Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

Amen. Maybe Czech Republic… 🇨🇿

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

David Sipress, The New Yorker 😢

🖤🖤🕊️

Some elderly and disabled people who rely on Social Security or SSDI as their only or primary income could become homeless if this happens.

We could have been part of that.

Another strong woman speaks
the TRUTH…

U.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its website The coins are duplicates of Congressional Gold Medals issued to law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

This is oh so Soviet.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

After we published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Musk’s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers.

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

Having out of town guests over. We were going to make them a meal, as has been the custom in virtually every culture in human history, but I think instead we'll berate them, criticize their clothing choices, and demand they thank us for everything.

The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Leaders of the free world stand united in London

The United States is not among them

Thou shalt not deport hard working, good people whilst importing vile criminals like the Tate brothers and still claim you have morals.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.

Here are our 5 bullet points of what we did this week; keep in mind that NASA receives less than 1% of the entire federal budget.

1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀

1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus

phys.org/news/2025-02...

RFK Jr.’s Mental Health Bait and Switch The newly anointed HHS secretary is weaponizing legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric care to gut public services, abandon poor and disabled people, and expand the police state.

What is “fascist anti-psychiatry,” you ask? I’ve got an essay for you.
newrepublic.com/article/1918...

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0