Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA):

“A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.

Read that back.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

very effective slogan and also a reminder to the forces arrayed against Trump that they have the whole American civic tradition at their disposal since Trumpism, especially with Elon and in the second incarnation has genuinely abandoned all of it.

We had friends & allies around the world based on alliances & relationships that were built over many decades.

In one month, Trump has torched them all.

Now our friends are Putin, Orban, the crypto scammer in Argentina, and the guy in El Salvador offering us mercenary prisons.

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.

HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

Sharp cuts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development are likely to upend housing markets, make homes less affordable and roil mortgage transactions, according to current and former employees, contractors and housing experts.

Warren Gunnels: "If Bernie’s Social Security bill was enacted in 2021, Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, Social Security would’ve been solvent for 75 years, benefits would’ve increased by $2,400 and 93% of Americans would have paid Zero more in taxes. The only one 'entitled' is Musk."

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

More #TrumpJobLosses, these from the Trump administration refusing to pay money owed to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for services rendered to refugees

An estimated 51,946 American #TrumpJobLosses from the USAID stop work order alone

the funniest disproof of this sort of poll positivism is the fact that cons were able to manufacture a CRT panic out of nothing and impact VA elections with it

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.

This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history.

How fucking dare they

Old vs. new

Judge ALI, a Biden appointee, said the Trump administration's blanket freeze on existing foreign aid programs appeared to give no thought to the devastation it would wreak on hundreds of businesses and organizations across the country that rely on those funds. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

More #TrumpJobLosses if this isn’t stopped by the courts (from The Washington Post)

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Fuck this hurts…

Layoffs hit contractors and small businesses as Trump cuts take effect Private-sector employers and nonprofits are starting to lay off workers as a result of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts and funding freezes.

The #Trumpjoblosses are beginning. More will be coming. Spread the word.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...