingly accurate stuff. Developers, architects, engineers and construction firms use the govt GIS voraciously. This is really going to affect the construction industry. (to say nothing of the history of the USGS — the surveys done by the WPA built on the Homestead Act surveys and even Lewis & Clark. That’s the legacy they’re throwing out!) And we’re losing the NOAA GIS data-integrated mapping as well. Terrible loss.
I met a survey done in the early 70s, that was a resurvey of one from the early 1860s. It had a note about the original surveyor’s field notes, where there was, fortunately for them, a copy filed in L.A., and the original notes were at the office in S.F. They even found some of the original stakes, still in place.
And then we get to emergency response…
When I was a county emergency manager, we has a small, but high interest, oil spill in the harbor. A command center was set up in a hotel ballroom with all the players there: Responsible party, cleanup contractor, federal, state, and county. One time I noticed that there was a huddle going on off to the side. It was all the GIS folks from all the agencies. They were doing something like Trade-A-Layer, sharing information collectively — including cultural areas.
The loss of GIS data and mapping from USGS and NOAA will severely impact property insurers and disaster response (if FEMA survives at al). Insurers are critically dependent on the mapping and its accuracy.
Anyone have links on effects to GIS?
I’m at an ESRI conference today, so I’ll see if there’s a compilation. The ESRI conference I attended 2 years ago featured a USGS GIS person who was working on mapping (and cataloguing) all of the cultural resources in Ukraine with status reports. So, now that’s gone certainly.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-a-geographic-information-system-gis#:~:text=A%20Geographic%20Information%20System%20(GIS)%20is%20a%20computer%20system%20that,attached%20to%20a%20unique%20location.
It will be quite interesting to see what the esri UC is like this summer (and in coming years). The Feds have always had a huge presence, and are one if their biggest customers I suspect. I am scheduled to attend this summer – super nervous about flying now (and I have NEVER been a nervous flyer).
Back in the good old days (last summer), I remember how impressed I was that Tim Walz was a geo-nerd, and that he was the keynote at last year’s UC. I am sad that I did not attend.
So much loss. So much to be sad about.
The USGS landsat viewer went dark on Feb 7th:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207152531/https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/explore
When I tried USGS stream finder after Trump’s ridiculous claim of turning on the faucet to put out LA Fires, it was offline but seems to be OK now:
https://streamstats.usgs.gov/ss/
When it was dark I found an alternative that lets you share links to his faucet and where the water ends in a muddy ditch downhill from El Dombo, hundreds of miles from LA.
https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/?lng=-118.91892&lat=36.47014
Update re: USAID
Re #3: Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Tom Lehrer . . .
Lobachevsky
“Only be sure always to call it please, research.”
Fired a bunch of National Park Rangers and maintenance staff and removed the ability to hire seasonal personnel.
When they ‘took out’ NOAA staff, it was also the National Marine Fisheries Service, which lost biologists and people that set seasons, quotas, and monitor catch rates in ocean fisheries.
Is anyone aware of any sales of government buildings?
Allegedly, the building sale list was taken down — don’t know if that means they are not selling those or not. But one building on the list was the Capitol Power Plant, that actually still supplies heat and chilled water cooling to the Capitol. This is actually an historical building, designed by McKim Mead & White and constructed in 1910. Beautiful structure. The building has been expanded numerous times (no, the additions don’t come close to the architecture of the original). But, what was DOGE expecting to do for heat for the Capitol complex that includes the Senate and House office buildings? Must have been the DOGE kids thinking it was some old useless building.
p.s. I think landmarking was proposed one year, but I don’t think that happened. Not that a landmark would stop DOGE anyway.
Sales take time to arrange, and a buyer is going to want to be damn sure that whoever is offering it for sale has the right to do so. The last thing they want is to have to spend more money to salvage a purchase they thought they had made.
But more critical will be leases for oil, gas, and mineral rights. Those can go through much more quickly.
Add IRS Direct File to “easy tax returns”. It’s safe and free in addition to easy. Musk claimed to have deleted.
Add Telephone and walk-in assistance for Social Security beneficiaries and applicants.
