Trump and Musk have shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development and cut off nearly all foreign aid.
This will have devastating consequences for global health, global democracy, and the future of American soft power.
He has also pardoned over a thousand violent insurrectionists and now seems ready to fire hundreds of FBI agents who helped prosecute them.
His administration is waging an all-out war against trans people and seems on the verge of all but ending gender-affirming care for minors.
As I write this, American planes are flying migrants to Guantánamo Bay, where they will be held in a concentration camp.
Even then, this is just a fraction of the horror that has been unleashed over the last two weeks.
As TechDirt’s Mike Masnick put it, the past fortnight has been like “a distributed denial of service attack on people who believe in reality. »