Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Broadview police are investigating.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

To those who weren’t born yet or those like me who didn’t remember, this is why we have the EPA.

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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Wisconsin peeps… please vote Susan Crawford! VOTE!

This needs to be said more and loudly.

The number of employees that may be subject to this RIF has been estimated to be as many as 80% of the staff in Region 5. This would leave vital services, such as the Great Lakes National Program Office and Enforcement inspections, understaffed.

We are also extremely disappointed at the lack of back bone in the Democratic Party during the passing of the March CR. Some very harmful items were included.
Stand up lawmakers.
Sometimes disruption is the only thing that will get peoples attention.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) called Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth a “f‑‑‑ing liar” and demanded his resignation, after the top military official repeatedly insisted he did not share classified information and war plans in an unsecured group text message.

Louis DeJoy may be gone, but Musk and Trump are still gunning to privatize the Postal Service.

That would mean higher postage prices, lower service quality, and the gutting of thousands of good-paying union jobs — all to enrich Wall Street investors.

We cannot let it happen.

JQA was a real one. basically the jimmy carter of antebellum american politics.

Screenshot of a newspaper that says The administration's and Kennedy's anti-science stance guarantees that all of us, especially children; will be at incred ible risk. Contact your senators and encourage them to oppose the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head HHS and t support science. Defend publi health. Elizabeth Jacobs is an epidemiologist and professor emerita at the University of Arizona

Everything we said would happen is happening with RFK Jr. When I say we, I mean tens of thousands of scientists and healthcare workers. RFK Jr. has hyped vitamin A over vaccines for measles, and now some kids in Texas are being treated for liver damage from vitamin A toxicity, thanks to RFK Jr.

Cartoonists stepping up.

Over 16K sign Democrat petition against Chuck Schumer: "Enough is enough" "I have not seen such uniting anger across the party in a long, long time," Charlotte Clymer, the Democrat behind the petition, said.

As thousands continue to sign the petition demanding Senate Democrats replace Mr. Schumer as leader, Newsweek has taken notice of the effort. By tomorrow evening, the petition could be at well over 20,000 signatures.

www.newsweek.com/over-15k-sig...

Only two bills have passed this year; the Laken Riley Act and the government funding bill.

The government funding bill was the 2nd Trump signed into law. Not the second that day, the 2nd bill Congress has sent to the president all year.

Here's the full email about the classified and personnel records destruction, which just hit the public record in labor groups' litigation against the Trump admin.

The groups say:

"Defendants are, as this motion is being filed, destroying documents with potential pertinence to this litigation."

“trump and white house officials have been telling GOP holdouts that they will take their constitutional power to make spending decisions”

Maybe the Sleepy President Wasn’t So Bad! When Trump said he would lower costs, we didn’t realize he meant the cost of stocks.

On Musk accusing Sen. Kelly of treason:

"Schumer needs to make an issue of it on the floor of the Senate, and Jeffries in the House. They need to challenge their Republican colleagues to denounce Musk. This is a most serious charge. It can’t be left to stand."

www.thebulwark.com/p/maybe-slee...

Facts

I didn't survive the Cold War to be killed by measles.

(If you're vintage like us, get your titres checked)

share widely and often.

Sale of state assets was what created the first generation of Russian oligarchs. They're running plays from a known playbook

Please read—this is becoming serious!

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott