President Shit’s Show: First 100 Days: Day 69

March 31, 2025 12:00 pm EDT Halodoc Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shit’s Show: First 100 Days: Day 69
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Another Week In Hell Begins: Monday

“The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.” Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

President Shit’s Public Schedule:

Monday, March 31 2025
9:00 AMIn-Town Pool Call TimeThe White House In-Town Pool
1:00 PMThe President signs Executive OrdersOval Office Closed Press
5:30 PMThe President signs Executive OrdersOval Office White House Press Pool

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— Joshua Weitz (@joshuasweitz.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM

In case you missed it, h/t Aaron for the following and link: msn.com

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Two Trump administration spreadsheets – which each include what numerous advocates and government officials say is highly sensitive information on programs funded by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – were sent to Congress and also leaked online.

… The leaked documents, the sources say, include some of the very same information that multiple nonprofits and international partners had been promised would not be made public. Senior executives and other staff working at these groups were particularly alarmed, for instance, by the inclusion of certain details pertaining to programs and non-governmental organizations operating in China, Russia, Iran, Uganda, Cuba, and elsewhere.

From Wednesday and well into Thursday, this led to a mad dash among these different groups to work up damage assessments on what had just happened; frantically reach out to an array of staffers and local activists to warn them and to confirm that they were safe and OK; and to game out what they were all prepared to do in worst case scenarios, according to the sources familiar with the situation and the written communications and internal memos reviewed by Rolling Stone.

“Please do not share the spreadsheet that was circulating yesterday with terminated awards listed and if possible remove it or ask it to be removed from anywhere you’ve seen it,” reads one message shared in a private USAID chat late this week. “It contains information about partners who are working in unsafe environments with restricted civil society space or terrible LGBTQ laws etc. A few of our friends already had to pull staff on an emergency basis yesterday due to threats and unwanted attention from their governments. Please pass along to anyone you think needs to see this.”

One top executive at an international nonprofit and U.S. government implementing partner that’s been grappling with the fallout bluntly tells Rolling Stone: “In all our years of receiving grants from a range of governments, we have never seen the safety of government partners treated with such reckless abandon. People will lose their liberty, and possibly even more, because of this.”

Another source with knowledge of the situation – a State Department career official – says: “Lives are in danger that did not have to be.”

Rolling Stone

You may have been told that COVID-19 is a “cold,” or “is now a cold,” after billions of infections with SARS-CoV-2 around the world. This is patently false, and the studies below show how even “mild” COVID-19 can negatively impact your health, all over your body. This is the primary threat to the majority of people when it comes to this awful, horrible virus, and vigilance is still necessary.

As we enter the sixth year of the SARS-CoV-2 disaster, the United States of America has embarked on a campaign of self-immolation when it comes to medical and scientific research. With countless millions suffering from Long COVID disability (400 million projected worldwide), the American government has decided to turn a blind eye to the greatest public health crisis of our lifetimes. The federal government has instructed public health agencies to erase any mention of Long COVID from their materials, effectively driving a knife through the chest of millions of suffering Americans. The next NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya, has frequently downplayed the prevalence and severity of COVID-19’s long-term impacts as part of his zealous advocacy for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and will continue slash funding that might find a treatment or cure for the countless millions suffering from COVID & Long COVID.

Pandemic Accountability Index

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed by John Naughton US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

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— Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 (@eugenemcparland.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM

At international academic conferences recently, one sees an interesting trend. Some American participants are travelling with “burner” phones or have minimalist laptops running browsers and not much else. In other words, they are equipped with the same kind of kit that security-conscious people used to bring 15 years ago when travelling to China.

The Guardian

Insanity:

There are too many to post. To read the following thread and view all images within, here is a Thread Reader unroll.

Link to the obtained report from ACLU of ICE’s “Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide”.

It is a court case out of US DC District Court:

Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 67-21 Filed 03/28/25 Page 1 of 156:

J.G.G., et al., Plaintiffs, v. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al., Defendants.

gov.uscourts.dcd

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