Layoffs at NOAA, which warns us about severe weather

Attacking NIH, which finds cures for illnesses

Dismantling SSA, which administers Social Security payments

Terminating food inspectors and food safety committees at the USDA...

The "specifics" of DOGE put us all at risk.

Former Assoc. Atty General Vanita Gupta re: law firms standing up to Trump

"The only way through this attack on the very foundations of our legal system is by fighting back. If firms want to be trusted to fight the biggest fights, they must not cave to blatantly unconstitutional government actions"

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada's old relationship with the United States, "based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over". Speaking to reporters in Ottawa after a cabinet meeting, Carney said Canadians must "fundamentally reimagine our economy" in the face of US President Donald Trump's tariffs. He said Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs that will have "maximum impact" on the US. Trump announced on Wednesday he would target imported vehicles and vehicle parts with a 25% tax, stating: "This is permanent."

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada. It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after Canada's upcoming Election to work on elements of Politics, Business, and all other factors, that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Trump defeated again and has caved to Canada as the Prime Minster confirms the old relationship with the US is over.

24 hours later Trump groveled to Canada via a tweet where he stopped calling it the 51st state or referring to the PM as the governor. #cdnpoli

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump calling Canada like a creepy ex

Canada and the US had a diplomatic standoff that's gone largely under the radar.

Carney and Trump faced off on who would call who first. Trump caved in and lost when he saw Canadians moving their business to the EU. This makes the US look even weaker as they initiated the stand off. #cdnpoli

Elon Musk and Donald Trump responsible for the deaths of up to 1.2 million children.

Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.

Read this right now

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

In the first half of 2019, CIA death squads in Afghanistan murdered more civilians than ISIS and the Taliban combined.

“They’re very well trained. They have the best weapons and equipment." "Sometimes they go into people’s homes and just shoot everybody.” Three Americans were there. “I could see them,”“They were speaking English.”

"So far this year, more than eight thousand civilians have been killed or wounded." "...the violence has never made less sense." "Under Trump... the conflict has entered perhaps its most troubling phase, one that is being prosecuted largely in secret."

Trump has already had death squads before, they had a practice run in Afghanistan during his first presidency. The majority of the US didn't care, now he's calling US citizens terrorists. It only takes a few signatures and complete media silence to know what comes next. #3E #EndImpunity

Kevin Kruse on why Trump 2.0 is worse than he expected "I didn’t think they would take this bold of a leap into deeply unconstitutional waters, but they have."

"I assumed his tariff drive would flounder in Congress and he would just kind of sit back and take credit for what was already kind of a rising economy under President Biden. I didn’t expect them to take a wrecking ball to the executive branch." — @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a gro...

The grift never ends.

Now non-fundraising million dollar meet and greets.

Forget all the howling about Hunter Biden influence selling.

Republicans love Trump's flagrant corruption.

MAGAts are cheering as their god king and his billionaire crew steal everything that isn't nailed down.

US laughing at him isn’t going to work, booing him and thumping tables is aggressive disruption. Having rich democrats in power laugh while the country burns isn’t the optics you need.

Sucking up to Trump

Spineless sycophancy watch.

Also known as the ancient practice of sucking up to the king.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries — WIRED 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.

“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.”

James Dennehy, New York’s Top F.B.I. Agent, Forced Out After Defiant Email James E. Dennehy had told agents to “dig in” in the face of the Trump administration’s culling of officials who investigated the Jan. 6 attack.

Dennehy was one of the most senior Russian counterintelligence experts in FBI.

Now virtually all Russian counterintelligence officers have been fired.

Just connect that to the cyber command decision to stand down cybersecurity measures targeting Russia.

This is known as a decapitation strike.

Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud All they've really got is "spending that Elon Musk doesn't like."

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud

"With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

(2) and, ive heard other rumors that the questionable vote counts were only from dominion machines in swing states. This implies Elon and this kid while in Philly for weeks on trumps campaign gained access to dominions machines and built this into its software. Next day “I don’t need your votes”

This is interesting because if you remember- Dominion was forced by the court to allow trumps lawyers to view the documents dominion had on their programming which included passwords and other developed copyright information on the machines during trumps lawsuit against dominion. (1)

YouTube video by Dire Talks Interview With CHIEF STATISTICIAN Dr. Elizabeth Clarkson | Linking Kansas 2010s and 2024 Election

youtu.be/1dQI_ujEYGM?...

Why did Musk recruit teenage software engineers for government economic positions?

What do software engineers have to do with fiscal policy?

And why has no one in the media asked this one simple question?

Would CNN hire a 19 yr old coder & programmer to streamline its corporate debt and spending?

YouTube video by POLITICO Trump: Elon Musk knows 'those vote counting computers'

For now, at least, Politico still has the video up
youtu.be/F9gCyRkpPe8?...

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.

Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!

Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

Musk's "deferred resignation" contract is a TRAP.

Anyone who signs it WAIVES all rights to pursue legal action against the government -- including TO ENFORCE THE RESIGNATION AGREEMENT ITSELF.

So Musk and Trump can just break the contract, and there's nothing you can do.

Musk isn’t making government smaller.

He’s shutting down the parts of the government that have been investigating his companies for safety violations and ties to Russia.

REPORTER: Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he cannot touch?

TRUMP: Well, we haven't discussed that much

Sen. Warner on DOGE's "buyout" offers: "Every scam artist is the same. 'Take this offer right now, it expires at midnight!' How many times do we see that?"

💧 water

A mess

I asked Elon’s Grok 2 the question of whether and how you could destroy the country through insane trade wars and hijacking Treasury’s payment system.

And I must say, what I got back seems to be a fairly good analysis.

Trump is breaking the free trade law *HE* signed in 2020.