海阔天空Sunshine Bluesky | Updated as of 02/10/2025
We are now living in the world of 1984. One of the ways authoritarian regimes maintain their rule is to whitewash lies and rewrite history. Let’s bear witness to the history unfolding before us, and let’s not allow lies and falsehoods to blind our eyes. As a public service, major events under the Trump 2.0 regime will be recorded in this blog.
02/08/2025
Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt
A judge ruled Saturday that the activities of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting effort risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than before to hacking.”
But other than vague assurances that the new arrivals at the Treasury’s door had proper clearances, there was no description of how their work would be secured — and plenty of reason to believe that it would make it easier for Chinese and Russian intelligence services to target the Treasury’s systems.
Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material
The man given free rein by Trump to crusade against the federal government supported Democrats until 2022. But some of Musk’s longstanding positions lead a straight line to his far-right sympathies
Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D.
As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work.
02/07/2025
Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a 2019 Trump appointee, said he would issue a temporary restraining order pausing the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 U.S.A.I.D. employees and a plan to withdraw nearly all of the agency’s overseas workers within 30 days.
‘Unacceptable’: European countries firmly reject Trump’s plan to take over Gaza
Egypt galvanizes Arab momentum against Trump’s Gaza plan
Job Growth Slowed in January, but Overall Picture Remains Solid
U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs last month, somewhat fewer than forecast, while unemployment fell to 4 percent and hourly earnings rose.
Farmers are worried after Trump released billions of gallons of water in California
Last week, the Trump administration released significant amounts of water from two dams in California’s Central Valley, with Trump claiming the action would have prevented the Los Angeles fires. Water experts say that’s not true, and farmers who rely on that water for agriculture say its release now may wind up hurting them later in the season.
02/06/2025
Federal Judge Deals Another Blow to Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
A federal judge in Seattle has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction to block President Trump’s effort to end automatic citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants.
The decision came a day after a judge in Maryland issued a nationwide injunction against President Trump’s executive order seeking to ban birthright citizenship.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s federal government employee buyout
Trump’s Gaza plans fall flat with GOP lawmakers
Trump imposes sanctions on ICC, accusing it of targeting US and Israel
China’s retaliatory tariffs will hurt Trump-voting counties most
In the current case, China has announced retaliatory tariffs on a total of 80 different manufactured and energy products that the U.S. exports there. China will place 15% tariffs on a set of energy exports, including coal, natural gas, and petroleum; and 10% tariffs on 72 manufactured products or parts including trucks, motor homes, and agricultural machinery. These 80 products correspond with 14 different six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries in the U.S.
Similar to the 2018 tariffs, the industrial heartland is again bearing a disproportionate impact from Chinese retaliation. Some of the most intensely affected counties are energy and manufacturing communities in North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and West Virginia.
02/05/2025
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and call for permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit. Trump, who has previously threatened Greenland and Panama and suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, added Gaza to his expansionist agenda, claiming that it could become the “Riviera of the Middle East”. He declined to rule out sending US troops to make it happen.
While his announcement looked formal and thought-out — he read the plan from a sheet of paper — his administration had not done even the most basic planning to examine the feasibility of the idea, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
02/04/2025
Trump Ratchets Up Tariffs on China, Drawing Swift Response From Beijing
Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
The U.S. Economy Is Racing Ahead. Almost Everything Else Is Falling Behind.
02/03/2025
Mexico Reaches Deal With U.S. to Delay Trump Tariffs
Canada Follows Mexico in Reaching Deal to Delay Trump Tariffs
Markets Whipsaw in Response to Trump’s Chaotic Tariff Rollout
Canadian fans boo U.S. national anthem at NBA matchup as tariff dispute heats up
Elon Musk’s 19- to 24-year-old aides take control of $6 trillion in government payments
Trump to target UN rights body and Palestinian relief agency
02/02/2025
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order
Trump warns Americans that tariffs may cause ‘pain’
US egg prices expected to climb further as farmers strained by bird flu outbreak. As of 24 January, the wholesale price of a dozen large eggs was $7.24 in New York, $6.84 in the midwest and $8.35 in California.
02/01/2025
Trump Imposes Steep Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra.
The Los Angeles Wildfires Are Fully Contained
01/31/2025
WSJ called Trump tariffs The Dumbest Trade War in History
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Trump blamed Biden and DEI for the air collision without any evidence.
Second judge blocks Trump’s federal aid funding freeze
01/30/2025
01/29/2025
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
01/28/2025
Trump ordered to block the government from disbursing funds authorized by Congress for a range of programs, potentially seizing power from the legislative branch to wield greater say in public spending.
Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid spending to review it for any conflicts with his priorities, making exceptions for military assistance to Israel and Egypt.
01/27/2025
Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations
01/24/2025
Trump summarily dismissed as many as 17 inspector generals, the most important guardians of integrity in the federal government, who search for fraud and abuse and assure taxpayers that their money is being properly spent. Trump’s action violated the Inspector General Act that requires 30-day notice to Congress along with the detailed reasons for the termination.
Trump Fires Three Inspectors With Oversight on Food Agencies
Those fired include Phyllis Fong, USDA inspector, who was nominated by President George W. Bush and had been on the job for 22 years; Christi Grimm in the Dept. of Health and Human Services, parent of the FDA, who was appointed by President Biden; and EPA Inspector Sean O’Donnell, who was appointed by Trump himself during his first term.
Pete Hegseth was confirmed the defense secretary by 51-50 (the lowest on in history) to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and aggressive behavior toward women.
01/23/2025
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship
Trump’s freeze on health agency communications leads to cancellation of scientific meetings
01/20/2025
- Took oath without placing his hand on the bible.
- Inauguration ceremony with six richest people. Net worth of Trump inauguration attendees tops $1 trillion with world’s richest in the crowd
90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy.
Withdraw from the World Health Organization, or WHO. It also rescinds a prior executive order that coordinated the federal government’s COVID-19 response efforts and implemented processes to respond to emerging pandemics.
This reinstates a prior executive order President Trump signed near the end of his first administration, which reclassified career federal employees into a new category of political appointees. This reclassification removes these employees’ civil service protections, which insulated them from political pressures, so that they may now be fired at will.
As he did in his first administration, Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and the Biden administration’s U.S. International Climate Finance plan.
Denies citizenship to certain U.S.-born children whose parents are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Pause for 75 days on a law banning TikTok and to provide a liability shield to business partners of the popular video app.
Immediate removal of those in the United States without legal status. He orders agencies to enforce removal orders, criminalize unauthorized entry into the U.S., extend the Department of Homeland Security’s presence in all 50 states, and construct detention facilities for those awaiting removal proceedings.
Freezes the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program starting Jan. 27, suspending refugee admissions and applications. During this time, refugees may only be admitted into the U.S. on a case-by-case basis through a joint decision by the secretary of state and the secretary of homeland security.
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