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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Holy shit. India’s Foreign Secretary just shut down Trump’s claim he brokered peace between India and Pakistan. Modi told him: “There was never any discussion… about a trade deal or U.S. mediation… India has neither accepted mediation, nor does it do so—and never will.”

Brutal.

Graphic with Trump and an upside-down, tattered flag. Text: "Republicans Just Voted to End Democracy"

While Americans are reeling from the House vote to gut Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP, there's a hidden landmine buried in the bill that could destroy what's left of our democracy.

This tiny provision would remove the judiciary’s capacity to hold officials in contempt and enforce judicial orders.

1/3

Tear off the masks when they show up. Take their photos. Get them on video. Expose them. Out them. Name them.

They need to be made into pariahs where decent people gather.

We cannot allow them to terrorize us.

Eyes open. Phones on.

100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises.

But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.

It's up to us to demand something better.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme."

Un-fucking-real.

DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Policy texts, before and after included below.

www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

This.

Isn’t class action a civil lawsuit? Not criminal?

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Genuine question because Google is returning trash right now - a friend of mine who cares deeply about Gaza and refused to vote in the election swears that Biden is guilty of genocide. Is he? What the hell is she talking about?

I love the idea but suspect Michelle would kill him if he tried.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

A warning for workers: The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies. Tens of thousands of workers were put on notice that officials will not tolerate efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.”

The Snitch State: inform on your colleagues if they think of hiring people who aren’t white

Trump officials ask US health agencies to pause external communications, Washington Post reports The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a dozen current and former officials and sources.

NEW: Trump orders federal health agencies to STOP communicating health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites, and to stop making social media posts. I said previously I was worried about the lack of reporting. Here it is. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

Trump operative Charlie Kirk in 2020: TikTok is an ‘evil CCP-compromised’ app. Ban it!!

Charlie Kirk today: Shame on President Biden for signing the Republican-led bill to ban TikTok into law. I’m glad Trump is going to save this great app

Whatever the dear leader says. It's a cult

Don’t insult Jack handey like that.

Do you have any way of protecting it from being used to “train AI?”

President of the United States

Ah. So calling all women crazy is also cool. They’re hitting all the high notes, aren’t they? Bless their little hearts.

I’m so tired of him as well.

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.

You are entitled to your own opinion.

You are not entitled to your own facts.

Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.