One of the more galling aspects of the Liberation Day nonsense is that they couldn’t even find it within themselves to delay the 45% tariffs on Myanmar, which is currently dealing with an earthquake that killed more than 3,000 people and displaced countless more on Friday.

So good. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today:
www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Social Security Says DOGE Ruling Could Force Agency to Shut Down The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions of beneficiaries caught in the middle of the legal battle.

The Trump regime is threatening to shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a court ruling blocking DOGE from further infiltrating the agency.

If your Social Security check is late or doesn't arrive at all, remember who is to blame.

Climate change indicators blinking red as Earth continues to warm A new report illustrates how fundamentally and quickly the planet is warming.

A new scientific report depicts a rapidly warming Earth, with widespread consequences such as sea level rise, melting glaciers and extreme weather events.

Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

America, say hello to your newly appointed Deputy FBI Director.

It’s an epidemic that needs to be contained.

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

Shit myself
Got cleaned by Marco
Round of Golf
Shit myself
Got cleaned up by Marco
Round of Golf
Shit myself
Got cleaned up by Marco
Masturbated with tweezers
Went to bed
Shit the bed
Got cleaned up by Marco

Rinse and repeat.

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.”

Beyond parody.

11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says ‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Jamie Raskin:

"Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.”

Amen!!

“At least Russia has elections”

Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999.

If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

I read “Cheeto Benito” the other day, which I thought was apt.

Trump White House Harassment of the Associated Press Cannot Stand News organizations must present a united front against an attempt to stifle the free press

My latest on Substack: Trump WH harassment of the Associated Press cannot stand. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Wow, this is outrageous! DOGE claims they found fraud where 150 year olds were receiving Social Security! What a joke these incompetent, inexperienced folks running this department are! #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

Inside the Anti-Democratic Movement That Restored Trump to Power An excerpt from “Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy” lifts the curtain on Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement.

An excerpt from “Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy” lifts the curtain on the authoritarian movement that restored Donald Trump to power.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Our parks are in chaos. We’ve seen firsthand how Trump’s hiring freeze, the rescinding of hundreds of job offers, and the layoff of 5% of NPS staff have left us overwhelmed and short-handed.

"stop posting about politics, toaster boy" people say as shit like this keeps happening.

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

Pretty damn good framing for Dems