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Oh look, a perfect visual representation of how everything feels right now.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Tearing down federal funding in so many areas of science in the USA will have long-lasting effects. Read a great article linked below🧪

WWJD? He'd smite them.

Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona C Magical Places

This is scarily accurate. A few dems seem to get it, but Schumer and Jeffries need to wake the fuck up. #republicansarefascist

apple juice was designed to be drunk on a plane. it just never tastes better or more refreshing than it does at 30,000 feet

It’s imperative at this point that Europe develop a defense posture independent of the United States, which should be treated as the ally of Russia that it has now become.

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

If "they" reactivate a retired LTG (3-Star) and make him CJCS, even though his record doesn't meet the service requirements to hold the position. They're going to be stepping on a LOT of toes. Trump will guarantee himself a military hostile to him. This could actually work out.

Mogensen was a Commander of the International Space Station.

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

As Musk villainously dances around with chainsaws, these are the real people getting hurt. (From CBS)

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

This is right. And it's also worth emphasizing that the process is not optional. Under existing SCOTUS precedent (Roth, Sindermann), civil servants have a 5A right to due process before major personnel actions. SCOTUS has said that statutory procedures satisfy that right (Arnett v. Kennedy).

2 Americans in the hotel last night were complaining that Canadians were still going on about the Hockey game win. Saying they get that they are mad about the 51st State stuff but they need to get over it. It was 3 hrs after the game. How long are we allowed to celebrate a win? 🤦‍♂️

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

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I don't remember Walmart issuing a statement about the impending doom of the US Economy when Joe Biden was the President.

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Laguna Beach is an art colony. We support the arts. Chip Bok is the brilliant award-winning political cartoonist that created this artwork.

This is most detailed photo ever of an extragalactic object.A 400 megapixel photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. Captured over a period of 3 months using 2 telescopes and thousands of photos. Credit: Andrew McCarthy

No Family like Snow Family

I wonder if CQ Brown was separated from his service (retirement) or put into a different role. I can't imagine being a 4-star General, having SCI clearance, knowing Trump's intel file and then being fired by a Putin stooge and just going quietly into the good night without saying a few words.

I hope you have a wholesome Saturday everyone.

A TV station in Philly interviewed an IRS employee who just lost his job. He voted for Trump. He says he regrets his vote.

AOC: “Elon Musk is not going after efficiency — he is trying to gut everything good in 🇺🇸 for his own private profit… America is not for sale.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGXObpu...

Reuters is reporting that Ukraine has been notified that Elon will shut off Starlink access to Ukrainian Armed Forces unless Zelensky signs the rare earth minerals paperwork. 100% extortion.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Local woman wakes up, plans a Leopards Eating Faces Gala, with the leopards wearing high fashion outfits and the other guests wearing whatever matches best with eaten faces, makes oatmeal.

Word processors used to be an appliance. (Source.)

What do voters think about Elon Musk and his rampage through the US Government? A banger episode of The Focus Group pod with @karaswisher.bsky.social ‬⁩ who blows my mind with a couple of insight about Elon’s endgame.

Elon is destroying American jobs without proving anything. No fraud found. Can't prove that any waste has been saved (jobs usually add value, even in government) and the money not paid out in salaries will likely go to Elon related contracts. He's a wrecking ball, destroying livelihoods and people.

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

I never thought I'd die side by side with Lamborghini-driving TikTokers, but these kids understand the assignment and I couldn't be more proud of them www.roadandtrack.com/news/a638561...

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

Please proceed to the cashier’s window to collect your winnings. Thank you and congratulations on your successful wager

Trump just made a civilian the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chairman is legally required to be an active-duty military officer. Trump is scared of our officers, knowing full well they will absolutely deny an illegal order!

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.