Republican Congressman introduces bill to ban abortion nationwide
If Republicans decide to ban abortion nationwide, there’s nothing to stop them. It makes me want to barf, but women are not people to them. They control both houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court, and they’ll all do whatever Trump commands.
- Trump gives anti-abortion extremists a “get-out-of-jail-free card” inviting violence with impunity
- New York doctor indicted for prescribing Louisiana teen abortion pill
AND NOW THE NEWS
#481
February 2, 2025
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
This is better than bad news, but any ruling that slows the fascism will be appealed to the Supreme Court, where Trump’s cronies will say NO to a few of the lesser outrages to maintain credibility, but YES to all the major outrages.
First concentration camp will be at Guantanamo, says Trump
Trump wants concentration camps, but this is Donald talking bullshit, as is his habit. The illegal hellhole at Guantanamo held 628 prisoners at its max, and he’s going to stash 30,000 people there? Unlikely, and if it happens, it’ll have to happen slowly.
- Second announced concentration camp will be at ‘Space Force’ base in Colorado
Same for this one. Everybody ought to worry, but for now these particular announcements are (probably) just blather, and I’m more worried about his flood of real and immediate stupidities and cruelties.
CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website
- After Trump order, hospitals suspend some trans health care for youth
- Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
- Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order
Trump’s EPA has deleted all web references to climate change
- USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
- National Science Foundation starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
- Trump administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies
Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond
Elon Musk’s team now has access to Treasury’s payments system
- Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at Office of Personnel Management, sources say
- Elon’s Twitter destruction playbook hits the US government, and it’s even more dangerous
Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them
Trump administration fires Consumer Bureau chief
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon gave direct help to Israel’s genocide effort
Declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism is suddenly viral
Many more cities ban sleeping outside despite a lack of shelter space
• And just a few miles south of me, Seattle suburb makes homelessness a crime
Justice Department fires lawyers who prosecuted Trump
USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Same as the Los Angeles fires, Trump’s first response to the DC air crash is to blame diversity
Trump’s new head of DOT rips up US fuel efficiency regulations
OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS
Everything that’s ever been decent about America is under the wrecking ball, and the only opposition we’re allowed, the Democratic Party, has simply nothing to say about it. Crickets.
MEDIA MALFEASANCE
Facebook agrees to pay Trump $25m for suspending accounts over Capitol riots
CBS agrees to hand over 60 Minutes Harris interview transcripts to FCC
Groups helping Americans find abortion pills report Instagram ‘shadow-banning’
Paul Krugman explains why he left the New York Times
Excerpt: …it became clear to me that the management I was dealing with didn’t understand the difference between having an opinion and having an informed, factually sourced opinion.
CNN’s Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he’s quitting rather than take a late-night time slot
GOOD NEWS
Tomb of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is beautifully vandalized
EYE ON AI
“I never thought AI would steal MY intellectual properly,” says AI giant ChatGPT
Google quietly installed AI to my workspace. Getting rid of it was creepy.
AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
Scientists propose making AI suffer to see if it’s sentient
AND ALSO
UFO is “moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater,” Republican congressman says
RNC Chairwoman Lara Trump says hirings should be entirely merit-based
Republican women’s group publishes kids’ book list calling Hitler an “intelligent” leader
Pardoned 1/6/21 rioter is shot dead while resisting arrest during traffic stop
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
In a world of infinite content, being consistently cruel cuts through the noise
Cecil Williams gets a drink of water [3min VIDEO]
A ride on Elon’s “Vegas Loop” did not change this transit expert’s mind
Trump unleashed chaos by freezing and unfreezing $3tn in federal grants and loans. Why?
FROM MY LEMMY PAGE
And that’s the way it is,
and most of it sucks.
2/2/2025
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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