We need a Democratic leader to be standing up in opposition to all of these crazy things that Trump and Vance are doing. Someone we can spiritually rally around, who opposes how they treated Zelenskyy, who opposes these insane Canadian tariffs. I feel like that voice is missing right now.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions & humiliations of all the people who cheered this in & sneered about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ etc would be absolutely hilarious.

There’s an established vocabulary for everything from honest critique to abject outrage, and Trump, like others before him, displays such utter depravity that the vocabulary just can’t cope.
(There are also, of course, plenty of quislings, traitors & apologists complicit in the depravity.)

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YouTube video by Compassion Fatigue Jordan Peterson v. Destiny: The Musical

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Dana Gould tweeted: Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did. Because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value. He just made anger. Every day. Rising, blooming & fading like a fart. Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week. Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone. Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.

Thinking about this a lot lately…🙃

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

Believe them.

(What’s “the job”? Ending our democracy, and 🇺🇸 as we know it?)

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CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices meeting, scheduled for next week, has been "postponed."

Trickle up economics.

Ukraine’s battle for freedom is the world's, too. If the rule of law is to triumph over tyranny and darkness, President Zelenskyy and his country need unwavering support.

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

JD Vance Called Me a 'Dummy' for Pointing Out His Administration's Hypocrisy on Free Speech. I Guess the Truth Hurts The vice president is busy attacking Europeans for not defending free speech while the Trump-Musk administration threatens to imprison American journalists.

"Is it any wonder that Trump has been called “America’s Hitler”? And who was it that called him that again? Oh yeah."

Me for Zeteo, responding to the VP.

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30.
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Donald Trump’s extraordinary post attacking Zelensky & parroting pro-Kremlin propaganda.

This is real. Unbelievable but real.

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

US Senator Roger Wicker, head of the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, commented on the talks with Putin:

"No, Putin cannot be trusted. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed."

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion.

Here is their statement.

The federal government is cooking the books.

This is outstanding.

In Dec '24, murders were down 16.4% from a year earlier, per Real Time Crime Index.
Every category of crime measured by the RTCI is showing a decline throughout 2024 ranging from a 2.7% decline in rape to a 22.2% decline in motor vehicle thefts.
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Defense Secretary reframing not paying his taxes as a weaponization of government is a pretty good distillation of where things are

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

1. He's right. It's asymmetric and has huge huge reach.
2. He's admitting Fox's role in the propaganda.

Shame on every "journalist" writing shit like this.

Shame.

America's first gender neutral bathroom was Rush Limbaugh's gravesite.