Inspired by the website web3isgoinggreat-dot-com I’m tempted to stand up the site dogeisgoinggreat-dot-org to capture all of this. I’m rather concerned that it could become a full time job (but then I am retired, so….)/
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I own the URL ImpeachPresidentMusk.com and have been trying to figure out how best to use it. Reach out to me on Signal at cdd.48 if you want to talk. (I’m not looking to make money, I’m just looking for “good trouble”.)
Feds pull grant funding from Illinois fair housing orgs that investigate discrimination
You’ve been given free access to an article from Crain’s Chicago Business for the next 48 hours.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/feds-pull-grant-funding-illinois-fair-housing-orgs-investigate-discrimination?share-code=17422486314991665-195a6496ec2&utm_id=gfta-em-250317
This also implicates the Fair Housing Act, Illinois Human Rights Act, segregation, race & other discrimination enforcement
This makes me so sad! but I appreciate you commenting on this. I took Housing Law at Columbia in the late 90’s and my professor was Shirley Siegel, who worked on the writing of Title VIII. She was so passionate about housing — solutions for homelessness, and equitable, affordable housing. (And she was in her 80’s then! She was such a brilliant professor and her class was such a joy!
She told me that in 1938 she was rejected by Columbia and Yale Law schools b/c of the Jewish quotas, so she enrolled at LSE to study with Harold Laski. Of course, she had to depart in the fall of 1939, and come home. She applied again to Yale, and was accepted, but hadn’t a penny for tuition. And Harold Laski told her to go ahead and show up for registration and to talk with the Dean. She did as he suggested, and learned from the Dean that someone had paid three years of tuition for her! The gift was made by Harold Laski. Such a touching story, and such an extraordinary thinker. I was so fortunate to have learned from her.
It is difficult to describe what makes me most crazy. However my con law professor (and I graduated from law school more than 40 years ago) is still going strong and running the fair housing clinic at what is now U of I chicago law school. Such an important institution. I don’t know how we fix all of this. But we must. I will do my part. As I am sure most of this at this website will.
National Science Foundation
https://www.science.org/content/article/analysis-how-nsf-s-budget-got-hammered
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/18/nx-s1-5301049/national-science-foundation-fires-roughly-10-of-its-workforce
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How about “ease in signing up for / receiving Social Security?” I just heard a news story on NPR reporting that we will now have to show up in person to prove our identity before we can apply for Social Security. They are closing multiple offices and phasing out online application, which will make it more difficult and time-consuming to apply for our hard-saved funds.
An unknown number of immigrants disappeared because of:
– Extrajudicial deportations
– Database gaps and bugs in locator dot ice dot gov (e.g. it doesn’t handle accents, fadas, umlauts or other character sets, I’ve only found one of several publicly known detained legal immigrants)
– Removal of cbp’s missing migrant program: “We’re sorry, we can’t find the page you’re looking for. It might have been removed, changed its name, or is otherwise unavailable.”
We’re sorry, we can’t find the page you’re looking for. It might have been removed, changed its name, or is otherwise unavailable.
– Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator replaced with: “404 Error – Page Not Found…Oops! You have reached a door that leads to nowhere.”
https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc//LocateInmate.jsp
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The 45-47 regime is attempting to take away free and fair elections, and has succeeded thus far. Theil and JD Vance are running the Elmo OP.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yo7aIYG8WJ4FNzhMFdQAg/community
They may want to do that, but I’d want citations to back up the claim here.
If you read the material that the ETA is posting, it is attempting to demonstrate (through statistical analysis & forensic audits) that there was non-human intervention during the voting in the 2024 election, above and beyond gerrymandering, voter suppression and threats of violence. ETA has completed the analysis of Nevada, and is getting ready to check 3 counties in Pennsylvania that will very likely demonstrate the same situation.
Taylor has cautioned that the upcoming Wisconsin judicial election was showing a flood of outside money and interest from questionable actors, and that if this issue is not addressed and fixed by the 2026 elections, voting/democracy as we know it will be over.
“Non-human voting”? WTF is that, in non-corporate speak, and can they prove it?
If I learn of local impacts in my county would you want me to share?
