Liveblog - ICYMI: February 08, 2025

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:

Trump: “We have people that shouldn’t be on (social security), and those people we have to weed out.”I’ve paid into social security since I was 17—it wasn’t a donation to the treasury. When the time comes: Bitch Better Have My Money!Hands! Off! Social! Security!

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-02-08T03:24:56.169Z

Trump plans to name himself chair of Kennedy Center, fire board members

President Trump says he is taking over leadership of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He declared himself chairman of Washington D.C.’s long-celebrated cultural institution on Friday. In doing so, he’ll replace billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, an ally of former President Joe Biden who was set to chair until 2026.

Trump’s executive actions are getting challenged as ‘arbitrary.’ What does that mean?

President Trump has signed a number of executive actions since taking office, taking aim at everything from immigration and the size of the federal workforce to gender politics and the economy.

Before the ink had dried, challengers took legal action to block many of these actions from taking effect.

Less than three weeks into the new administration, courts are already considering challenges to Trump’s declaration that the federal government will only recognize two genders, the Department of Homeland Security’s departure from a decades-old policy that encouraged Immigration and Customs Enforcement to avoid places of worship and the “Fork Directive” email offering federal employees the option to resign in exchange for full pay and benefits through September.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge BLOCKS Musk's DOGE from accessing Treasury Department database systems with personally identifiable information or sensitive data. Must destroy any that was downloaded.Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking democracy news.www.democracydocket.com

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T13:31:43.456Z

"He recently referred to himself as one of the 'president’s lawyers' on social media and now runs the prosecutorial office that would likely handle cases brought against political figures in Washington.Mr. Martin has in fact already shown himself willing to amplify calls for retribution."

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T15:54:03.162Z

Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of White Landowners

The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.

President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States because of what he called actions by the country’s government that “racially disfavored landowners.”

In the order, Mr. Trump said that “the United States shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa” and that American officials should do everything possible to help “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”

It follows Mr. Trump’s accusation on his social media site on Sunday that the South African government was engaged in a “massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum.” He vowed a full investigation and promised to cut off aid.

“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” the president wrote in the post. “It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention.”

Buyer’s Remorse:

The Worst Garbage in the World:

From the MarKODA Files- DOGE Douche Don’t Give Two Shits About You, Douche, Edition:

***Said the ‘bigly payed jernalist” who is on Medicare and whose family survived on Obamacare. But, he’s white so he has that right!

Fundie Freak Alert:

Christian Writer Who Claimed LGBTQ+ People Are ‘Grooming’ Kids Arrested For Child Molestation—Because Of Course

Aaron Craig Gleason is a Christian writer who has written several anti-LGBTQ+ articles for outlets like The Daily WireThe Federalist, and The Imaginative Conservative in which he has painted queer people as latent child molesters.

He was arrested January 28 in Okaloosa, Florida, on child molestation charges.

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