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You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

Tomorrow, we expect Trump is going to sign an Executive Order claiming to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education. Reminder: Trump does not have the legal authority to destroy a cabinet department; reporting on the EO as if he does have that power is both inaccurate and unethical.

Both NY senators are clearly not aligned with the needs of today and both should resign their leadership positions

Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying. Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying. Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying. A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Gifted | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put an end to Black History Month and other celebrations of identity. But St. Patrick's Day got a pass, and some are asking why. The questions come from the troops as well as administration critics. www.expressnews.com/news/article...

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

Same day I'm reading that Republicans in Congress are attacking mRNA vaccines. 🙄🤬

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.

They started with the undocumented, then they went after visa holders and permanent residents, now it's naturalized citizens. How many times must history rhyme and repeat before we realize what's going on?

www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... @agawande.bsky.social speaks with @newyorker.com editor David Remnick on the mass casualties being inflicted by the Musk-Trump program the numbers are too much for Remnick to keep his composure

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

Just a reminder that even Justice Gorsuch—#SCOTUS’s most vocal critic of nationwide injunctions—has regularly voted in *favor* of them in cases in which they were directed toward Democratic governors/presidents: www.stevevladeck.com/i/143787144/...

Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it. The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness

My god. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

An investigation into a November 2024 Cybertruck crash in Piedmont, CA where “three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, & its doors would not open.” 3/11/25 1/

More of this!

The rightwing is trying to turn their minions on me by publishing a transcript of something I said today to @nicollewallace.bsky.social on @msnbc.com. I stand by every single word.

This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gee, you can actually stop people from dying without destroying our and other countrie's economies. Who could have possibly known? And yes, please do thank Biden while you're at it. www.cdc.gov/media/releas...

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Musk is blaming "Herbert Sandler," among others, for secretly financing the protests and Tesla dealerships over the last few weeks. Sandler died in 2019.

Protests are not illegal. It's a Constitutionally protected right. I've reviewed the text, and it applies even if people are protesting a Tesla dealership. constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

A pathetic and humiliating walkback from the would-be destroyers of CFPB, who know they've lost in court and can't kill the agency. This email from Mark Paoletta went to employees today. It neglects Vought's Feb 10 "stop-work" email that superseded it, ending all activity with no exceptions.

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

The overwhelming sentiment of the past few weeks is that the US Government is no longer a good faith employer. In a global marketplace with competition from both private companies and state actors, this is going to prove much more costly to the US taxpayer than any savings, which they will never see