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Democracy dies when good people are silent and allow fascists to speak their vitriolic falsehoods. Thankfully Democrats, in tandem with mute disapproval, and silent auction tactics, frowned so much that the Union is saved! 🎉

Democrats should boycott Trump's address tonight. If they feel they need to attend, they must not signal to the nation that we're living in normal times. Make good and loud trouble. Disrupt the speech. When he lies, boo loudly! Anything less will legitimize Trump’s coup.

This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

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.

THEM: you look tired ME: I am tired THEM: oh right because of the… ME: the horrors yeah THEM: right right, that’s right

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

If Congress had passed the Social Security Expansion Act just 4 years ago when it was 1st introduced, Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes. Social Security would be solvent for 75 years, benefits would have increased by $2,400 per recipient!

So Trumpers, three options: He's senile. He's a liar. Or both.

Gen 2 is finally getting the attention it deserves

It is now February 27th in Japan. On this day, 29 years ago, Pokémon Red & Green were released in Japan and the franchise began. Happy Birthday Pokémon! #PokemonDay

As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

Posted by @acnewsitics.bsky.social on another platform: “Why is Pam Bondi taking so long to release the Epstein files? What is she hiding?”

Nobody ever tells me what I can and can’t write, which is why independent media is surging and media controlled by billionaire oligarchs is not. My success or failure is determined by the readers, not by a guy circling the globe in an obscene yacht.

Just in case you were wondering about Dan Bongino … here’s a Twitter exchange with Stephen King. It’s quite possible that Dan “Toaster Head” Bongino is dumber than Trump.

An oldies, but a goodie. #classconsciousness

If all that McDonalds and Ketamine could hurry it up a little bit, we'd be forever grateful.

He nails it.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Fearless and independent investigative journalism is needed more than ever in these times. Attempts to suppress this story on Trump and the KGB demonstrate this ⬇️ To help fund the stories you won't read in the established press, and to keep honesty alive, subscribe: subscribe.bylinetimes.com

Always stand up to a bully

A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Um...Is he okay?

Centrist Dems everyday since 2016.

Without friends

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

NEW: Trump’s USDA admits it "accidentally" fired "several" agency employees working on the federal response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak—and is now scrambling to undo the damage.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

Pro tip:

trying to remember that we truly do not know what tomorrow brings. for instance you can shoot your puppy and write about it and it seems like your political life is over but next day you’re running Homeland Security in a cowboy hat and lip filler