The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

This article might dampen your weekend mood, but it's a must read.

The situation in the US government is already dire, but trying to comprehend what comes next is even more unsettling.

(above images of Jeff Bezos, Trump, and Elon Musk) After-tax incomes for everyone except the top 1% will go down under Trump's economic plan. (below the images) Billionaires get richer. 99% of Americans lose money.

They are stealing from you.

🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid. Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨 - CBPP Reported. Social Security Works put together this list (thank you from the bottom of my heart) And thank you to all that make your voices heard and pick up the phone or send an email!

🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid.

Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨

Donald Trump replacing a black four-star general with a white three-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is everything MAGA claims they hate about DEI: giving a less qualified person the job based on their race, not their resume.

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

What an international embarrassment our government of frauds and grifters is.

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Memo to journalists: There's a high likelihood the thing you are writing about does not "raise concerns" about something bad happening -- it is in fact the bad thing happening. Reevaluate your language and maybe your entire approach to the story. Tell the whole truth.

Yes!

This drives me crazy. The problem is if a journalistic org states categorically that something is a lie and there IS later evidence for it found, they know they are legally vulnerable. We definitely need a better convention for this, though -- this one is misleading.

Don't make us tap the sign. 👇

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis"

Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%

Unsure: 19%

YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

Fuck these fucking racist, misogynistic motherfuckers, man.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Poster that says don't quit don't resign stay strong and hold the line

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

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Someone should write a bot that mirrors NTSB's twitter to Bluesky. It is 100% legal to do so, the government cannot copyright its works.

That's the thing - there are, in fact, laws against most (if not all) of this. The law is not, however, a force field that prevents people from doing illegal things.

Illegal =/= can't be done

Illegal = not permitted

Unelected Bureaucrat Billionaire Commandeers Government Agency Communications via his Social Media Platform. @inquirer.com @willbunch.bsky.social @larrykrasner.bsky.social @billypenn.bsky.social

THANK YOU GOVERNOR.

This is how you do it.

Dear Dems,
STOP PLAYING NICE YOU INGNORANT FUCKS.
Sincerely,
Anyone with a brain

Shameful and murderous

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Kwame Ture once said that the idea that voting is the sole form of political responsibility is incorrect.

In fact, limiting ones self to one state approved political action every 4 years is actually rather politically irresponsible.

See how easy that is?

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.