GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control!

GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!”

GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control

GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!”

GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?

Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.

She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.

Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
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Im still baffled daily on how even the brains of seemingly reasonable people are just broken now.

Newsom: The gloves are off. Let’s go. We’re gonna call out the bullshit. And the propaganda. And the weaponization of lies and disinformation on networks like Fox…

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

All this today, but no denial.

@npr.org why is Merrick Garland in the picture for a Trump administration story…

2017 WHAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO BE REMINDED OF, LINING HIS OWN POCKETS

Elon has chosen not to say “it wasn’t a nazi salute” for the very clear and obvious reason that it was and he wants to signal exactly what he signaled.

Apparently your job is in danger of you are vehemently anti-Nazi. But if you’re an actual Nazi you are safe and protected. Thanks America.

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand register their marriages on the first day of law giving them equal status Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand are expected to make their wedded status legal on the first day a law takes effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples.

BREAKING: LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand register their marriages on the first day of the law giving them equal status.

The enactment of the Marriage Equality Act makes Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal.

Trump's America

Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'

In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'

Jan. 6 rioter whose case was tossed after Trump pardon arrested on pending weapons charges A Florida man who prosecutors alleged attacked police with an explosive device on Jan. 6 was arrested on pending federal gun charges, according to court records.

NEW: first January 6 pardon recipient to be re-arrested. abcnews.go.com/US/jan-6-rio...

Don’t post misleading quotes. He says enough bad things without the exaggeration and commentary. Just post what he says without edits and cuts. It’s bad enough already.

US Justice Dept asks civil rights division to halt Biden era litigation, WaPo reports The U.S. Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to pause any existing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

As predicted, DOJ freezes all civil rights litigation. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The panic you're seeing on social media about this reflects how critical NIH funding is for most scientific research in the US, and relatedly the funding of universities, healthcare systems, and research organizations. Health spending constitutes 18% of GDP. NIH funding is deeply enmeshed in it.

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.

I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

Elon Musk banned this account on Twitter bc he doesn’t want ppl to know that he spends Thanksgiving with Trump rather than his own family.

~ 951 gallons (3,599 liters).
~ 6,373 lbs (2,891 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $5,325 cost of fuel.
~ 10 tons of CO2 emissions.

Reg: N628TS On Ground: True Alt: 0 Last Contact: 0:00:00.400821 Trigger: now on ground

Landed in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Apx. flt. time 1 h 53 min.