PRESENTED BY MINCED OATHS

The capital of the United States, under siege by an ongoing coup by a pro-apartheid South African billionaire, is covered by a blanket of snow, accurately predicted by the civil servants in the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, who Trump wants to traumatize and destroy. As the snow began to fall, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and several House members stood with activists to oppose the war on NOAA, as I reported live on my Bluesky feed.

The snow succeeded in slowing down the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard to be the first openly compromised Director of National Intelligence, but Congress is back in session on schedule today.

Senate Democrats on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, led by ranking member Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), have blocked the nomination hearing of Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be Secretary of Labor until next week. However, Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is not pushing back on the nomination hearing of personal Trump lawyer Todd Blanche to be Deputy Attorney General and Trump-Fox-Vance stooge Gail Slater to be Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Though he did get hot in his opening statement, getting all the way to “Honest to goodness!”

At any moment, we may be hearing “Gee willikers!”

I believe “Heavens to Murgatroyd” is considered a violation of Senate norms, however.

Yowie! The Senate Budget Committee is starting to mark up the budget, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a hearing about invading Greenland, the heads of the National Labs testify before the House Science Committee, and MTG’s DoGE subcommittee holds its first hearing. Fed chair Jerome Powell reports on Trump’s destruction of U.S. economic stability, and House Natural Resource GOP will talk about their plans to turn the U.S. over to the polluters, for Pete’s sake.

RALLY TIME: At noon local time in DC, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco, workers of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are protesting their dangerous and unconstitutional dismissal, and at 4 pm at the Capitol, the National Education Association is rallying on behalf of students and public schools. Shut the door!

Bookmarks For the Coup

As promised, here are some useful bookmarks for tracking the goshforsaken coup:

• Project 2025 Tracker
  This open-source effort tracking 290 Project 2025 initiatives finds it’s already more than a quarter of the way complete.

• ProPublica: DOGE Tracker
  Quick biographies of Elon Musk’s demolition crew.

• Hamilton Project: Federal Expenditures in Real Time
  See exactly when USAID spending went to zero, disruptions in food-stamp payments, and more, while the U.S. Treasury still provides information to the public on Trump’s unconstitutional spending freezes.

• Democracy 2025: Response Center
  This national civil-society coalition is tracking the Trump administration’s unconstitutional actions and supporting the legal response.

• Just Security: Litigation Tracker
  This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.

• USAID Stop-Work
  Tracking the number of jobs lost, now at 11,322 in the U.S. and 51,848 globally confirmed, with estimated losses much higher.

• Accountability Lab: Global Aid Freeze Tracker
  Tracking organizational budget losses, including over 100 with a total loss of budget.

• New York Times: How Each Senator Has Voted on Trump’s Nominees
  John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has opposed only two nominees on the floor, followed by Maine’s Angus King, the Democratic senators of New Hampshire and Arizona, Tim Kaine of Virginia and John Hickenlooper of Colorado. No Democratic senator has voted against all of Trump’s nominees.

Gadzooks!

Hearings on the Hill:

• 9:30 AM: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
  Markup of Disaster Loan Bills, Cutting SBA Headquarters Staff, and Committee Rules

• 10 AM: Senate Budget Committee
  Markup of Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution - Day 1

• 10 AM: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
  The Arctic and Greenland’s Geostrategic Importance to U.S. Interests

• 10 AM: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
  RESCHEDULED: Nomination of Lori M. Chavez-DeRemer to serve as Secretary of Labor

• 10 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
  Advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration Technologies and Ensuring Effective Implementation of the USE IT Act

• 10 AM: House Financial Services Committee
  The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report

• 10 AM: House Judiciary Committee
  Twitter Files: Elon Musk's Conspiracy-Theory Attack on the Biden Administration

• 10 AM: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
     Energy Subcommittee
  From Transformative Science to Technological Breakthroughs: DOE’s National Laboratories

• 10 AM: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
     Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee
  Improper Payments

• 10 AM: House Natural Resources Committee
  Markup of Water, Conservation, and Grazing Bills, and the Committee Authorization and Oversight Plan

• 10:15 AM: Senate Judiciary Committee
  Nomination Hearing: Gail Slater for Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust, and Todd Blanche for Deputy Attorney General

• 2:30 PM: Senate Indian Affairs Committee
  Native Communities’ Priorities for the 119th Congress

Climate Action Today:

• 12 PM: CFPB Union
  Save Our CFPB: Stand Up For CFPB Workers Who Were Illegally Fired

• 4 PM: National Education Association
  Rally to Protect Students and Public Schools

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