Waiting for spring

In Baltimore over 400 people showed up last week.

We Can’t Give In to Fear From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.

If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law?

To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

An infographic titled "SOME OF THE DEPT OF EDUCATION’S KEY PROGRAMS:" featuring the U.S. Department of Education seal at the center, which includes a tree and the text "DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." Surrounding the seal are seven circular labels, each listing a key program: "School lunch programs," "Pell Grants," "Low-income school funding," "School safety programs," "Vocational training and services," "Aid for schools on federal land," and "Student debt relief programs." The background is white, and the text is in black.

This is what he signed an EO and might destroy at the Education Department.

Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Brutal.

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

We could have had Kamala!!! AGHHHHHH!!!!

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

European leaders are stepping forward to tonight to show their support for President Zelensky 👏

Sweet jeezus woman. Life owes you

It was very very clearly an ambush

Please read—this is becoming serious!

Why don’t you wear a suit?

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.

Let that sink in.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

MAGA Rages After Tom Hanks Reprises Trump Supporter Character For 'SNL' 50th Anniversary Snowflakes.

They love to dish it but they can never take it.

Not only has CMS, the agency which administers Medicare, been hit by a round of mass-firings. The people who run it haven't been told who was fired. They're having to figure that out by themselves. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-i...

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

He is firing FAA workers by the hundreds and he knows he is going to end up killing a lot of people so we get this tweet and that covers everything apparently

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

Via reddit:

NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered In recent days I have been inundated by reports out of HHS...

In its totality what's happening at HHS & NIH is a Musk/Trump effort to shutdown almost all cancer cure research in the US. No more new cures. Cancer's brand is really in the dumps. It polls terribly. This is a political argument that is straightforward to make. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

Fucking insanity.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

THIS IS SERIOUS: Republicans want to gut healthcare from millions of kids, seniors, and disabled people—all to fund $4.5T in tax cuts for billionaires.

Not just numbers on a spreadsheet—kids losing inhalers, babies missing checkups, parents choosing between food and medicine.

Hands Off My Medicaid

He’s calling people who receive federal assistance “parasites” while taking $8 million a day from U.S. taxpayers—plus another $400 million on the way for armored Teslas. What a hypocrite. This administration is full of terrible people.