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Just a few of today's headlines [1]
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Date: 2025-02-07
Doing my normal morning scroll through my Google news feed, as painful as that has become, I read just these headlines, not the entire articles. The headlines are concerning enough. I’m not linking them all, it might take all day, but I’m sure if anyone is interested in reading the articles a simple copy and paste into your favorite search engine will find them. Since my job has an emergency call out component, I probably won’t be participating much here, but just want to point out what many here obviously are aware of, and to reiterate the reasons for my ongoing pessimism.
Here goes:
Government workers sue trump and rubio over ‘catastrophic’ USAid cuts-The Guardian
[I guess some good news actually, and I always wonder why news media use quotes for actual things. Oh, and I refuse to capitalize the names I have zero respect for]
musk’s USAID shutdown is an attack on the world’s most vulnerable-Bloomberg
Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigation of Israel-AP
Why the courts may be the last constraint on trump but may not contain his power grabs-CNN
Halt in US aid cripples global efforts to relieve hunger-Reuters
[Because of course it does. Like taking candy from a baby’s mouth, so they can steal that money too.]
And from the White House: Eradicating anti-Christian Bias
[Are you freaking kidding me?!]
Senate confirms russell vought to lead White House budget office-WaPo
[Because of course they did.]
trump, musk move to oust some EPA staff in the Great Lakes region-Chicago Trib
[Because who needs clean air and water?]
Justice department appeals as second judge in 2 days blocks trump’s birthright citizenship order-AP
[Because, again, of course they did.]
Panama president to US: Stop ‘lies and falsehoods’ about canal-Reuters
Alabama puts man to death in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas-NPR
[Because of course they did.]
trump administration sues Illinois and Chicago over immigration policies-NBC News
[Because that’s what our tax dollars should be spent on.]
Israel backs trump plan and orders military to prepare for Palestinians to leave Gaza-CNN
[Because, why not? Who’s left to stop them now? Harris?]
trump promotes misleading claims about federal government’s media subscriptions-AP
[drumpf promotes misleading claims? Say it ain’t so.]
Anti-DOGE congressional Democrats denied entry to EPA headquarters-Axios
[Where do they think they are, Jonestown?]
US border czar blames leaks for hindering immigration raids in Colorado suburb spotlighted by trump-AP
trump administration disbands taskforce [sic] targeting Russian oligarchs-The Guardian
[Now why would they do that, hmmm?]
Negotiations continue over release of list of FBI agents who investigate Jan. 6-ABC News
[Yeah, the FBI isn’t supposed to investigate, you know, violent crimes. I get it.]
Committee vote on kash patel’s nomination to be FBI director delayed after Democrats object-ABC News
[Let’s see just how long this “delay” will be before they confirm him, too.]
New attorney general moves to align Justice Department with trump’s priorities-NPR
[And those priorities are?]
US Federal Election Commission chair says trump tried to fire her illegally-Reuters
[Because of course he did.]
Mexican border cities are in limbo as tariff threats spark fears of a recession-AP
[Hmmm, wonder if that potential recession will limit itself to only Mexico, ‘cuz who cares about a bunch of Mexicans? /s]
First flight of illegal aliens arrives at Guantanamo-Department of Defense
[What we get when we have a bunch of racist assholes running the Department of Defense.]
trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC-PBS News
[Wow, I though it was DEI initiatives that caused that crash. Why the sudden change drumpf?]
UPDATED: US marine, 3 DoD contractors killed in Philippines surveillance plane crash-USNI News
[Wonder what they were doing there?]
US states tell judge trump not fully following order blocking funding freeze-Reuters
[Anyone surprised?]
DOGE follows longtime musk pattern-and turns attention to Social Security Administration-Semafor
[Well, there goes my Social Security I’m supposed to get in a few years. Wonderful.]
trump calls for ‘termination’ of 60 Minutes in fresh attack on US media-The Guardian
[nazi playbook, to the letter. Wonder if CBS will cave?]
After trump’s funding threat, South African president phones influential billionaire musk-PBS News
[Not just screwing all of us, but the entire planet.]
NCAA changes transgender policy in response to executive order-ABC News
[Of course they did. Bottom line is all that matters.]
US dodged a bird flu pandemic in 1957 thanks to eggs and dumb luck-with a new strain spreading fast, will Americans get lucky again?-theconversation.com
[I predict not. At least then we had working institutions to add to that “dumb luck”.]
Feds halt the national electric vehicle charging program-Wired
[Because of course they did. Sort of like how raygun removed Jimmy Carter’s solar panels on the White House roof.]
And, for now:
Tech giants double down on their massive AI spending-The Wall Street Journal
[‘Cuz that’s what they should be spending money on, the faster implementation of Sky Net, not alleviating suffering in the world.]
There are many more concerning headlines, but I believe the point has been made.
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