Drunken frat boy Pete Hegseth is in Europe, selling out Ukraine to Putin at a blistering pace, Tulsi is about to compromise sources around the world because she hates the intelligence community with a fiery passion.

Trump will pardon Snowden any minute now.

The Cowardice of Senate Republicans In 2021, ten of my Republican colleagues in the House joined me in voting to impeach Donald Trump after he incited an attack on our democracy.

Sure, there are occasional moments of resistance from senators not facing reelection, but they are fleeting and ultimately meaningless if those same individuals fold when the stakes are high. My latest

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-coward...

Who is helping Elon Musk gut the US government? The billionaire’s cost-cutting ‘Doge’ staff includes wealthy executives, far-right ideologues and young engineers

“The billionaire’s cost-cutting ‘Doge’ staff includes wealthy executives, far-right ideologues and young engineers…”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You can watch Rachel's full interview with Senator Schatz here: youtu.be/0d6HrKIclLs @schatz.bsky.social

Elon Musk presents a new vulnerability for Donald Trump The billionaire's strategy of moving fast and breaking things isn't going over so well with the public.

The creepy billionaire supervillain is a great target for Dems to make inroads with the working class. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

5:”…His attack on public service is not about reform; it's a first strike against a key obstacle to authoritarianism.”

4: “…Trump regards people who take their constitutional oath seriously as, by definition, his political enemies. If he is going to rule as the autocrat he wishes to be, he knows he must replace career civil servants with flunkies and vassals who will serve him and his needs above all else…”

3:”…At the bottom, Musk and the president's new hires at the Office of Personnel Management ensure that whoever is left is either a loyalist who will support such orders or someone too scared to object to them…”

2:”…At the top, Trump decapitates important organizations and removes their professional staff. He replaces them with people who do not know or care about what they're doing other than carrying out Trump's orders…”

The Only Way to Slow Down the Trump-Musk Coup It’s hard to think of anything less sexy and less made-for-TV than an attorney charging into a courthouse to seek a temporary injunction.

“…Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country's political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally change for the worse. But that, in fact, is what's happening right now…”
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1:”…Trump’s suspicion of the government he leads is also why he has sent shockingly unqualified nominees to head the Defense Department, the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and other agencies. Think of it as a kind of political pincer attack…”

Trump and Musk Are Destroying the Basics of a Healthy Democracy An apolitical bureaucracy run by public servants who respect the law is one of the greatest achievements a society can attain—and these two men have no respect for it.

“…What he is in fact doing is weakening potential obstacles—especially the federal civil service—that might stand in the way of his accumulation of wide and unaccountable power…”
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I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame. Things are bleak.

I’m a civil servant. He and his goons might be rummaging through my personal data right now.

(1) “Their strategies and impulses, their vision of how American politics works, no longer function in the present. Instead of adapting to the future, they seem to be sticking their heads in the sand, and waiting for the return of the past..”

Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are

“…Democrats have no power to set the terms of the debate on their own, or to advance their own priorities: the far right alone can make policy proposals, to which the Democrats can merely flip their thumbs up or down. Many of them are giving the thumbs up…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The absurdity of Donald Trump’s trade war Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China will harm America’s own economy and diplomatic power

Breaks down the causes and consequences of this well.
“The absurdity of Donald Trump’s trade war” on.ft.com/4hHgGYa

Trump’s cataclysmic damage is going way beyond tariffs The functioning of the US government is facing a systemic crisis

The markets might stop some of the madness. It’s unlikely any other institutions will. “Trump’s cataclysmic damage is going way beyond tariffs.” on.ft.com/40JgVLD

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

How far will Donald Trump go to get rid of illegal immigrants? It is his signature policy, but the obstacles are daunting

A reality check on fast track fascism for Trump. There will be a lot of obstacles to this. “How far will Donald Trump go to get rid of illegal immigrants?”
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
from The Economist

Democrats’ Post-MSNBC Playbook Multiplatform content maven Brian Tyler Cohen reveals how the Democratic blob can finally move beyond its depressing greenroom biases and play a game that the Republicans started mastering a decade ag...

"Democrats are operating under this notion that unless a message is delivered on legacy media, then it’s not legitimate. Independent media for them still feels extraneous. In their minds, any real news has to be broken under the glossy veneer of legacy media."

My interview with @puck.news:

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.

The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

As we brace for the transition-inauguration media coverage of the second Trump administration, a Twitter/X thread from July 2024 about how "normalization" is justified ... Starts in next reply.

The 21st century version of Tolstoy’s adage about unhappy families is that every social media platform is deranged in its own way.

From cozying up to dictators like Putin to switching positions and parties as soon as it's politically advantageous, the only quality of Tulsi Gabbard's you can rely on is her selfish thirst for power. That makes her a very dangerous pick to lead our national intelligence.

I chatted with Sophia A. Nelson about how people voted in the election, and one thing stuck with me:

“My mom loves Kamala Harris, but I still had to wrestle her into voting for her.”

It’s a powerful reminder that deeply rooted patriarchal norms still influence how many women vote.

Why Restraint With Russia Won’t Work Only by imposing real costs on Russian malfeasance can the West expect to prevent further escalation.

"Why Restraint With Russia Won't Work: Only by imposing real costs on Russian malfeasance can the West expect to prevent further escalation."
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Not to brag, but I found every single book I was looking for today at the local used bookstore--even the out of print ones--and I feel like an absolute champion

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.