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Life is a banquet and I refuse to starve. "Fix your hearts or die" - David Lynch
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"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Amen to that.

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

😃 Major grocery retailers in Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino County still supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts: ---Albertson's - owner of Safeway ---Costco ---Grocery Outlet ---Raley's - owner of Raley's, Nob Hill and Bel Air ---Sprouts 1/3

"Golden Era"

Appearing today in The Week:

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

We’ve seen this movie before.

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

Keep up the good work, everyone! Make your voices heard the best way possible... Monetarily. www.aol.com/quarter-us-s... A new poll also found that four in 10 Americans have shifted spending to align with moral views in recent months

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. *This* is how democracy dies.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

Are people finally waking up? The real fight isn’t about bathrooms or drag queens—it’s about who holds power & at whose expense. Culture war is just a distraction, keeping working people too busy fighting each other rather than noticing who’s actually robbing us blind: billionaires—not each other!

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day. But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It's reverse Robin Hood.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. 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.

Well-oiled machine

CARTOON OF THE DAY

👏👏👏👏👏 www.yahoo.com/news/thought...

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged." Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia (ed. 1801)

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson

Douche (aka doge) dude has seriously skewed priorities when millions are wasted on the superbowl but hard working people have their jobs eliminated. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Wall Street robbed us blind in 2008, and now they’re getting a second chance—this time, with zero oversight. The CFPB was created to stop this from happening again. “Instead of learning from the last crisis, they’re making sure we get another one.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

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Shady Vance wishes what he says is true, but it's NOT!

That's exactly what the courts are supposed to do. The judicial branch is part of the checks and balances, as is the executive branch and legislative.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump hasn't done a lick to address rising grocery costs despite campaigning to bring them down on "day one." And his CDC deleted reports on the spread of bird flu, which is driving up egg prices. But don't worry, he just promised an executive order to bring back plastic straws.

The Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of thousands of seasonal federal firefighters, creating a potential shortfall of firefighters ahead of the next fire season.

AG Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics.

A note to our readers, from Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John Harris:

No more business as usual. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are imposing pain on millions of people. Tonight, we’re taking this fight to the Senate floor. Russ Vought - author of Project 2025 - is up for a vote, and Democrats are using every second to throw a wrench in their plan.