Josh Marshall wonders why we haven't seen any of the "agreements" that various parties have entered into with the Trump Administration. He's referring to the "deals" with law firms and universities, but this could extend to the alleged deals with foreign countries over tariffs.
Heather Cox Richardson catalogs the firing of important national security figures, but also the weaponization of IRS data against immigrants.
My sister has a friend - a lawyer no less - who was returning from Central America and ICE tried to search his phone, then revoked his Global Entry when he refused.
DOGE continues to burrow its way into more and more government systems.
The Bond Curve remains inverted, even as stocks rallied.
The presence of the various Broligarchs in and around Trump and the Project 2025 has created what might actually be the greatest crisis at the moment for American representative government. Modern systems run on information; the world is awash in data. If malevolent actors control that data, that gives them extrajudicial levers to well and truly fuck shit up.
I would think, also, that relying on government data becomes similarly problematic. Why should we trust jobs reports? If we destroy agencies like NOAA, how will weather forecasting work?
All of this looks to be an effort to finally achieve Grover Norquist's old goal of "shrinking the government until it's small enough to drown in a bathtub." I feel confident that Americans won't like that.
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