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There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.

Special shoutout to all the supposed Christians who sat in church on a Sunday and then voted for Trump that Tuesday. I wonder what Jesus would think of the greed, cruelty, misery, and death that you voted for.

Just 2+2=5 over and over again

Just when you thought the FBI's new leadership couldn't get less qualified or more dangerous than reactionary zealot Kash Patel... along comes Dan Bongino. This is disgraceful. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

How many attorneys of future Jan 6-style brownshirt militia thugs are going to have giant color printouts of these tweets from the US President and the official White House account on display in their clients’ trials someday?

We've gone from thousands of Iranians holding candlelight vigils for America after 9/11 to Canadians booing our national anthem at hockey games. No president has been blameless. But it's impossible to overstate the amount of damage George W. Bush and Trump have done to our standing in the world.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Again, this is the kind of thing that you could use to educate Trump voters and begin to peel them away. But that would require a national media that isn’t so unfathomably terrible and an opposition party that wasn’t entirely clueless, and we don’t have one of those. bsky.app/profile/josh...

It's heartbreaking that public servants are having to resign rather than carry out illegal and/or unethical orders under Trump. But I admire the hell out of them for their integrity and guts. And this is an amazing letter from Hagan Scotten.

The position I'd like to see House and Senate Democrats take is pretty simple: We refuse to cooperate with Republicans on anything until they stop breaking the law and trashing the Constitution. We want Musk out, DOGE dissolved, and the Trump administration complying with federal court orders.

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

Conservatives used to say that wanted to make the government small enough to drown in the bathtub, but they ended up making it stupid enough to play in traffic

When *****Mitch McConnell***** is the ONLY Republican senator willing to vote against Tulsi "Assad & Putin are Awesome" Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and RFK "Needless Deaths from Childhood Diseases are Awesome" Jr. as Health & Human Services Secretary, we are in very deep shit.

NASA, I will remind you, is <0.5% of the US budget. LESS THAN ZERO POINT FIVE PERCENT. This is like trying to save disk space by deleting a text file when you've got a gigabytes of music you'll never listen to. More proof that what Musk and DOGE are doing is a lie.

Well done, American voters and non-voters. You've put an ignorant, arrogant, spiteful, hateful, drug-addled, billionaire egomaniac in charge of the United States. And no, I'm not talking about Trump. I'm talking about Elon Musk -- the most dangerous man in America.

I will never, ever come to terms with the fact that this man can constantly spout this kind of ignorant, preposterous, destructive shit and pay virtually no consequences for it.

so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.

I have no doubt that "do you support making government more efficient by removing fraud and waste?" would poll well. But I also have no doubt that "do you support eviscerating cancer research?" would not. Details matter! Otherwise you're just asking the uninformed about vague vibes.

worth saying that vermeule’s view that “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” is fucking stupid and has no basis in the constitution as written

Less than 3 weeks in, and we're already reaching the "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" phase of the 2nd Trump administration. And of course these "conservatives" are gleefully lining up to piss on the Constitution for their mad king.

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

What’s a movie that makes you feel safe?

Cutting tens of millions of people off from the AIDS medicine that keeps them alive for no other reason than that it sounds fun. That’s who runs our country today.

Goad elected officials into getting off their ass. Call House/Senate reps (try the local office lines, not DC line). If you don't know what to say, here's a script. I'll be calling multiple times a week until they act. Demand to know what they're doing. If you reply "nothing matters" I'll block.

We’re 2 weeks in. Trump is launching trade wars, illegally closing govt agencies, illegally firing federal employees. Elon Musk and his techbro goons are illegally hacking govt systems and data. WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS? WHAT IS THE OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP DOING? How are you this unprepared?

Life before vaccines.