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Fed-up Gen X'er who remembers that the assholes are the bad guys.
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Something to give to your AI in these times of stress.

You don't need permission to be good and silence is never neutral.

“There will come a moment when clarity disappears. What you carry then is who you are.”

Breakdown of what just happened. Judge Boasberg 1) Finds probable cause of Trump officials' criminal contempt of his order to turn back flights. 2) Gives USG opportunity to "purge" the contempt. 3) If not and if DOJ will not prosecute, he "will appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt."

You know your economy is in bad shape when SPY is as volatile as a meme stock

Whoever came up with these supposed tariff rates is like Kramer from Seinfeld when he pretended to work at that job "in business"

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

RFK Jr's plan to ban pharma ads may sound great, but it may be a low-key means to cut the funding of news channels.

Officials at Offutt Air Force Base sent notice Thursday that the base will be conducting the “largest and most intensive military exercise” in its history from March 31-April 4. Officials said the exercise is to insure “warfighting readiness” at Offutt. @maddow.msnbc.com

Trump: "We question Zelenskyy's commitment to peace." Translation: "We question Zelenskyy's commitment to surrender."

@maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com Someone needs to be asking RFK jr if he's had the shingles vaccine or any other vaccines. Demand he release his vaccine records. I'm sure they would be interesting.

In Today's News...

The Prophet

I want to be extremely clear about this: anyone wearing a swastika shirt is way, waaaaay over the get-your-ass-beat line

"If Patel is confirmed, the agency responsible for defending against Russian espionage operations inside the United States would be led by someone who months earlier had taken money from a perceived ally of the Kremlin." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

SCOOP: FBI director nominee Kash Patel disclosed he received up to $5M in shares of a mysterious entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot. Elite Depot is a parent organization of fast-fashion giant Shein, according to corporate records I reviewed www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

##Coup #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #MAGA #Project2025 #Hitler #Hugenberg #TheThirdReich #TheFourthReich #Nationalism #BadFaith #Fascism archive.is/2L5Ek Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? ⏬ Bite-sized article thread (12 min) with added links 📖 🍿 🔊

Sorry... why are we still referring to Cassidy as a doctor? Surely he lost that honorific today? After knowingly aiding and abetting a man whose anti-science quackery killed Samoan kids and will kill more in the years ahead? How is anything Cassidy did today acceptable under the Hippocratic Oath?

My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

It's impossible to watch the news now. I'm sick of hearing endless hand-wringing. Let me know when something actually happens to put an end to this mess.

@jvl.bsky.social Any bets that Sen. Cassidy will get removed from his committee once Kennedy is confirmed?

Trump does not give a f*ck about “malnourished babies”. Pro-life is just a front for his followers to justify electing a tyrant.

or vice versa

To all Canadians: You have a wonderful, rational, kind country with amazing healthcare. Sorry that your stupid neighbor to the south elected an irresponsible imbecile who has started a wholly unnecessary trade war with you. But we aren't too embarrassed to apologize.

I've given up on saying "Can they get any dumber?" because they can. They. Always. Can.

So I guess tonight is the night of the long knives.

the republic might be crumbling but if the present Democratic caucus believed they were about to get primaried out of existence they’d probably be moving a bit quicker, just saying

Sane congressional republicans ( if there are any left) should be aware by now, that he is already turning the country into a dictatorship, a white Christian ( read Evangelical - sorry Catholics ) dictatorship. If you are not resisting, you are enabling it. You are the baddies.

Wow

Trump is deporting the guy who mows your lawn but releasing the guy who bashed a police officer’s head in back to your community.

Sam has meeting with Trump. Trump praises Sam. Elon gets jealous. Elon says Sam is scamming Trump. Elon post things Sam said in past about Trump. MAGA attacks Sam. Sam surrenders and becomes cuck. Just like Zuck. Zuck 2.0.