- Via Democracy Now!: Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester.
- Via The Atlantic: Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy.
- Via NBC News: Bond market moves raise fears of growing bets against America.
- Via the NYT: DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress. Color me shocked!
He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85 percent less than its objective.
What? Only 85% short of the goal? (I suspect that even the 15% saved ends up not actually being anywhere near that much real savings).
- Via Reuters: Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say.
- Via the NYT: Whitmer Shows How Democrats Are Playing With Fire in Cozying Up to Trump. Worth a click if anything for the pic.
- Via Reuters: Trump officials push immigrant gang message, but sometimes don’t back it up in court. Imagine that.
- Via the Chicago Crusader: Head of Smithsonian’s Black Museum resigns amid Trump’s attacks.
- From Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor via The Guardian: The rise of end times fascism. This is a lengthy essay that is worth a read, even if I might have some quibbles. But, man, it is amazing how often the ugliness of contemporary politics inlcudes billionaire techbros.
And this sounds familiar.
…there are emotional compensations on offer: you can cheer the end of affirmative action and DEI, glorify mass deportation, enjoy the denial of gender-affirming care to trans people, villainize educators and health workers who think they know better than you, and applaud the demise of economic and environmental regulations as a way to own the libs. End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy.
- From John Pavlovitz: Forget Anti-Christian Bias. The Trump Administration Has Anti-Jesus Bias. Which reminds me of this.
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