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People don't realize how often we choose to "not exist" online for this reason. We choose to self-censor for our own safety. That's not right.

Gabrielle Giffords • @GabbyGiffords • 3h X My husband @CaptMarkKelly is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity, dedicating his career to protecting us and upholding our constitution. Today, the President of the United States called him a traitor and demanded he be Show more Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkK...• 3h I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought l'd see a President call for my execution.... • 3.7K {7 2.3K 8.9K thl 461K 企 Janette Fenway @LeesLemmas • 43m @elonmusk Why is my feed suddenly flooded with lefty lawmakers spouting nonsense? 276 • 69 贝 Elon Musk * X @elonmusk X.com Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this. 3:49 PM • 11/20/25 • 6.3K Views

An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.

Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

"The loss of knowledge from a disrupted trial can reverberate for years as a missed opportunity to improve patient care."

Such cruel stupidity, and for what?
And even if some trials' funding is restored, the trials can't just pick up where they left off.

How can we recover from this?

So, I think there's a slight chance that MAYBE Donald Trump isn't the best person to be president of America.

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

Large crowds rallied against Trump at ‘No Kings’ protests across the US. Here’s why protesters say they attended | CNN CNN field teams spoke with attendees at “No Kings” rallies across the country. Here’s what protesters had to say.

The people: turning out by the millions at thousands of protests to say No Kings.

Donald Trump: posting AI slop and knocking down White House walls for a $250 million ballroom.

The sitting president posted a video of himself dumping shit on America's own citizens for the "crime" of protesting his administration. This didn't dominate news headlines. Mainstream media danced around it. Republicans are silent.

All trans people are being barred from serving in the military, not just trans women.

Jesus Christ

“You’re funny, bro,” one officer says to another, apparently the one who used the stun gun. The officers laugh.

Another says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

As Trump closes LGBTQ+ hotline, here’s where you can still find help As of Thursday, July 17, a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBTQ+ youth at risk of suicide will be shut down.

As Trump closes LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, here’s where you can still find help

Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services.

DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.

Correct.

It's utterly bizarre that the President's own daughter-in-law, who he is pushing for a Senate seat, is conducting an "interview" and it's treated like "journalism" by a major news outlet.

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.

And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

WATCH THIS SHIT: Donald Trump flat-out admitted he hates Democrats and has zero interest in being President for anyone but his cult.

“I hate them. I can’t stand them.”

You cannot run a country when your entire personality is revenge. He’s not a leader. He’s a petty tyrant.

Trump Budget Would Slash WIC Fruit and Vegetable Benefits for Millions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities For more than 25 years, Presidents and Congresses of both parties have adhered to a commitment to provide enough funding for the WIC program — the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,...

The proposed Republican budget would slash the fruit and vegetables benefit for WIC by more than half: from $26/month for children ($47-$52/month for adults) to only $10/month per child ($13 for adults).

They are taking food from the mouths of needy children.

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-b...

We have Pride because they want us to hide.

Trump's attack on our minds reduces our capacity for self-government because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-attack-on-the-american-mind-1b0

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The acting head of FEMA, a Trump appointee, told staff today he didn’t know the U.S. has a hurricane season. FEMA is dangerously unprepared this year.

White House Unveils New Details of Stark Budget Cuts

Cutting aid to children and cancer research to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. This is why DOGE/Musk is cutting so deeply.
“targeted the nutritional program for women, infants and children…chopping funding at the National Cancer Institute by more than $2.7 billion”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states

The oligarchy's wish list.

We are angry and scared. But hopeful that these attacks on our social safety nets will turn around the many Trump-voters who need these programs.

Stunningly cruel. This administration will stoop to any depth in order to fulfill their bigoted and un-American agenda, to un-person trans people and make us despair. We are not lesser. We will remember this.

"I Gave Up Freedoms” - Trans Man Delivers Powerful Rebuke Of Military Ban “I’m sorry you haven’t gotten to know soldiers like me,” he said.

"I've trained 1000s of soldiers..." Trans man says, stunned, at being let go in the military.

Nick, a transgender man on Tiktok, is going viral today after his video shows the impact of the trans military ban on his 18 year career.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Trump will host a private dinner later this month for the top buyers of his memecoin, which has made him the world's newest crypto billionaire.

The top 25 coin buyers will get a "VIP White House tour."

Call it what it is: corruption.

Tweet from JD Vance: “The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it. The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt—not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.”

The Vice President of the United States is tweeting in support of a German far-right party with an openly neo-Nazi wing, which has called to “move beyond” historical guilt for the Holocaust.

Never, ever take these people seriously when they claim to care so deeply about antisemitism.

It's more than that, though. "Just say yes" Trump bullies, confused and angry that his browbeating doesn't work immediately.

All to preserve the lie that Abrego Garcia was justly deported (a mistake by the government's own admission). Now, tattoos constitute due process.