âSo many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think theyâre playing a quantity game and assuming the system canât react to all this illegality at once.â https://t.co/rj9DIK4o5I
"Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID."
Take thirteen minutes, or bookmark this for later. This is from @ezraklein, taken from The Ezra Klein Show podcast. It explains precisely what this administration is doing and why it is essential to keep focus and not play into it.
#DemsUnited#DemVoice1
NEW: This is the administrative leave notice people are getting at USAID.
USAID staff getting leave with pay, Pete Marocco details in the notice.
This notice is going out to around 1,400 USAID staffers, sources say.
@shaunmmaguire How does this play with @realDonaldTrump disbanding the Air Traffic Safety Commission last week?
Karma, bitch, this is going to become commonplace and itâs in your hands Shaun.
Audio of Trump on Gaza: Iâd like Egypt to take people and Iâd like Jordan to take people. You're talking about a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thingâŠ
Congressman who says heâs never been handed anything was given $2 million by his family to start a plumbing business, and then he took over $1.4 million in PPP loans, debt that was forgiven by the government and never paid back.
My God. Rachel Maddow:
Today, a duck farm in operation since 1908 shut down to euthanize their entire flock of 100,000 ducksâŠ.Birdflu has killed more than 130 million U.S birds...and Trump ordered all information stopped
including data for hospitals.
I just read this on Facebook:
Someone asked "Why do many British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
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Hear hear. Most Australians were bestowed with many of these same values by our British forebears, with a bit of extra salt: A fair fight is toe-to-toe, one-on-one. If your opponent fought fair, you respect them when itâs done, win or lose. You donât whine or simmer. But thereâs another value Australians hold higher than all others. A value born of centuries of toil, carving a nation out of sunburnt soil. Above all else, you stick by your mates. You look out for them when times are tough. You certainly donât break a deal you made with them. And you definitely donât try to extort them. This puts us in the difficult position now of wanting to stand by our mates in America, even though they made a backstabbing dickhead President.
âNaziâ isnât a slur. Itâs a word that describes real people who earnestly believe in their ideas. Their ideas are disgusting and hateful, but of course they often do not realize it.
I keep running into racists who think that itâs not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. NoâŠthatâs the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and donât think itâs an idiotic, hateful belief doesnât mean itâs not an idiotic, hateful belief.
Nazi isnât a word that means âbad evil boogeymanâ it means âsomeone who believes in their own racial superiority, extreme protectionist nativism, the purifying of society by eliminating undesirables, expansionism, active suppression of dissent, and total state power held in the hands of a very small group.â
Make sure the people youâre cheering for donât believe these things because otherwiseâŠ
To the financial institutions & industries backtracking on climate commitments, I want to say loudly & clearly:
Youâre on the wrong side of history.
Youâre on the wrong side of science.
And youâre on the wrong side of consumers who are looking for more sustainability, not less.
"Harvard agrees to controversial definition of antisemitism in legal settlement: University agrees to observe [IHRA] definition that critics say is designed to protect Israel by punishing legitimate criticism"
https://t.co/EAn8JNYpgo
@Caitlyn_Jenner As @POTUS clearly said today, there are only two genders. Bruce, you were born with a dick and youâre still a man. Youâre no more a woman than a blow up sex toy with a plastic hole. Grow up Bruce give up this play bullshit. Youâre no girl youâre just a pussy man.