‘DOGE’ is building a master database to surveil and track immigrants
Musk is no dummy, so I’m sure the database also includes activists, protesters, maybe a few bloggers…
‘DOGE’ tried to embed staffers in criminal justice non-profit, says group
Far-right group that helped overturn ‘Roe’ is officially going after birth control
Whistleblower blames Musk’ϟ ‘DOGE’ goons for ‘significant cybersecurity breach’
Trump to reclassify wide swaths of federal workers to allow for more firings
AND NOW THE NEWS #511
APRIL 20, 2025
GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM
‘DOGE’ is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs
Private contractors, fired cops are making ‘gang member’ determinations for ICE
Denied, detained, deported: the most high-profile cases in Trump’s immigration crackdown
Asylum-seeker sent to Salvadoran mega-prison over autism awareness tattoo, family says
Tufts student jailed for writing op-ed is denied bail by US immigration judge
TO HELL WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY
Weather Service prepares for ‘degraded operations’ amid Trump cuts
Trump White House replaces COVID website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory
FDA to suspend quality-control program for food testing due to staff cuts
SCREW SCIENCE
Federal prosecutor sends letters to at least three medical journals accusing them of political bias
Trump’ϟ DOJ claims academic journals hold “partisan” stance in scientific debates
THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT
‘DOGE’ pulls AmeriCorps volunteers off of disaster relief jobs
For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality
Nebraska Republicans want to make abortion clinics hold burials
AND I SAY TO MYSELF, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Hong Kong suspends postal service to the US after Trump’s tariff hikes
Trade war fallout: Cancellations of Chinese freight ships begin as bookings plummet
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA
Trump regime kills State Department anti-propaganda shop, promises ‘Twitter Files’ sequel
Musk cuts funding for Internet Archive
Trump administration says it will take over renovation of Penn Station
Let me translate that: There will be no renovations of Penn Station.
GOOD NEWS
Unions form pro bono legal network for federal workers targeted by Trump
‘I’m in ruins,’ teary Mike Lindell tells judge in Smartmatic sanctions hearing
BACK TO THE BAD NEWS
Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say
Trump regime halts wind farm under construction off New York coast
HORRID, HORRID PEOPLE
It certainly looks like Elon Musk’ϟ ‘legion’ of kids is bigger than anyone imagined
MEDIA MALPRACTICE
Trump calls Harvard ‘a joke’ while threatening funds
The article begins: President Trump called Harvard University “a joke” amid their feud and his threats to revoke funding from the school…
And that’s only more sanewashing. It’s not a “feud” when a bully picks on someone. Harvard is being threatened with evisceration by Trump, but the school has done nothing to the President.
There’s virtually nothing the Trump regime does that’s not being described falsely like this, in the media.
EYE ON AI
This ‘college protester’ is actually an AI-powered undercover bot for cops
Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI
LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
Background checks keep saying I can’t do jobs I was already hired for
New York City’s congestion pricing is working well
Once upon a time, Seattle was not dominated by the concrete monstrosity known as Interstate 5
What’s happening is not normal. America needs an uprising that is not normal.
Excerpt: … It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power…
Me again: It’s not a great article, not something I’d usually link to, but it’s by David Brooks, whom I’ve long held as one of the dumbest of all the overpaid right-wing pundits. If a complete mental turd like David Brooks is beginning to see the light, perhaps all is not lost?
4/16 — AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL
4/14 — IGNORING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
4/18 — THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives
4/20/2025
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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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