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Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

I am inundated with messages from federal workers who are feeling frantic, furious and fed up after receiving Musk’s email and reading his threatening X post. The psychological warfare is the point.

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

He nails it.

Of course he would. Just add it to the dumpster fire destruction of the US. apnews.com/article/musk... Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company

And here we are.

Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

The Musk salute?

Elon Musk’s staffers have been going through data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees healthcare coverage for over 160 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.

Sorry, but I’m unfollowing you, @axios.com. If you want me back, you know what to do.

A new research study shows that rates for smoking, obesity and chronic conditions such as heart disease are comparatively higher in rural areas, leading to shorter life expectancy. (via @us.theconversation.com)

It’s a coup.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

Are you one who thinks the Democrats aren’t doing anything? Here’s what they did today. Guess what? They need US! They need us call our GOP Members of Congress and tell them what we expect. 24 hours a day. Just do it. 📱 (202) 224-3121

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

#StandUpFightBack #StopTheCoup

As children die because of anti-vax lies in the months and years ahead, I hope people will print out news stories about their deaths and mail them to the offices of those 52 Senate Republicans who voted for RFK Jr.

RFK Junior confirmed 52 to 48. Mitch McConnell was the only republican to vote No but he gets absolutely no grace from me. The Senate Republicans have abandoned America. This is a very sad and disturbing day in America and we will never forget.

So many people are going to die. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

All our secrets are belong to Putin

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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

JFC! We’ve got a teenager with full access to the State Department’s data—one who joked about wiping servers after getting fired for leaking a security firm’s info to a competitor. What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are destroying the credibility of the Department of Justice by sending its lawyers into court to make absurd legal arguments and repeated factual misrepresentations. This will not end well.

The rest of the world has their eyes wide open.

The federally funded Vera Rubin Observatory has been hit by Trump's anti-DEI campaign. Astronomy remains a male dominated field. Vera Rubin tried to get more women in. "By Monday morning, a section of her online biography titled, “She advocated for women in science,” was gone."

In a Fox News interview, Trump picked the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles. Before the start of the third quarter, Trump had already left the Super Bowl stadium, with the Chiefs trailing by 24 points. The Eagles went on to demolish the Chiefs by 40-22. Trump was wrong yet again.

Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.

I may have just picked my #SuperBowl team! @jalenhurts.bsky.social ~ #TakeAKnee

‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

A president can’t just create a new federal agency via executive order — that can only happen through an act of Congress. Then what is DOGE www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

📌75 million people voted for the convicted, America-attacking felon who is taking a sledgehammer to our country. 📌90 million eligible voters decided they had better things to do but vote. #HowWeGotHere

I’m sure there’s a very good reason why @housedemocrats.bsky.social haven’t bothered to post anything whatsoever on Bluesky. Anyone want to guess why House Democrats have made no effort to reach out to the 31 million users on this platform? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

On Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

Robber baron Elon Musk squandered approx $40 million on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful! 🏈USAID would’ve spent $40M on purchasing life-saving HIV treatment from USA pharmaceutical companies to keep 1,060,000 million people alive for 1 year! Tell Congress #saveforeignaid & #standwithUSAID!

American Medical Association is providing regular updates on bird flu and other infectious diseases on YouTube. I highly recommend subscribing to their page, especially since CDC has been axed by FOTUS #Voices4Victory m.youtube.com/user/AmerMed...

Heads up: The co-author of Project 2025 just issued a directive to halt almost ALL activity out of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.   Russ Vought instructed employees to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and pause all pending investigations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

50 Shades of Grey is only "romantic" because he's a bilionaire. If he lived in a trailer park it would be an episode of Criminal Minds.

Good time for a reminder:

Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"