04/02/2025
I posted a little thing earlier, telling y'all to take your time to get facts straight, and with breaking news get the whole story over the course of a few days.
And then I found myself unable to take my own advice.
Because it’s not just checking in on that one story, no. It’s that a dozen new sphincter punch nopes happen and you’re not sure what’s true with any of them. And by the time a few more details have shown up from that last cluster of stories, FIFTY SEVEN NEW THINGS HAVE @ #$% HAPPENED.
Here’s what it’s like wandering through the news and social media in 2025. It’s Ms. Auntie SciBabe’s stream of consciousness rant if you will. This is, at best, only lightly fact checked, and reflective of why it’s damn near impossible to stay on task.
Oh, we have more details on the mid-air collision? Wait why are people making a big deal about the helicopter pilot being a woman? Because of course they’re calling her a DEI pilot even though the only reporting I can find on her ability as a pilot and soldier say she was exceptional. Her family requested that her information not be released and some people are calling that suspicious… but f**king of course the family didn’t want her name public. The week they’re burying their child, they knew they’d have to deal with this group of basement dwelling “support the troops” cretins sh****ng on their US Army Veteran daughter’s skills as a pilot.
Screaming. Next.
People are oddly convinced that the tariffs “worked,” but what did they actually accomplish? Less than nothing. Mexico and Canada didn’t really capitulate to do much of anything they weren’t already doing. Late last year, Canada already earmarked about a billion dollars for border enforcement and mitigating the fentanyl trade. For the extra Mexican guards at the border, Trump agreed to do much more to stop the flow of weapons across our southern border. It’s almost like, and hear me out now, the US gave as much as it got while simultaneously tripping on its own needledick. The tariffs showed our closest partner in trade, Canada, that we’re unreliable trading partners. The mere threat of tariffs trashed the stock market. And since the tariffs are just on pause for a month, we’re going to have to deal with this bu****it again in a month.
Most of the fentanyl that comes into the US illicitly is from China, so… well done on consulting a map while hitting the American tax payer with higher prices, lads.
(There are Trumpers who still cannot be convinced that we pay the tariffs, because at some point the very tenets of reality became negotiable.)
Elon Musk has access to the treasury and he can just unilaterally stop bills from being paid? It’s rich that the “strict Constitutionalist” party wants to s**t on Article 8 of the Constitution. It’s not entirely clear what Elon Musk can and can’t do but I gather he’s just doing whatever the f**k he wants and none of it seems particularly legal. As much as people elected Trump and Trump appointed Elon, this is not how these offices (or entire government departments) have ever worked. Elon Musk isn’t a government employee. He has not sworn to uphold the Constitution. He’s a monkey flinging s**t.
A US attorney has (allegedly) pledged to go after any journalists who so much as name the people working under Musk at DOGE. And look. Call him the free speech guy all day long; you’d be wrong in at least three different ways but it’s no skin off my ass. Howthef**kever. Having a US attorney go after journalists for reporting facts is absolutely a violation of the first amendment. It’s the government infringing in speech, which is explicitly a violation of free speech. But Elon has never really been a free speech guy. He’s been a ‘say whatever Elon wants to say without consequences’ guy, and I think deep down, y’all know that.
A bunch of CDC databases have been/are being wiped. This is not like when the White House website is wiped between administrations. They’re being f**king wiped of any studies and data that the administration finds inconvenient. A group of scientists and journalists are working on data preservation behind the scenes. Which is great because, with so many of us dealing with a funding freeze and not being able to publish work the administration doesn’t like, we had so much free time.
Workers at the Department of Education have been suspended for… attending a training program. Why? It was diversity training, so. Note, these employees are not running diversity programs, they just went to a training that they were encouraged to go to *checks clipboard* during the last Trump administration. Naturally.
I’d look up everything about the Department of Education’s inevitable fate of being sold for parts, but what’s the f**king point? *table flip*
This is exhausting. It takes monumental effort to keep looking forward instead of looking at everything.
Find some journalism outlets you trust. Find some independent journalists you trust. Follow and support our work. We’re going to get through this, but we’re only going to get through this together.
