Younger people will be shocked to hear this, but way back when I grew up, anytime you saw a movie where some government official stopped someone on the street and demanded to see their identification papers, that was supposed to let you know they were the *bad* guys.

I guarantee by next week, in exchange for tariff relief, Trump will be demanding from companies political donations to far right causes, rollbacks of DEI, purging LGBTQ employees, and cessation of funding to civil society orgs that support progressive causes.

🚨🚨🚨🧐

Today's WSJ editorial on Trump's tariffs:

“The end of US economic leadership.”

I had legit completely forgotten this.

Marjorie Trailer Greene is concerned with decorum all of a sudden. 🥴

-The Question: How the hell did we get here?
-The Answer: Citizens United.

I saw a video of known alcoholic Pete Hegseth drinking multiple scotches in the middle of a televised presser and started laughing so hard I began coughing as I believe we're less than 2 weeks removed from him promising never to drink a single time as Secretary of Defense and nothing matters anymore

Judge temporarily blocks Musk’s ‘Doge’ team from accessing treasury records Injunction granted in response to lawsuit alleging the Trump administration allowed Musk’s team access to sensitive data in violation of federal law

“This unelected group, led by the world’s richest man, is not authorized to have this information, and they explicitly sought this unauthorized access to illegally block payments that millions of Americans rely on, payments for health care, childcare and other essential programs,” James said

Dear @Doge

If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

Weird.
It's almost like someone recently broke into the OMB office and stole some Federal employee information and then leaked some of it online.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are jeopardizing America's national security.

Rep Olszewski: "Prison guards overseeing thousands of ISIS combatants in Syria walked off the job after their pay was frozen until a waiver was thrown together after the fact.”

Happens every time.

US products are now no longer safe to procure for anyone.

From the other place but VERY IMPORTANT FACT:

Call them want they really are: HACKERS

This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit!

They are boy hackers! Plain and simple

This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

Respectfully (and I genuinely mean this), I’ve never heard a single regular person ask for “bipartisanship.” That’s inside nonsense.

They want things to work.

If the other party refuses to work for people, be the ones who will. Fight for people. Make it plain who isn’t, and who THEY’RE for.

Is #ElonMuskIsANazi trending yet?

SCOTUS Tik Tok ruling says that the ban must be upheld because they are data scraping Americans like Twitter and Meta lol.
Zuckerberg and Musk lobbied HARD to get this ban implemented and just goes to show how bought and paid for the courts are now by the oligarchs.
America is a corporation now.

Smaller venues will make it look like more crowded.

ICE Warns Republicans’ Racist Immigration Bill Is a Total Bust Not even U.S. immigration officials think the Laken Riley Act is a good idea.

A new memo from ICE has been circulating in Senate offices that spells out the staggering cost of carrying out the bill if it were signed into law: $86 billion over three years, far exceeding House Republicans’ estimate last week of $3 billion per year.

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

And Trump expects everyone to believe HE’S the one who’s been unfairly targeted—MAGA actually believes him.

This is spot on!