Rachel Schoonmaker

This was….five months ago

Trump Boys Get Tongues Stuck To Frozen White House WASHINGTON—Flailing their arms and crying out in anguish, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were reportedly panicking Thursday after getting their tongues stuck to a frozen column near the West Wing of ...

Trump Boys Get Tongues Stuck To Frozen White House

This is Oligarchy. The three richest men in the world have become $196 BILLION richer since Donald Trump was elected.

$196 billion for three men in 99 days.

Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Love this! I try to follow CA and EU warnings.

"In everything, do to others in a gratuitously cruel manner that would have you screaming 'PERSECUTION!'" Matthew 7:12

Donald Trump and the Republicans have learned nothing.

Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’ At a gathering in Madrid, members of Europe’s far-right parties set aside any trepidation they might have about President Trump’s threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the European Union.

Leaders of far-right parties in Europe came to Madrid for what, on the surface at least, amounted to a rally for a new Trump era. They set aside any trepidation they might have about his threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the EU.

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the CDC but then abruptly vanished.

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

Do you know anyne working for DOGE? Here are a handful of the people working with Elon Musk to cut federal agencies @propublica.org projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Here’s what Elon is saying about the WSJ reporter that revealed he had a blatant racist heading up his DOGE efforts👇🏽

He isn’t thanking her, he is calling her disgusting and cruel and wanting her fired.

How the fuck are you supposed to find a missing trans kid without using the name they would be using for themselves?

Sweden Plans Tighter Gun Laws After Orebro Mass Shooting The changes would make it harder to access semiautomatic weapons, and enhance police and medical checks in license applications.

Sweden will tighten its already strict gun laws, the government said on Friday, days after a lone gunman killed at least 10 people in an attack the prime minister has called the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

Those bonehead Republicans managed to convince their base that trans women in sports was a huge issue—without showing a damn shred of data.

They never drop facts because that would wreck their narrative. Look at these numbers…

Less than 10 trans athletes out of 510,000 NCAA athletes nationwide.

Free speech absolutist Elon Musk calls for the firing of a journalist who revealed that one of the people Musk hired for DOGE bragged about being racist on social media

The new cover of TIME.

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.

This is the most important story in the United States right now.

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

The US spends 2x more per capita on health care than any other nation. Yet 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, 68,000 die because they can’t afford a doctor & we pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs.

Health care is a human right. We must pass Medicare for All.

BREAKING: 88 FBI agents who worked on Trump cases were just physically escorted out of the Washington Field office per a source.

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.

Elon Musk is locking government employees out of government systems and demanding access to the government's entire payment network. This is not legal, of course.

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

This is a hostile takeover of the U.S. Government.

The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (outlets with physical workspaces in the building):

OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico

IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost

Trump Media gifts Patel, McMahon thousands of shares Trump Media called the gifts in the filings "consideration for services provided" in 2024.

Just a little "consideration for services provided" between the billionaire president's corporation and the man he handpicked to occupy J Edgar Hoover's old office www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Is the tally for re-arrests five now? (Including the guy shot in IN)

Ditto

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

January 30, 2025

Trump Fires at Least 12 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge The White House appeared to have violated a law that requires giving Congress 30 days’ notice and detailed reasons before removing the watchdog officials.

President Trump fired at least 12 inspectors general late on Friday, people with knowledge of the matter said. The White House appeared to have violated a law that requires giving Congress 30 days of notice and detailed reasons before removing the watchdog officials.

A color cartoon from Puck Magazine in 1889 showing a row of huge "fat cat" bankers looming over the Senate. It's titled "Bosses of the Senate."

A photo of the billionaires at Trump's inauguration.

Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.