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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-03 at 03:28

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/06/canada-considers-tariffs-us-canned-water/

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 23:54

"From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn’t even bringing checkers to a chess match. He’s bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.”

— David Honig, adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Worth reading in full:

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ig021r/comment/makxtcu/

[#]USpol #tradewar #trump

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 23:50

This one seems to have been lost in the cacophony of bullshit.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr Orders Investigation Into PBS, NPR Sponsorships

"In an unprecedented move for an FCC chair, Carr also said he supported the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasters, writing:"

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-orders-investigation-into-pbs-npr-sponsorships

[#]USpol #media #radio #fcc

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 23:24

Yeah, USAID is literally the org I worked for that made me have an escort to the bathroom when I was onsite...

"Senior USAID security officials put on leave after attempting to refuse Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 22:38

Boycotting American companies ironically includes Tim's.

[#]canada #boycott #USpol

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 19:33

Good.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/02/saq-removes-american-products/

[#]quebec #tradewar #boycott #USpol

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 04:27

https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/simple-sabotage-we-wrote-the-book/

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-01 at 21:59

Can someone follow pixelfed from bluesky?

[#]fedihelp

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-01 at 21:39

Full cdc.data.gov backup available for anyone to access / copy (~100GB) [Edited to clarify this is CDC data]

"This does not include webpages themselves, as those have already largely been archived by projects like EOTArchive and the Wayback Machine."

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ife9p1/datacdcgov_full_archive/

[#]data #USpol #cdc #publichealth

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-01 at 04:28

https://www.usaidstopwork.com/

[#]usaid #USpol #doWeHaveATagForTheDismantlingOfOurGovernment?

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-01 at 04:23

When I've worked onsite as a consultant in US gov offices I had to spend 30 minutes going through security to get in and then have an escort any time I needed to leave my assigned desk -- including going to meetings, the bathroom, or getting a coffee.

[#]USpol #wtf

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-01 at 02:46

I can't do anything useful besides gnash my teeth, support nonprofits, and boost content so spent some time this evening baking chocolate-chocolate cupcakes with my kid and mending some clothing.

[#]minorMendings #selfcare

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Written by Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-29 at 20:28

This is a useful recap. I just cannot even with trying to keep up so looking for more tempered summaries and analysis while making a point to avoid "breaking news":

https://newrepublic.com/article/190838/trump-funding-crisis-chaos-shutdown

[#]news #USpol

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