Have a cup of Wake The Hell Up America!

Does that make it a maratocracy? 😂

Three yellow daffodils with green stems basking in the Spring sunshine.

Daffodils basking in the Spring sunshine.

The two barred owls that have returned to their summer home along the C&O Canal.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2000, f8, 1/640s)

#birds #birdphotography

We really need more reaction options on this platform 😢

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.

⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

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OMG… how will we survive?

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns The former Social Security commissioner said the system could “collapse,” causing disruptions in payments within “30 to 90 days.”

This may be the most alarming thing I have read in months. www.thedailybeast.com/former-socia...

Bitcoin price falls by 17.5% in biggest monthly loss since 2022 Cryptocurrency slipped into technical bear market, before Donald Trump talked up plans for Crypto Strategic Reserve Bitcoin has recorded its largest monthly loss since June 2022, pushing it into a bear market as the euphoria over cryptocurrencies after…

Bitcoin price falls by 17.5% in biggest monthly loss since 2022

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Too bad he didn’t have some ricin with him. Both in one room…

The Most Disgraceful Act of Betrayal I’ve Ever Seen This is just despicable.

What transpired at Trump’s press conference with Zelenskyy was a national disgrace. And everyone knows it.

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

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Thanks! Will give it a read/listen later.

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.

"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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That is a great photo of both of them!! I miss Bijou so much…

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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