"These are longterm contract positions for people whose brief is to shepherd aid deliveries abroad. They serve as the U.S. government’s eyes and ears to make sure the money is used for what it’s meant to be used for, that it gets to the intended recipients."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
/7
"They abolished the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the CIS Ombudsman. ...
Just a few moments ago I heard that USAID had terminated about 160 personal service contractors."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
/6
"Fridays are becoming bloodbath day in the federal workforce. In the same way that bad news stories used to be held for Friday late afternoon, that’s when we now hear about a lot of these firings. Midafternoon, I heard that the Department of Homeland Security had essentially abolished all its international civil rights and detention abuse agencies."
~ Josh Marshall
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
/5
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/friday-firings-becoming-the-norm
"There is a myth harbored by some that Trump turned the Republican Party into a cynical, unprincipled institution that preyed on the poor, on minorities and on working people. In fact, Trump was elected precisely because those characteristics preceded his rise. He was the perfect vessel for a large sector of the Republican constituency."
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #purges #FederalGovernment #firings
/7
"The toxic brew of irresponsible pseudo-news outlets and the successors of the Tea Party movement radicalized the electorate to a fever pitch. The result was a collective desire to smash the existing order to smithereens and allow Donald Trump to replace it with chaos."
~ Mark Mansour
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #purges #FederalGovernment #firings
/6
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-the-old-republican
"Along with his colleague Daniel Ziblatt, Levitsky wrote How Democracies Die. 'We look at these comparative cases in the 21st century, like Hungary and Poland and Turkey. And in a lot of respects, this is worse,' Levitsky said. 'These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.'”
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #purges #FederalGovernment #firings
/5
"The attack of Trump and his MAGA supporters on the courts and the rule of law has illustrated how quickly the United States is sliding from democracy to authoritarianism. “'Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,' Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky told Amanda Taub of the New York Times."
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #education #libraries #museums #purges #FederalGovernment #firings #grants
/3
"Today, members of the 'Department of Government Efficiency' team showed up at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which helps to fund libraries and museums across the country and whose elimination Trump called for in an executive order last week. They sent employees home, swore in a new acting director in the lobby, and proceeded to cancel contracts and grants."
#Musk #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #education #libraries #museums #FederalGovernment #firings
/2
"It seems as if the Trump administration is rushing to tear apart as much as it can as opponents of its wholesale destruction of the United States government organize to stop them."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #education #libraries #museums #purges #FederalGovernment #firings #grants
/1
"To be clear, the executive order is unconstitutional. The Department of Education was created by congressional mandate and is funded each year through congressional appropriations. Trump has no authority to shut down the Department of Education. Doing so should result in his impeachment and conviction."
~Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DepartmentofEducation #education
/6
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/protests-are-working-keep-it-up
"Formally closing the department requires an act of Congress. But even without formally shutting it down, the Trump administration could effectively make it nearly impossible for employees to carry out their work, as it has done with the U.S. Agency for International Development."
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DepartmentofEducation #education
/5
"President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a yearslong pledge to dismantle the federal agency, the White House confirmed."
~ Garrett Haake, Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Tyler Kingkade
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DepartmentofEducation #education
/4
"These cuts, both to staff and grants, reflect a broader move to shift how the NIH allocates its $48 billion dollar research budget, from processes governed by scientific expertise, to processes governed by partisan judgements."
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
/2
"There is widespread reporting of hundreds of grant cancellations at the National Institutes for Health (NIH)—with significantly more coming. This is in the context of ongoing funding freezes and chaotic layoffs of its expert staff, most of whom have PhDs in the fields for which they oversee review and funding processes."
~ Pamela Herd
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
/1
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizing-science-the-national
"In two months, federal workers who protect public health, enforce federal laws on education, justice, defense, the arts, labor relations, and administering global aid and anti-poverty efforts have been summarily fired or furloughed, without cause and contrary to federal laws."
#Musk #Trump #PublicHealth #workers #firings #FederalGovernment #RuleofLaw #education #justice
/4
"Le Monde reports that a French researcher traveling to the US for a conference was denied entry by CBP because a border agent
searched his phone & found comments criticizing Pres Trump."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
DHS has weaponized #CBP...
Few tourists will even consider visiting the US.
The #TrumpMusk regime is destroying the US economy: #tourism, trade, services, retail sales, manufacturing, #stagflation, #firings...
There's no #FreeSpeech.
#Trump #DHS #Fascism #USPol
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
To friends of democracy around the world: we need your help.
The Trump regime is brutally attacking US #democracy. Most of us didn't vote for Trump. But he feels he's a mandate to take a wrecking ball to the #constitution.
The regime can be constrained only if everyone stands up to the bullying.
Why reward Trump’s America with your tourist
?
Agree, but how soon will the bus comm respond? The CEOs need to tell Trump to stop the #tariffs #firings.
#DOGE #Tourism #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-trump-boycott
"HUGE red flag moment here by DOGE.
US Institute of Peace is a 501c3 - an independent non-profit entity, not a govt agency.
If DOGE can do this to USIP, what's to stop them from breaking into offices of other NGOs that receive US funds?"
-J Konyndyk
"Happening now at the USIP: "DOGE has broken into our building," acc to USIP Acting President & CEO George Moose."
-E Miolene
"Instead, he’s reducing the value of everyone’s life savings. And now, just in these last two weeks, the mood is changing. Independents are starting to peel away. It’s only a matter of time before a firm majority of Americans wrap their heads around reality—and maybe not much time, at that.
#Musk #Trump #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Congress #Republicans
/17
"The MAGA propaganda network insisted last year that Trump was a master of economic policy, even though he kept telling us the precise ways in which he was going to wreck the economy. It got just enough people to believe that he would magically reduce the price of everything on the shelves."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Musk #Trump #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Congress #Republicans
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