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Not politicizing the Shoah is impossible because it was a fundamentally political act. If Emhoff is actually as concerned about this as he claims, then he should start by refusing to ignore the 5 million victims of the death camps who **weren’t** Jewish. The Nazis murdered **11 million people** in those camps, nearly all innocent civilians, mostly women and children, and not just Jews.

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MAGA can f-ck right off!

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“MAGA Republicans are tracking autism, menstrual cycles, criticism of Trump, criticism of Israel, Trans people, and anyone who even dares whisper DEI—but NOT vaccination rates, measles spread, COVID deaths, firearm proliferation, firearm deaths, bird flu cases, people killed by law enforcement, climate change, or food regulations.”

— Trump Is Enacting Structural Eugenics

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Jamison Foser at Finding Gravity:

In just a few months, Donald Trump has referred to himself as “the king,” claimed to be above the law, and repeatedly suggested he might serve an unconstitutional third term.1 He and his regime have threatened a global land grab, including the annexation of Greenland (“one way or another, we’re going to get it”) and Canada and taking control of Gaza and the Panama Canal. They have disappeared a student for writing an op-ed, and moved to deport academics for participating in political protests or merely causing a “ruckus” and issued an executive order to “remove improper ideology” from museums and zoos.2 The Trump regime has purged from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and Janet Jacobs’ “Memorializing the Holocaust” while retaining Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (two copies!) and Jean Raspai’s “The Camp of the Saints,” a favorite of white supremacists. It has attempted to re-write American history, purging from government websites information about Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, a Black Medal of Honor recipient, and the Arlington National Cemetery graves of Black service members. It has revoked with no reason the visa of a Nobel Laureate who has criticized Trump and waged war on the legal profession with a “campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes” that “threatens to use government power to punish any law firms that, in his view, unfairly challenge his administration” as “the White House pursues vengeance against the profession he blames for his legal troubles.” They have shaken down some of America’s biggest law firms for nearly a billion dollars in free services.

Trump’s henchmen are “launching a disease registry to monitor Americans with autism” and “amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases” including records from pharmacies, insurance companies, smartwatches and fitness trackers. Trump has described the cable news channel MSNBC as a threat to democracy that should not be allowed and blocked the Associated Press from events because it uses the phrase “Gulf of Mexico” to identify the Gulf of Mexico and his administration has hand-picked the journalists allowed to cover him and his FCC chairman has “ordered investigations into several media entities” including CBS News, Comcast (the parent company of NBC), PBS, and NPR, part of “a series of moves … to bring media companies under regulatory scrutiny.”

The Trump regime has deployed the IRS to track down immigrants it wants to deport, though IRS officials previously warned “that doing so could violate federal law,” shut down watchdog agencies responsible for oversight of his attacks on immigrants, sent immigrants to prisons in foreign nations to which they have no connection without due process, and tried to deny U.S.-born children the birthright citizenship guaranteed them by the United States constitution. The Trump regime has acknowledged wrongly sending a man who was in America legally to an El Salvadoran prison due to an “administrative error,” defied court orders to return him to America, and declared that if “somehow he comes back” it will again detain him and return him to El Salvadoran prison. Trump has repeatedly threatened to send American-born citizens to El Salvadorian prisons known for overcrowding, torture, and food deprivation, including a specific threat to send U.S. citizens who vandalize Teslas to El Salvadorian prisons. Trump’s administration has moved to investigate the Senate minority leader for criticizing a judge (during last year’s campaign, Trump repeatedly threatened to fine and imprison people for criticizing judges, an action Trump and his allies routinely engage in.) Just this morning Trump’s FBI arrested a Wisconsin judge for, allegedly, giving a defendant directions out of her courtroom — and then his FBI director offered a false justification for the widely-denounced move.

His regime has moved transgender prisoners into segregated prisons, “greatly restricting their movements and access to amenities given to other prisoners” and moved toward banning trans people from the military and taken steps to restrict health care for trans people and attempted to dictate to schools who is allowed to participate in sporting events. He threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, and imposed 25 percent taxes on cars, “a move that is likely to raise prices for American consumers and throw supply chains into disarray” and “could push up car prices significantly when inflation has already made cars and trucks more expensive for American consumers” and said he “couldn’t care less” if his tariffs cause increased car prices — and followed all that up by destabilizing the global economy with massive and arbitrary tariffs. He has threatened to impose taxes on medicine that could “spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.” In “the latest step to expand the federal government’s role in the American economy,” Trump has suggested creating a $1 trillion “sovereign wealth fund” — presumably using tax money — to, among other things, buy the social media platform TikTok. He has pressured private companies to change policies he dislikes and moved to seize control of California’s water supply. Trump’s regime has taken steps towards banning abortion medication.

His regime has usurped the legislative branch, unilaterally moving to shut down the Department of Education without congressional authorization, stormed the Institute of Peace, a congressionally charted nonprofit that isn’t part of executive branch, “issued an executive order … that seeks greater authority over regulatory agencies that Congress established as independent from direct White House control, part of a broader bid to centralize a president’s power over the government,” and unilaterally ordered the Treasury to stop producing pennies, though Congress, not the president, authorizes coin production. Taken together, it’s enough to fill a bill of grievances — and it’s the most aggressive and sweeping big-government start to a presidency in modern American history, but I bet you haven’t seen it described that way. To the contrary, news headlines and reports have routinely portrayed Trump and his allies as dismantling “Big Government.”

How can Donald Trump routinely be described as waging war on “Big Government” even as he uses his government to control what women do with their bodies, to dictate what people can say and read and even think; to compile ever more intrusive information about its citizens and maintain lists of undesirables; to kidnap and disappear to foreign torture prisons disfavored legal residents; to unilaterally remake the American economy; and to attempt to crush the news media, academia, and the legal profession?

The Trump Regime is nothing but a big government exercise in power grabs, while simultaneously claiming to be against “big government.”

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So many problems with this map, starting with that they’re likely only accounting for English language literacy.

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I bet it’s way more poetic and profound in the original Arabic.

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Minnesota residents, vote for Denise Slipy this Tuesday April 29th

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“But we live in the computer age. We aren’t cavemen, confined to whispering price information to one another with our flapping meat-mouths. We have computers! Better still, we have data brokers, who allow for collusive price-raising, gather price data from all the dominant players in a sector, then “advising” each company on how to set its prices. Somehow, the optimal, coordinate pricing strategy is always to make prices higher.”

— Trump’s FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering

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The long term effects of this manufactured catastrophe will be several times greater than COVID. This will never return to “normal”.

Between now and then will be the greatest civic upheaval of our lives.

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He doesn’t care about ratings nearly so much as he cares about power. He is doing this because he can, unilaterally. No one, from any party, is meaningfully doing anything to try to stop him.

When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.

That’s what happened after two firefighters died in California in 2020 while searching for an elderly woman in a burning library. It happened in 2023 when a Navy firefighter died in Maryland after a floor collapsed in a burning home. And it happened last year in Georgia when a career battalion chief died after a semitrailer truck exploded.

But President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to fire nearly all of the Department of Health and Human Services employees responsible for conducting those reviews.

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This is years old, but the situation has since worsened.

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