Karoline Leavitt says Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum to federalize the National Guard and deploy 2,000 soliders in California

JD Vance now wants to use the chaos ICE is causing in Los Angeles as pretext to pressure politicians to pass the Republican budget bill that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of debt, skyrocket the deficit, take away people’s healthcare, and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.

Pete Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines into Los Angeles.

Make no mistake: this is a declaration of war against the United States.

"I always said I’m a teacher who writes or an editor who writes. But I never said the real thing until after I’d written a third book. It’s the sort of thing that women frequently do. They sort of need permission to tell themselves that this is the work they do.” ~ Toni Morrison

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This is so freaking cool!

American Gothic: Voice Professor Edition

If your vote threatens someone's right to exist, then yeah I judge you based on your vote.

Motivation Monday:

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Sign with a picture of a cybertruck going into the water and text “Boston Tea Party 2025”

One more:

Stocks Tumble as Investors Balk at Tariff Plan Stocks hadn’t fallen this far this fast since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. A 9.1 percent drop in the S&P 500 is the steepest weekly decline since March 2020.

“As the tariffs were announced, Gary Friedman, the chief executive of the furniture retailer RH, was on an earnings call with investors. He was heard cursing, after checking RH’s share price. RH gets many of its products from Asia, Mr. Friedman explained.”

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?

Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity (Gift Article) The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.

“As soon as the question-and-answer portion of the event began, the Pentagon cut the video feed.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Here's a thread about how trans people can approach remaining informed of the news in a way that prioritizes pragmatism, self-care, and building resistance.

It's based on what I'm doing personally. So, fyi, I'm more anxious than usual, but holding up substantially.

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

We @propublica.org are tracking who is working with Elon Musk and what they are doing.

We have 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

Help us investigate and send us tips 🔎: www.propublica.org/tips/federal...

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The MAGA strategy is (literally) to rob every family in town knowing that there is no way that the police can respond to every crime.

Jesus fucking christ NOAA????? Been nice knowing the weather folks

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Best podcast out there! Did I once drunkenly make my friends listen to the episode where you gave your thoughts on revenge (the live bees were beautiful)? In my defense, it was my birthday aaaaaand I'd just been dumped. But I got you 3 new devoted listeners that day.

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

As of this moment, Canadians are united as one in defiance of tyranny.

Americans? Most Americans have no idea that the idiot monster they elected because they forgot to vote has started a massive trade war that will upend their lives.

So fun fact: people don't like being called out for their lack of empathy and dehumanizing opinions.

So another and possibly more fun fact: I'm going to do it anyway.