"When President Donald #Trump named Russel Vought to run the Office of Management and Budget, I warned it was a sign that his administration intended to seize total control of federal spending from Congress. Two weeks ago, I said that if Vought were confirmed, billions of dollars in projects would go unfunded at the president’s whim, no matter what legislators have said.
"I was wrong. They didn’t even wait for Vought to be confirmed."
MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-omb-federal-spending-impoundment-rcna189595
[#]USPolitics
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"The move by the #Trump administration sowed #chaos and mass confusion across non-profits, local governments, universities, and recipients of other federal money. But businesses spread across every state depend on government grants and loan programs too, using literally tens of billions of federal dollars to employ perhaps millions of workers."
CNN https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-chaotic-loan-freeze-ordeal-140102239.html
[#]USPolitics
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"#Trump ordered ...#immigration raids across the country. Nearly 1,200 people were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday alone, but only 52% of the undocumented immigrants taken into custody had a criminal record.
"To cross into the U.S. illegally or to overstay a visa is considered a civil offense, but not a crime. It is, however, a crime to re-enter the U.S. without permission after being deported."
NBC News https://www.yahoo.com/news/selena-gomez-reacts-politician-said-211448958.html
[#]USPolitics
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[#]TrumpMassDeportation
"The Sierra Sun Times reported the farm owned by Peter Belluomimi, a grower and packer of lemons, mandarin oranges, and navel oranges, recently had only five of 30 workers come to work. Those that are staying home are concerned about the #immigration operations."
https://progressivegrocer.com/deportation-fears-impact-californias-citrus-harvest
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[#]Trump as viewed in the UK:
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[#]TrumpLies #birdflu
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"Alaska’s Juneau Icefield Is Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ 50,000 Gallons per Second, Researchers Find
"Between 2010 and 2020, the icefield lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice each year, according to a new study, Christian Thorsberg, Daily Correspondent,
Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/alaskas-juneau-icefield-is-melting-at-an-incredibly-worrying-50000-gallons-per-second-researchers-find-180984650/ #ClimateCrisis
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[#]3goodthings
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[#]Apple turns its #AI on by default in latest software update
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/apple-turns-its-ai-on-by-default-in-latest-software-update.html?__source=androidappshare
Apple AI #news summaries have a reputation for twisting facts
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"#Trump WH Press Secretary took hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions...Per federal campaign finance law, #Leavitt should have re-designated or returned excess funds within 60 days of receiving the donations. But NOTUS’s review of the updated filings suggests she still hasn’t done so. Leavitt’s campaign is still required to return hundreds of thousands to donors."
Salon https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wh-press-secretary-took-200109900.html
[#]USPolitics
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"almost everything #Trump has said and done indicates that a trip to Mars is about as likely to happen as Trump’s broken first-term promises to repeal Obamacare, make Mexico pay for a border wall and guarantee six weeks of paid family leave."
MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-elon-musk-mars-plan-rcna188973
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[#]Meta is paying creators to promote #Instagram on other short-form video apps
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/26/meta-is-paying-creators-to-promote-instagram-on-other-video-apps.html?__source=androidappshare
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"#Trump's federal DEI ban echoes Pres. Wilson's racist segregation of the federal government in 1913
"Donald Trump signed an executive order ending what he called quote 'radical and wasteful' diversity, equity and inclusion programs in federal agencies. The purge echoing the #racist actions of President Wilson Woodrow segregating the federal government during his term."
MSNBC Video https://www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/watch/trump-s-federal-dei-ban-echoes-pres-woodrow-wilson-s-racist-segregation-of-the-federal-government-in-1913-230270533948
[#]USPolitics
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"After addressing the March For Life rally on Friday,...#Trump signed executive orders to bar the use of federal funds for #abortion coverage and to reinstate the so-called 'global gag rule,' which prohibits international organizations that receive U.S. funding from providing abortion services.
"After months of trying to pass himself off to voters as a moderate on abortion, President Donald Trump is leaning into his anti-abortion base once again."
MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-abortion-march-for-life-roe-wade-pardons-rcna189125
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January 26, 1861 - Louisiana became the sixth state to secede from the Union. The state convention voted 113 to 17 in favor of the measure.
KSU Press https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2017/a-family-and-nation-under-fire/
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Technically not a complete cancellation of #NIH funding. A fuller explanation of the "indefinite suspension" by Max Kozlov & Nature magazine: "Without advisory-committee meetings, the NIH cannot issue research grants, temporarily freezing 80% of the agency’s US$47-billion budget that funds research across the country and beyond."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-cancels-science-reviews-at-nih-worlds-largest-public-biomedical/
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[#]Adopt #FosterPets #dogsofmastodon #CatsOfMastodon #Maryland
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"#Hegseth rails against “cultural Marxism”, feminism, “critical race theory”, and even democracy itself, which he says “our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous”.
...Hegseth also castigates public schools, ...as implementing an “egalitarian, dystopian LGBT nightmare”, and which the podcast host Joshua Haymes describes as “one of Satan’s greatest tools for excising Christ from not just our classrooms but our country”.
The Guardian https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pentagon-nominee-endorses-extremist-110030743.html #USPolitics
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"The head of a major union of federal employees said he didn't think Elon #Musk understood who federal workers are or what they do.
"I don't think he knows the first thing about federal government," Randy Erwin, the national president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, told Business Insider in an interview.
"Frankly, I don't think he cares," he added.
Business Insider https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-union-leader-fights-back-174120637.html #USPolitics
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"#Texas Attorney General Ken #Paxton wrote on Thursday to the firms saying they appear to 'unlawfully advance discriminatory' diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and demanded they respond to a series of questions about their programs. He said the companies may have breached their fiduciary duties by pursuing an 'ulterior political motive or agenda.'”
Bloomberg https://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-asks-wall-street-firms-210000518.html #USPolitics
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