Los Angeles County Democratic Party
‪@lademocrats.bsky.social‬

Any claims about California taking more than its fair share of FEMA aid are blatantly FALSE. California has had the most natural disasters of any state in the last ten years, and still is only fifth on the list of FEMA aid recipients.

New in PN: The "cognitive irresponsibility" presidency

"Cognitive irresponsibility is a giveaway that a leader is an authoritarian ... they don’t want to have to persuade the nation. They want to make a policy, and when we ask why, they say, 'Because I said so.'" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jen-mercieca-trump-cognitively-irresponsible

Democrats dig in against Mike Johnson on government shutdown

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/07/democrats-mike-johnson-goverment-shutdown-jeffries

I’m sure MAGA MoC will get right on it

“A group of 200 former national security officials urged congressional leaders to investigate the motive behind the Central Intelligence Agency’s buyout offers to staff, warning they were designed to “shape the workforce in a matter that prioritizes political loyalty.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/former-spies-warn-congress-over-insidious-aim-of-cia-buyouts

Oh so he certainly thinks he's King 👑...

Brian Tyler Cohen:
Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.

He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.

On Friday, Trump signed an executive order condemning South Africa's new land expropriation law, which was designed to address the ongoing harms wrought on the country by the racist apartheid regime

The order went on to say Trump would establish an
💥expedited refugee resettlement policy for white Afrikaners,
💥the group that ruled over South Africa during apartheid.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, a close adviser and benefactor to the president, notably immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa and is outspoken against the land policy. But Trump's mention of "violent attacks" on white farmers also echoes years of him, and others on the American right including Tucker Carlson, pushing white nationalist conspiracy theories that there is a plot to ethnically cleanse white people from that country.

Commenters on social media were quick to condemn Trump's move.

"#DonaldTrump announces that white Afrikaners, the architects and chief beneficiaries of South Africa’s racist apartheid policies 1948-1994 will be given urgent access to refugee resettlement problems in the United States," wrote Hugh Riminton, national affairs editor for Australian network 10 News First.

"White Afrikaners getting to jump in line while Venezuelans are getting their TPS status revoked… Hard to think of a clearer picture!" wrote Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee email and text deputy director George Clark.

"When Donald Trump ceases all refugee resettlement, but makes an explicit exemption for white supremacists, it’s time the press call him what he is: an avowed racist," wrote Democratic strategist Matt McDermott.

https://www.rawstory.com/apartheid/