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JD Vance @Pete Hegseth if you think we should do it let's go. I just hate bailing Europe out again. 8:45 AM O Let's just make sure our messaging is tight here. And if there are things we can do upfront to minimize risk to Saudi oil facilities we should do it. 8:46 AM O Pete Hegseth VP: I fully share your loathing of く

Pete Hegseth VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC. But Mike is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close. Question is timing. I feel like now is as good a time as any, given POTUS directive to reopen shipping lanes. I think we should go; but POTUS still retains 24 hours of decision space. 8:49 AM O SM SM As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return. We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement. EG, if Europe doesn't remunerate, then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.

BREAKING

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared.

Full Story: bit.ly/4c4hqW2

when elon and trump say i have to go back to my home country if i support hamas, but my home country is the kingdom of hawai'i...

you know we’re down bad when americans care about hockey

jack schlossberg is back on tik tok, the world is healing

this isnt saying i wanted romney to win. at the time, i thought a romney win would have been catastrophic.

in hindsight, i think it wouldve veered us off the course we're on now

my hot takes:

a romney win in 2012 wouldve slowed the tea party movement and the right's descent into trumpism

the way the media covered charlie sheen's "winning" era contributed to the worship of megalomaniacs w/ delusions of grandeur, opening the door for trump, kanye, and elon

Just told my 10yo daughter about Big Balls. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Ballskanda forever"—which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.

I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.

San Francisco Leads Lawsuit Against Trump’s Threats to Punish Sanctuary Cities | KQED San Francisco and Santa Clara counties are joined by three other cities and counties in accusing the Trump administration of illegally coercing them to carry out federal responsibilities.

San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, joined by three other cities and counties across the country, are suing the Trump administration over its threats to punish jurisdictions that have sanctuary immigration policies, calling the moves unconstitutional. via @kqednews.kqed.org

i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen

Every headline this month is like: "DOGE staffer CumBoy1488 has gained access to critical government database, cuts off funding for children's school lunches in Africa. Egg prices still near record highs"

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

Hey guys, I'm going to put my dog in charge of making sure nobody eats this turkey that just came out of the oven.

close enough, welcome back [insert supernatural character]

Netanyahu has the sort of pleased look you’d expect if you successfully helped another country get taken over by Nazis to make it easier for you to kill refugees.

That's because he believes he is the law now.

That's how coups work

This is so incredibly insane

HAPPENING NOW: members of Congress led by @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are attempting to enter the Treasury Building to demand answers re: Musk’s unconstitutional money grab

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

Whether it’s Democrats attending Hollywood fundraisers or Republicans handing over the government to the world’s richest man, both parties have gotten too cozy with the wealthy.

St. Elon’s Fire

Man in motion Musk has become part of the Donald’s breakfast club, but sending a brat pack of kids to harass federal workers seems more Joe McCarthy than Andrew McCarthy.

by Maureen Dowd

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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.

And If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Musk is following the same playbook from the early days of his Twitter takeover, including sleeping in the office: wrd.cm/4jFDvNW

I support this.

Elon Musk cannot dismantle USAID without an act of Congress.

Democrats must use every lever at our disposal to block his illegal takeover and shutdown of an essential government agency.

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Block Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.

NEWS

Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.

If anybody is worried about this, I will gladly play the role of "dude with the red string on the cork board" so you look sane by comparison. Because the reality is the richest person in the world is a nazi who snuck in at midnight to steal every American's data so he could shut down the government.

LIVE: Several congressional Democrats are gathered outside USAID to stand in opposition of its illegal closure by Trump/Musk. C-SPAN is livestreaming it here:
www.c-span.org/event/news-c...

That's my member of Congress talking, Don Beyer; he just said Musk is "doing China's bidding."

they really let a south african white man roll up in here and fuck this entire country up