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So…lock them up?

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

HOLD THE LINE @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com

A clean CR does not cut NIH, VA, Medicaid, it continues current funding. A clean CR doesn't retroactively approve Musk's actions and give him a blank check for the future.

No CR that includes cuts. No CR while Musk is rampaging.

Note to the media: You don’t have to cover the White House the way they want you to, ya know. You don’t have to regurgitate their propaganda, go to their press events, play by their rules, cover them like past White Houses that respected a free press and an independent media. So don’t.

“We cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller

Like my son says, "Her brain could explode, and it wouldn't even mess up her hair."

With Trump saying the tariffs on Canada and Mexico will happen, this is a great tutorial on our energy use ans what we buy and sell

Follow @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social. He cuts through the misinformation and spits out the facts

Did you see this one from Marc Elias‬ ‪@marcelias.bsky.social‬:

This is how I would respond ... (not legal advice).

1. Refused to violate the law.
2. Refused to violate the Constitution.
3. Refused to bow or scrape.
4. Refused to bend a knee.
5. Deleted this stupid email.

I took this picture on my last visit to Detroit.

Canada will not stand idly by while we are being bullied by the Felon.

No we will not backdown. #FAFO

#SorryNotSorry
#BoycottUSA
#CanadaUnited

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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We need to make #CourageIsContagious a trending hashtag and amplify these acts of integrity, bravery, and fidelity to the rule of law. Thank you, SDNY attorneys, for leading by example

Oh my god, Ukraine dipped the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet into the world of shit with $270,000 naval drones and sank its fucking flagship with two obsolete missiles -- and the largest naval power of all time that has 11 carrier strike groups says it's not prepared to face Russia at sea?

This one weird trick could save the American people $8 million a day in perpetuity: cancel all government contracts with Elon Musk

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

DA Alvin Bragg should launch an investigation into this immediately.

A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

Where can I get some?

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

📌QUESTION: How can a private citizen, with zero govt. clearance be walking through the doors of OUR federal departments and the treasury, ransacking the places, stealing information, and NOBODY is stopping him?

📌And what the fuck is law enforcement doing right now?

📌THIS IS A COUP.

Hey. Here are the names of the unauthorized dudes who are creeping into government computers:

The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

These are the DOGE boys.

CALL YOUR REPS FIRST THING!! Musk should be arrested!!!

BREAKING NEWS The California Department of Education Responds to President Trump's Executive Order on What Can Be Taught in Schools "President Trump signed an executive order today that does nothing but require the Secretary of Education to determine what federal education funds can legally be rescinded as a penalty for teaching curricula that President Trump finds objectionable. We can give the Trump Administration that answer right now: nothing. It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach by threatening to defund essential public services for students. School curriculum should not vacillate back and forth depending on the occupant of the White House, which is why federal law [bold]already prohibits[/bold] the federal government from leveraging grands to mandate specific instructional content in schools." CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIO

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Speaker Mike Johnson suggests 'conditions' needed on disaster aid for LA wildfires The GOP House speaker claimed California leaders “were derelict in their duty.”

Mike Johnson is threatening to condition California wildfire aid to raising the debt ceiling, which would pave the way for another round of deficit-spiking tax cuts for the wealthy.

Playing politics with people's lives to make your donors richer is reprehensible.

This.

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When billionaires exploit our broken campaign finance laws to donate a quarter of a billion dollars to a candidate, we’re no longer a democracy and it’s no longer an election — it’s an oligarchy and an auction.

We need campaign finance reform now.

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#EndCitizensUnited