I think anyone watching the whole horizon will sense something similar. But I wanted to state it clearly. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are if not hitting the gas than becoming more publicly aggressive and hostile just as a public backlash of great breadth appears to be forming and members of Congress are becoming skittish. This is a highly combustible collision in the making.
A short time ago Elon Musk posted this to Twitter.
I have now seen three separate copies of this email sent to federal employees in three separate federal agencies/departments. They’re all identical. In one of those cases it is to an agency where all but a literal handful of employees have been under a stop work order for more than a week. The emails have the subject line “What did you do last week?” followed by an urgent-response red emoji exclamation point.
Read MoreThe Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” in the words of the program’s website. It has run continuously since 1988 and covers everything from the particulars of newborn health and morbidity to issues like post-partum depression in mothers. I can report that the Trump CDC has shuttered the program as part of its general clampdown on medical research and public health information.
Read MoreI’m trying to compile a list of all the town halls where GOP members of Congress got rocked by constituents this past week while they were on break. There are so many now that I can’t really write a whole post about each one. But I wanted to ask if you could send me links if there are examples where your member of Congress or Senator had a similar experience so I can add it to the list.
Glenn Grothman (Wisconsin) Friday morning town hall in Oshkosh
Scott Fitzgerald (Wisconsin) town hall in West Bend on Thursday.
Kevin Hern (Oklahoma) town hall in Glenpool on Thursday.
Cliff Bentz (Oregon) mutliple town halls in eastern Oregon this week.
Nick Begich (Alaska) confronted at airport last week.
Rich McCormick (Georgia) town hall in Roswell on Thursday.
In Oregon’s 2nd district, Rep. Cliff Bentz (R) got a rude awakening in four town halls he held in this past week. At one point in his town hall in La Grande he chided the audience, saying a lot of representatives had refused to even hold town halls. So they should be grateful he decided to show up.
Note that this is an R+15 district — basically the eastern two-thirds of the state.
From the La Grande Observer …
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Kate and Josh discuss the compromising of Eric Adams, Elon Musk’s role as heat shield for Donald Trump and a new executive order.
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