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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

And in other news, the Trump administration is dropping US cyber defenses against Russia.
It’s almost as if Trump is colluding with Putin.
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social @clairelehmann.bsky.social @claireberlinski.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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With every passing day, the line between the government and Elon Musk's business empire gets blurrier because he's the one erasing it.

Any secretary or state with a shred of decency would immediately resign after this shameful and idiotic performance of their boss.

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

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Heroes

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

Senator Lee,
They are secure.
You should have a townhall in SLC to learn what issues are really important to Utahs. If you are too scared, resign.
Lead or get out the way so someone else can lead.

A political cartoon features a figure resembling former President Donald Trump sitting at a desk, writing a response to an email. The email appears to be from "Elon Musk" and is addressed to "All Federal Employees" with the subject line: "What did you do last week?" The response written in large, bold letters says, "BETRAYED AN ALLY." The cartoon is signed by the artist, Bramhall, and labeled as from the New York Daily News (NYDN). The image was shared by "The Tennessee Holler" with the caption "CARTOON OF THE DAY."

Well, that is something.

House budget plan advances to final floor vote Final approval is not yet assured, with several Republicans still objecting to the spending blueprint.

The House budget plan will advance to final floor vote, but it still faces tough odds on final approval.

Several conservative hard-liners are demanding the plan be rewritten to guarantee deeper spending cuts.

Reminder that corporations aren't people and money isn't speech.

White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump In announcing plans to handpick the reporters who can ask the president questions, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.

The White House Correspondents’ Association rebuked the move in a blistering statement.

“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” Eugene Daniels, the president of the association, wrote.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

The “Citizen of Conveince” Migrated from South Africa to be a citizen of Canada and then into United States to claim Citizenship. This citizen of the world now wants to walk through Fort Knox and count our gold. WTF, can Americans be any dumber than this? Let the fox into the chicken coup…

Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.

"'We’re bringing attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,' said Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite and military veteran who supplied the flag and helped hang it."
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Column | Congress ignores looming shutdown to focus on tax cuts, agency layoffs Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.

“Trump has spent more…time trying to negotiate a truce to professional golf’s civil war—including a three-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday that included Tiger Woods—than he has dedicated to trying to hammer out a deal to keep the government funded.”
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Here’s my prediction for DOGE: Whatever minimal amount of money it may possibly save in the short term will be far exceeded by the ultimate cost of fixing all of the problems it creates. It’s already an epic failure.

quiet part out loud.

More than he did. Probably spent the week talking into a mirror idealizing himself..

America has turned on its triends Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend. There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within. These moments will live in infamy. What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.

“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

Letter from congress that is incredibly alarming. Looks like #DOGE got access to #nasa and they use the word ominous.

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The back of Cybertruck with a vanity license plate reading “AI XPERT”.

I know there is fierce competition, but I think I found the worst person in Texas.

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

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Opinion | The GOP has somehow backed Democrats into defending the status quo It’s not enough to oppose Trump’s destruction. Americans want change.

@crampell.bsky.social: However bloated the government bureaucracy might be, the solution is not indiscriminately firing nuclear weapons inspectors, Head Start staff, law enforcement officers or air traffic controllers. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

There's no way Elon Musk’s job is legal "Checks and balances, at the moment, seem to be neutralized.”

There is no legal architecture that allows Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws.

In other words, there's no way that his role is legal, constitutional, or compatible with democratic governance.

Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump’s Birthday a Federal Holiday Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act to officially designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate P...

If there is any American left in you, these pathetic acts of fealty should make your blood boil.

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With the White House blocking media that doesn’t comply with its narrative, we assume this is why these protests are being ignored.

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

The Unsung Resistance: Fighting Trump In The Courts California AG Rob Bonta is taking on Trump...and winning.

Resistance to Trump's despotism is growing...and it's working. Earlier this week, Team Big Picture talked with California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta about the important work he's doing to resist Trump in the courts.

‘The Rule of Law Is Going to Stand’: Jamie Raskin Is Still Optimistic About Defeating Trump’s Agenda The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee discusses the party’s strategy to beat Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

"The rule of law is going to stand": Jamie Raskin is still optimistic about defeating Trump’s agenda.

Think he’s got a healthy ego?

Zelenskyy calls for European army as Germany hits back at US over Vance tirade – Europe live Olaf Scholz says Germany ‘will not accept’ people who ‘intervene in our democracy’ after US vice-president’s speech in Munich

The full understanding of just how Trump is now allied with Putin is dawning on people. Zelensky calls for a European army as the only way to defend the continent and states clearly that the USA can’t be trusted. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...