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Jon, a local Marine veteran, is sounding the alarm on one of Trump’s dangerous new executive orders. Listen to what Jon has to say, and please spread the word.

We've read your comments about the eugenics undertones in Trump and RFK Jr.’s rhetoric. As public health experts, we share your concerns. Let’s take a moment to break this down. 🧵

Taxes pay for nothing. The idea of paying "your fair share" is a lie, and the sooner we stop telling ourselves it, the faster we can actually get to a tax policy that makes sense for everyone.

Long read, but more informative than any economics class I was required to take in high school.

This wouldn’t be happening if movie adaptations of Annie hadn’t insisted on cutting the banger that is We’d Like To Thank You Herbert Hoover 😒

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW ), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?

We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.

Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”

Until the “illegal” is you. #3E

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

We have to talk about the absolutely insane CR the GOP has proposed.

This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:

“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."

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The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

A German woman, Jessica Bröscheis, is being held hostage and tortured by the US at Otay Mesa Detention Center. She was illegally detained upon entry while possessing valid paperwork and a return ticket. Trump's ICE troopers claim she "planned to work", however has no proof.

Do not travel to the US.

Yep. No purchases, no FB or Insta (never had Twitter), switched to DuckDuckGo for web searches. I already switched to shopping predominantly at Costco rather than places like Walmart or Target.

The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.

Alt text: A tweet from Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) posted at 5:00 PM on February 25, 2025. The tweet states that Tulsi Gabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify employees who participated in the NSA’s "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms. The memo also calls for terminating their employment and revoking their security clearances, with a deadline set for Friday. The tweet has 254.7K views, 397 replies, 3K retweets, 12K likes, and 335 bookmarks.

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.

This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

The forced-birth party wants to defund nearly 40% of the births in Missouri…

The more you know…

What Musk's war on federal workers owes to Gamergate, the long-ago troll tantrum Culture war for the stupid era kicked off with video gamers mad at ladies who have sex

.@amandamarcotte.bsky.social with a searing portrait of the DOGE bros dismembering the US government. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email.

Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.

Consider... tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people are losing their government jobs. Jobs that may have taken up to a year to secure. They bought homes, cars, started families.

No income now to make payments or feed babies.

How does that help our economy?

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

I too must concur with Greg.

“Operation Whirlwind”

What’s Happening Now?
In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

I didn’t grow up saying “with liberty and justice for all” every fucking day to accept anything less

This is the most dangerous move yet The canary is gasping for air

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

VACCINES SAVE LIVES

Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide.

Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5.

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