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“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

Term to know; "unitary executive theory", a bullshit phrase to describe a king. This will end up at SCOTUS and this Court may back some version of it. Combined with the immunity decision and you have a dictator with Congress and courts as advisory bodies without checks or balances on the president.

We have Musk protest events popping up at Tesla showrooms and plants all over the country and many more here and worldwide. Join or create your own event at Teslatakedown.com

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

A retired general knows what he's talking about when he tells you that USAID does valuable work in America's national interest.

Jacobs: It's so funny to me that my colleagues on the other side spent 30 minutes talking about how we don't want unelected bureaucrats making these rules when they're literally allowing a unelected Elon Musk run roughshod over congress' power of the purse

He just told two and a half million people they can’t work from home any more

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

By every conceivable measure, the United States is now more isolated and less secure than at any other time in the modern era.

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat

The president's latest interview puts to rest the longstanding question of whether he's knowingly lying or detached from reality. Of course, there's plenty of dishonesty mixed in. But Donald Trump appears to be delusional. New from @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram stood with Federal Workers at OPM, “I am here because what I see in America happening is 1930s Germany. We are now officially a Nazi America. We have a Hitler clone in the White House. He is destroying everything America defeated.” dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/07/h...

Vance posted on X: “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” You mean Trump’s “power” being used to violate our Constitution? The Constitution is not something any president can manipulate for political games.

The Republican Party is the pro-cancer party. Repeat it. Call them and tell them that. Tell everyone you know that they (and any Dems who aren’t doing their job, for that matter) are cancer supporters.

The richest man in the world wants to shut down an agency that keeps people like him from ripping off the rest of us. CFPB has returned billions of $$ to Americans who’ve been screwed by Big Banks and Big Tech.

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

If Elon can do for America what he did for Twitter, we should be an illiterate Nazi chatroom by the end of the month.

Trump has once again declared that the International Criminal Court’s efforts to seek accountability for war crimes constitutes a national emergency—just like he did in 2020. And once again, it’s a spectacular abuse of emergency powers. 1/12

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During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

But also, are posthumous orders a thing?

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

Hold the line.

Sharing this from Rt. Rev. Jonathan H. Folts, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. “One of our own priests was targeted at his home—so let no one say, ‘it can’t happen here.’ It can. It has. It is. And rest assured, we will not remain silent or passive in responding.” My heart aches.

How Trump’s judges can kill democracy.

The FBI is full of tough minded, hard charging, patriotic people—mostly Republicans—who have devoted years of their lives serving the country and placing mission over money. Many there now feel unfairly targeted by political operatives for doing things they were assigned to do. They are furious.

I'm glad.

Elon Musk thinks he can gut the U.S. government like he gutted Twitter without facing any real consequences. He is dangerously wrong. His ransacking of the federal workforce is going to get people killed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Here’s Judge AliKhan’s written order imposing an “administrative stay” on most of OMB’s spending freeze through Feb. 3: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... courtesy of @joshgerstein.bsky.social

I call bullshit

I think it is absolutely fair and appropriate to identify these lawyers and shun them from decent society.