Trumpwatch 2.0

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Trump has stayed true to form and criticized a sermon at the National Prayer Breakfast that asked him to show mercy to LGBTQ people and immigrants.

The Trump Administration has rescinded policies that restricted arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like churches or schools.

Trump announced some kind of initiative called “Stargate AI” that involves $500 Billion in AI infrastructure investment from SoftBank, Oracle and OpenAI. Trump boasted about 100,000 jobs “almost immediately” from this as well as 10 data centers currently under construction. More companies may get involved and investments are expected to be made as this develops.

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It just keeps on getting more amusing…

All Diversity, Equity and Inclusion staff in the Federal Government have been placed on leave with the intention of laying them off.

Meanwhile the birthright citizenship XO challenge will get its first court hearing on Thursday.

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The AG’s in Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio and West Virginia are suing to stop the census bureau from counting illegal migrants in the next census. Of course the language about the census in the constitution doesn’t give a damn about your legal status… it just wants to know how many persons are in a given place. Minor details…

[bmw]

You're a sick fuck.

Pretty sure he was just poking a little fun at your anti-Trump obsession.

[Matt]

You're a sick fuck.

Pretty sure he was just poking a little fun at your anti-Trump obsession.

No, he was discounting the following:

"There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. Some fear for their lives," Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde claimed, before talking about immigration.

"And the people who pick our crops, clean our office buildings, labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat at restaurants and work the night shifts at hospitals, they may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals," Budde said.

That isn't "left wing" - it is simple common decency.

[Matt]

Despicable: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 864879007/

Washington – President Donald Trump 's administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management.

The memo follows an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners.

Yet another executive order Tuesday rolls back affirmative action in federal contracting, revoking an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients. It’s using one of the key tools utilized by the Biden administration to promote DEI programs across the private sector – pushing their use by federal contractors – to now eradicate them.

The Office of Personnel Management memo directs agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday and take down all public DEI-focused webpages by the same deadline. Several federal departments had removed the webpages even before the memorandum. Agencies must also cancel any DEI-related training and end any related contracts, and federal workers are being asked to report to Trump's Office of Personnel Management if they suspect any DEI-related program has been renamed to obfuscate its purpose within 10 days or face “adverse consequences.”

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And Biden's DEI plan encompassed some initiatives with bipartisan support, said Bains. For example, he tasked the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council with expanding federal employment opportunities for those with criminal records. That initiative stems from the Fair Chance Act, which Trump signed into law in 2019 and bans federal agencies and contractors from asking about an applicant’s criminal history before a conditional job offer is made.

Bains said that's what Biden's DEI policies were about: ensuring that the federal government was structured to include historically marginalized communities, not institute “reverse discrimination against white men.”

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The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to investigate local jurisdictions that try to obstruct immigration enforcement.

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The Trump Administration has shut down the White House Spanish language webpage and social media. How charming.

[zzand]

They were also shut down during his first administration.

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They were also shut down during his first administration.

Well then he is true to form isn’t he?

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I applaud the Bishop who spoke her mind during that service. The man needs to realize millions disagree with his agenda and don't like him as president or as a human. He better get used to it. If he can't take the heat he needs to get out of the kitchen or oval office in this case.

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I applaud the Bishop who spoke her mind during that service. The man needs to realize millions disagree with his agenda and don't like him as president or as a human. He better get used to it. If he can't take the heat he needs to get out of the kitchen or oval office in this case.

Absolutely and appropriately for this case… amen ZZ, amen.

Meanwhile the Pentagon is sending up to 1500 active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help secure it after Trumps executive order…. I’ll add this… it’s not clear it’s legal to deploy troops on U.S. soil in this way. I don’t know who has standing to sue but whoever does will undoubtedly be doing so at a speed fast enough to induce a sonic boom.

Another XO we haven’t covered here… Federal employees will no longer be allowed to work remotely and must return to work in person.

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Let’s add this into the mix… unsurprising… the Trump administration has cancelled travel for refugees already cleared to settle in the U.S.

[Matt]

Let’s add this into the mix… unsurprising… the Trump administration has cancelled travel for refugees already cleared to settle in the U.S.

So much for the land of opportunity.

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Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes has visited the Capitol and met with lawmakers following his clemency granted by Trump after he was convicted of sedition. How lovely.