I turned off this #SocialMedia shit show long ago, deleting several apps. Still, it’s amazing what can escalate in just hours and minutes on such platforms.
Just another sign of America’s deeper addictions and dilemma, preoccupied and “governed” by the likes of this.

#MuskTrump #Musk #Trump #breakup
#TrumpMusk #epstein #impeachment

https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg?cid=ios_app

Similarities are intentional ...

"Trump admin replaces COVID websites, takes down COVID signage.

The Trump admin has moved to take down #COVID signage from fed agencies & replace websites that'd previously offered health information & access to tests & treatment for the virus, swapping them out with a page titled "Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19" pub by the WH."

We've lost track of the atrocities that the #TrumpMusk regime has committed.

#Health #HHS #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Disinformation #USPol

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-replaces-covid-websites/

A #DOGE engineer removed fed officials’ permissions to post to http://Grants.gov w/o telling them. Now decisions affecting $Bs in grant opportunities are set to flow through a DOGE-controlled mailbox.

The Trump admin has taken multiple steps to delay or halt fed grants, e.g. delaying $Bs in research grants issued by agencies such as the #NIH, freezing or term grants to higher-EDU insts...

The #TrumpMusk regime destroys lives, livelihoods & futures.

#Resist #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/

"Voter bribery is a crime. It’s illegal. Despite this, #Musk has been flagrantly bribing voters. He's attempted to evade prohibitions on vote-buying in a number of ways.

Thefelony is defined in fed law (18 USC § 597) & (52 US Code § 10307(c)): “Whoever . . . pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for reg to vote -fined not >$10K or imprisoned...

We must strenuously reject this kind of elite impunity."

Amplify: #TrumpMusk admin's #Corruption #Bribes...

#USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-elon-musk-vote-buying-is-against-law-federal-wisconsin

Fed employees: Trump's fed RTO order has resulted inchaos (incl bad Wi-Fi & no TP), with productivity plummeting & public services suffering.

At the CDC one employee says that the focus on RTO mandate has meant a lot of chaos for ppl who actually need to do their jobs in person. "All the chaos has made it more difficult for the lab ppl. I'd say with everything they get 2-3 hours less of meaningful work out of me each day.”

#Sabotage #DOGE #TrumpMusk #Firings #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-rto-chaos/

“A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction blocking the plan to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%. The judge highlighted that the policy would have caused “imminent risk of halting life-saving clinical trials” and “disrupting “innovative medical research and treatments.”
-Dr K Young

The NIH is still being gutted, but this is good news, but will be appealed by the anti-science, #TrumpMusk regime.

#NIH #HHS #PublicHealth #Science #USPol https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/nih-indirect-costs-federal-permanent-injunction/

"IRS layoffs are underway as DOGE moves to eliminate 25 percent of the workforce. The tax agency will lose roughly 20,000 jobs, including workers in its civil rights office, as part of the Trump admin's downsizing of the government."

The oligarchs have impunity, but everyone else has to pay their taxes. The agency will no longer provide adequate service, & dedicated employees are fired, needlessly.

#DOGE #IRS #Firings #TrumpMusk #USPol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/04/irs-will-cut-25-its-employees-eliminating-its-civil-rights-office/

Democracy Dies in Darkness:

"Hearing the entire FOIA office at CDC has been eliminated."
-D Boguslaw

"And apparent mechanism to request (as required by law) …"
-A Morey

"The entire CDC FOIA office — nearly two dozen people — received RIF notices. FOIA personnel at FDA & NIH were also dismissed. The CDC has seen a massive uptick in FOIA requests this year. It’s the second busiest year since Covid."
-J Leopold

#FOIA #Fascism #TrumpMusk #HHS #CDC #USPol

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-01/us-health-agency-mass-firings-begin-as-kennedy-orders-10-000-cut?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0MzUzMDg1OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ0MTM1NjU4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVTAwOVBUMEFGQjUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.3wzhDHewZ9AAlOO6yvdQ8Xl-F-AhPjCgiQeL3BYqbDg

"WH aides have drafted a proposal that'd levy tariffs of ~ 20% on most imports

WH advisors cautioned that several options are still on the table, meaning the 20% #tariffs may not come to pass. Another plan being considered is the C-by-C “reciprocal” approach.

Apr 2 has loomed over WS. Unlike the tariffs already announced by the admin: the new plan: expected to be more widespread & perm-.

Not an April fools' joke, the fools are #TrumpMusk, Rs, enablers...

#USPol #Coup https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/white-house-considering-roughly-20percent-tariff-on-most-imports-report-says.html

"The European Commission is considering a full shutdown of the EU market to American goods.

The EU Commission is preparing symmetrical measures with trade levies but does not rule out other trump cards, such as closing the EU market to certain US goods or services."

