Just a straight-up, brazen, demonstrable lie from the Vice-President of the United States. They have no shame and they seem to be able to get away with it too.

Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

This is why so much whinging over congressional Democrats’ theatrical choices strikes me as both maddening and kind of pathetic. This is on us. It’s not a show we’re watching, it’s a show we’re *on*.

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.

Most of the people quoted here *are Republicans* afraid of death threats *from their own party leader.*

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Trump and Musk Hunt for Corruption, Very Selectively Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon...

Trump is presenting himself as a born-again corruption fighter rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from all corners of the federal government — even as he is dismantling the government’s mechanisms for fighting corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Elon Musk claims he post's DOGE's actions to their website for full transperency.

This is all that is on the website currently:

doge.gov

So petty and ridiculous. Press access being limited because of things like this simply cries out that our country is being led by incredibly infantile instincts.

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.”

Trump Doctrine: Destroy government program illegally, await lawsuit and TRO temporarily halting destruction, watch case move through courts at taxpayer expense, repeat. Meanwhile, we all pay the price in legal fees and chaos.

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.

The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

NEW: The US Treasury claimed DOGE's Marko Elez didn't have the ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending when he actually did.

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Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

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Capitulation Is Contagious When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.

“Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. ... The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of coward­ice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.”

Trump ends Fauci's security detail, says he'd feel no responsibility if he was harmed Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.

Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

How is this not a blazing headline on all media sites?! This is not normal. This is not a difference of opinion. The is flat out white supremacy and it has only taken days to get here. What have we become?

Holy shit! I have actually confirmed that letters like this are being sent out. If this doesn't chill you to the bone and make you sick to your stomach, we are lost as a country.

Kindness and compassion are such displays of strength in a world where the easy path is to be jaded and hard.

Happy to do one but need 7 people to include. Open to suggestions!

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

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