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Need a palate cleanser? Here’s my best buddy. I just love this boy.

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

This graph from @centeronbudget.bsky.social says it all. Republicans want to kick millions of people off Medicaid and eviscerate SNAP to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

Is Elon Musk trying to ruin the great outdoors? Sure looks like it, given what's going on at the National Parks Service. Subscribe to #WhatADay for more. crooked.com/daily

What world are we living in??? This is an atrocity. I feel like I’ve said that exact phrase more times in the last month than I have in my entire life up until now.

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

He watches me even when he’s so tired he can’t keep up his own head.

The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

Column: Jeff Bezos threw the Washington Post under the MAGA bus. His decision to revamp its opinion section threatens not just independent journalism, but the Post's business future, writes our senior editor Michael Schaffer.

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna has introduced the Drain the Swamp Act. It will ban White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists or becoming lobbyists during the Trump term.

Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

If this doesn't terrify you, then we are not friends. The free press is no longer free and this is a HUGE disservice to our country. Unbiased reporting is dead if this is allowed. This will lead to even more unchecked corruption in our government.

The original video of this travesty haunts me. I can’t believe this happened in this country.

The Justice Department is not the president's personal law firm. You are not his lawyers. The free press should be exactly that — free. If the facts they report don’t align with the president’s propaganda, tough. And this statement is a disgrace to the DOJ and the rule of law.

The Trump administration may continue — for now — to keep the AP from covering key events. A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order on Monday.

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

Those left in the business are there because they believe in the power of the local media. They are watching out for you and your community. They keep reporting on a salary no one can live off of. When no other news outlets pay attention to you - remember that your local newspaper is still there.

@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the gripping and impactful DOGE reporting by local news outlets: "It would be both ironic and so very American if the rich and powerful oligarchs were finally stopped by the underfunded newsrooms and working-class reporters." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/local-news...

No. Just no.

Senate Republicans just *BLOCKED* Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

A point to consider.

I can’t believe a majority of our country is ok with the demise of one of the last true journalistic watchdogs. What happens when no one is there to hold our elected officials accountable? All because of an arbitrary name change no one wanted. I fear this is just the beginning. I hope I’m wrong.