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Shifting pandemic data collection from an expert government agency to a White House has politicized science, undermines experts, and still maintains Trump's inauguration had the largest ever crowd is a terrible, horrible, no good very bad idea.
The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning on Wednesday [7/15/20].
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BE SMART ABOUT is an ongoing series at Smart Dissent but truthfully we haven't added to it in likely more than a year. We continue to report on the horrific people populating the Trump Swamp but without doing an official entry to the series. We've got one to add today and Trump's only got a few months months to add swamp creatures for us to research fortunately.
The arrival of a new political appointee is spawning confusion and concern at the U.S. Agency for International Development....
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The Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones.... by literally turning off the printers that print the documents.
There are more than 100,000 immigrants here legally, whom USCIS approved for new green cards or work authorizations and they can't get their "papers" because USCIS literally turned off the printers without telling anyone
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In March 2020, Trump "waived the driver fatigue rules for trucks carrying food, masks, gloves, and other items essential to addressing the coronavirus pandemic." Six days later, a mother of two and her dog were crushed by a driver 16 hours into his shift.
Investigators said afterward that Singh had been driving for more than 16 hours straight, without rest. Normally, that would be illegal — a violation of federal rules designed to keep trucking companies from pushing their drivers to dangerous levels of fatigue. But that day it wasn’t.
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Another pillar of the FBI’s independence wrecked by Bill Barr's Department of Justice, working on behalf of Trump, not the American people.
After a 38-year career with the Justice Department, the FBI's top lawyer Dana Boente was [forced] to resign on [May 30, 2020].
Two sources familiar with the decision to dismiss Boente said it came from high levels of the Justice Department rather than directly from FBI Director Christopher Wray.