Jodie Baum

Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care Don’t ask me about the news. I am protecting my mental space.

Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care

Mike “I didn’t see it. I don’t know anything about it” Johnson certainly deserves an award for Most Uninformed House Speaker Ever.

This is brilliant

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

A Federal Judge Shows How the Courts Should Deal with Trump’s Lies District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s opinion shows that courage in judging doesn’t require rhetoric or defiance—only the quiet insistence that facts still matter.

“Deference” implies giving the president the benefit of the doubt. But where there is no doubt, there can be no benefit. Immergut refused to credit assertions with no basis in the record. She didn’t grandstand or sermonize; she simply applied the law to the facts.

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I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

Taylor Swift announces engagement to Travis Kelce Swift and Kelce have been a celebrity power couple since they started dating in 2023.

BREAKING: Taylor Swift is officially engaged to Travis Kelce

Oh god the MAGA meltdown over Taylor Swift being engaged is gonna be delicious

MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU.

AGAIN.

DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents obtained by Nextgov/FCW...

in which president donald trump screws up social security for every single American because his top campaign donor may not be totally solid on the meaning of the words "forty percent":

www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

It should be noted that Sesame Street will still air on PBS. The deal indicates that new episodes would air on both Netflix AND PBS on the SAME DAY. Instead of having to rely on donations and federal funding (which PBS has lost, anyway), Netflix has the big bucks, and will produce the show!

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Buttigieg suggests he’d 'assess' a presidential run as he visits Iowa He vaulted onto the national stage in 2020 out of South Bend, Indiana. This time, his calculus looks different.

Pete Buttigieg suggested he would “assess” a 2028 presidential run.

While visiting Iowa, he said in a live interview that he'd consider “what I bring to the table.”

Imagine getting an asylum appointment from the U.S. government, showing up for your scheduled appointment, and then getting deported to a foreign prison.

That's what happened to Andry Romero. He deserves due process.

Kamala Harris has rarely spoken out after leaving Washington in January. In her first major address since then, she acknowledged Democratic fears and warned of a constitutional crisis. Read more: nyti.ms/4cUxR7v

Jasmine Crockett for House Oversite committee Lead. Tell cory @booker.senate.gov

And @booker.senate.gov has overwritten Thurmond’s record with 25 hours-plus of arguments for righteous causes. At one point he pleaded for checks and balances, science to compete with China, and research to help your relative with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. All in just 3 minutes, give or take.

expect a lot of Democrats to announce they’re doing stuff they should have been doing all along (second best time to plant a tree etc again) in the next few days - why? Because they just watched Booker energize the electorate in phenomenal fashion, and they are jealous, and that is good

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

Donald Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary has financial advice for Americans:

1. Please buy Tesla stock to help poor Elon Musk.

2. Shut up and don’t complain when you don’t get your Social Security check.

FBI telling Citibank to freeze accounts of Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the State of NY Dept of Taxation, among a few dozen others.

He's intentionally crashing the American economy...with global ripple effects.

It should be an impeachable offense.

There isn't a single Republican in Congress who has the courage to oppose this carnage.

One day, we will wake up and he will be dead. That keeps me going.

Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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Great point.

I’m excited for fake agency DOGE to get to the Space X and Tesla contracts worth billions. That will save a ton!