Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers The Supreme Court's stay, which allows the administration to execute the firings for now while it litigates in federal court, does not mean the terminations were lawful.

JUST IN: Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers

Vance is lying (again).
Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent.
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I fucking hate to give this fucker any credit, but “I have a trade deficit with my grocery store” is as simple and straightforward as explaining why tariffs are bad gets. Dems need to run with this messaging.

If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?

No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.

Fascism is here.

Elon Musk Claims Ebola Containment Efforts Were Restored. USAID Officials Say Otherwise. The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective gear for health workers, among other measures. Work had been held up for weeks, contrary to Elon Musk’s claim on Wednesday.

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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

This is 💯 on Ebola Elon.

He caused this death.

And he lied when he said the funds were reinstated “quickly.” They were not, and all work remains stopped.
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Trump Imposes Steep Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China: Live Updates

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order placing stiff tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, setting the stage for a trade war. Follow live updates.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.

What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Russell Vought is the Project 2025 author that Trump wants to run OMB.

He also supports the illegal practice of impoundment — which Trump tried to use yesterday.

If Democrats want to be an actual opposition party, they'll do everything in their power to fight his nomination.

Trump fires US labor board member, hobbling agency amid legal battles President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.

Trump fired the NLRB's pro-worker general counsel and its acting chair.

He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize.

Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether?

Amazon and SpaceX.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Please don’t even talk to me in the morning until I’ve had my coffee, 27 hours of alone time, several months by the seaside to ease my agonies, and many decades to wander the earth until the fabled blade of my ancestors can finally be reforged

Nothing pisses-off MAGA Christians like the teachings of Jesus.

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I posted something at Facebook, about today: m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
maybe someone can convert it to some non-Facebookian format that I can tweet here.

I Do Not Obey in Advance I do not obey in advance.

To hell with Donald Trump: a r*pist, felon, traitor, and fraud who has never had a noble or decent impulse in his life.

I do not obey in advance,

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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

He didn’t put his hand on the Bible when swearing in. Probably because that would set it on fire.

To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:

This is not OK. Resist!

Black and white picture of Dr King waving to crowds on the mall at his speech.

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”

Dr MLK Jr

Picture of a pink sign on a steel door that says "REFUSE to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided." Caption reads "do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

Memes. The way I kept some semblance of sanity over in the book of faces was to post things that make me giggle. I'm continuing that here at my new virtual home.
Todays meme is just for Monday.
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Today's choral beauty.

Except in CA - we're still waiting for winter to begin!