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Laughter breaks out after Trump says: The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.

Please understand Trump's tariffs are 100% about paying for his proposed tax cut for the rich. When prices jump 20% bc of the tariffs you and I will be the ones paying the TRUMP TAX so that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other oligarchs can get a massive tax cut for themselves and their businesses.

Representative Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico holds a sign reading: "This is NOT Normal." https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1j3sosu/representative_melanie_stansbury_of_new_mexico/

Corporate media refuses to note this but under Biden the Dow Jones closed just a few months ago over 45,000. Under Trump the Dow is now down to 43,100. The NASDAQ was 20,100. Today it's at 18,300. Trump's chaos and his new tariffs are causing investors to flee. And market heading lower today.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m writing a new song. The working title is “Shove Those Executive Orders Straight Up Your Old, Wrinkly Ass, You Disgusting, Fascist Fuck.” Poignant, huh?

No cooperation. No collaboration. No compromise. Maximum resistance. Maximum disruption. Start there and get tougher.

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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What makes that orange dumbass think he can just take Greenland? Or is that just his usual severe cognitive decline that everyone knows he has? 🙄

The reports of Pete Hegseth drunk at Fox show there is no vetting of Trump's nominees. Any one of the hosts could have told you, including Judge Winebox. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I’m quoted in this Snopes article as the source of the accurate claim that Hegseth published an article claiming sex with an unconscious woman isn’t rape. But Snopes describes me as “X User Judd Legum” I’m actually a journalist and reported this in my independent newsletter

Yikes. “Weekend at Donnie’s.” 😮💀 youtu.be/ir3ULEvRqBU?...

This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.

This is horrific, and is exactly the kind of violence that is a direct result of the cruel, brutal attacks by Nancy Mace, Trump and the GOP. www.advocate.com/crime/trans-...

On Russian State TV, RFK Jr claimed that Swine Flu H1N1, which killed 284,400 people, “never happened” and was fabricated by pharmaceutical companies so they could make money.

I guess since Trump is appointing everyone who worked on Project 2025 he must’ve just heard about it.

Folks, Bluesky is turning into a powerhouse. I looked away and have nearly 100,000 followers. It has replaced Twitter for me as a "what's going on?" platform. It's not even December.

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BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard is on a TSA watch list because of her suspicious foreign travel patterns Maybe — just maybe, hear me out here — the nominee for Director of National Intelligence should NOT be someone who made a TSA watch list for her suspicious foreign travel patterns

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

We should have Republican and Democrat bathrooms. I don’t wanna be in the bathroom with these creepy, perverted Republican bros who spend their days obsessing over strangers’ genitals. 🙄

Republicans believe that the accused are innocent until proven guilty (Gaetz) and also innocent after proven guilty (Trump)

Pam Bondi, Trump's new AG pick, might be one of the most corrupt people in the country. When Trump's charity donated to her as FL AG, she stopped investigating Trump University. He did it. He found someone as bad as Matt Gaetz.

He’s a rapist, insurrectionist, convicted felon, con man, and traitor. Can you imagine voting for this guy and thinking you’re a decent, moral, patriotic person? It really boggles the mind.

A former babysitter for RFK Jr says the he groped her when she was 23 years old

They say the cover up is always worse.

Why are Repugnicans so obsessed with people’s genitals? Just a bunch of lowlife perverts. 🙄🙄🙄

Republicans claim they're afraid of sex offenders in in bathrooms, but they keep elevating sex offenders to high office.

Raw unvarnished truth here.

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We tried to warn. And yet the press “fact checked” anyone who dared to say Trump was going to implement Project 2025—because he said he wouldn’t. Insane.

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Court REJECTS David McCormick and GOP lawsuit to discard Philadelphia provisional ballots. This victory ensures that 966 voters will have their ballots counted. Congratulations to Team Casey who fought and won for these voters! www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

Talk about self-owns! This is rather amazing news on the abortion rights front.

So, Dr. Oz, huh? If one of the MAGA SCOTUS justices retires, I fully expect him to nominate Judge Judy. 🙄🙄🙄

I just saw a clip of “Dr.” Oz on Hannity during COVID. He was saying the schools should be opened back up cuz probably only 2-3% of children might die. Yeah. WTF?!

4 ex-Dem grifters who all came to realize the Dems weren't gullible enough.

This is particularly gratifying.

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

“The Venmo records totaling over $10,000 in payments were shown to the witnesses, who testified that some of the payments were from Gaetz and were for sex”