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Here’s where we are… I’m sitting here, moved by the fact that a famous comedian—especially an older one—isn’t transphobic, isn’t misgendering a trans woman, and is being generous and kind.

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

The government shuts down on March 14 unless Congress passes a new spending bill. Republicans need Democratic votes to pass anything, but they’re pushing a budget that slashes essential programs, attacks basic rights, and hands unchecked power over to Trump, Elon Musk, and their billionaire allies.

The quickening pace of corruption - the brazen use of the White House to enrich himself and his friends - is stunning. Soon, before we know it, government will no longer serve us at all. It will just be a mechanism to enrich billionaires loyal to Trump.

Kash Patel should never be allowed inside the FBI. He is perhaps the most dangerous of all the Trump nominees. He shamelessly wants to turn the agency into Trump's loyalty police. I'm going to Senate floor at 4pm to raise the alarm for my Republican colleagues.

Young voters really don't like Elon Musk. His unfavorability is 54% with all voters. 67% with voters under 30. Feels important for a party that needs to win a much bigger share of young voters.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

I am proud that my law firm is currently litigation 48 voting and election cases in 18 states.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

Help take this dangerous scoundrel down at Teslatakedown.com

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

This is what a leader looks like 🔥🔥 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Geroyam Slava 🇺🇦 #SheShed

The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

I believe we’ll look back at tonight as a major turning point.

Hold the fuck on — members of Elon Musk's private security detail have been deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service? What the actual fuck?!?!?

"Many of the epidemiologists at the CDC in Fort Collins, working on tick-borne diseases were just fired. " #lymedisease #lymewarrior #chroniclyme www.lymedisease.org/cdc-budget-c...

Colorado's Fort Collins Food Co-op has provided healthy local groceries for over fifty years. As a member-owned cooperative, it is democratically run to serve the community. The co-op is currently fundraising and you can support them by donating and/or sharing. 💚 www.mountainavenuemarket.com 🫑

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

⚡️EU preparing military aid package for Kyiv worth $20.9 billion, Bloomberg reports. The additional military support would supply Kyiv with air defense systems, artillery ammunition, long-range missiles, and drones.

Do not fuck with Colorado.

Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings, was arrested after speaking out against plans to install a plaque with references to President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” at a library in Huntington Beach, California.

A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

I am once again wondering why people don’t AT LEAST use Google, which is faster than ChatGPT and has a better chance at finding accurate info because it is an actual search engine and ChatGPT is not

2/20/25: "FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A group of students at Colorado State University organized a sit-in today at the admin building, following a protest outside the day before about recent changes announced by CSU Pres Amy Parsons due to Trump's diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) exec orders." 9 news

The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on their citizenship status.

The Trump administration has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities to end all DEI programs or risk losing federal funding. Educators are warning that the “autocratic” directive is part of a larger attempt to privatize education.

As Elon Musk’s DOGE chainsaws through federal agencies with budget and staff cuts, Tesla and SpaceX, cornerstones of Musk’s fabulous wealth, continue to benefit from public money. They probably wouldn’t have succeeded without it.

Elon Musk’s DOGE comes for agency that regulates autonomous vehicles

Happy Friday! This is the resistance. Cause some Good Trouble today!

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

Twitter is now an American right wing disinformation machine interfering in global politics. Your participation in it, is collaboration and nothing less.

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

Justin Trudeau to USA: ‘You can’t take our country—and you can’t take our game’ www.celebitchy.com/910436/

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Breaking news: 57 percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office for his second term, according to a new Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The migrants refused to be repatriated to their countries. They will be held in a migration facility near the Darien Gap along the Colombian border until third countries can be found to take them.

Positive press on Meghan's rebranding release. ❤️ #sussexsquad #Asever youtu.be/3wDE8Nj1mvc?...