The American taxpayer is paying to send people to this place

Remember when people pretended DOGE might cut the Pentagon?

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

The man who issues threats daily and then immediately backs down from them has done it again. You better watch it, because next time he might really mean it.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

The White House is posting literal fascist video of the deportations with gleeful comments from the official account.

You are not going crazy they are Nazis and they are dancing at the the opportunity to murder anyone they want with impunity they are posting the cattle cars for clicks.

Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it

The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

So true

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

a starbucks barista is seen as more elite than a suburban car dealer

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Musk is obsessed with numerology and everything he does points directly towards openly being a Nazi. Bad stuff

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

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The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.

The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners.

For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits.

Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

Elon trying to figure out if this halftime show is discriminatory against white South African land owners.

Folks, the DOGE bro is linked to a cybercrime ring.

He's linked to a satanic neo-Nazi cybercrime ring that extorts CSAM from minors.

I would add to this that we are completely through the Looking Glass and people haven’t picked up on the fact fully yet that the people that are blocking members of our government from accessing buildings are not governmental they are a corporate paramilitary force aligned with Erik princes people.

We need Democrats & the media to have the energy & effectiveness of Kendrick going after Drake and what they have is the energy & effectiveness of Drake going after Kendrick

Elon Musk pushed out the FAA chief — who resigned 1 year into a 5 year term, last week.

Why? Because last year the FAA fined SpaceX $600,000 — for safety violations.

Now the FAA has no chief — and we just had the first commercial airline crash in 16 years.