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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The White House will send out a memo Tuesday afternoon offering to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, a White House official tells Axios.


Donald Trump vowed to slash grocery prices as soon as he took office, yet he has barely addressed the cost of food in the whirlwind of executive orders he signed in his first week. read more


U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is sounding the alarm after reports confirmed that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states, following the announcement of a freeze on federal grants and loans.


At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials. read more


Saturday, January 25, 2025

Most of Donald Trump's 26 executive orders, signed his first day in office on Jan. 20, are pulled directly from Project 2025, despite his previously claim accusing the agenda as "seriously extreme." read more


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More: The most recent entry in the "good advice for Democrats" canon comes from occasional TNR contributor and Bulwark writer Jonathan V. Last, who wrote, "The job of the Democratic party comes in two parts. First: Do not help Republicans. Not in any way. Second: Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world." True enough. The only problem here is the lack of an organized Democratic Party to actually serve as an aggressive opposition party. We could use one of those!

Nevertheless, there is a lesson here for liberals that we should perhaps heed while Democrats in Washington debate how supine they want to get for the incoming administration. During Trump's first term, much of the mainstream left organized itself around the idea that "this was not normal" and that surely our over-regarded system of norms would save us from Trump. And so deep investments were made in various quick fixes"an impeachment effort and the Mueller investigation chief among them"that seemed to offer the hope of prematurely canceling the Trump presidency, without much regard for how difficult it is to actually oust a president (or for the decades of evidence suggesting that our justice system routinely fails to hold the rich and powerful to account, more broadly).

A second Trump era offers the opportunity for a change of course"a second reckoning of sorts. I think that Last is on to something when he suggests that Trump's opposition should force him to "own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world." I'd actually take this a step further. Rather than exert so much energy trying to thrust Trump out of the presidency, liberals would be well served to spend their time thrusting the presidency upon Donald Trump. Instead of searching for illusory quick fixes for the existence of the Trump administration, start demanding the Trump administration fix everything quickly.

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