It’s Thursday…
President Shitshow’s public schedule for…
Thursday (08/28/2025):
President EO’s Mean You Can’t Governor is on a speed run — 196 executive orders in 7 months. For comparison, Biden needed 4 years for 162, and Trump 1.0 took an entire term to crank out 220. Somebody’s thirsty for that pen ink.
There is always a tweet…
Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority? This is the latest
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2012
http://t.co/4IVBckTE
Note: There is video of Trump1.0 saying he would do away with EO’s. It doesn’t seem to exist on YouTube. I’ll continue my journey to frustration at another time.
Lisa Cook went ahead and dropped her lawsuit on President Orange Is the New Dumb. Bonus twist: Fed Chair Powell got dragged in too — not because he did anything, but because, well, he’s literally the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Congrats on your cameo, Jay.
Fed Governor Lisa Cook's lawsuit challenging Trump's purported firing of her has been filed. h/t @kyledcheney https://t.co/eRKNQP3w62 pic.twitter.com/aKCRSudiaf
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) August 28, 2025
JUST IN: Judge COBB has set a 10am hearing for *tomorrow* on the emergency bid by Lisa Cook to remain in her job at the Fed. pic.twitter.com/nTzTy9llCF
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 28, 2025
RFK Jr., the menace to our healthcare has apparently, fired the newly confirmed CDC director.
CDC WRAPUP: A White House spokesman emailed me at 9:30 p.m. to say that Susan Monarez, the CDC director, has been fired.
— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) August 28, 2025
This came after days of back-and-forth in which RFK Jr. tried to force her out and she refused. 4 other top CDC officials have quit. https://t.co/QV3HQmOGtV
The White House said late Wednesday that it had fired Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after a tense confrontation in which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to remove her from her position. A lawyer for Dr. Monarez said in response that she was refusing to step down.
Dr. Monarez, an infectious disease researcher, was sworn in just a month ago by Mr. Kennedy, but had clashed with the secretary over vaccine policy, people familiar with the events said. Four other high-profile C.D.C. officials quit en masse, apparently in frustration over vaccine policy and Mr. Kennedy’s leadership.
Because Dr. Monarez has been confirmed by the Senate — previous C.D.C. directors were not subject to such confirmation — she serves at the pleasure of the president, and Mr. Kennedy likely did not have the authority to dismiss her.
At 9:30 p.m., a spokesman for President Trump, Kush Desai, said in an email that Dr. Monarez was “not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,” and so “the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the C.D.C.”
[snip]
Dr. Monarez and Mr. Kennedy were at odds over vaccine policy, according to an administration official who is familiar with the events.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said Mr. Kennedy had summoned Dr. Monarez to his office on Monday and demanded that she resign. When she refused, Mr. Kennedy demanded that she remove the agency’s top leadership by the end of the week.
[snip]
The four high-ranking agency officials who did resign are Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the center that issues vaccine recommendations; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, who oversaw the center that oversees vaccine safety; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, who led the office of public health data.
New York Times (gift link). 08/27/2025.
Wild that the guy who once bragged he can diagnose kids at airports just by vibes is the one steering our public health ship. Totally normal, nothing to worry about.
RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today…and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection pic.twitter.com/svfdIqAntK
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 27, 2025
Not enough people are calling out two things here. One: it’s an airport—last I checked, nobody’s skipping through terminals singing show tunes. Teenagers? Kids? They’re not joy factories; they’re stuck in lines, tired, and hungry. Two: this guy is staring at children in airports like he’s some human health scanner and declaring them “unhealthy” for looking at their phones after hours of Wi-Fi blackouts. Yeah, super creepy, definitely not weird at all.
New estimates have been released to show the GDP growth for the second quarter 3.3 percent after the first quarter downturn.
The U.S. economy grew at a 3.3% annualized rate in Q2, up from the 3.0% rate estimated a month ago. https://t.co/qHGf5n47pp#GDP pic.twitter.com/s6pBpMaJZf
— BEA News (@BEA_News) August 28, 2025
Just FYI: This is not unexpected, this is not because tariffs are working; well, they did work, the admin paused the worse of the tariffs–companies over supplied v., demand at the time, and consumers stocked up prior to August’s deadline of stupid.
Our over supply has been almost exhausted.
I had something else I had planned to cover, but it’s gone now, so we will end this late post there and try again tomorrow.
Keep your peace, remember joy is resistance…
This is an open thread
