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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Tesla chief and presidential adviser Elon Musk shared a post Thursday that said public sector workers, not Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, murdered millions of people, marking the billionaire's latest Nazi-related post as he and his electric vehicle company face continued backlash and boycotts as critics say his embrace of right-wing politics is veering more extreme.


A federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is wielding so much power that its records will likely have to be opened to the public under federal law. read more


A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump's firing of the head of a board that resolves disputes between federal employees and the government was unlawful. read more


Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Donald Trump's administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US's climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade of pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it would potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health.


The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide. read more


Comments

"In 1979, only 31% of adults age 25 and over had completed some postsecondary education, compared to 62% in 2022."

www.google.com

That's quite the improvement.

But Republicans hate that improvement.... because today the best predictor of how someone votes isn't race or gender or income... it's their level of education. And people who vote Republican are the least educated people.

So the less the education, the more Republican voters there are.

"Putin says he's open to ceasefire, but wants to eliminate 'causes of this crisis'

thehill.com

If he really wants to eliminate the cause of the crisis, he could just step over to the nearest high window and do that.

- the Russia Hoax

That wasn't...

"The findings, including unflinching characterizations of furtive interactions between Trump associates and Russian operatives, echo to a large degree those of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and appear to repudiate the Republican president's claims that the FBI had no basis to investigate whether his campaign was conspiring with Russia.

Trump has called the Russia investigations a "hoax."

www.pbs.org

ALSO:

"Trump and Putin: Not a hoax
Trump is pulling the U.S. closer to Russia, undoing decades of diplomacy

"Welcome to the Putinization of America, comrade!" said Garry Kasparov in The Atlantic.

Just a month into his presidency, Donald Trump began "openly embracing Vladimir Putin's wish list for Ukraine and beyond," and upending 80 years of foreign policy by aligning the U.S. with Russia and against NATO. Trump's "personal affinity" for the Russian president has been long apparent, particularly since Putin's intelligence services "worked full-time to promote Trump" in the 2016 election, with the grateful cooperation of Trump and his campaign.

Now Trump's admiration for Putin has escalated into "full-blown imitation": threatening to annex Canada and Greenland; punishing disfavored news outlets; and unleashing his own oligarch, Elon Musk, to undertake a Stalinist purge of the federal government so MAGA loyalists have free rein.

This all evokes chilling memories of how Putin seized dictatorial authority in early-2000s Russia, which I personally witnessed. Beware, America. Your democracy is in danger."

the cringeworthy details at the link:

theweek.com

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