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Trump administration sets out to create an America its people have never experienced − one without a meaningful government

The U.S. government is attempting to dismantle itself.

President Donald Trump has directed the executive branch to “significantly reduce the size of government.” That includes deep cuts in federal funding of scientific and medical research and freezing federal grants and loans for businesses. He has ordered the reversal or removal of regulations on medical insurance companies and other businesses and sought to fire thousands of federal employees. Those are just a few of dozens of executive orders that seek to deconstruct the government.

More than 70 lawsuits have challenged those orders as illegal or unconstitutional. In the meantime, the resulting chaos is preventing the government from carrying out its everyday functions.

Trump said he didn’t sign controversial proclamation. The Federal Register shows one with his signature

Apparently T-rump’s Executive Orders can sign themselves now. That is a problem. A new and improved Auto Pen?

President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, but that he stood by his administration’s move. The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

Trump Gives Wild Reason for Using Japanese Internment Law

Donald Trump is invoking wartime powers to carry out his mass deportations—despite court orders otherwise.

On Saturday, the president used the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—untouched since the War of 1812 and the Japanese internment of the 1940s—to push the deportation of more than 200 Venezuelans, claiming they were Tren de Aragua gang members. The deportations were carried out despite a court order requiring all planes carrying people deported under the law to remain in the country.

‘Ongoing destruction of evidence’: Trump admin shredding and burning ‘classified’ USAID docs with info that’s ‘essential’ for rehiring unlawfully fired workers, unions say

I am surprised they hadn’t been doing it all along…

The Trump administration is shredding and burning “classified” employee documents at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with personnel info that would be “essential” to rehiring unlawfully fired federal workers, according to labor groups suing the president, should it be required as a result of their litigation.

Side Effects of Ketamine Could Explain a Lot About Elon Musk’s Behavior

These side effects sound mighty familiar.

As The Atlantic reports, research into the effects of sustained ketamine use may offer some insights into the increasingly bizarre antics of the South African-born gem mining scion who’s admitted to using the drug to treat depression — and who’s allegedly indulged in it for recreational purposes, too.

Delusions of grandeur are not, obviously, the sole provenance of ketamine users, and there’s little doubt Musk had an outsized opinion of himself long before he discovered “Special K.” But his behavior in recent years has grown more and more erratic, especially in the since his purchase of Twitter, in ways that seem to track with those descriptions of frequent ketamine use side effects.

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