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cobainwasmurdered said:
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Egregious ICE Raid Grabs U.S. Military Vet in Roundup

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka had some choice words after an ICE roundup in his town.
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The ICE raids have begun. They arrested US Citizens. They've started going into schools as well. Is this something @Brooklyn Zoo has to worry about at his school?
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It's going to be really funny when there's a multi-million, maybe even billion, dollar class action suit against ICE over blatant 4th violations.
 
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cobainwasmurdered said:
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Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over Greenland

US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island
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Denmark just realized he's actually serious and are freaking out apparently.

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Trump recommends ending FEMA ahead of California fire site visit

President Donald Trump will visit California to see the damage caused by wildfires around Los Angeles. FEMA has been involved in response efforts there.
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More on him wanting to end FEMA.

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Egregious ICE Raid Grabs U.S. Military Vet in Roundup

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka had some choice words after an ICE roundup in his town.
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The ICE raids have begun. They arrested US Citizens. They've started going into schools as well. Is this something @Brooklyn Zoo has to worry about at his school?
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Don’t think we have to worry about it in our school. But if we did, our Principal wouldn’t let them in anyway.
 
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Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.


The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.
 
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Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.


The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.
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I read a lot of his executive orders were written horribly with typos, etc. and had flimsy/poor justifications if they even had any real justifications written in at all.

Not surprised he's already trying to flout Federal Law with his tactics.
 
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Trump: "I'm signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible ... you're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada."
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Good news SoCal!
 
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The president vowed on the campaign trail that he would ensure service members who were either dismissed or left the military after refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine will be reinstated. He delivered on that promise late Monday, signing an order that also allows them to retain “their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments or compensation.”
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BruiserBrody said:
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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L.
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This is a completely disastrous decision. We're talking about trillions of dollars many of them for incredibly important things. This is the stuff that fuels the US and Global economy.


They're trying to walk it back a bit because EVERYONE is panicking.
 
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Just a small taste of the chaos
 
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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L.
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"Trump administration officials said programs that provide direct assistance to Americans would not be affected, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, student loans and food stamps. They also defended the funding pause, saying Trump was following through on his promise to turn Washington upside down if elected to a second term.

However, the effects were being felt far from the nation’s capital. Organizations like Meals on Wheels, which receives federal money to deliver food to the elderly, were worried about getting cut off.

The National Science Foundation postponed this week’s panels for reviewing grant applications. Officials in Prichard, Alabama, feared they wouldn’t receive infrastructure funding to fix their leaking drinking water system. Republican leaders in Louisiana said they were “seeking clarity” to ensure nothing was “jeopardizing financial stability of the state.”
 
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2 weeks in and this admin is already so, so exhausting. First time around was no picnic, but at least that was mostly "lol, look at this dumbass" until Covid hit. Now it's actively harmful, destructive, cruel.
 
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Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com)

JUST IN: FBI agents are stunned by the scale of Trump’s expected purge of the bureau, which could include hundreds of agents and officials, @shaneharris.bsky.social reports. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-fbi-revenge-firings/681538/
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I've wanted the intelligence services cleaned out for a long time but the last person I'd trust to do it is Trump. I'm also far more concerned about the CIA/NSA/etc priority wise.
 
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• Emergency care for displaced Palestinians and Yemenis
• Heat and electricity for Ukrainian refugees
• HIV treatment and mpox surveillance in AfricaAll have had to stop."

It gets worse and worse as you go on. Just disastrous.
 
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Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com)

JUST IN: FBI agents are stunned by the scale of Trump’s expected purge of the bureau, which could include hundreds of agents and officials, @shaneharris.bsky.social reports. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-fbi-revenge-firings/681538/
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I've wanted the intelligence services cleaned out for a long time but the last person I'd trust to do it is Trump. I'm also far more concerned about the CIA/NSA/etc priority wise.
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SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.

Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to “maximize” water supplies.
While releasing water from reservoirs before a big storm, like the one expected to hit Northern California this weekend, is standard flood-control procedure to avoid overflowing dams, Hernandez said the Army Corps’ Thursday plan would have released far more water than needed. He said releasing the water at the capacity the Corps had planned to would have flooded both the Kaweah and Tule rivers, where the Corps’ reservoirs are located.

“Channel capacity is very dangerous,” Hernandez said. “People don’t understand that [with] channel capacity, you’re going to have flood damage down below.”
 
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"The union warned that the offer contains no guarantees that employees whose resignations are accepted “will receive the benefits that the Program purports to offer.” And it noted that the federal government is only funded through mid-March, so the Trump administration cannot make payment promises beyond then until Congress passes a spending bill.

Others didn’t like the ominous warning in the OPM email that if they opt to stay, “we cannot give you full assurance regarding the certainty of your position or agency.” They also bristled at the OPM FAQ that encourages workers to move from “lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector” to boost American prosperity."
 
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