Robespierre was killed by the Revolution.

The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration. […] A department spokesperson told Politico […] that employees who perform critical safety work are exempt. “Our teams are layered with redundancies to ensure efficiency initiatives will not compromise safety,”

Really? Cause that’s really not the image they’ve been projecting.

"It feels like it’s intended to tell us we’re being dramatic or that we’re not professional enough to go through turmoil and remain detached and completely calm. It feels out of touch,” an anonymous employee said

Ri-ight. Because when I think of hysterical federal employees, the first group that comes to my mind is the FAA…

You forgot increases in travel expenses so that he can line his heavily inflated golf club coffers with lovely taxpayer lucre.

I wouldn’t mind then backing the incumbents, if the incumbents had any fucking spine to stand up to the Republicans.

“Neutrality” is just (very thin) cover for supporting the status quo, when what we need is a complete change.

She testified that death threats against her increased after an editorial with an error said her PAC had contributed to political rhetoric that enabled an atmosphere of violence.The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict. A judge and a different jury had reached the same conclusion about Palin’s defamation claims in 2022

Sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case, if it only took a couple hours to decide.

Her lawsuit stemmed from an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise […] was wounded in 2017 when a man […] opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice. […] In the editorial, the Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona […] Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.

Yeah, I remember those ads. They claimed they weren’t rifle sighting cross hairs but some other thing instead. That denial had about as much plausibility as all the other Republican denials.

The Times corrected the article less than 14 hours after it was published, saying it had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting” and that it had “incorrectly described” the map.

A) that sounds like a pretty quick retraction, and B) that sounds like they stated there was a proven link when there wasn’t. However the Republicans and their enablers have been pumping up stochastic terrorism for decades, so while there may not have been a proven link between their rhetoric and that specific incident, it falls very directly under the definition of stochastic terrorism.

Palin testified Monday that death threats against her increased and her spirits fell after the editorial was published.

Good.

That’s what it looks like when someone with certain types of plastic surgery ages.

The administration was not only keeping the AP out of the press pool — the daily rotating group of reporters who get access to Trump in tight spaces that cannot accommodate the entire press corps — but removing the permanent “wire service” spot as well. That means there will no longer be a spot guaranteed for one of the wire services: the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.

The first agencies he targeted were all the ones investigating his companies or limiting his companies: DoD was trying to limit exposure through SpaceX due to Musk’s multiple conversations with Putin; the NLRB was investigating both SpaceX and Tesla; the EEOC was suing Tesla; DoT was investigating Tesla over both Smart Summoning and “Full-Self Driving” accidents; the FAA called for both ‘radical reform’ and Musk’s firing at SpaceX after repeated launch violations; the FEC was investigating him for repeated elections violations; DoJ had an open lawsuit over SpaceX hiring practices (now dismissed, and anti-Tesla actions are now “domestic terrorism”); the SEC had an open complaint of his Xitter takeover; the FDA was limiting his ability to pay around with NeuraLink; the EPA has repeatedly fined bitch SpaceX and Tesla; he’s been pressuring NASA to retire the ISS and to use SpaceX for Mars exploration instead of their own craft; and the CFPB had limited his plans for a Xitter-based electronic payment system.

While they haven’t always received a lot of press coverage, he’s sent his goons after every single one of those agencies.

I think gutting the government and sowing chaos is part of his goal (he’s fully bought into Zuckerberg’s “move fast and break things” mindset), but he went after specific agencies pretty quickly.

Recession is decreasing domestic tourism and fascism is killing international tourism. I doubt we’ll need the hotel workers for long.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” […] Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”

Oh, at least one

“It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter,

Riiiiight. That’s what they said about the deportations, that it would only be the worst, most violent criminals taken into custody and returned home. Instead they’re snatching people off the streets and out of their homes, throwing them into vans, moving them around the country so their families, friends and lawyers can’t find them, and sending into a death camp that’s not under control of US law, without due process and no possibility of return.

This article has good coverage of some of the impacts of cutting SNAP, several of which aren’t immediately obvious. Thank you for sharing it!

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the government can expel legal residents from the country based on “past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful.”

That was the entire point of Guantanamo, to keep people outside the legal system.

They’re right, no one is safe. We’ve already seen the creep: first it was violent illegal immigrants, then it was any illegal immigrants, then it was immigrants waiting for due process on their case, then it was green card holders - not necessarily a lot of them, but enough to establish precedents and see how far they can get.

Now they’re saying “violent US citizen-criminals” - but they run the state that determines whether you’re a criminal and how violent your crimes was. Remember all those videos of non-resisting people being screened at by the cops "Stop resisting!; remember bills in Florida and other states to label trans people sex offenders - that’s what we’re up against. Any resistance or non-conformity can and likely will be punished.

"First they came for … "

The Justice Department told the Supreme Court that ordering officials to return the man is “unprecedented”

Funny that they’re fine with the unprecedented deportation of innocent people to life imprisonment in savage foreign prisons without due process …

"There’s a lot of support in these communities for getting tough on trade, for cutting government spending, but if tariffs spin out of control, and there’s no results on trade deals, then rural communities are really going to be hit by that.”

There aren’t going to be any “results” from “trade deals” that will help rural communities. They’re just going to have to suck up what they voted for.

While many of the president’s allies are sympathetic to his argument that the tariffs will encourage companies to invest in domestic manufacturing and production

Uhh, with what money will they invest? They’ve given most of their money back to investors. Also, you only invest big money in countries where you have faith in their futures. Trump has irrevocably damaged the US’ image and relationships. No one is going to trust us any more, and they’re right in doing that.

Trump’s Jan 6 crimes would be better adjucated in criminal court

As soon as he said that, I knew they’d never hold him accountable. Because I knew they’d immediately move to “Congress didn’t convict him so there’s nothing to see here”, “if we have to go to court, let’s bring in every stalling tactic possible” followed by “why are you investigating such an old event”. I hate the Republicans.

I’ll celebrate (1) once it’s come to pass, (b) the Democrats have actually started standing up to … well, anybody, © the resistance has started to have irrevocable wins, and (d) all the people and institutions that have actively enabled this situation are gone.

Is it going to change their vote? Is it going to get them on their phones to demand action from their senators and representatives? Is it going to drive them into the streets to demand change? Then why the fuck should I care what they think?