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“How do you think the president was prepared to issue all these executive orders? How do you think they were prepared to make all of these appointments in such quick succession after he got into office? Project 2025.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Corporate media would be a hundred times as outraged by this breach of decorum as they have been about the daily constitutional crises and illegal closures that have actually cost human lives already. Which is all the more reason to do it, honestly.

We found the real fraud.

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Imagine the response if a European leader laughed it up about 9/11.

As a measure of how quickly standards are declining here, Trump was impeached for secretly pausing transfer of weapons to his Ukraine in his first term.

HANNITY: The Biden administration called Putin every name in the book JD VANCE: And he still invaded anyway! hah hah hah

Sure. So long as Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the rest of the nation's public goods, might as well stomp on the Endangered Species Act and turn over national forests to the logging industry. To destroy simply because he can.

He doesn’t believe laws or institutions apply to him or 🇺🇸, just like he’s never believed laws or contracts apply to him or his businesses. And the problem is, his entire life has proven him right, bc there have never been any consequences for this behavior. A total societal & constitutional failure.

Can we stop prattling on about midterms and "swingstates" - the entire idea of this authoritarian Musk/Trump regime is that there will not be meaningful elections any longer. What do you think this birthright citizenship thing is about? It's about disenfranchisement.

Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” may be nothing but a blatant insider trading scam to make his billionaire crypto czar richer — funded by taxpayer money.

Narrator: Lawler just voted for a budget that requires massive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and/or Social Security.

There is no silver lining to this government, no saving grace. Where he isn’t inflicting outright cruelty and malice, Trump is taking a wrecking ball to American prosperity. What an astounding moment of national self-harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...

The future of higher education has never been more perilous. #Trump #Musk #Vought are out to destroy universities. Read more in my latest for @TheNation. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

I’m going to be a broken record on this. Stop treating people’s lives as a political calculus. Stop sacrificing communities as a part of chasing power. That’s what Trump is doing, and it’s unforgivable. Be out there using your political power to protect people. That’s what you got elected for.

Amazon’s drones met more resistance in College Station, Texas, than in any other city in the US. Now they’re gone—and a sense of peace and privacy has been restored.

House Republicans still can’t pass a budget, but they are still laser focused on making your lives better.

The point is less that charges are paused after $75m paid into Trump crypto, but that nobody’s even bothered to come up with a pretext. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/b...

This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets." Support pro-democracy independent media.

So Musk’s people, who misread $8 million as $8 billion, who counted the same contracts multiple times and counted as savings programs that ended last year, claim that their AI is finding lots of Social Security fraud. Why should anyone worry?

If you are the kind of person who is reflexively angered at the sight of someone looting a $2,000 TV during a riot, well this plundering of the FAA amid fires across the federal government is Elon Musk walking out of the Best Buy with a $2.4 billion TV.

Democrats should make sure as many people see this as possible: that Trump's #1 adviser wants to destroy Social Security. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

Bill from "Bill & Ted's" is doing more work to stop Musk than clowns in the Senate like Ruben Gallego.

I’m sorry to say it but: The emporer is actually naked.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

If the president defies the courts and Congress does not impeach him for it, the Constitution simply ceases to exist.

Enjoying everyone's dunks on Rahm Emanuel but I have to note, once again, that he is still the undisputed champion of Worst Political Instincts for saying, in 2009 as White House Chief of Staff, "I don't give a fuck about judges." Whoops! Maybe you should've cared about them, Rahm.

WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit. The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

The Oval Office has long been a symbol of American leadership, diplomacy, and decorum—a space where world leaders engage in high-stakes discussions with mutual respect, even amid disagreement. Yesterday’s debacle shattered that image.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social There needs to be a face of the Democratic Party - now. Someone out every day clearly stating what is happening to our govt institutions, our global standing and how changes will impact avg Americans. It’s time, I’m begging you to meet the moment.

That press conference was choreographed for an audience of one and he sits in Moscow. Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.

📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now.

I can’t stop thinking about how so many people voted for Trump because they thought he was going to punish people they hate and now he’s hurting them also.

It's all a fucking game to these people.

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

It’s beyond insane that a single individual can CREDIBLY threaten the entire republican Caucasus to bankroll a primary opponent if they don’t fall in line. A Total failure of both our electoral laws and tax code.

18F did things like making online government forms (like filing your taxes or submitting VA claims) easier to fill out, create text message notification systems for govt agencies, and streamlining internal data sharing. They were literally making govt more efficient & user-friendly. This sucks.

setting aside the fact that the entire white house staff is utterly poisoned by online in a way that actually exceeds any democratic staffer, it is incredibly pathetic that they look at trump's temper tantrum and see "strength"

The Trump Vance performance today was one of the great foreign policy fails in US history, the biggest Oval Office clusterfuck the public has ever had the chance to watch in real time. But it was much worse than that. Another piece from me. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks...

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"

This is evil. Pure evil.