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You know this is 100% going to happen…

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

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Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

IL Gov JB Pritzker is sounding the 🚨 alarm Pritzker is stepping up to fill a Dem leadership void as the Trump-Musk regime carries out its coup attempt --- Please read Prtizker's entire thread

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

What are we waiting for?

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DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

As Elon Musk continues to talk about subsidies, let’s remember that he is the LARGEST GOVT SUBSIDIES RECIPIENT in the country!

Hmmm. Interesting timing, no? gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e...

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

US Senate Democrats on Monday afternoon “to sound the alarm” that Elon Musk and his DoGE team were reportedly granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles nearly $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements.

'Great concern': Musk aides reportedly lock career civil servants out of computer systems: The aides Elon Musk brought to help him purge the federal workforce have locked staffers of a U.S. government human resources agency out of the computer systems with millions of employees' personal…

Americans should not just brush away trump's press briefing on the air collision in DC as just another example of trump being trump. It was an epic disaster, but it was normal for 2 minutes. Please read and share my latest free Substack. brooklyndaddefiant.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...

Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a bill to get rid of the Department of Education. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Hmmm... painting over the FBI's "Key Values" at the FBI Academy with soulless grey. That's a bit on the nose, isn't it?

HELL NO!

Ted Cruz: Do you condemn violence against law enforcement? Patel: All of it. You cannot support violent J6ers and say you condemn all violence against law enforcement. Simple as that.

Wow

One way to reduce drug spend is to have the FDA do an analysis of how long medicine retains it's potency. It can do it one drug at a time. No one should throw away medicine they shouldn't have to. Whether pharmacy or patient. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

New in PN: @daviddejong.bsky.social on the pact with the devil “Prior to Hitler seizing power, German industrialists were establishment conservatives and found Hitler and his supporters to be garish, boorish, uniformed clowns from impoverished areas. And then ... "

The Laken Riley Act allows for the indefinite detention of any immigrant even SUSPECTED of theft. It also enables cops to detain citizens who look like immigrants until they can prove their citizenship. Senate Dems need to say #NoRacialProfilingLaws and vote against this bill.

I just saw a post on Facebook start with ‘Convicted Rapist Mark Zuckerberg….’ Let’s see how long this no fact checking lasts.