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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

“But let me make it practical: the Purge is being declared, but only for Trump supporters. Any illegal or violent activity they engage in will be excused, especially if it targets Trump or Musk’s supposed enemies.”

wrote about The Situation www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

And now the Trump administration has opened an investigation of the Maine Department of Education

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

"doomsday fished spotted." "asteroid may be on track for earth." "fascism suddenly on the rise" like, we get it!! lazy writing at this point!!!

clearly the right move apnews.com/article/ap-l...

Hunter Schafer reveals that her new passport now lists her as ‘Male’ following Trump’s executive order.

Musk, Trump, and RFK Jr.’s cuts to the CDC have halted 9/11 health care for Ground Zero workers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

at what point does the media acknowledge these guys are actively doing the nazi salute specifically bc they enjoy the media contorting themselves into ways that don’t call it a nazi salute. it’s trolling, like the 👌🏼 thing was. but it’s also, quite clearly, a nazi salute!

“By refusing to call figures like Patel what they are, the press is failing its duty to inform the public-and, frankly, it is enabling the further erosion of democratic norms.”

from @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

i know that’s right

crazy how this keeps happening!!

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

we can and must aim higher! i’m doing my part! are YOU? 🫵🏻

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has decided against removing embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, Gothamist has learned: bit.ly/3QpvqzB

she won

he's retiring to spend more time with the consequences of his own actions 🫶

James Bond: No Time To DEI

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

The last few days should put to rest the idea that Trump can be managed with the right combination of flattery and acquiescence. Zelensky made a series of reasonable and credible efforts to get Trump onside. He basically followed the playbook for how Trump ought to be managed. And, look:

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture

This was just 233 days ago:

man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

and two makes a trend!!!!

I give you 5,000 words on Hasan Piker, who is one of the few lefty personalities on the internet with any cultural salience. Will he ever be marbled into the larger Democratic messaging apparatus? That’s what drew me to his house, the day before the inauguration. slate.com/news-and-pol...

we are so back

"The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by Trump-appointed officials to launch a criminal probe and pursue an asset freeze." via @Reuters.com

genuinely don't get why anyone who is not subscribed to musk's political project is throwing content up there. this & all other evidence dismantles the argument that one needs to 'stay and fight' the war of ideas (lol) on a platform that is making it clear as day it will not give you a fair fight

Hochul reading the room

they kept him out of all the promo, the red carpets, and the credits. surprise!!!

lol sure why not

tiktok is full of people being like “now why would they change the white lotus theme song” and WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU DUMMIES

this snl show gonna be longer than the oscars

“Why? What have you heard?” 👀 #SNL50

how does pedro still look so hot even when dressed like that

aubreyyyy 💙 can’t imagine how hard it was for her to show up tonight