Notices by huntingdon (huntingdon@mstdn.social)

@jeffjarvis

Does Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, also require that students wear brown shirts and lederhosen, when it indoctrinates them with, "the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?"

@bloomberg @economics-bloomberg

Trump is raising prices on most US companies. He's raising prices on retailers most of all. But he tells them, via Walmart, that they should eat the unnecessary costs he's imposing on them, because he doesn't want to be responsible for them.

Walmart wouldn't accept that excuse from an employee who toppled over a single large display, let alone a guy jacking up the costs of their global sourcing.

@KimPerales

Among the many things I would call using six carloads of ICE agents to arrest one immigrant dad at a filling station, and leaving two young children alone in his truck on a hot day, is child endangerment. ICE assumed an obligation to take care of the children by removing their dad with no warning or provision for a substitute carer.

CA Penal Code, Sec. 273a PC

"Hegseth orders 20% cut in number of top Pentagon officers.... There are only 44 [of them]...Pete Hegseth has also ordered reductions among the senior officers below them."

This is not about reform. A weak SecDef, acting for a weak Donald Trump, is culling the Pentagon of those who might tell him, "No." The cost in preparedness, morale, and command experience will be considerable. But no cost is too great to bear for loyalty to Donald Trump, instead of the Constitution.

https://www.dw.com/en/hegseth-orders-20-cut-in-number-of-top-pentagon-officers/a-72443265

@petersuber

Trump and Miller throw "national security" descriptions around as if they know what it means and were promoting, rather than undermining, it.

About Kristi Noem's purse being stolen, assuming it wasn't a dead drop that went awry, who says she really had $3000 in it, besides Kristi? And why the focus on money, given the surprising and surprising amount of sensitive USG data on the devices in it?

@Infoseepage

Wealth has always been accumulated by violence.

"Thousands of US health agency workers laid off in overhaul led by RFK Jr."

"Overhaul?" Given the context of the destruction Trump has wrought across the USG in a little over two months, that headline is malpractice.

Bobby Kennedy is following Trump's order. Like his peers, he's destroying the agency he's in charge of, because Trump's patrons believe it should never have been part of the USG. The sociopathic Kennedy is the perfect tool for the job.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/trump-health-agency-layoffs-cuts

@georgetakei

Congratulations, George!

@GottaLaff

As many speculated, political leadership forced the loading of Signal onto secure govt devices - in violation of standing protocols to avoid it - precisely so that it could be used to discuss the secret workings of govt and to keep those discussions secret from that govt by setting it to auto-delete. That almost certainly constitutes serial criminal violations of the law.

@spocko @GottaLaff

The Trump administration's argument -- that citizens cannot access their earned benefits through SSA, unless Elmo the Dick is allowed access to their most sensitive private data -- is normally called extortion, a felony.

Chuck Schumer is playing hide the pea. He says we're not at the point where democracy is at risk. He then switches gears to say that a govt shutdown does not threaten democracy. No shit, Schumer. It's the President and Congress that are threatening democracy.

A lawyer for Tom Homan admits that some of those swept up and deported to a country they've never been to committed no crime. But they might, so we were entitled to deport them.

The argument is facetious. Not coincidentally, it could be used against any target group, their followers, fellow travelers, and anyone found on the same street.

This vicious arrogance and cruelty will become more extreme as Trump becomes more desperate to show that he's an untouchable king.

@DemocracyMattersALot

Like Trump, RFK Jr has been swallowed by his childhood trauma, and wants to make the whole world pay for it.

@georgetakei

Well, and except for Trump's Visa Goldcard immigrants and the retainers they bring with them and pay for.

When the govt tells a federal judge, "We're not telling you the facts - and you can't make me," the facts are really bad. It's similar to obstruction: you commit obstruction, which carries severe penalties, generally because the penalties for an underlying crime are even worse.

"Major News Outlets Edit Out Trump's Insanity In Oval. AP, Foreign Policy.com, and GlobalNews.ca omitted Trump's "Hunter Biden's bathroom" rant from *their transcripts* of Friday's Oval Office ambush of Zelensky"

Those were important aspects to Trump's rant. Censoring them normalizes Trump's chaos, personalization of policitics, and probable dementia. It's NOT news coverage.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/major-news-outlets-edit-out-trumps

@GottaLaff

Trump wants to exclude govt spending from calculations of GDP. Well, he is an expert at cooking the books. Can't wait to see what Paul Krugman has to say about the consequences of that.

"Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department. Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up response."

Bobby Jr probably spent more time at Harvard selling drugs than attending class. But he's used to pulling his own strings, and doesn't know what to do when someone is pulling is. The safest and most responsible thing he could do for all of us is resign.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-health-department

@GottaLaff

Which means that Trump had already planned to shut off aid to Zelensky before this debacle, which is one reason it happened as it did. Trump always needs someone else to blame for what he chooses to do.