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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (which has supported many libraries and library projects, including one of mine in 2017-2018) is one of the agencies that Trump has now decreed "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law". Here's the full order, which also targets 6 other agencies: whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac #uspol #libraries

The White House · Continuing the Reduction of the Federal BureaucracyBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose. 

Major trade battle looming between Australia and the United States with potential to severely damage, if not destroy, the relationship.

Trump administration reportedly has sights set on the country's vaunted Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that delivers affordable medicines to tens of millions of Australians.

Trump calls for jailing his perceived opponents in Justice Department speech

nbcnews.com/politics/justice-d

If it is not clear by now that this evil megalomaniac is out for dictatorship, no-one can help the US any more...

Trump will never leave voluntarily, so much is clear.

NBC News · Trump calls for jailing his perceived opponents in Justice Department speechBy Nnamdi Egwuonwu

Primary every Democrat
It’s time Democrats listen to us, and we’re going to have to do it the hard way.

My name is Meredith Shiner, and I am not (yet) a candidate for Senate. But I am inviting you to join me in a massive, diffuse, and fledgling national campaign to make our government, should it continue to exist, better by primarying every Democrat. Because if they want to keep these jobs, then they should have to fight us for them. They should learn to fight for something.
#Democrats #uspol
newrepublic.com/article/190922

The New Republic · Primary Every DemocratIt’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

"What is the administration so frightened of? It couldn’t have been what is actually happening on campus, where the Jewish students who were demonstrating for #MahmoudKhalil said prayers and sang songs in Hebrew."

The Law Is Not Always to Be Trusted

lareviewofbooks.org/article/th

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #ColumbiaU #StudentProtests #ICEdetention @palestine

DUI hire Pete can’t rehire the 16 provisional employees they unlawfully fired as the court requires them to because the mighty US military can’t handle making them new badges.

China, russia and Iran could not be reached for comment but I’m sure are quaking in their boots.

Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges.

emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/pete

via @emptywheel

emptywheel · Pete Hegseth's DOD Says It Is Too Fragile to Make 16 New Badges - emptywheelHow does Pete Hegseth expect to take on China if his department can't manage making 16 new badges?
#USpol#hegseth#dod

“Australia must double down on getting a seat at the table to access the world’s largest research fund, Horizon Europe”

Via @johnquiggin , reporting on Australian universities realising that research cooperation with the USA will soon be dead.

aus.social/@johnquiggin/114165

Aus.SocialJohn Quiggin (@johnquiggin@aus.social)Dispensing with US universities, ready or not https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/dispensing-with-us-universities