Read & Resist – Februrary 7

Read & Resist – Februrary 7. I know it’s dated. (How odd to suggest, just a few days makes something *dated* – I remember the world BEFORE BREAKING NEWS!) Anyhow, the content remains important to share.

• A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System – “If you would have asked me a week ago, I’d have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows.”
• U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal – IT’S NOT SHADOW ANYTHING WHEN ITS HAPPENING IN PLAIN SIGHT
• Project 2025’s Creators Want to Dox Wikipedia Editors. The Tool They’re Using Is Horrifying – Time to Donate to Wikipedia?
• Alleged USAID Probe Into Starlink Raises Elon Musk Conflict Concerns – Hmmm. I’m SHOCKED
• The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified – “It’s like walking into a nuclear reactor and deciding to handle some plutonium.”
• Trump’s USAID gambit backfires as American farms now threatened: report – “In particular, the Post report notes that American farms are responsible for roughly 41 percent of all food aid provided by the agency and it adds that the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers in the year 2020 alone.”
• Federal Funding Must Flow – “They could in theory disrupt or disable payments to states they think are applying the program improperly, or even toss out individual claims based on conspiratorial claims of fraud. This is powerful leverage to get states to comply with additional rules or risk lower matching funds.”
• “Personhood” is Coming – Your medical care and rights are at risk – “Personhood, or the way it is interpreted by the evangelical fascists in power, means a fertilized egg has more rights than a living, breathing, pregnant person. It reduces people with a uterus to incubator status”
• Would it be legal for Trump to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador’s jails? – I feel like I’m quite aware of what was going to happen and yet, I did not have EL SALVADOR on my “End Of The World As We Know It” Bingo Card.