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—> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...9?st=4M41jY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink——
Several articles the last 36+ hours tipped this expectation as they were obvious Administration leaks about how they could get back to essentially the same place (or better!) with product specific tariffs and their “genius” is not signed deals with trading partners about negotiated “reciprocal” tariffs.
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Would Trump be the first to win a Nobel Peace Prize for the same period during which he was deploying the military on his own streets?
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“… The SSA’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, wrote in a resignation letter to Commissioner Frank Bisignano that he was “involuntarily leaving” his position. The new leadership in the technology and executive offices “created a culture of panic and dread, with minimal information sharing, frequent discussions on employee termination, and general organizational dysfunction,” he wrote in the letter, obtained by The Washington Post.
In the whistleblower disclosure, which was sent to the Office of Special Counsel as well as several congressional committees, Borges raised concerns that DOGE staffers bypassed safeguards, circumvented a court order, and created a copy of the SSA’s entire collection of data that was put onto the cloud, or a network of remote servers on the internet. Borges said the agency had no oversight of who had access to the file.
… Borges served for over two decades in the U.S. Navy and worked in the General Services Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In his role at the Social Security Administration, he oversaw data access. Yet, he said he learned about the data transfer after the fact from workers in the agency reporting to him.…”
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“…EPA leaders had placed 144 employees on leave for endorsing a public missive that said the changes President Donald Trump and his appointees had made at the agency “undermine the EPA mission of protecting human health and the environment.”
More than 270 employees initially signed the letter, with over 170 choosing to be named.
The move to terminate several staffers marks an escalation in the administration’s effort to clamp down on dissent within the federal bureaucracy.
Earlier this week, officials suspended more than three dozen employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a letter to Congress arguing that changes at the agency were jeopardizing its ability to perform its mission, risking a disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.…”
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Noem fires two dozen FEMA employees over alleged cybersecurity gaps
“… Noem criticized FEMA’s IT leadership, calling their actions “incompetence” and accusing them of downplaying the breach and obstructing DHS efforts to resolve it.
“These deep-state individuals were more interested in covering up their failures than in protecting the Homeland and American citizens’ personal data, so I terminated them immediately,” Noem said in a statement.
The firings quickly sent shockwaves through FEMA on Friday, with some longtime officials describing the ousted leaders as “extremely competent” and “highly respected.”
Noem and DHS officials have clashed with FEMA leadership for months as the Trump administration overhauls the disaster relief agency…”
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Trump Is Starting to Turn on the People He Handpicked
Multiple Senate-confirmed Trump officials face ouster while longtime aides come under scrutiny
—> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...0?st=WD4agL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“… On Wednesday, the White House said it was firing Trump’s director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …. The White House said she wasn’t aligned with the president.
… Trump replaced the head of the Internal Revenue Serviceless than two months into the job because the appointee, Billy Long, clashed with officials at the Treasury Department. Two top Justice Department antitrust officials were removed from their roles after clashing with senior officials at the agency who they accused of cutting deals with favored lobbyists. One of them has publicly questioned the integrity of other Justice officials. The White House also removed the acting FEMA administrator after he said the emergency management agency should continue to exist, contradicting others in the administration.
In recent days, Trump also pushed his Treasury secretary to fire the agency’s second-in-command and installed a second deputy at the FBI after the White House soured on the first.
The firings are separate from his attempts to remove dozens of other personnel he didn’t appoint, including a Federal Reserve governor, a top official at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, prosecutors who investigated him and a coterie of leaders across the government, such as the National Archivist.…”
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“… The White House also has started to look into one of Trump’s longest-serving aides, Corey Lewandowski, who once ran Trump’s 2016 campaign and is now in an unpaid advisory role at the Department of Homeland Security …”Trump Is Starting to Turn on the People He Handpicked
Multiple Senate-confirmed Trump officials face ouster while longtime aides come under scrutiny
“… On Wednesday, the White House said it was firing Trump’s director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …. The White House said she wasn’t aligned with the president.
… Trump replaced the head of the Internal Revenue Serviceless than two months into the job because the appointee, Billy Long, clashed with officials at the Treasury Department. Two top Justice Department antitrust officials were removed from their roles after clashing with senior officials at the agency who they accused of cutting deals with favored lobbyists. One of them has publicly questioned the integrity of other Justice officials. The White House also removed the acting FEMA administrator after he said the emergency management agency should continue to exist, contradicting others in the administration.
In recent days, Trump also pushed his Treasury secretary to fire the agency’s second-in-command and installed a second deputy at the FBI after the White House soured on the first.
The firings are separate from his attempts to remove dozens of other personnel he didn’t appoint, including a Federal Reserve governor, a top official at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, prosecutors who investigated him and a coterie of leaders across the government, such as the National Archivist.…”
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—> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-...4?st=eGYsE8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“… But discrete American strikes on narcotics labs in the Venezuelan jungle wouldn’t take that much hardware, and neither would adding deterrence to defend Guyana.
What might require this many high-value U.S. military assets, on the other hand, is an effort to pressure Mr. Maduro to abdicate, or perhaps oust him, even without boots on the ground.
Has Mr. Trump made a decision to take that step?
… perhaps the U.S. military assets nearby could convince Mr. Maduro it’s in his best interest to leave rather than fight. His claim to have a militia of more than four million who will defend him isn’t credible given his unpopularity at the polls last year. But in recent days he has sent warships and drones to the north Venezuelan coast. Things could get bloody, particularly in the south of the country, if the regime’s drug-trafficking brigades and army die-hards dig in.
… A halfhearted operation to remove Mr. Maduro that is unprepared for armed resistance is asking for trouble. If the U.S. encourages Venezuelans to stick out their necks only to abandon them, as it did in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs six decades ago, it would do the cause for liberty in the country more harm than good.…”
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the editorial is all in on the concept of Trump is fully committed.
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Not sure why I care as i often use them synonymously also, but they are wind turbines. Wind mills grind corn.
NJ doesn’t have enough electricity so turn off the electricity producing windmills because they are ugly?
And there is no such thing as clean coal. It would quadruple in price if they installed the scrubber needed on the stacks to call it "clean".
Is that including dealing with the coal ash?Not sure why I care as i often use them synonymously also, but they are wind turbines. Wind mills grind corn.
And there is no such thing as clean coal. It would quadruple in price if they installed the scrubber needed on the stacks to call it "clean".
Or, after dividends are paid out, do consumers and taxpayers have to pay for the coal ash clean-up?