In record time, the #TrumpMusk regime is about to take the US into a recession.

#Tariffs #Inflation #Stagflation #Trumpcession #Economy #Resist #USPol

https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-03-31/bruselas-respondera-sin-lineas-rojas-a-los-aranceles-de-trump-a-los-productos-europeos.html

Trump’s EO applies to depts & agencies that employ 67% of fed employees & to 75% of unionized fed WKRs. ~1/3: fed WKRs: vets.

Largest Fed union: “fighting back” against ETrump - filing grievances to block Trump policies. VA’s unions have filed 70 nat & loc grievances over his policies —an aver >1/day.

It's explicit pol retaliation. WKRs at the VA -pushed back on #TrumpMusk’s orders to reduce staffing*svcs to vets in need of the HC svcs -VA provides.
#VA #Unions #USPol https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/

Got to get off gmail - not comfortable keeping my stuff on a fascist enabling US-based email provider. It's not safe anymore if they will just bend over for anything #TrumpMusk demand.

Any recommends for a non-American owned, preferably UK-based email hosts that don't require your own domain? Happy to have something like cybervegan23812@whateverhost.co.uk. Doesn't have to be webmail, but I'd prefer it.

I know how to host email myself, but I DON'T WANT TO - too much hassle these days, and I also don't want to buy and maintain a domain.

Additionally, NOT protonmail, as we have had family trauma involving them as an accessory to a crime against us. We don't want to be constantly reminded of this.

Please boost for reach.

The #TrumpMusk regime is killing off Meals on Wheels. Agency for snrs & ppl with disabilities to beshuttered under #HHS cuts.

The Admin for Community Living will be disbanded & its “critical” programs will be integrated into other #HHS agencies such as the Admin for Children & Families, Centers for MDCR, MDCD Svcs...

“10s of Ms of snrs & ppl w disabilities use these programs: lifesaving & critical -Meals on Wheels, snr centers..." -A Barkoff, fmr head of #ACL.
#USPol
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/agency-for-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities-to-be-shuttered-under-hhs-cuts-d0ff3bc2

Trump’s authoritarian regime, with its fearmongering, #immigration crackdown, corruption, Jim Crow disenfranchisement, & McCarthyism, is rupturing, & social conflict is erupting.

“Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets:

Arrests, blacklists and #deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America.”

#TrumpMusk #Fascism #DOGE #Resist #Coup #USPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/30/just-like-mccarthy-trump-spreads-fear-everywhere-before-picking-off-his-targets

In <100 days, the #TrumpMusk regime has become a rogue nation, powerless, & shunned by 1st world countries, for its alignment with Putin, lawlessness, corruption, inequality, expansionism, collective narcissism, hostility, & moral decay.

"My client -an INTL org that interacts with countries on every continent -no longer wants: money going to American individuals or IDU, & an American-sounding voice to be associated with its hope-filled endeavors."

#USPol #Resist #Coup
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/canadian-company-ends-american-contract-lost-job_n_67e821fce4b0f0380605ed5b

“Privatization costs more, is less efficient, has worse outcomes, and people get less.

#DOGE has never been about finding fraud and waste. Its goal is to privatize essential government functions and give contracts to Trump and Elon’s circle of #oligarchs.”
-M D’Arrigo

If the #TrumpMusk regime succeeds in their goal of privatizing most of the fed govt, it’ll exacerbate health inequalities & destroy
the social safety net.

#Privatization #Musk #Trump #HHS #Resist #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/health-department-private-sector-takeover

"Over the last 80 years, we have built the greatest innovation engine that the world's ever seen and it's delivered cures and treatments for disease...other countries have paid attention and they wanna copy it and we shouldn't make it easy for them."

We’re losing our esteemed researchers & scientists, most who were trained in the US, because of the fascist #TrumpMusk regime.

#Resist #Research #Science #PublicHealth #Health #USPol

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343966/countries-boost-recruitment-of-american-scientists-amid-cuts-to-scientific-funding

"Trump says Skadden, Arps law firm will provide $100 million in pro bono legal services, avoiding executive order."

Law firms are complying with the corrupt & authoritarian #TrumpMusk regime.

#Resist #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Extortion #Republicans #Corruption #USPol

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-skadden-law-firm-executive-order.html

The #TrumpMusk regime rivals Hitler's: 100s of ppl swept up in the admin’s #immigration crackdown are being kept at an overcrowded DET CEN in Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid: stench of body odor & raw sewage -conds: lawyers, families & fmr detainees call inhumane.One woman said she & fellow detainees were left in shackles & chains on buses overnight, so long -some urinated on themselves. She said she was put in a cell with ~30 women before she was deported.

#USPol
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302968939.html#storylink=cpy