beSpacificJul 3, 2025
"The #EPA #Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday placed 144 #employees on administrative leave and opened an investigation into their decision to sign a letter accusing the #Trump administration of #politicizing the agency." NYT (Gift Article) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/climate/epa-letter-administrative-leave.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.Yk3H.mb7cGaO2jEuD&referringSource=articleShare: E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter #Criticizing #trump #federal #government #freespeech #facts v #lies #maga #GOP #congress #law #republicans #publichealth #cleanwater seems like such a cliche now.
E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

The letter had accused the Trump administration of politicizing, dismantling and sidelining the agency.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexAug 29, 2024

#DOD Ofcls said they wanted to respect the wishes of grieving family members who wanted #Trump there, but at the same time were wary of Trump’s record of #politicizing the #military. So they laid out ground rules they hoped would wall off #politics from the final resting place of those who paid the ultimate #sacrifice for their #nation.

Instead, they got sucked into exactly the kind of crisis they were hoping to avoid.

#law #Traitor #criminal #disrespect #ServiceMembers
#HarrisWalz2024

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Mar 19, 2024

#Florida’s #SurgeonGeneral Shows the #Danger of #Politicizing #Medicine.

#JosephLadapo’s #rejection of #evidencebasedpolicy stems from #political rather than #scientific #motivations and puts #innocent # lives #atrisk

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Health #Healthcare #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/floridas-surgeon-general-shows-the-danger-of-politicizing-of-medicine/

Florida’s Surgeon General Shows the Danger of Politicizing Medicine

Florida state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s rejection of evidence-based policy stems from political rather than scientific motivations and puts innocent people at risk

Scientific American
Chuck DarwinFeb 29, 2024

“Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”
— an 887-page document proposing to remake the executive branch, department by department, agency by agency, office by office
— is an off-the-shelf governing plan for a leader who took office last time with no clear plan and no real ability to govern.

The book which was edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves of the #Heritage #Foundation, is not about anything as simplistic as being dictator for a day but about #consolidating #authority and #eroding #accountability for the long haul.

It calls for a relentless #politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds.

Though it assures readers that the president and his or her subordinates “must be committed to the Constitution and the rule of law,” it portrays the president as the personal embodiment of popular will and treats the #law as an #impediment to conservative governance.

It elevates the role of #religious #beliefs in government affairs and regards the powers of Congress and the judiciary with dismissiveness.

There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but
👉 “Mandate for Leadership” is about #capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it.

🔸The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.🔸
#project2025 #authoritarianism
#heritagefoundation
#TrumpIsJustATool

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/project-2025-trump-administration.html

Opinion | What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Project 2025

The former president’s allies don’t want to destroy the “deep state.” They want to seize it.

The New York Times
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Feb 2, 2024

#Florida banning changes of #gender on #driverslicenses sparks #confusion, #backlash

“This is an example of #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis #politicizing every #state #agency for his own #political #agenda,” said Democratic Rep. Anna Eskamani of Orlando. “Even though he’s not running for President anymore, it’s pretty clear that his #extremism is not going anywhere.”

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/656750-florida-banning-changes-of-gender-on-drivers-licenses-sparks-confusion-backlash/

Florida banning changes of gender on driver’s licenses sparks confusion, backlash

'In Florida, you do not get to play identity politics with your driver’s license.'

Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.
Show threadbeSpacificApr 9, 2023
@Deji "Before being nominated to the federal bench by #Trump in 2017, #Kacsmaryk served as deputy GC at the #conservative #FirstLibertyInstitute. He argued against #SameSexMarriage, #CivilRights #protections for #gay and #transgender individuals, the #ContraceptiveMandate and, of course, #RoevWade." This is all about #politicizing #hatred #abuse & #ideology to #dissolve #democracy - managed via #collusion of #laserfocused #acolytes placed in #powerful roles from which they cannot be removed.
beSpacificApr 8, 2023
#KamalaHarris - what #mifepristone is used to induce does not simply impact #abortion: it opens the door to #politicizing #chemotherapy #drugs, #asthma #medicine, #bloodpressure pills, #insulin. We are all in #jeopardy as #corruptjudges #weaponize #medicine to #cancel #critical #healthcare for tens of millions of #Americans. #SCOTUS will not #protect #humanrights and #civilliberties - #medicine is for healing not #discrimination #hatred #misogny #women and #children #target by #Trump #Mcconnell