LordHelm

Our most reliable national pastime once again rears its shamefully avoidable head.

Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"

Say it with me. RFK Jr. is killing children.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.

Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.

📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”

A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.

Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.

Our hearts go out to the incredible folks at NIOSH. On Friday night, most remaining staff were laid off—gutting programs that protect workers, like PPE approvals and firefighter health research.

RFKJ’s HHS tried to downplay it on X, brushing it off as just a “required notice.”

Total BS.

Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.

THE FACTS, ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS: Pneumonia is a complication of measles, and is the most common cause of death from measles in young children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a subsidiary of HHS. READING BETWEEN THE LINES: Kennedy's comments suggesting measles didn't kill the child reflect longstanding tactics used to create doubt about vaccines, said Renee DiResta, a professor at Georgetown University who researches propaganda and has studied the anti-vaccine movement. She said Kennedy and Children's Health Defense have spent years telling people that measles is a routine and harmless childhood illness to justify the argument that a safe vaccine is somehow more risky than the disease. "Reframing these deaths as something other than what they are - deaths from measles, which is not harmless at all - is necessary to prop up the dual pillars of anti-vaccine propaganda in play here," she said. It reflects a similar narrative that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people who wanted to minimize its seriousness suggested people were dying "with COVID" rather than from COVID, said Richard Carpiano, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, who has closely followed Kennedy's anti-vaccine work. It's a way of minimizing the deadly nature of measles.

If you aren't fluent in the subtleties of anti vax rhetoric, some of the phrasings and framings are obscure. But the True Believers are listening, and the article linked above covers how AV propagandists and influencers are spinning measles deaths to ensure the base doesn't lose trust in them.

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.

Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

A bar chat that says "DOGE savings" with 2 trillion promised in 2024, 1 trillion promised in 2025, 150 billion in projected saving currently, and 58 billion in substantiated savings. Footnote says, "costs of loss of democracy and human health/well-being due to shortsighted idiocy are incalculable"

Numbers in the billions and trillions are hard to comprehend.
🤓 So we made this to show:
1. How much Elon promised DOGE would save in 2024
2. His walkback in 2025
3. What he's now projecting
4. Savings itemized to a source (we're generous to call this substantiated)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

And Trump went after the law firm representing Dominion in this case last night.

Thought crimes, anyone?

Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” Approximately four hours later, he announced a 90-day pause on most trade tariffs, leading to a significant surge in the stock market. Do you think this is insider trading?

Where is proof of life?

A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired | CNN A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health agencies this week.

Trump's cuts put children in danger.

The CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, which helped cities like Milwaukee address lead hazards in schools, has been eliminated.

Without public health experts, kids at risk won’t get the help they deserve.

edition.cnn.com/2025/04/02/h...

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.

The Social Security website "has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages lasting anywhere from 20 minutes to almost a day...Even when the site is back online, many customers have not been able to sign in to their accounts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"

Here's a look (inspired by @jeffasher.bsky.social) at how Trump's damage to the economy isn't limited to stock prices. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

BREAKING: U.S. stocks wiped away today $3.1 trillion in market cap, the largest decline for stocks listed on major U.S. exchanges since March 16, 2020.

🔻 The Nasdaq Composite 5.97%

🔻 The S&P 500 4.8%

🔻 Dow Jones Industrial Average 3.98%

TRUMP’S MEDICAID DILEMMA: Simply put, the GOP’s own budget math to pass his agenda doesn’t add up unless they cut substantial spending out of Medicaid.

The Regime is treating human lives as garbage. It is intolerable.

Food & ag groups blast ‘destabilizing’ tariffs, seek exemptions: ‘We urge the White House to reconsider’ Trump's tariffs "risk destabilizing the economy and undermining the goals of bolstering domestic manufacturing and growth" says RILA.

Ag groups on the tariffs "it is a shit show"

agfundernews.com/food-ag-grou...

The image is from the NY Times and shows Dr. Oz at a senate hearing and the headline reads"Senate Confirms Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare and Medicaid

me: "please god, get elon musk out of our government." *monkey's paw curls*

If you still support him, you either are like him, or want to be like him.