Why We Have Due Process Here’s a textbook explanation for why due process is so important: the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador, who was included on the third plane full of aliens the Trump admin...

Why We Have Due Process open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump administration to drop lawsuit against Louisiana petrochemical plant, AP sources say The Trump administration plans to drop a federal lawsuit against a synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of worsening cancer risks for residents near its Louisiana plant, according to two sources fami...

This was literally announced today.

"Make American Healthy Again." apnews.com/article/trum...

YouTube video by NBC News Watch Zelenskyy's Full Address To Congress

Zelenky stood in front of the American government, in the seat of our democracy, and thanked our entire nation. Every farmer, teacher, engineer, nurse, and cop. Thanked us on behalf of his entire country. youtu.be/7gjwlCe5T6M?...

I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve broken something and then gamely tried to at least pretend to glue it back together.

Capitulation does not work against that mindset. You give a pound of flesh, he will try to take five. You have to know what you stand for and who stands with you. Ukraine and Europe need to determine how they can survive not only without the US, but with the US at best neutral at worst adversarial

This mirrors how Trump governs at home. If you believe in any values proposition, if you are vulnerable in any way, if you don't serve a particular interest of his, you aren't just disposable - you are the enemy.

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

The US is now on the side of the big, autocratic, nationalist countries against the democracies. A world of transaction, drained of values, in which might makes right if you are big and the small are expected to capitulate.

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

Exclusive: “Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon…”

www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Intentionally or unintentionally, the White House doing stuff like this is going to leave the impression that was an ambush, which might do even more damage to America's international reputation than what just unfolded.

These are things that made America great. 💔

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

Exclusive from my colleagues: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Reporter: Do you still think Zelenskyy is a dictator?

Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question

Jeffries: "This budget is a betrayal of working-class Americans... We only need 3 House Republicans -- there are 215 Democrats in the House - we only need 3 to stand up on behalf of their constituents, and that is going to be an ongoing effort over these next few days, to identify those individuals"

Ukraine should not have worn such a provocative outfit.

Elon Musk--a special U.S. government employee in the White House--has gone all-in to help the AfD in Germany. On behalf of the anti-fascist majority of the American people, I say to the people of Germany: Please ignore him or reject him. He does not speak for America.

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

History will not be kind to those who are helping him, especially those who call themselves Reagan Republicans while they pretend not to see what’s happening.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

He's never worked a day in government.

Yet he gets to decide what is wasteful and what is fraud?

Is a program that provides lifesaving medications to our impoverished allies "wasteful"?

Is one that feeds starving kids "fraud"?

He decides. An unelected oligarch decides our values.

...

“Trump has packed so much illegal, unconstitutional, lawless activity into three-and-half weeks that the press, politicians, and many Americans have already forgotten or normalized activity that can only be described as a coup.” — Robert Hubbell Newsletter Feb. 13, 2025

Trump and Musk’s attack on USAid is causing global chaos. Millions of lives are now at risk | Devi Sridhar On top of the human cost, the US’s soft power and influence is disappearing. Russia and China will fill the void Amid the daily troubling news coming from the United States are the ongoing and increasingly damaging efforts by President Donald Trump,…

Trump and Musk’s attack on USAid is causing global chaos. Millions of lives are now at risk | Devi Sridhar

Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’ Agency says reporter not allowed to go to signing in effort to ‘punish’ its style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico The Associated Press said it was barred from sending a reporter to Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing in an effort to…

Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’

Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts US government auditors find cuts have ‘degraded USAid’s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance’

DOGE's chaos isn't preventing waste — it's causing it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

TOTE ASTRICT COLOR DOCTORS FOR AMERICA, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al., Defendants. ORDER Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8] Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that 1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1]; 2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall, by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

So we moved over to blue sky.

Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat

REPORTER: What were the terms of this deal?

TRUMP: Very fair. Very very fair. Very reasonable. Not like deals you've seen over the years.

REPORTER: What were they?

TRUMP: And somebody else is being released tomorrow

NO ONE voted to cut cancer research.