I would add history itself. Especially military history. Under the guise of DEI, the history and photos of the Enola Gay were either slated to be removed or actually removed from DoD websites. Now the history of the Code Talkers have been removed. According to the military itself, without the Navajo’s unbreakable code, we wouldn’t have taken Iwo Jima. Other tribes work in WW1 and 2 helped to save countless American lives and win the wars.
Trump is erasing the history of all but white men.
Yes, they just deleted the web page on Jackie Robinson’s military service.
Apologies for the new name, Rayne: I keep forgetting what I used before. Hopefully I will remember this moniker.
We have family that were affected by the tornado in the Ozarks. They tell us that if you contact FEMA for supplies, they are now offering coupons. I can’t find any reference to this in the news.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/g-s1-54262/tornadoes-missouri-storm-ozarks
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I found a news reference for this:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-shift-disaster-preparations-fema-states-local-governments-2025-03-19/
It’s not like global warming will result in a lot more disasters, right?
Radio Free Europe et al are fighting back:
Defying Trump, several US-funded international broadcasters are still reporting the news One of the US-funded international networks in President Trump’s crosshairs is going to court to contest his shutdown order. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/media/radio-free-europe-trump/index.html Brian Stelter and Christian Edwards, Updated 5:33 PM EDT, Tue March 18, 2025
Timothy Snyder’s post of 3/19 is from a Ukrainian who was tortured by Russia due to his posts on Radio Liberty. Real people have paid real costs.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/225
I’m surprised that, as yet, public funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS & NPR have not been curtailed. Or, did I miss it in the Project 2025 blitz?
Thank you so much for doing this work. I will be increasing my donation to you.
When thinking about what is the thing ‘they’ are taking from the chaos and data it hit me today that maybe it’s not one thing fits all? Maybe Elon, Project 2025ers, etc (all those who Trump feels really got him elected and continue to really boost his support) and Trump are each getting separate goodies? Like Elon gets the stuff for Putin and on his competitors , Project 2025ers gets the stuff to go after those not living the way they want them to, Trump gets blackmail and revenge stuff, etc? It’s more like a menu of things each of Trump’s close inner people get to pick stuff from.
Marcy and I are on the same wavelength here. I wanted the local media in Nebraska to know the impacts of USAID funding cuts so before Mike Flood’s town hall so I tracked down one of the experts at the Center for Global Development quoted in the Nicholas Kristof piece to get the impact to Nebraskans from the USAID cuts. I got his email, bsky handle & phone number
I got some $ of dollars cuts, links to research and graphics for local press:
Here is a link to state by state impact of USAID funding cuts from the USAIDStopWork Project https://www.usaidstopwork.com/usaid-state-by-state
$64,000,000 in cuts in funding for Nebraska following Musk’s USAID cuts
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xyhqoefra64tzimlsqx3mepp/bafkreiehitbnu3t6bd5c57vmfehdjvfje2rs72zjzw6vyvlqe3kvakhjpy@jpeg
Here’s a link to research on state by state impact on Agriculture following the USAID cuts. https://www.usaidstopwork.com/agricultural-impact
This was the post I put up at Bsky before the Town Hall Tuesday night.
“#USaid was shut down by Musk #DOGE. Programs, like food aid that comes from buying the crops of Nebraska farmers, stopped getting money. Rep Flood supported the shut down of USAID, claiming it was filled with waste.
He has a Town Hall in Columbus. I hope he’ll be asked about $64.8m Nebraskans lost.
BUT I FAILED because I didn’t have a LOCAL to bring the info to the Town Hall and FOLLOW UP after the event to drive those cuts home.
THAT is what is needed to drive these specific cuts home and prepare for the RW spin and the downplaying of the impact.
Also what happened was that USAID was “restored” by a judge that day, which made it seem like “Okay, things are fixed.” which dulls the impact of the cuts
Protection against conflicts of interest/compliance with the Hatch Act.
