DAGR Weekly Reader W1-MAR
“156,160 people in my district receive $286,000,000 a month to live on.”
~ Rep. Al Green, TX-18, explaining his disruption of Congress. That’s $22,400 a year, almost enough to live on in the US.
Musk’s Purges Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people. With contracts officially ended, therapeutic food shipments are sitting on shipping docks in the US, while infants and nursing mothers in the world’s poorest countries go without food.
The New Republic, Mar 1, 2025
A Compendium of Cuts, Gaffes, Threats as DOGE Steamrolls
Heather Cox Richardson, a go-to for accurate research and reporting, totes up the DOGE cuts of the week. She also notes the overlooked EOs that portend more of the same. It’s a wildfire, spreading not unlike the ones raging in the Carolinas.
Letters from an American, Mar 3, 2025
Trump and the US Conservative Counter-Revolution
This radical transformation of American governance, far from being an impromptu imitative, represents the culmination of nearly a century of meticulously laid groundwork by conservative elites.
Jerome Gygax, Counterpunch, Mar 4, 2025
An Unexpected Message Appeared in a Snow Report. What Happened Next?
A snow conditions update at Sugarbush featured an employee’s thoughts on the Trump administration before a visit from JD Vance. The posts were deleted, but she kept her job.
GIFT LINK, New York Times, Mar 5, 2025
Rep. Larson Announces Legislative Response to Trump-Musk Attacks on Social Security
Got an hour? You won’t want to spend it listening to Democrat representatives presenting their bill to protect Social Security. BUT? But you’ll be pulled into it, because they do NOT just blab on. They share numbers, recipients, benefits, and they do NOT back off. Solid!
House of Representatives presser, YouTube, Mar 6, 2025
Democrats Should “Do Something.” And They Are.
The opposition party doesn’t have to form a circular firing squad. What they have been doing is working.
Bill Scher, politics editor, Washington Monthly, March 7, 2025
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