Zhi Zhu 🕸️

How Musk is cancelling the US government
robertreich.substack.com/p/how

"This is blatantly illegal, yet #Congress remains silent.

...Musk has also become Trump’s hatchet man — threatening #Republican members of Congress if they deviate from #Trump...

#Musk warned Republican lawmakers... that his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries” next year."

#ElonMusk #Corruption #Coup #Politics #USPol #USNews #News #US #USA

Nonilex

The directive applies to various #ExecutiveBranch agencies that #Congress established & empowered to regulate aspects of the #economy, structuring them to be run by officials the president would appoint to fixed terms but whose day-to-day actions he would not directly control.

Those agencies include the #SEC, the #FTC, the #FCC & the #NLRB [#labor relations].

#law #USpol #Trump #TrumpCoup #authoritarianism #autocracy #SeparationOfPowers #democracy

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Meta removes Facebook ad criticizing Musk
muskwatch.com/p/meta-removes-f

"Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of ... #DOGE to seize #Americans' private information. "A single individual now controls sensitive US #data, risking our #NationalSecurity. Urge #Congress to enforce strict oversight," read the rejected Facebook ad"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #US #USA

Nonilex

“The Catholic Church always works to uphold the common good of all and promote the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable among us,” said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the USCCB. “That includes the unborn, the poor, the stranger, the elderly and infirm, & migrants.” The funding suspension prevents the church from doing so, he said.

#law #Trump #refugees #Congress #PresidentialPower
apnews.com/article/catholic-bi

US Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for halt in funding for refugee settlement

Catholic bishops are suing the Trump administration…

AP News
Nonilex

#Catholic bishops sue the #Trump admin over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful & harmful to newly arrived #refugees & the nation’s largest private resettlement program.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops says the admin,by withholding millions even for reimbursements of costs incurred before the sudden cut-off of funding,violates various #laws & the constitutional provision giving power of the purse to #Congress, which already approved the #funding.

TPenumbra

Where are the #republicans in #congress as the US government is being taken over in a #coup by #ElonMusk and #doge or the SOTH #mikejohnson who has the power as a coequal branch of government to intervene but he does nothing and hardly a word from the MSM about his betrayal of his country

#uspol

Nonilex

With #Congress Pliant, an Emboldened #Trump Pushes His Business Interests

Norms recognized for decades in DC by both parties no longer appear to apply to Trump, fmr prosecutors & #ethics lawyers say.

The Oval Office meeting convened by Trump brought together the most important leaders in the world of pro #golf: Jay Monahan, the top exec at the #PGA Tour, &, via telephone, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of the #SaudiArabia-backed league known as #LIVGolf.

#law #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/poli

Trump Pushes Business Interests in Golf, Mideast and New York as Conflicts Abound

Norms recognized for decades in Washington by both…

The New York Times
beSpacific

#Medicaid, the popular #publichealth care program for #low #income #Americans, covers nearly half of all #births in America. Almost half of the nation’s children are also enrolled in the program. But #Republicans who control #Congress are reportedly weighing cuts to the program that would help pay for President #DonaldTrump #tax policy, which is expected to include permanent tax breaks for #wealthy Americans. 19thnews.org/2025/02/medicaid- #insurance

The 19th Explains: How Medicaid helps mothers, caregivers and children

The popular public health care program for low-income…

The 19th
Europe Says

europesays.com/1856768/ Live Trump updates: Administration says federal workforce layoffs are not from DOGE #congress #DonaldTrump #GovernmentAndPolitics #trump

Nonilex

They argue that President #Trump has "delegated virtually unchecked authority to Mr. Musk without proper #legal authorization from #Congress."

At a brief hearing Monday in the case, US District Judge Tanya #Chutkan expressed skepticism at the sweeping request the plaintiffs made to halt #DOGE work, but was also skeptical at the claim from government lawyers that #ElonMusk had no authority to make governmental decisions.

#law #TrumpCoup #USpol

petersuber

Update. US space scientists have written an open letter to #NASA and #Congress.
sites.google.com/view/space-sc

"Almost all of our work as space scientists is funded by U.S. taxpayers, and we have a responsibility to oppose actions that limit the reach of our work to the public… Following NASA’s request, all AG [Analysis/Assessment Group] websites and the important, labor-intensive study reports, science goals documents, and other resources hosted on those websites are indefinitely unavailable to the communities who did this work and to the general public…We ask that all those in decision-making positions unequivocally condemn and act to reverse recent attacks on scientific integrity, federal grant funding for scientific research, and initiatives that broaden public participation in science."

PS: Also see the list of similar letters growing the left sidebar.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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Go Weapons Hot

"But what we have now is something that some law professors have called not separation of powers, but separation of parties. And so if you get a party that is as organized as the present Republican Party is, the #Republicans in #Congress will defend the Republican in the White House. The Republican judges will rule in favor of the Republican in the White House. The Republican governors will also jump on board."

#democracy
#authoritarianism

pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-

How the start of Trump’s second term looks like some autocracies

President Trump’s social media post over the weekend…

PBS News
CarolTheCrone

FYI.

Congress is on vacation today.

It's a holiday for them.

So no one is answering phone calls.

Or acknowledging protests.

If you expect them to interrupt their long weekend to protect the country, you put your faith in the wrong folks.

#Congress #JamieRaskin #HakeemJeffries #ChuckSchumer #Democrats #DickDurbin #TammyDuckworth

Betty C. Jung

Garthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social Feb 15 Musk might be kinda biased. #ConflictofInterest #oversight #Congress #budget #Corruption (Of course, only the Dotard and Musk can be "trusted" to self-police themselves. 🤮)

DoomsdaysCW

I would love to attend the #PresidentsDayProtest in #AugustaMaine (assuming there is one going on), or stage a #ProtestOfOne in #PortlandMaine, but the weather in #Maine is not looking good. I will be bugging our #Congress members and will amplify what's going on everywhere else!

Meanwhile, here are some things you can do to support the #50501Movement...

buildtheresistance.org/feb-17

50501 Day 2 — Build The Resistance

Build The Resistance