Protections against interference by politicians in the administration of justice Trump White House says it can talk to Justice Dept. on criminal cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/09/trump-justice-department-guidance-memo/
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Could be filed under missing data:
State Department’s termination of its contracts for the research into potential Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including data on tens of thousands of Ukranian children kidnapped & taken to Rssia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/trump-ukraine-abducted-children.html?smid=url-share
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https://bsky.app/profile/nahaltoosi.bsky.social/post/3lkqobkhavc2u
March 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Links to:
Trump drastically cutting back annual human rights report
Sections on women’s rights and the security of LGBTQ+ people are among those being axed.
Nahal Toosi 03/19/2025 01:04 PM EDT
And a response/explainer:
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lkqoi4yctc2i
March 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Trump to women: “I will protect you, whether you like it or not.”
He will protect you, more than anything else, from the truth. He will *not* protect you from domestic abusers who want their guns back, or rapists with rich friends who might include himself. Certainly not from rapists who might include himself, and if you try to protect yourself from him/them, you will learn the hard way that “you don’t have the cards.” Because women can’t be trusted with the cards, any more than Ukraine can be trusted with cards, or Black folks can be trusted with the cards.
Once you let Others get their hands on the cards, you don’t hold all the cards, and that is a world you cannot abide if you are Donald Trump.
More doge bs for the list.
Canceling translation services for immigrants…
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/trump-administration-cancels-translation-services-those-seeking-access-or-correct-their-immigration-status/403778/
Some examples of doge driven closures in California…
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-18/doge-two-dozen-environmental-offices-closure-california
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Someone else keeping a little list, the Trump Tyranny Tracker:
https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/
There have been job cuts at the Hanford Nuclear Site, where they’re still trying to clean up the mess from nuclear research in WWII.
https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/mar/02/more-federal-layoffs-at-eastern-wa-nuclear-contamination-site-heres-what-may-be-next/
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), including presidential libraries, have lost staff.
Any chance you have a link to reporting on that? All I can find is a Reddit page with the original content deleted. A reply to the post indicates NARA’s probationary employees were dismissed.
Trump had a target list of NARA personnel to release; it’d be nice to have concrete reporting that he’s used that list and how far he’s cut into it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-list-national-archives-staff-194251162.html
The State Dept has frozen funding for the Fulbright Program and the Gilman and Critical Language Scholarships.
From the WaPo, Mar 11, 2025:
“Last month, the State Department froze funding for long-standing international exchange and study-abroad programs that connect Americans to the world, including the Fulbright Program, established by Congress in 1946. The funding tap has not yet been turned back on, according to groups that support international education and more than two dozen affected participants.
“The freeze, spurred by President Donald Trump’s slash-and-burn efforts to reshape the federal government, also affects the Gilman Scholarship, which supports students of limited financial means to study or pursue internships abroad, and the Critical Language Scholarship, an immersive summer program for American students to learn languages of strategic importance for the United States.”
https://archive.ph/2025.03.17-193023/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/11/fulbright-study-abroad-funding-freeze-state-department/
Two things related to USIP
1) Loss of an independent non-profit that advances the cause of international peace. Maybe Peace or Soft Power should be its own category.
INTERNATIONAL
US Institute of Peace
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/peace-institute-doge-takeover-lawsuit/
2) Not sure what to call this category, but there’s a trend of Trump admin extorting organizations to betray their own customers. Inter-Con was hired by USIP to provide them with security, and sold them out under threat of losing all their other government contracts. What do you call the expectation that the government won’t extort you? That’s what we’re losing.
NON-EXTORTION
Inter-Con extorted to betray its client USIP
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5204061-federal-judge-blocks-usip-takeover/
Not to mention the DC MPD. You saw what happened to Michael Fanone after he was almost killed. He was frozen out of MPD after his awakening.
Not sure if this fits the criteria that’s been set out, but fired federal workers are at risk of losing their student loan forgiveness.
