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Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

BREAKING: A MAGA bomb threat issued at the Principles First Summit in DC. I apologize for the language in it.

Again: Stop asking if Russia was the aggressor. It’s like asking if the Eagles won the Super Bowl. Start asking them why they refuse to say it.

Frankly , I think Husk's justify-your-job email is just a distraction from the fact that they're firing everyone in military leadership who will not break the law for them.

PASS IT ON!!!

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

Donald Trump's hunger for power was clearly displayed Friday in a brief exchange with Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine). But of course, his "we are the federal law" is a big change from his many, many years of campaigning on "states' rights."

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

Illinois has proposed a bill that would require anyone seeking the role of public library trustee be a valid cardholder of the library they wish to serve. This is a positive bill, and it's one in a line of pro-library bills being drafted and championed in the state. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Seems to me that this is exactly correct – and exactly consistent with MLK’s 1967 comments re “unregenerate segregationists who have declared that democracy is not worth having if it involves equality.”

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

JEFFRIES: “we have no leverage” SCHUMER: *pulls out a lime and limply waves it around* BERNIE:

Fresh out of prison after Trump’s pardon, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested today for assaulting a woman protesting his event.

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

From United Humanists on FB

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Accurate

We need more of this!

I'm going with "freedom freckles."

"During a meeting with Narendra Modi... Trump told him: 'It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.'"

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

Accurate.

it's true civic degeneracy. no better than eating fritos and watching snuff films in the basement with a needle in your arm.

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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If you want to get a sense of the mood out there, apparently this song from last century is going viral (Yes, the same band that famously did "Tubthumper")

It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

If you haven’t seen this yet, please do. Because this morning something awesome happened that I’m going to say more about soon…. Hint: Georgia…. Town hall. It’s happening…. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Please, please, please pay attention to this. A Republican Rep getting booed by his Republican constituents bcuz he supports what Musk/Trump are doing. And these are Republican voters who are not happy with what Musk/Trump are doing. Pay attention. This is just the beginning.👇

On algorithms and conspiracy theories. "An anti-vaccine account would get recommended flat earth content. Then chemtrails. Then QAnon...QAnon wouldn’t have existed to the extent it does without the recommendation engines pushing people into that group..." youtube.com/shorts/5STxo...

Are we great yet, America? It hasn't seemed particularly great to me lately, but hey, I've been wrong before, so I started asking around… johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/is-america...

Front page of today's New York Post.

The Trump curse strikes again. He couldn’t just stay out of it. First the KC Chiefs and now the US Hockey team. He’s on a roll.

Yo DOGE, Found your waste! 👇🏼

Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Business acumen? The guy passed up a chance in 1984 to buy for $50 million the Dallas Cowboys, now worth more than $5b. He also mocked Jerry Jones for doing so, and instead Trump invested in the New Jersey Generals. What time do the Generals kickoff Sunday?