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Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.

I really didn't think the news out of Washington could get more bizarre... But I was wrong.

Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer: 1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA 2) What phones were everyone using 3) What kind of security do those phones have 4) WHERE were they using those phones 5) What else is on the phones 6) Why was Joe Kent included

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

ICE deported Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player who was tortured by Maduro’s dictatorship. He had applied for asylum in the U.S. No evidence he committed any crime. No gang membership. Then ICE sent him to a prison in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

Yet another Trump-loving creep is arrested for alleged sex crimes

The FTC’s other Dem commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, has also been purged tonight: www.axios.com/2025/03/18/t...

If you attack the Capitol to overturn election results and to overthrow democracy on behalf of a criminal, you’re a hero. If you attack a Tesla dealership, we’ll throw away the key.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

@statisticurban.bsky.social: “The DoD has removed the article on Charles Roger's Medal of Honor. He served in Vietnam. Despite being wounded three times in battle, rallied his troops & led them to victory in defense of Support Base Rita. Nixon presented his Medal. The url is changed to "deimedal.”

I respectfully disagree. Normie resistance libs and never-Trumpers have *always* misjudged Trump—over and over again. Trump has consistently proven himself to be much *worse*—more depraved, more deranged, more dimwitted—than those critics have made him out to be.

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

“People who can’t afford eggs: Buy a brand new Tesla for $129,000 to prove your patriotism!”

As we watch our retirement accounts decimated, our benefits under attack, and the American economy hurting, Donald Trump has a totally reassuring message for us: "We're just getting started."

Diplomats, strategists, and military leaders agree that helping Russia invade Ukraine discourages Russia from negotiating peace. But X user @rawmilkguy1488 isn’t so sure.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Today's Oval Office spectacle wasn't about showing strength, it was about surrendering to Putin. Trump and JD Vance have completely sold out America. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social n react: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_m...

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting. Meanwhile:

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

This....

While we are cutting costs it’s pretty clear that all of the Republicans in Congress could be very inexpensively replaced

Per @catgyoung.bsky.social: “The Trump admin just fired key staff at NIH’s Alzheimer’s research center—including the incoming director. With 6.9M Americans affected and cases set to double by 2050, cutting research means fewer breakthroughs and more suffering. Patients and families deserve better.”

Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE just posted classified U.S. intelligence data on its website, and officials are scrambling, HuffPost reports.

Sen. Whitehouse: Mark my words. This Patel guy will come back to haunt you. Every piece of evidence shows that.

A readout on DOGE day at the IRS: “They’re just trying to snap up data right now." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ir...

"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...