Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
8th February 2025
Musk’s team lands at consumer bureau (Politico)
Vance on DOGE Staffer Who Quit Over Racist Tweets: ‘Bring Him Back’
NBC Contradicts Itself After Bashing Trump for Saying Air Traffic Control Comments
REVEALED: George Soros Poured $36.8 Million into Apparatus Controlling His Prosecutors
Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein (Louise Matsakis/Wired) Random mud … hope some will stick….
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week (ProPublica) Good.
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series (Mother Jones)
LINKED: “Linked” in news stories means “there is a strong correlation but we can’t really say that there’s a causal link without being called out for it, but we’re going to write as if there actually was a causal link because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to stir people up and get more clicks”.
Judge to pause Trump administration effort to gut USAID’s workforce by thousands (NBC News) An Obama-appointed judge, of course.
California Town Explores Installing Cameras To Monitor Migrant Boat Arrivals
Former GOP Director Of FBI, CIA Urges Chuck Grassley To Stop Kash Patel’s Nomination (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost) The Deep State strikes back.
San Francisco sues Trump, alleging ‘authoritarian’ threats against sanctuary cities (Politico)
Judge pauses Trump plan to put USAID staff on leave (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic) Cory Doctorow is a social-justice-warrior masquerading as an author and ‘tech guru’.
Exclusive: Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk’s SpaceX, sources say (Reuters) Sources say! That proves it!
Trump Signs Order Sanctioning The Hague’s ICC Over Treatment Of Israel
The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks (ProPublica) Republican Supreme Court Clerks, of course.
Twitter Files Extra: Who Were the Players that Painted Trump Nominees As Russian Assets?
MUSK-ETEERS: Legacy Media Melt Down Over Trump Admin Employing Talented Youths
DOJ Issues Directive Ending Biden-Era Task Force Aimed At Seizing Assets Of Russian Oligarchs
OLIGARCH: “Oligarch” in news stories means “a rich person who isn’t on our side.”
AG Bondi to Criminally Prosecute Private Entities for DEIA (Qasim Rashid/Let’s Address …)
Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk? (Gabriel Sherman/Vanity Fair) They actually pay people to write this crap.
House Democrats denied entry into Education Department (Mackenzie Wilkes/Politico)
Why Trump’s plan to “clean out” Gaza actually matters (Joshua Keating/Vox)
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show (Washington Post) Ties! That proves it!
A Constitutional crisis in Washington mixes with a civic information emergency (Alexander B. Howard/CIVIC TEXTS) In other words nobody is buying the Narrative any more.
DOGE-ing Questions in Federal Court (Anna Bower/Default)
DOJ orders child safety authority to comply with Trump’s ‘gender ideology’ order (NBC News)
19 states sue Trump, Treasury to halt DOGE access (Politico)
States accuse Trump administration of continuing to block federal climate funding (Politico) Which is what he was elected to do.
Trump’s New Line of Attack Against the Media Gains Momentum (David Enrich/New York Times)
Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D. (New York Times)
Education Department Cancels $15 Million in Grants for DEI Programs at Three Universities
Treasury elevates Musk ally to lead government payment system (Michael Stratford/Politico)
STAT+: NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science (STAT) Oh noes! The gravy train has stopped!
Trump Is Unraveling the World Order With Unprecedented Speed (Wall Street Journal)
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Christina Jewett/New York Times) Oh noes! The gravy train is stopped!
Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts (Katie Robertson/New York Times) Why not? They’re attacking Trump and Musk by name. They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
Chemical Companies Ask Trump’s EPA To Hide Potential Disasters (Katya Schwenk/The Lever)
Lawmakers flooded with calls about Elon Musk: ‘It is a deluge on DOGE’ (Washington Post)
14 States To File Lawsuit Against DOGE Access To Government Payment Systems
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
American Personnel Abroad Face Chaos and Confusion as USAID Shuts Down (Wall Street Journal)
Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk? (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times) Something that would matter only to a ‘journalist’.
With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times) Since when are these ‘millions’ the responsibility of the American taxpayer?
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: “Constitutional crisis” in news stories means “a Republican is doing something other than the way a Democrat would do it.”
Democrats Take Aim at Elon Musk (Lisa Lerer/New York Times) This is news?
Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa (Declan Walsh/New York Times) Since when is Africa the responsibility of the American taxpayer?
The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal (Abdallah Fayyad/Vox) Your tempests in teapots don’t work any more.
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk? (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.
A sample of the government webpages Trump doesn’t want you to see (Washington Post)
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs (Politico)
San Francisco Sues Over Trump Plan to Defund Sanctuary Cities (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
“The greatest threat we’ve ever faced”: US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger (Alex Galbraith/Salon) The Deep State strikes back.
‘It’s a Circus’: Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency (Bloomberg)
Indirect Costs and Trump’s Attack on Independent Voices (Samuel Bagenstos/Inside/Outside)