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🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz:

"Russia is already attacking us today. The infrastructure, we have attacks, arson attacks, what has also happened in barracks here in recent days. The trails almost all lead to Russia."

"Alligator Alcatraz" floods within day of opening Rainwater was seen seeping into the migrant detention center and onto cables on the floor after a rainstorm, according to video.

Isn't it supposed to flood? I mean, the whole point of building Alligator Auschwitz in the middle of the Everglades is to be cruel.

And please, stop calling it Alligator Alcatraz. Alcatraz was a prison designed for criminals. Alligator Auschwitz is a concentration camp holding one group of people.

NEWS: Judge Chutkan has granted a request by several state attorneys general for discovery on DOGE — namely the identities of DOGE personnel and the “parameter’s of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Last week, Elon Musk appeared alongside Trump in the Oval to defend the work of DOGE.

Looking directly at Musk, Trump asked; “Could you mention some of the things *your team* has found?”

Tonight, the government claimed that Musk isn’t in charge of DOGE & isn’t a DOGE employee.

Treasury watchdog begins audit of Musk DOGE team's access to federal government's payment system The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General says it's launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government’s payment system.

apnews.com/article/trea...

unabashedly so

wow

yes—fight, fight, fight! Action.

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Real time Bluesky user count

in order to win general elections, we must honor the popular vote. the electoral college is antiquated.

Remember during Covid those daily press conferences? Why can’t the Dems conduct daily scheduled to us all in the loop? Not aware of anything that prohibits Dems using their own type of “press secretary” inviting media/public to hear this information in a coherent, consistent, and cohesive manner.

NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.

Oh look, a team of Spanish scientists exploring the Antarctic seabed has detected “massive emissions” of methane.

#collapse

agreed

I imagine, by now, Musk has a plethora of inside information on important people that he has gleaned. He is able to hold this knowledge over any person or perceived enemy—including relationship with Trump. He cannot be dismissed or scapegoated because he has gamed the system.

exactly how it looks

ABA Legal Fact Check: Can the Electoral College be abolished? Election season brings a renewed focus on the Electoral College, which ultimately picks the U.S. president, including questioning whether the practice should be abolished or changed.The National Archi...

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

The next class of Kennedy Center Honorees:

Kid Rock
Scott Baio
Hulk Hogan
Jake Paul
Victoria Jackson

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

It’s a golden age of disassociation.

STAHL: “You said Trump is nasty, not very smart, a sleazeball…”

MCCONNELL: “Those were private comments.”

STAHL: “But they’re in your biography.”

MCCONNELL: “Yeah.” 😬

Raising the price of prescription drugs to pay for tax cuts for the rich and racism. Republicans governing. Good job, America.

hey question, is this bad?

Welp, here we fucking go. This is how they’re gonna do the abortion pill ban:

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

The Coming Democratic Revolution To fight Trump and the GOP, blue states are planning to appropriate a Republican strategy: federalism.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Feeling for all my fellow postdocs that are funded by NSF or NIH grants. Solidarity.

Missouri House speaker says ‘bounty hunter’ immigration bill has little chance of passing • Missouri Independent There is no appetite among House Republicans for a bill that would put a bounty on undocumented immigrants, Speaker Jon Patterson said.

This is what happens when thousands of Missourians make calls to their Republican Representatives. Keep it up.

missouriindependent.com/briefs/misso...