Patricia Rettig

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

Republicans in Congress don't want you to know this.

Behind closed doors, top Republican officials are greasing the wheels for tax breaks for billionaires and billionaire corporations by pushing a lie that they cost nothing.

It's magic math — and we gotta call it out.

Only the best people. 🙄

We Don't Need to Agree to Disagree With Trump Supporters. They're Just Wrong. I often find myself in a now-familiar spot with Trump supporters I know: hopelessly stuck in an unnavigable impasse on our respective paths, unable to find a way forward.

No, Trump voters and I don't just disagree now.

They’re simply wrong.

I believe they are deeply, profoundly, and egregiously wrong; the kind of wrong about the kinds of things that I can no longer excuse or make peace with or overlook.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-dont-ne...

The genius of our young people is our nation’s most precious resource. Eliminating the Department of Education is unconscionable to those of us who believe in the future of America.

We are robbing young people and educators of resources that have built the most successful country on earth.

Per @steveinskeep.bsky.social:

“Here The NY Times identifies words the Trump administration erased or discouraged in federal websites and documents, along with many of the ideas that the words express.”

US taxpayers have given billions to Elon Musk and he hasn’t said “thank you” once

🚨 UPDATE: After humiliating the U.S. on the world stage, Trump just jetted off to Florida—to golf.

He’s now spent 35% of his presidency on vacation, burning through $20M+ in taxpayer dollars. The laziest "president" in U.S. history.

Embarrassed daily by this state, its governor, and its supermajority. 🤬

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.

And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

I agree. He's super smart, very classy, and would do a lot of good if given the chance. I was being specific to this context.

The single greatest failure of the Democrats was not investigating this election.

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

Absolutely. It was demeaning to not call him by his correct title. I see it all the time -- usually it's done by men in power to women who have titles they've earned, but are simply referred to as "miss." Here it's done to an intelligent, capable gay man. It's derogatory and disrespectful.

An important point to keep in mind.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Transportation Secretary Pete... he was not "Mayor" at the time. 🙄

American planes are crashing almost every day and the Secretary of Transportation is visiting the Daytona 500 and tweeting at Pete Buttigieg.

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

Oops 😬

DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Holy shit.

“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.

Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”

Follow the money.

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

This !!

Exactly.

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GREENLAND
PANAMA CANAL
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"America First"
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