Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
6th February 2025
Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan ‘mind meld’ shaking up Capitol Hill (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
Trump signs executive order banning trans women from women’s sports (NBC News)
As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread (Alexander Tin/CBS News) Since when is it the job of American taxpayers to deal with Ebola (or anything else) in Uganda?
How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip (CNN)
Phil Murphy hands Republicans an attack line with immigrant housing gaffe (Politico) Democrats appear to love stepping on their own dicks.
Musk Vows to Eliminate ‘Wasteful’ Politico Subscriptions for Federal Employees
Democrats focus on Elon Musk as they search for a message to fight Trump (Washington Post) An acknowledgement that they haven’t any room to attack Trump directly.
We’re Living in a New Age of Robber Barons (Zeb Larson/Dame Magazine) Proglodytes always drag out the ‘robber baron’ smear when they want to bash businessmen. It was a lie when it was invented 150 years ago by The Atlantic (which continues to be a Voice of the Crust) and it’s a lie now. The real ‘robber barons’ are the corrupt Democrat legislators, like Nancy Pelosi, who use their official positions to feather their own nests through insider information.
The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us (Sarah Longwell/The Bulwark) I’d guess it’s because you’re assholes. But that’s me.
SecDef Hegseth Declares Record Army Recruiting Under Trump After Years Of Decline Gee, I wonder why?
Senate Democrats promise all-night marathon of speeches in protest of Vought’s nomination (Morgan Rimmer/CNN) It’s not as if they have anything more important to do.
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice (NBC News)
Guatemala Agrees to Accept More Deportees During Rubio’s Visit (Bloomberg)
Collins: Trump has empowered Musk ‘far beyond’ what is appropriate (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) RINOs assemble!
California Attorney General Issues Warning On Trump’s Buyout Offer
‘Reflecting Biological Reality’: Education Department Publishes New College Student Aid Form
Pritzker Warns Federal Workers in Illinois Against Musk Buyout (Shruti Singh/Bloomberg)
Inside Trump’s Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza (New York Times)
Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump’s attorney general (Politico)
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ (Dell Cameron/Wired)
Meet The Pro-Life Activists Set Free By Trump’s Pardons
Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk (Wall Street Journal)
Democrats’ phones bombarded with calls to “fight harder” (Andrew Solender/Axios)
White House tries to soften Trump’s mass displacement proposal for Gaza (Washington Post) ‘Soften’ means ‘explain the truth in the face of media lies’.
Mass. Officials Warned on Obstructing ICE Arrests
Trump’s AG Says Lawyers Who Refuse Orders Could Be Fired
Fetterman: ‘I Fully Support’ US Troops in Gaza
Next for DOGE: Medicare and Medicaid Agency, NOAA
West Point Disbands Gender-, Race-Based Clubs And the wins just keep on comin’.
State Dept: No Fees For US Govt Ships at Panama Canal And the wins just keep on comin’.
IRS workers can’t take Trump’s “buyout” until after tax season (Axios)
The Madness of Donald Trump (David Remnick/New Yorker)
Doge v USAid: how Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency (Andrew Roth/The Guardian) Acolytes! Infiltrate!
OPM Says Federal Unions Are Misinforming Workers About Voluntary Resignation Contracts As they do.
Republicans Lose Their Minds After Democrats Try to Subpoena Elon Musk (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany’s Merz (Politico) Thank God.
Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals (Jael Holzman/Heatmap News)
‘Every Night’: MSNBC Seems to Have Found a New OBSESSION in Elon Musk
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI (Slate)
The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times) Jerk those tears! Wring those hands!
“This Is Where The Big Money Fraud Is Happening”: DOGE Dives Into Medicare Payment Malarkey
‘Blow this place up’: Frustrated Democrats want the Senate to fight harder (Politico)
FDA Dysfunction Rewards Chinese Black Marketeers At The Expense Of Kids
Justice Dept. Says It Will Not Bring Charges in Investigation of Project Veritas (New York Times)
More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target (Wall Street Journal)
Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund (Karl Mathiesen/Politico)
NBC, CBS OMIT Reporting Massive Immigration Raids in Aurora, Colorado
“What’s the point of having Congress?”: Even some conservatives now say it’s a constitutional crisis (Russell Payne/Salon) Congress has been pointless for decades.
NFL To Remove “End Racism” End-Zone Message For Super Bowl
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers (Wired)
Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government (Washington Post)
The anti-Trump opposition might finally be waking up (Christian Paz/Vox)
“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump (ProPublica) Welcome to what your victims feel.
