Photos | More than a thousand people gather at Main Beach in Santa Cruz for human banner Story by Shmuel Thaler • 21h

More than a thousand people stood in protest in the sand on Saturday at Main Beach in Santa Cruz to create a human banner spelling out the word "RESIST."

Clones, Crackdowns, and Ketamine: Trump’s America Hits a New Low From QAnon clone rants to ICE zip-tying children, the president spirals deeper into delusion while civil liberties, climate science, and public sanity buckle under the weight of his regime.

#Trump says Biden’s a clone, ICE is zip-tying kids, and Musk is rage-reposting “white genocide” conspiracies. Meanwhile, the Forest Service can’t afford fish traps, and #FEMA’s ghosting hurricane survivors. We’re living in Presidente Loco’s America now.
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Seal named Jeff photo bombing secret signal chat group of penguins

Press Sec: “Nobody understands how normal it is to have a secret cabinet meeting chat group on the beach, and that loser Jeff just materializes “

penguinsagainsttrump 2h What are you gonna do, deport us? We've been dealing with ICE for centuries.

Thanks mompants.
Sincerely,
Dino

What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board.

Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting 8 asylum seekers who say they're fleeing violence, torture, rape and other horrors in their home countries.

But one may already be on her way home.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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I.R.S. to Begin Laying Off Roughly 6,000 Employees on Thursday The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize.

"The layoffs come in the middle of tax filing season. Former IRS officials warned that losing such a large number of employees could disrupt Americans’ ability to easily file taxes this year, even if the layoffs are not supposed to affect those deemed 'critical'...”

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Macron has just urged the French to join the military reserve.

“We are entering a new era”. France will have to spend more on defence. “The threat that Russia represents imposes choices on us”

(Live exchange on social media)

These practices undermine such regulatory agencies’ accountability to the American people and prevent a unified and coherent execution of Federal law. For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President.   Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register.

Yesterday 🍊’s team put out an executive order, demanding the current president be given more power than any president before him ever had.

Today he called himself a king & officially decided to ignore court orders.

Analysis: Trump’s 13 biggest lies of his first month back in office | CNN Politics In speeches, interviews, exchanges with reporters and posts on social media, the president filled his public statements not only with exaggerations but outright fabrications. As he did during his firs...

Trump’s 13 biggest lies of his first month back in office
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The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

A team of engineers who work for Musk’s SpaceX will visit the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system command center in Virginia as the Trump administration considers an overhaul of the agency, which was previously seen as exempt from government cuts.

More than 300 FAA employees have been dismissed.

We are proud to stand alongside you. The rebellion is alive. You are writing history.

The Resistance is growing—our coalition has now reached 125,000 strong. The Trump administration will try to silence us, but they underestimate the power of the people. Together, we will bring balance back to our democracy.

We just want to say that we are in awe of all of you. You are the ones history will remember—a resistance rising against tyranny. From the moment Trump took office, laws have been broken left and right. We shouted from the rooftops, and it took relentless effort just to have our voices heard.

Most people don’t realize the value of the services they rely on until they’re gone.

FEMA firings are set to increase tonight, even after Trump approved FEMA funding for Kentucky. He calls FEMA worthless but then utilizes it?

We’re unsure if we can afford rent this month—yet somehow, we’re the enemy. Living paycheck to paycheck, only to be fired without reason.

Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.

But the real fraud might be him looking in the mirror—how many years in a row did Tesla pay zero?

Tesla (2024): $0 in taxes, $2.3 billion in earnings.

Ah, right—loopholes. Almost forgot.

Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

A top Social Security Administration official resigned after clashing with Musk staffers over access to sensitive personal records. They sought entry into an internal system containing Americans’ private data.

Thank you, Michelle, for resisting—and for your 30 years of service.