Dan Ponder

Oh please. It’s not “kids” he thinks can make do with less—it’s GIRLS. Girls can scrape by with fewer toys, rights, opportunities, less healthcare. Girl needs? Clearly optional. It isn’t ignorance—it’s weaponized misogyny wrapped in a smug little soundbite. Sit down, manboy. Preferably in silence.

A screenshot of a tweet from the White House with a photo of Latino men being walked across the border with a caption of “Na na na na na na, hey hey hey, good bye.”

Even if these deportees were violent criminals—but there’s been no due process, so who knows—the schadenfreude celebration of their deportation is childish, racist, and makes clear that the policy is not about security, it’s to stoke in-group enthusiasm for racial status hierarchy. It’s gross.

WOW! The Economist’s cover:

“Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America."

a typical function of this type of address is to ask Congress for legislation. Trump hasn't asked Congress for much and has acted like executive orders are a substitute. They are not, and this behavior is very alarming.

This speech is so divorced from reality that were a normal person to exhibit similar behavior they would be institutionalized.

This current Social Security riff by Trump is completely debunked 100% total made-up BS. No president has EVER lied this baldly from the podium. And Vance, Johnson, and the whole GOP just nod and go along with it.

"The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over!"

But the days of rule by unelected plutocrats are just beginning.

Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

Some of the surveillance overreach in the 1960s and 1970s was because LBJ and Nixon were positive that the anti-war movement just *had* to be driven by Soviet Communist operatives. It wasn't. (Reminder: this is when we thought the Soviet Union was bad.)

Trump’s opponents see a sweeping crackdown on free speech In an effort to stamp out “woke” racial and gender messages, critics say, the president is running afoul of the First Amendment.

Free speech is under threat www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

-DEI funding ban
-School "gender ideology" ban
-Gulf of America renaming
-AP White House ban
-FCC Comcast DEI warning
-VA pride flag ban
-DOJ Rep. Garcia letter
-Des Moines Register lawsuit
-White House press pool control

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

👇 This.

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights.

Happening right now. Right in front of us.

As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team says: So what? “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said.

One could use a variety of social science terms to describe what’s going on, but perhaps the simplest explanation is that the Trump White House is run by assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Why would a little boy say, “Shut the fuck up” if he wanted someone to be quiet? Was there someone in his life who maybe repeatedly said that to him? Also, where would he get the idea that Trump *isn’t* the President? Did someone also say that repeatedly to him?

For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast The deals market had its quietest January in a decade, curtailed by the uncertainty delivered in the president’s first weeks.

Oh wow who could have ever have predicted this would happen. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

"Any hint of the selective suspension of congressionally authorized payments will be a breach of trust and ultimately, a form of default. And our credibility, once lost, will prove difficult to regain."

This Kansas City Chiefs player's Super Bowl outfit carries special meaning Many of the players in Sunday's Super Bowl will arrive at the stadium dressed to the nines. But one — Kansas City wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins — will be wearing something extra special.

Many of the players in Sunday's Super Bowl will arrive at the stadium dressed to the nines. But one — Kansas City wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins — will be wearing something extra special.

Jess Piper on Substack …

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The report that the Archivist of the US has been fired was premature when ABC reported it yesterday. Tonight, unfortunately, it is accurate.

A petty, pathetic move - and not even correctly targeted. It won’t make people forget Mr Trump’s flagrant violations of the law - just the opposite.

🧐Think of the federal government as a car...election like getting car serviced....when you come (back) the mechanics, who don’t look like mechanics, tell you they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money... that this was efficient... And you should thank them.

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Elon Musk’s agenda takes aim at all of us including those who voted for Trump.

Right now there are thousands of angry people as far as the eye can see at the treasury wondering who the hell elected Musk President?

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!

she shouts into the void

Jess Piper on Substack Keep the faith…this is Springfield, Missouri. Video via Ashley Cossins.

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