by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | The Guardian
The American Accountability Foundation publishes pictures of federal workers it wants fired online. Plus, Spain scorns Israeli claim that it should take in Palestinians for opposing its war in Gaza
Good morning.
A rightwing group behind
it wants the Trump administration to fire has been funded by the Heritage Foundation, the thinktank behind Project 2025.
What relation did the Trump campaign have with Project 2025? Before the election, it said it would not hire from it – but it has since staffed the government with people with ties to the project.
How have they reacted? Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares,
. “Gazans’ land is Gaza and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state,” he said.
by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | The Guardian
The president’s Gaza proposal is a signal that old-school, blunt-force US expansionism seems to be back in fashion
Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take ownership of the Gaza Strip, expel and resettle the people there, and turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” has outraged Palestinians, shocked the international community and even confused many of his own conservative voters.
Yet the
seems like yet another sign that the president, while sometimes
himself from the neoconservative foreign policies that entangled the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, is willing to
– or at least entertain pursuing – an undisguised US imperialism that has more in common with the expansionism of Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson, the 19th and early-20th century presidents associated with some of American’s most brazen and violent conquests.
by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | The Guardian
Further developments also expected in birthright legal cases and Trump’s trade representative will face his Senate confirmation hearing
Here’s some more detail on that executive order President Trump signed on Wednesday banning transgender athletes from taking part in women’s sports.
The order said it was intended to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports”.
by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | The Guardian
Heritage Foundation gave the American Accountability Foundation $100,000 for list focusing on homeland security
A rightwing group that has created a series of blacklists to target federal workers it believes the Trump administration should fire has received funding for the project by the thinktank behind Project 2025.
A recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation called the “DEI Watch List” includes mostly people of color with roles in government health roles alleged to have some tie to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees in career roles who “cannot be trusted to faithfully execute the agenda of the elected President of the United States”. One calls out the “most subversive immigration bureaucrats”.
by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | The Guardian
- Butler sent to Warriors as Wiggins heads to Heat in deal
- Hostile breakup between Miami and star ends with trade
Jimmy Butler got what he wanted. He’s being traded out of Miami and got a new contract in the process.
The Heat and the Golden State Warriors have agreed on a deal that sends Butler to the Bay Area, a person with knowledge of the talks said Wednesday. Butler helped carry the Heat to the NBA finals twice, long before a hostile breakup that saw him suspended three times by the team in January.