CNN Touts Efforts to Help Illegal Aliens Hide from ICE
Health agencies sued after taking down data following Trump order (Ali Bianco/Politico)
Musk aims to hobble federal workers ahead of ‘buyout’ deadline (Holly Otterbein/Politico)
Trump policies sow chaos, confusion across scientific community (Washington Post) The gravy train has stopped! Whatever shall we do?
Why CBS stands at the epicenter of Trump’s assault on the media (David Folkenflik/NPR)
Democratic polling finds Elon Musk is unpopular (Ally Mutnick/Politico) My, what a surprise.
California farmers still love Trump, even after he dumped their water (Politico)
Trump goes full colonialist (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
Treasury Sought to Freeze Foreign Aid Payments, Emails Show (New York Times)
Israel defense minister tells army to prepare to relocate Palestinians from Gaza (NPR)
Trump’s Gaza Plan Has Many Pitfalls, Hamas Among the Biggest (Steven Erlanger/New York Times)
Trump Administration Prioritizes High-Birthrate Areas for Transportation Funds (New York Times)
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? (Alec MacGillis/ProPublica) The struggle to keep the hoax alive….
Democrats hold Senate floor overnight to protest Trump’s OMB nominee (Niels Lesniewski/Roll Call) And it had no practical effect; it didn’t matter a damn. It was just virtue-signaling in front of the Usual Suspects.
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations (Dara Kerr/The Guardian) Just like a Democrat!
Trump: Dems Used USAID Money as ‘Payoff’ to Media
RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip (Paul Krugman) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Judge Blocks Trump’s Order To Transfer Men Who Identify As Women To Male Prisons
Trump’s Tariff Critics Are Trading on Overblown and Unfounded Fears
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses (Daniel Wu/Washington Post) Shed a tear for the Foreign Aid-Industrial Complex.
Musk’s Brazen Cost-Cutting Campaign Is Annoying GOP Senators, Treasury Staff (Bloomberg)
Musk a ‘coward’ if he won’t testify before Congress: House Democrat (Lauren Irwin/The Hill) Only a stupid man goes somewhere to get mugged. Musk is not stupid.
Shellenberger: USAID Paid for Trump Impeachment Effort
The DOGE Rampage Is Also a Bailout for Elon Musk (John Herrman/New York Magazine) Just like a Democrat!
Trump and Musk Are Pushing an Absurd Lie About Government and the Media (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone) Huh, must be getting close to the truth.
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump (Moira Donegan/The Guardian) No, it’s not. All this hand-waving is trying to avoid the obvious fact that Trump is kicking their asses.
America’s Unions Sue DOGE, Launch the ‘Department of People Who Work for a Living’ (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo) “… and vote Democrat.”
Scaremongering Scarborough: USAID Shutdown ‘Literally Killing People Across The Globe!’
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler (Timothy W. Ryback/The Atlantic) Well, I see we’re back to Hitler again….
Justice Department sues Illinois and Chicago over immigration enforcement (Washington Post)
Musk’s DOGE Youngins Are Terrorizing Senior Gov Staffers (Joey McFadden/The Daily Beast) Good–they could use getting treated the same way they treat taxpayers.
Trump Education Dept to probe SJSU, UPenn for potential Title IX violations after trans athlete scandals (Jackson Thompson/Fox News) Nothing scares the shit out of the Crust like equal enforcement of the law.
Musk’s Treasury Incursion Puts Entire Financial System at Risk (Bloomberg Law) Oh, no! The gravy train stopped! Whatever shall we do?
Ending the Taxpayer-Funded Blue Pipeline
WikiLeaks: USAID Has Been Funding Over 6,000 Journalists Worldwide Across Nearly 1000 Platforms
White House says it will cancel $8 million in Politico subscriptions after a false right-wing conspiracy theory spreads (Liam Reilly/CNN) They have to put ‘false’ in the headline so you’ll know what the Narrative is.
Trump Administration Sues Chicago Over Sanctuary Laws
Trump taps televangelist kook to run new White House ‘faith’ office (Daily Kos)
Judge in Seattle accuses Trump of trying to change the Constitution (David Gutman/The Seattle Times)
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor (Andrew Prokop/Vox)
Trump and Musk Are Strangling the Government (Sam Stein/The Bulwark)
Aspiring autocrats like Trump are always more dangerous the second time in office (The Guardian) Just like Democrats!