Abby Schrader

Pete Hegseth's white nationalist tattoos.

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

More of this, America.

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

We see all of you, D.C. Please, America, help us. Thank you—you give us hope.

if you're a democratic senator and you're still voting to confirm trump nominees despite him allowing elon musk to gleefully dismantle the government then your brain has fallen out of your ass.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

"Shuttered HIV and TB treatment programs have been told they cannot resume work without written instruction that the waiver applies to them. Few have been able to obtain such clarification because their assigned contacts at USAID have been fired or furloughed..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

NEW — DOGE is preparing to purge an unknown number of USAID accounts. Source in the dept. said Musk youth employee Gavin Kliger has been made administrator of all systems, bypassing usual clearance process. If an account is shut down, employee loses access to email, shared files, internal systems.

Fkn hell

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

it’s hard not to feel disillusioned when reporting all the flagrantly illegal and terrifying things this government is doing somehow doesn’t fully break through to the mainstream. it feels like cable news and corporate media made a deal to convince people to keep calm and carry on.

We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits

Perfectly captured.

Trans people exist. Always have. Always will.

“No Pride for some of us, Without liberation for all of us!” – Marsha P. Johnson

#blackhistory #yallmeansall

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans) Dear World,

Dear Leaders of the Free World,

Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.

We stand with you.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

Breaking more laws! Shocking !

I tend to catastrophize, but things seem to be going much worse than I imagined.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

there are simply too many stories and not enough paid journalists to write them all. this is by design.

An image of a webpage shows that the site "data.pepfar.gov" returns the message "This site is unavailable."

I've just reposted a bunch of alerts from journalists reporting that CDC data pages have become inaccessible. Then I myself tried to access the data behind PEPFAR, the George Bush-created international program for alleviating HIV. This is what I get:

Opinion | The new free speech crisis hiding in plain sight Through litigation and retaliation, the rich and powerful are waging a censorship campaign.

"The free speech crisis hiding in plain sight isn’t about whether individuals can ever criticize powerful figures — it’s about whether institutions can withstand the pressure to self-censor in the face of legal and political intimidation..."

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

every democrat who has voted to confirm a single trump nominee is a fucking clown. this is a sham government and should be treated as such.

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country