Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
7th February 2025
Trump administration demands lists of low-performing federal workers (CNBC)
Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order (New York Timos)
CBS Tugs at Heartstrings, Uses Starving Kids in Sudan to Demand We Keep USAID
Trump administration sues Chicago, state of Illinois over sanctuary laws — and vows more lawsuits to come (New York Post)
N.C.A.A., Following Trump’s Order, Excludes Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports (New York Times) And that’s all it took.
Scoop: Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts (Axios)
J.K. Rowling Praises Trump EO Protecting Women’s Sports, Slams Leftist Gender Ideology
Trump’s second term so far: I guess this is what “draining the swamp” looks like (The New Neo)
Panama Rejects WH Claim on Dropped Fees for Government Vessels
Judge Orders Overnight Pause on Potential Naming of Jan. 6 FBI Agents
Border Czar Tom Homan Says Venezuelan Gang Members Were Tipped Off Ahead of Aurora Deportation Raids
Not Kidding: Michigan State Rep Says She Sterilized Herself To Protest Trump And we encourage her to do so.
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew (ProPublica)
Democrats’ Superlawyer Elias Leads Litigation Fighting Trump’s Buyout of Feds
ACLU demands access to Guantanamo immigrant detention center (Lauren Villagran/USA Today) Good luck with that.
‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán (The Gardian) We certainly hope so. (Apparently ‘U.S. democracy’ means ‘rule by proglodytes’.)
Hyper-Hypocrite Scarborough, King Of Nazi Analogies, Rips Trump For Criticizing Dems
14 States To File Lawsuit Against DOGE Access To Government Payment Systems
Democrats demand investigation into Musk’s alleged ‘conflicts’ over billions in fed contracts (John Parkinson/ABC News) Alleged! That proves it!
Mike Johnson says Democrats ‘unresponsive’ ahead of shutdown deadline (Politico) Dead, for a ducat, dead!
Trump administration agrees not to publicly identify FBI agents on Jan. 6 cases without advance warning (Politico) A Democrat administration wouldn’t hesitate.
Report: UK Demands Access to Apple Users’ Accounts Uh, no.
Judges curb Trump’s sweeping executive actions (The Hill) Or try to.
Trump Wants Him Fired! The Worst of Eugene Robinson
Staffer with Elon Musk’s DOGE amplified white supremacists online (Reuters) The swine!@
Young Aides Emerge as Enforcers in Musk’s Broadside Against Government (New York Times) Not all young people are proglodytes.
Bessent Misled Congress About DOGE Access, Senate Democrat Says (Ted Mann/Bloomberg)
Dem States Sue Trump Nixing Gender Transition Care Funds
US Judge to Weigh Blocking Trump From Dismantling USAID
Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right in Front of Us? (Katherine Stewart/New York Times)
The death of American soft power (Axios)
‘Just causing havoc’: Transportation Department suspends EV charger program (Washington Post)
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ (Wired) The Deep State strikes back.
Trump DEI crackdown targets books in Pentagon schools (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)
Lawfare Live: Discussing Litigation over President Trump’s Executive Actions (Default)
Trump makes an outrageous choice for his White House Faith Office (Steve Benen/MSNBC) Somebody who is actually religious, I’ll bet.
A House Democrat warns against making ‘everything Defcon 5’ (Washington Post)
USAID and George Soros’ Foundation Bankrolled a News Outlet That Spurred the First Trump Impeachment