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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This seems like something to which more attention should be paid www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
newsweek.com
'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court
The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What the f&$k is wrong with these people? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Turning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Into Something Very Different
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Good summary on the state of Trump's attack on the rule of law www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...
csmonitor.com
They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.
As Donald Trump fights the courts over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, targets law firms, and tests the rule of law, democracy experts warn they’ve seen this before.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Screw the kids, we're gonna get it while we can? Where do Trump and his maga crazies think their kids and grandkids are gonna live? Get enough, buy a bunker. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
nytimes.com
How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy
President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Amalgamation and consolidation Fucking cocksuckers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS
Program is apparently being closed according to email from former Tesla engineer installed in GSA
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
there is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’
The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. “So this is a big problem.” We're concerned about your concern, Senator www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Republican Senator Calls Trump's Mass Firings a 'Big Problem'
Sen. Susan Collins said she is "concerned" how the firings, carried out by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, will affect her state.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
It’s time for Americans to withhold their taxes | Judith Levine
The point is not to deprive the government of funds. It’s to expose the regime’s criminality
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of meritocracy. Not the indiscriminate firing of people,” said one Republican congressional aide granted anonymity to speak candidly. Nope www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings
White House aides are inundated with congressional calls as Republicans fret.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values or traditions,” Mr. Bannon Chagrined to say it, but I agree www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
nytimes.com
Bannon Calls Musk a ‘Parasitic Illegal Immigrant’
Stephen Bannon, a top adviser during President Trump’s first term and a popular figure among his supporters, said Elon Musk wants to “play-act as God” as part of his push to overhaul the federal gover...
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Brazil is absolutely embarrassing the US www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
nytimes.com
Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Plotting a Coup After 2022 Election Loss
Brazil’s attorney general accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a scheme to try to hold on to power. The Supreme Court will decide whether he is arrested.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“In hopes of finding themselves,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Tuesday, “they’ve latched on to this new, shiny object called the rule of law.” It's called the Constitution you asshole www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
Why Isn’t Congress Doing Anything?
Republicans are just fine with Elon Musk gutting the government.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” Trump said. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees, and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.” 46% of land in CA is federal apnews.com/article/wild...
apnews.com
Trump wants states to clean up forests to stop wildfires. But his administration cut off funds
President Donald Trump’s administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legislation championed by his Democratic predecessor.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
DOGE is destroying many of our institutions. Maybe they'll could leave the weather reporting alone? Fucking stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
nytimes.com
NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears
Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Dandy The feds own most of the land in California, much of which is ripe for wildfire. Message: we're on our own www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to...
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
More of this Kim said. “But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis, seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal. And until we see a change in that behavior,..., nor should we assist in that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Some Democrats vow to use leverage in government funding fight
At least one Democrat is saying explicitly that the party should fight back against Trump and Musk by refusing to help Republicans reach a government funding deal.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
CBS kisses Trump's ass while he's suing them for $20b www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
cbsnews.com
CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised
Trump's deportation plans are popular, but Americans say there's not enough focus on lowering prices.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Roseville, cited what he called “titanic policy blunders and staggering failures of political leadership that have caused such harm to California.” Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/politic... www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
sacbee.com
Republicans rip California’s wildfire ‘overregulation’ while Gavin Newsom seeks help for victims
“We’re California. Everybody likes to bash us,” one Democratic congressman said.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Best summary I've yet seen on the factions that make up maga open.substack.com/pub/thomaszi...
open.substack.com
MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If you're afraid and that fear keeps you from voting your conscience, resign and let someone who will have your seat. Do your job! www.rawstory.com/morning-joe-...
rawstory.com
'Afraid': Morning Joe reveals threats he claims are forcing GOP senators to cave to Trump
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shared an alarming reason he said Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and other Republican senators are dropping their objections to some of Donald Trump's "unqualified" nominees for Cab...
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Our democracy is being stolen here folks. Dems have a loaded gun in their hands. DON'T HAND IT OVER to the criminals, USE it! nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com
Democrats May Shut Down Government to Keep Trump From Gutting It
Republicans need Democratic votes to keep the government open. This is leverage Democrats could use to rein in Trump and Musk’s power grab.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A Democratic staffer put it more starkly in the same story: “We could get to a tipping point where bipartisan cooperation becomes an overwhelming negative for us.” Could? nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com
Democrats May Shut Down Government to Keep Trump From Gutting It
Republicans need Democratic votes to keep the government open. This is leverage Democrats could use to rein in Trump and Musk’s power grab.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I think we've reached our quota www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-ba...
thedailybeast.com
Elon Musk Backs Race-Based Immigration in Overnight Post
Musk appeared to endorse a post on X that called for more white South Africans to be allowed into the West.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elon's little green men
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So maybe don't vote for a racist? thehill.com/homenews/cam...
thehill.com
GOP pollster says Trump voters ‘tired’ of being accused of racism
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said on Friday that President Trump’s voters are “tired” of being accused of being sexist and racist. In a discussion about Trump’s remarks linking diversity, equity…
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
So, how do we bridge the information gap? "If we find others’ views troubling, we shouldn’t rush to blame the individual, Hirji said. “I think the problem is kind of more systemic – www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Forget the pundits – here’s how philosophers see America’s moral divide over Trump
How can neighbors have such a fundamental disagreement about seemingly basic concepts of rightness and justice?
