This has been a wild week, with way more news coming out of the new administration than anyone can follow.
And that's likely by design. Here's some of the biggest things that happened this week.
USAID is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers from the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors it currently employs, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.
Musk’s band of boys has “sweeping authority to install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Donald Trump signs a paper. He is wearing a blue suit and a blue tie. A headline reads: "How Trump's Actions Are Defying Legal Limits." Photo credit: Eric Lee/The New York Times.
President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP
Bill Gates says he met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday to advocate for continuing foreign aid disbursements from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
As Elon Musk continues to talk about subsidies, let’s remember that he is the LARGEST GOVT SUBSIDIES RECIPIENT in the country!
Sales of Tesla’s electric vehicles have fallen sharply across many of its key European markets amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk. www.ft.com/content/ea23...
Could have had a happy America, instead we chose hate
I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls
Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was our most read piece. www.ft.com/content/d202...
Israel's defense minister says that he has instructed his military to prepare a plan to allow Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza, after Israel's leadership embraced Pres. Trump's remarks in which he said the U.S. may seek ownership of the territory.
Shipping containers with lifesaving drugs are being held. Millions of pounds of American-grown soybeans bound for refugee camps are being diverted.
Trump’s mission to upend the USAID has paralyzed efforts to distribute lifesaving supplies around the world, according to experts.
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Palestinian leaders said they would defy any attempts to remove them from their land. www.ft.com/content/d202...
A Republican congressman just introduced a bill to abolish OSHA and get rid of federal safety protections for workers.
Remind me— wasn’t it Republicans who claimed that they were the party of the working class?
So much for his Hippocratic oath.
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Egg prices are way up. Medicaid and cancer research are shut down.
Just what people voted for.
Hard to believe. Terrible choice.
Trump proposed the US taking over the Gaza Strip and assuming responsibility for reconstructing the territory.
Futurama meme Setting: Square stone houses in the background, a green hazy sky with slithering clouds, a dry sandy landscape with fry walking towards a notice board Caption: 15 days of fascism, no cheaper eggs, every couch in white house fucked by Vance Trumps face is looking out a window of a stone house to the left hand side in the background
Daily egg meme (well it is on facey I'll try remember this exists lol)
The idea of the U.S. taking over Gaza would be widely condemned as imperialist, illegal, and destabilizing. It would face resistance from regional, global, and within the U.S. itself. The U.S. should focus on diplomatic efforts, humanitarian aid, and regional cooperation rather than direct control.
