Kathryn Tinker

1st amendment fan & proud @AmericanU alum. Sass is my own.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

the defining comic of the present moment

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis.

Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.

1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
https://t.co/2KaPRykzs3

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Found the full story:

https://t.co/oNOYmDo7lu

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

USAID employee outlines their escape with their family from the Congo as Trump admin dismantles USAID structure in DC

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

We’re barely three weeks in, but Trump is laying the groundwork to allow staggering levels of corruption to occur in the US Government.

Here are five actions he's already taken to open the flood gates of corruption – just the facts🧵

[Alex Morey @1AMorey]

BREAKING: Associated Press (@AP) told to “align its editorial standards” — and rename the Gulf of Mexico — or lose Oval Office access.

This unprecedented act of censorship should elicit a harsh, bi-partisan rebuke in defense of America’s free press.

https://t.co/neeZFPQb7R

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

Surreal exchange I just had with an Education Dept operator to connect me with their press office.

Q: What is the topic of your call?

Me: "Oh, the dismantling of the Department of Education."

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵

[Caleb Ecarma @calebhecarma]

Update: DOGE members Luke Farritor and Gavin Kilger are no longer “read only” users at the CFPB. They are now listed as domain administrators in the bureau’s system, meaning they can provide or revoke access as they see fit

[Julie Margetta Morgan @jmargetta]

In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB:
- ordered Equifax to pay $15M
- ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers
- ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers
- sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments

This week it's closed.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

What we found was that, yeah, there's a pretty strong case for PEPFAR. Even using conservative assumptions and ignoring many of its positive impacts, our best guess is that the program indeed saved 19million lives by 2018.

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data.

Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

[Dan Cluchey @dancluchey]

This is *genuinely* the first example of government waste, fraud, and abuse anyone has uncovered over the last three weeks.

[Bethany 貝書穎 @BethanyAllenEbr]

Because of the U.S. funding freezing, the entire global ecosystem of China nonprofits is facing an extinction event.

I'm not exaggerating for clicks. This is really what is happening. Read my piece below:

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

.@TheDemocrats are fighting back. Today and every day.

[Bradley Hope @bradleyhope]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump's DOJ just killed its elite anti-corruption unit, our sources say. The Kleptocracy Initiative - famous for seizing Russian oligarchs' yachts and prosecuting the $4.5B 1MDB fraud - was quietly disbanded last night.

[Kathryn Tinker @ketinker]

This isn’t about govt waste. It’s about decreasing revenue for proper journalism.

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

News: The White House has directed the GSA to terminate "every single media contract" expensed by the agency: "Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg"

"The eye of Sauron is on more than just Politico It's all the media," WH adviser says

https://t.co/nOgjcZdDn0

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I'd forgotten that one of the hallmarks of the Trump presidency isn't just that things keep happening, but also that things keep ... un-happening. In its first few weeks, the White House

- announced 25% North American tariffs ... that were paused within a day
- moved to end birthright citizenship ... an order that was struck down by a federal judge
- offered a buyout to federal employees ... whose implementation was paused by a federal judge
- issued an OMB memo ordering a “temporary pause” on grant and loan spending by federal agencies ... but a federal district judge blocked it
- claimed full access to a critical Treasury Department payments system ... but today, a judge signed off on restricting access for DOGE employees

What am I missing?

[Katherine Swartz @kv_swartz]

All but 289 USAID employees globally are now on administrative leave, per two sources.

Those left:

Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance: 78
Global Health: 77
Latin America: 8
Europe/Eurasia: 10
Asia: 8
Africa: 12
Middle East: 21
Management: 75