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
How in the hell has a private citizen (formerly an illegal immigrant) gained control over the nation's check book? This is insane. I haven't heard a peep from the Dems on this yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
nytimes.com
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tribe said. “It’s only the very beginning of this administration. If people normalize this lawbreaking instead of pushing back, it will be very hard ever to restore the system of government that most of us grew up assuming it would be in place.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts say
Scholars warn of president’s lawlessness in actions such as federal funding freeze and birthright citizenship order
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A great big sucking sound www.theatlantic.com
theatlantic.com
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Um, NO SHIT! But not going to happen with a vengeance driven orangutan as POTUS. This is drivel. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
Trump Is Threatening California in the Wrong Way
Stop rebuilding the conditions that left people vulnerable in the first place.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
More hydraulic idiocy www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
politico.com
Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Who elected this asshole? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
reuters.com
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The modern day version of book burning www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
theatlantic.com
CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
More corporate fealty "many executives at CBS’s parent company, Paramount, believe that settling the lawsuit would increase the odds that the Trump administration does not block or delay their planned multibillion-dollar merger with another company" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
nytimes.com
Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I mean, who knows where these people came from? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids
Group takes steps to protect members after ‘traumatizing’ reports of people being stopped or detained by agents
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"It’s a bad time in American politics, to be sure. But we need to remember that natural laws still apply, and things could get better if even just one piece of fantasy biology were to hold true: a large class of political invertebrates were to grow spines." Ok www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
Trump Can’t Escape the Laws of Political Gravity
Sooner or later, nature will catch up to the president.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@mcuban.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social I have a proposition. Creation of an AI dedicated to calculating the historic and ongoing cost of Trump's ego to the world and keeping it updated in real time. Costs to include but not limited to (additional suggestions encouraged);
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"More confrontational language in the order directed federal officials to stake out their authority without necessarily working alongside the state officials who manage the state’s reservoirs and plan for droughts and fires." The ignorant fucking with the complex www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The president, who has assailed California’s leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Self made man "Musk’s father... once boasted that his stake in Zambian emerald mines made him “so much money we couldn’t even close our safe”. Musk’s mother, Maye, has said the family owned two homes, a plane, a yacht and a handful of luxury cars." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“Insurance is supposed to be there to cover you from financial calamity, when unfortunate things happen, and the current system that we have based on private health insurance has really failed everyone.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors
Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Push back! “Some of these efforts will be turned back by the courts, but the level of anticipatory obedience we’re seeing from business, universities and the media is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Tests the Boundaries of the Presidency
Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
27 and she's already next deep in grifty waters. Fits right into the trump admin. www.salon.com/2025/01/24/w...
salon.com
Trump WH Press Secretary took hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions
Karoline Leavitt hid hundreds of thousands in campaign debt from illegal donations, according to a new report
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Why are any Dems voting for this self described dog/goat killer? thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Speaking as a white male, this is shameful and depressing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
‘Safe to be a white male again’: how conservative media covered Trump’s first week
The right is ecstatic about the end of the Biden era – but remains polarized about some of Trump’s decisions
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Concerns “I don’t understand why one would fire individuals whose mission it is to root out waste, fraud and abuse. This leaves a gap in what I know is a priority for President Trump. So I don’t understand it,” Collins said thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“It’s clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” said the Trump ally. “The problem is the president doesn’t have any leverage over him and Elon gives zero fucks.” 🍿 www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
politico.com
Trump staff ‘furious’ after Musk trashes AI project
“It’s clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” said one ally of the president.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ummm, no. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-wan...
thedailybeast.com
MAGA Rep Wants Constitutional Rewrite to Give Trump 3rd Term
The proposed change to the 22nd Amendment would allow a president to serve three terms.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“This time, it feels like the gloves are off, and they have no intention of comporting themselves with the decorum and ethical standards of other administrations,” Gilbert said. “They truly mean to make as much as they can on the backs of the American taxpayer.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/p...
cnn.com
‘The gloves are off’: Trump appears poised to cash in from his presidency in new ways | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump released meme coins just days before he took the oath of office. A splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a Saudi-...
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Mr Free speech www.thedailybeast.com/now-donald-t...
thedailybeast.com
Trump Calls for MSNBC to Be Shut Down in Nighttime Rant
The president has already sued CBS for $10 billion over its “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I listened to the Times' recent interviews of Andreeson and Yarvin, in that order. Andreeson basically parrots Yarvin's arguments and language. He's fully bought in. These guys bought the presidency and are going to be around a lot longer than Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist
It’s not hard to understand how Curtis Yarvin won the admiration of powerful patrons.
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