Some links to Q-related items today
Trump's first month in office showed federal spending of $603 billion in February — $36 billion higher than last February.https://t.co/cFBIwYlj8C
— Axios (@axios) March 13, 2025
Inside Elon Musk's Digital Coup
—this is the result of months of investigative journalism from WIRED incredible team of reporters and gives an unprecedented view inside Musk's effort to upend US democracyhttps://t.co/pdXnjRO8ks
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) March 13, 2025
Trump forced the opening of a dam that was nowhere near Los Angeles, actively hurt local farmers, and had no role in putting out the fires that been contained a week earlier.
Other than that, yeah, big help. https://t.co/DslcOUShqJ
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) (@rothschildmd) March 13, 2025
So Trump lied about the California water? Not surprised. https://t.co/FfqY759ASn
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 14, 2025
NEW: The Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority, in the coming days, sources familiar w/ the move tell @priscialva @jmhansler & me
The move is designed to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) March 13, 2025
New from me – Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer working as the White House Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, presented himself as an attorney more than a year before he was admitted to the bar.https://t.co/Jc2lCHhmP0
— amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17) March 13, 2025
Inside Erik Prince's growing influence and reach on one of Trump's signature issues: immigration. Story w/ @ZcohenCNN + @Phil_Mattingly: https://t.co/tOPbZdlIXe
— Priscilla Alvarez (@priscialva) March 13, 2025
NASA, Yale, and Stanford scientists are considering “scientific exile” by moving to Europe to continue their research in response to Donald Trump’s anti-science policies, according to a French university.
🔗 https://t.co/PZVTcmLhG5 pic.twitter.com/GxAWMApcGu
— 404 Media (@404mediaco) March 13, 2025
Some in the online right are spreading around a post from the far-right forum 4chan "/pol/" claiming that Trump's current tariff & economic policies are essentially part of a secret plot to "lower the cost of everything." pic.twitter.com/jVYce57Ik5
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) March 13, 2025
“It wasn’t Hitler who murdered millions of people, it was his unelected bureaucrats” says world’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat. pic.twitter.com/k2lVxv6joZ
— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) March 13, 2025
Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on March 14, 2025 at 08:00
