Dear Leader signed 10 Holy Executive Orders last night. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll say, “this is the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen!” Starting with how they all begin “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,” and then decreeing rules that the Constitution makes clear are supposed to be made by Congress.

An Executive Order is a wish list, a statement of intent, it is not law. But with Congress rolling over and playing dead, and the Supreme Court willing to let him do just about whatever, the orders are more like “this is what’s happening until a court steps in to stop it.” Okay, probably you won’t laugh. We were just trying to hook you with the lede.

. . . There’s [Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at Universities](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/transparency-regarding-foreign-influence-at-american-universiti

AutoMod deleted this post from yesterday because it linked to the cartoon instead of uploaded it as a picture.

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin will call for DNC officials’ neutrality to be codified in the party’s official rules and bylaws, two Democratic sources tell CNN. Martin has already been telling DNC members of his plans and will explain more in a call with members Thursday afternoon.

. . . “No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger,” Martin told reporters on a call Thursday. “Voters should decide who our primary nominees are, not DNC leadership.”

The DNC’s Rules & Bylaws committee is expected to vote on Martin’s proposal next month in a virtual meeting. If the committee approves the proposal it will advance to a full vote of the DNC membership in August.

The push for the new rule comes days after Hogg, who beat out a crowded field to become one of three DNC at-large vice chairs in February, announced his plan to help primary incumbent Democrats in safe districts through

Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath at the entrance of the museum in support of its mission, which incurred President Donald Trump’s criticism alongside other Smithsonian Institution sites. In a March 27 executive order, Trump alleged that Smithsonian exhibits had disparaged the nation’s history via a “divisive, race-centered ideology.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28642503

From Fei Cheng

Burrowing owls and marmots are generally peaceful neighbors, but occasional territory disputes do arise. Fortunately, no harm was done this time. The marmot, ever humble, eventually backed off. I imagine the burrowing owl didn't truly intend to attack-after all, the marmot may have been the original architect of the burrow the owl now calls home.

It was a joy to witness this brief drama and the fascinating way these wild creatures share their space.

Central WA

It’s a tough competition in the Republican party for who can be the most rootin’, tootin’, angriest, craziest mess around. It’s hard to get attention when you’ve got people like howler monkey Marjorie Taylor “Evil Pope” Greene and Lauren “Beetlejuice” Boebert. But don’t forget Nancy Mace, who is just as desperate to play perpetual victim who is also sooo tough!

To that end, Mace went into shouting, cussing apoplexy at an Ulta Beauty store on Saturday when one of her constituents had the audacity to ask her: “When are your next few town halls?”

She has not held a town hall since last June.

“I do them every year,” she said. “Do you want to keep going? Do you want to keep harassing me?” She said to the guy who asked her ONE question. But Mace very much wanted to keep going. “You could have gone to a dozen town halls last year. I’ve already done one, I’ll

Secretary Shitfaced can’t seem to go a week without another major fuckup leaking, geez!

And so what do you know, turns out there was ANOTHER Signal group chat happening on March 15, with 12 MORE people following along while buffoon Pete Hegseth texted them details about how he was bombing residential buildings with children in them in Yemen, in addition to that group chat with the editor of The Atlantic in it.

Trump’s DUI hire reportedly made a chat on his personal phone for his third wife Jennifer (who has been bizarrely tagging along with him everywhere, including meetings she should not be allowed in); his little brother Phil who he keeps finding nepo jobs for; his personal lawyer Tim Parlatore; his then-chief

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61920691

The first impression America gave me was gentle carelessness. We were driving down from Canada to visit family friends in Texas sometime in the mid- to late 1980s, and a young border patrol agent at a booth, crouched over a newspaper, leaning back in his chair, carelessly waved my family’s station wagon across without looking up. You didn’t even need a passport to enter the United States until I was 33.

You need clear eyes at the border today. Europe and Canada have issued travel advisories after a series of arbitrary detentions, deportations to foreign jails without due process and hundreds of valid visas pulled or voided amid a sense of general impunity. While I have crossed the border a hundred times at least, sometimes once a month when I lived there, I cannot say when I will see America again, and I am quite sure I will never return to the country I once visited.

The America I knew, the America I loved, has closed

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28438805

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21004963

The prevailing narrative of the last election has been that “the Left went too far” with all of the “wokeness” and people were so frightened by that, they were forced into the loving arms of Donald Trump — a man who attempted to steal the previous election by force. A man who is dismantling the federal government, starting a whole ass trade war, and speaking with absolute glee about the horrible human rights conditions of a prison he is currently sending random asylum seekers with the wrong tattoos to, and to which he is “contemplating” sending American citizens. A man who has openly courted white supremacists, violent extremists, and lunatics who think people eat babies.

They had to do it, you see. Because people wrote/said “Latinx.” Because three trans girls somewhere wanted to play field hockey. Because people who were angry about police constantly killing unarmed Black people said “defund the police.” Because they heard about people putting their pronouns in the email signa

The United States's $2.5 billion beef trade to China has come to a halt.