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A coup by any other name

On January 31, 2025

At 6:49 pm

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Following up on Cheryl’s post, several developments today are alarming in the extreme, and very well could be characterized as a coup, or at least the beginnings of one:

This story is bananas."A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 … They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T20:41:44.746Z

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup— Kevin Elliott (@kjephd.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T23:30:34.591Z

Donald Trump’s administration is expected to soon fire “dozens” of FBI agents who probed him and those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol.
The would-be purge may be carried out as soon as Friday, CNN reports, which would be less than two weeks into the 78-year-old’s second White House term.

I’m sitting at this moment next to a woman, a former student of mine, who is the chief legal policy person of an energy company, who is trying to figure out what to do about the $300 million in DOE grants to her employer that have been “frozen.” Without even seeing what I was blogging about she asked me what I thought about the coup. So yeah.