President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[WriteThinking]

I wonder if Trump knows how many people think about, hope and argue for, and want him to be impeached.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/ho...-judges-trump?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I wonder if Trump knows how many think about, hope and argue for, and want him to be impeached.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/ho...-judges-trump?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

*convicted

 

[WriteThinking]

Trump just does nothing but damage, with everything he does. So many people are and will be getting hurt. He just does not care.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.

The USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled.

The halting of these deliveries, first reported by POLITICO, comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from local farmers.

The USDA did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The collective cuts are expected to make it more difficult for food banks to meet families' needs, with food prices now 20 percent higher than they were in 2020, food bank leaders say.

"I certainly look at our lines and look at our shelves and say we need some relief," said Joree Novotny, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, which also reported canceled deliveries with no indication they would resume....

It's not clear how much of the $500 million for the emergency assistance program has been cut, but one USDA employee, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations, said the Trump administration has been trying to claw back CCC money the Biden administration previously allocated in order to devote funds to other priorities.

 

[tapintoamerica]

The cruelty is the point. They see SS recipients as useless eaters.

His Commerce secretary has said, "We all know Social Security and Medicare are wrong." Or words to that effect.

 

[Slacker]

I'd gladly pony up the money for The Atlantic, but I wouldn't have enough time to dig in and enjoy it day to day. Or week to week, for that matter. But I subscribe to its daily One Story newsletter, and it usually gives me a quick look of the thrust of one good Atlantic story a day, and someday I'll have time for the real thing.

Anyway, this is today's newsletter. One fast take, and better than memes, or Twitter threads I can't page through. And this one is gold, a putdown anecdote about Hitler, but the broader message is clear: It's really about Trump, too. I'm guessing that's where the compete story navigates. And how our society is falling for the same bullshirt we were smart enough to recognize and destroy somewhere else 80 years ago.

 

[Slacker]

*convicted

*deported

But I'll settle for *exiled.

 

[Della9250]

Always a salesman

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

It's not clear how much of the $500 million for the emergency assistance program has been cut, but one USDA employee, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations, said the Trump administration has been trying to claw back CCC money the Biden administration previously allocated in order to devote funds to other priorities.

Other priorities, like tax cuts for him and his billionaire friends. I hate this guy.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Q: "Why have you not stood up to Trump?"
A: Because he's 90 years old and has enough trouble standing up himself.

 

[garrow]

Sick, petty f*ck

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million

A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Starman]

Oh no

She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

Rebecca Carlson planned to use a USDA grant to hire overseas workers for her cherry harvest. A funding freeze has left her in debt and unsure whether she can hire the workers.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[WriteThinking]

Of course, it gave in to Trump. Everyone does. Is there literally no one willing to stand up to and try to stop this criminal President?

MSN

On Thursday, the powerful law firm Paul Weiss caved.

It agreed to give Donald Trump's administration $40 million in free legal work for causes the president supports and, according to a social media post from Trump, get rid of any internal diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

In response, Trump rescinded his executive order that targeted the firm and could have cost it significant business.

The agreement shocked many in the legal community, and for Rachel Cohen, an associate at another large firm — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP — it was the final straw.

On Thursday night, Cohen fired off an email to her firm that said she was giving her two-weeks' notice, unless leaders there agreed to a number of conditions that would, in effect, stand up to the Trump administration — including by refusing to cooperate with the targeting of DEI programs.

"This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEI, representation and staffing has forced my hand," Cohen wrote in her firmwide email, which went viral on social media after she shared it publicly. "We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here."