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It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

Marco Rubio today.

From Turkey to Hungary to Venezuela to Benin, firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power. Scholars share lessons learned from around the globe: #CivilService #autocrats #DOGE

The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

Everyone is rightly pissed at President Musk’s “Fork in the Road” email but what I wanna know is how can these agencies keep running if thousands quit?

Meta said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed over the suspension of his Facebook and Instagram accounts after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Trump has suggested dismantling Fema, a move that would cut off aid that has largely helped support Republican-leaning states like Louisiana and Florida that voted for him in last year’s US presidential election.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Target just caved to Trump becuase they never cared about diversity. It was always about the bottom line. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/t...

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

Gotta love California winters. ❤️