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House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

I just saw Kaesee Bourne on news. She’s a fish and game biologist who was just fired by DOGE. I haven’t read her book yet but I just ordered 2 copies from Little Professor in Birmingham. She would probably love some book sales so order if you can or repost. #BlackHistoryMonth #booksky

NEW: President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to eliminate one of San Francisco’s most iconic landmarks. nbcbay.com/3MhRazS

BREAKING: Jon Lindstrom and Cady McClain have joined the cast of "Beyond the Gates," with Lindstrom playing the role of Joey Armstrong and McClain playing Pamela Curtis. #BeyondTheGates #BTG #JonLindstrom #CadyMcClain www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/02/jon-...

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

The unitary executive theory is about to get its test case. SCOTUS will decide whether to give Trump the keys to the destruction of our federal government.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

We are nearing a precipice.

You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

Dictator for a day has gone full Napoleon.

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

Zelensky is only half-right. The American people are still committed to our alliance with Europe, and specifically Ukraine. The US -- like Europe -- is under attack from Russia and has been partially captured by Russian collaborators. But we will defeat them.

Donald Trump’s nonstop barrage of unlawful orders is designed to confuse and overwhelm us. But that doesn’t mean the administration has a clear plan for how to actually get things done. Jay Kuo broke down the administration's cat-and-mouse game for The Big Picture.

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

Plus, some of these folks are just too damn old to be still doing this.

Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.

A federal judge ordered the administration of US President Donald Trump to restore funding for hundreds of foreign aid contractors who argued that they were negatively impacted by a 90-day blanket freeze, a court filing showed reut.rs/42TA1Bq

Trump voters: Had enough yet?

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#music #history: Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most important musicians of the 20th century. When Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash call you a major influence that probably is an indication. #guitar #rock #electricguitar #rockandroll #blues #bluesmusic #womeninhistory youtu.be/E1rgnoM1bQA?...

Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies. The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits. This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud. See the pattern?

The GOP budget is out. Republicans recently promised to love and cherish Medicaid. Their actual plan is to destroy it.

Crockett: While he was stopping money… somehow the only money that didn’t stop was the money going to his organization. I don’t know you can have him be watchdog as well as the guy living off of the government. If you want to talk about government welfare, it looks like Elon Musk

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Not one reporter has asked Trump about Musk’s decision to take away food from starving babies.

"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..." apnews.com/article/trum...

I can tell you that the vast majority of civil servants I’ve had the honor of working with are dedicated and hardworking. For the richest person in the world to be given a bully pulpit in the Oval Office to impugn their integrity is beyond shameful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fraud

It started in Silicon Valley as a fringe idea: an inefficient democracy needs to die - replaced by a "red Caesar" dictatorship that would fire federal employees and govern with the latest tech Thiel, Musk and Trump are making this dystopia a reality. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

With major rainfall expected for Southern California this week, crews are prepositioning resources where wildfire damage has made flooding and debris flows even more dangerous. Be sure to heed emergency guidance for local officials ➡️ ready.ca.gov

The Trump Economy: Going up ⬆️ Inflation Gas & Grocery prices Housing costs Taxation via tariffs Going down ⬇️ The stock markets Your savings www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/s...

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

Musk totally humiliated Trump during their joint Oval Office press conference. Musk brought along his 4-year-old son — making Trump look like the kid’s babysitter — disrespectfully wore a T-shirt and baseball cap, and even interrupted Trump. It’s clear who’s really in control, and it ain’t Trump.

Elizabeth Warren decries Donald Trump’s vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Elon Musk’s “Mount Everest of conflicts.” “You don't get to slither around in the dark,” she says. Interview ⤵️

Well… today I have my first DOGE subcommittee hearing along with a Judiciary hearing, all while DC is snowed in! If I had normal coworkers & the country wasn’t going to hell lead by DOGE Douchebags, I’d say, “nothing to see here,” but something tells me, today is going to be pure insanity…

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.

Not good! bsky.app/profile/just...

MAGA is clutching their pearls because Rep. Jasmine Crockett said "bullshit" on TV. 🙄 Preach, Jasmine!

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Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

Samuel L. Jackson making an appearance during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was everything.

Treasury employees have filed two lawsuits tonight: 1) To prevent the dismantling of CFPB storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 2) To block DOGE's access to employee records/privacy info. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#BoycottNFL #TurnItOff #ListenDontWatch