From the WaPo, Mar 17, 2025:
“The Trump administration’s purge of the federal workforce has left former federal workers… scrambling to find employment and facing the stark reality that the student loan forgiveness they’ve worked toward may now be out of reach. It’s unclear how many fired federal workers were working toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, but nearly 195,000 federal employees have filled out the employer certification form for the program, according to the latest available data from the Education Department.”
https://archive.ph/2025.03.17-163646/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/16/federal-workers-lose-student-loan-forgiveness/
Well, FWIW, Marcy, I copied your initial list & jammed it onto a Powerpoint slide and I’m posting it repeatedly on my FB page. (Without links for line items, of course, but I’m including a link to your piece.) AND, including the information that ALL of the cuts are things we the taxpayer have already paid for.
Alternating with the decades-old classic from John Rogers: “The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.”
Never more apropos than now, unfortunately.
Thank you, this is the best list I’ve seen so far.
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Even if it was an “accident”, if data related to Russia’s kidnapping of 35,000+ Ukrainian children has been deleted, it will be one of the most tragic and evil thing the Trump administration has done so far:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-kidnapping-evidence-b2717730.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/yale-ukraine-war-crimes-investigation/33351956.html
Perhaps under Personnel, I haven’t seen mention of the seven DOJ attorneys who resigned rather than carry out Chump’s dismissal of criminal charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams in exchange for Adams agreeing to endorse the administration’s immigration policies.
Nixon’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973 resulted in two DOJ resignations.
Regarding investigation into Putin [et al] for invasion of Ukraine:
https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3lksxejeoyc2p
March 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3lkropzkdhs2a
March 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Under Weather Service:
https://bsky.app/profile/jamiedupree.bsky.social/post/3lktkuztxi22x
March 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I don’t know how to describe the circumstances of the loss of BigLaw firm Paul, Weiss…
maybe EXTORTION? In any case, downright CORRUPTION.
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lktrepo5tk2l
March 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM [emphasis added]
POTUS CORRUPTUS MAXIMUS
FIRST courageous, principled woman, Rachel Cohen, responds [via Anna Bower]:
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lkukzjwuwc25
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Full text of Cohen’s letter here:
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lkvbjo2kqs26
U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic Stanstead, Que., border-straddling library, officials say Quebec town says move ‘undermines the spirit of cross-border collaboration’
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us-border-canada-quebec-stanstead-library-1.7489528 CBC News Posted: Mar 21, 2025 7:15 AM EDT
Apparently if you live in a place that straddles the border, you’re supposed only use one side of it – even if the stores and services are on the other side.
BUNKERS FULL OF SEEDS
Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Iago Hale and Michael Kantar // New York Times March 22, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET
[Dr. Hale is a professor of specialty crop improvement at the University of New Hampshire.
Dr. Kantar is an associate professor of plant genetics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.]
[GIFT link from Cheryl Rofer here: https://bsky.app/profile/cherylrofer.bsky.social/post/3lkxr3rswgs2n
March 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM]
Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms. Now they have to prove it https://apnews.com/article/alzheimers-treatment-prevention-amyloid-trump-0e824790486e06bcfbd5711df4abf0ba Updated 10:10 AM EDT, March 20, 2025
RFKjr’s desire do run everything medical back to the 18th century is also damaging studies in newer ways of treating cancers. They were investigating mRNA vaccines against some of them, as immunotherapy – which is already a proven treatment.
SHADE TREES
Is planting trees ‘DEI’? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55090/trump-dei-trees-removal-climate-change
March 21, 20255:00 AM ET
TANKS FOR UKRAINE [not yet lost…but…]
https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/post/3ll254lilwu2u
March 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
And, speaking of things we’ve lost, the account above [@Newsguy] is the personal and unofficial account of Steve Herman, chief national correspondent of Voice of America.
https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/post/3lkynvg33k22k
March 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A LOT of money:
https://bsky.app/profile/drharmony.bsky.social/post/3lkyxv22dzc2x
March 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Links to: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say
The upheaval undermines the agency’s quest to tackle high-end tax cheating.
March 3, 2025
Related:
https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3ll26bnocb22u
March 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Links to NYT, Eric Lipton, March 23, 2025:
SpaceX Positioned to Secure Billions in New Federal Contracts Under Trump Elon Musk’s role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies.
Supporters say he has the best technology.
“After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers,
agents say. ”
This one is the grand prize for Trump and all the GOP’s uber wealthy tax cheats and wanna be cheats.