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This buffoon almost got a Navy SEAL team killed www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... and endangered a hostage rescue operation www.msnbc.com/top-stories/.... Look at the mess he's already making.

This is my new favorite meme. Sleepy Donald Trump.

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance **CORRECTION** This video clip is from 2018. It is Trump & Pam Bondi talking about a law they wanted to pass. To be clear, I am all for common sense gun laws. We do need a national red flag law. I’m laughing bc MAGA said it was dems that want our guns. Ironic

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

JUST IN: DOJ asks Judge Ali to stay his order from today — which was to enforce a TRO in place since Feb. 13 — because, DOJ says, "the Court’s order requires Defendants to disburse nearly $2 billion dollars by 11:59 PM tomorrow." THEY HAD TO DO SO SINCE FEB. 13, THOUGH!! That's the whole point!

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

You first.

Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

In January, FBI Director Kash Patel met with two senior members of the FBI Agent Association and "privately agreed" a career FBI agent should be his deputy. On Sunday, the group informed its members about this in a newsletter An hour later, Trump announced Bongino www.wired.com/story/dan-bo...

Not to belabor the obvious, but this only became a "ruse" when people started ignoring him It's the same well-worn playbook when Rs say something racist / sexist / etc, get "wtf??" in response, and claim they were just joking

Updated: How a (Thus Far Unsuccessful) Lawsuit Caused Elon Musk's OPM Email to Faceplant (w/details about @nationalsecuritylaw.org asking for sanctions). www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/24/h...

The US attorney in DC is policing what people say about Elon Musk and grandstanding about the Associated Press but in no rush to arrest someone for assault

www.dailydot.com/debug/bonner...

Eh, sorry, but this seems like a tenth-order problem at best. "Scientific research cures cancer" is really easy to understand, & here we are, with the fascists destroying the NSF and NIH. The deep, ugly anti-intellectualism is not because of jargon.

Do we have to decide Musk is either an omnicompetent genius or a complete moron & fraud? Seems more likely he’s extremely sharp within a narrow sphere of competence, but also sort of unhinged, detached from reality by his fame & wealth, & delusional about the scope of his own competence.

The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.

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There are employees who work a 4x10 schedule with regular days off (RDO) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and others with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday who will not get this email or have the opportunity to respond during working hours. There are others who do not access .gov email b/c they don't use computers.

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

Idiocracy was a documentary

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

David...

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

The biggest line item on the site of Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

QUIET PART OUT LOUD — Watters outlines Fox’s role in the right-wing propaganda effort: “We are waging a 21st century info warfare campaign against the left… Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it...”

If you think Musk wants all this data in order to root out fraud and marginally improve government efficiency, I have several bridges to sell you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

Trying to shame a eugenicist for having multiple babies with multiple women won’t work. Just FYI.

Glad Trump had the chance to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to fly over the Daytona 500 and then ride The Beast on the track as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee are underwater. Priorities.

My critique of the Randy Barnett/Ilan Wurman constitutional rationale for Trump's order on birthright citizenship: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Führerprinzip.

"A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.” -Charlie Sykes

If you are an employee at #HHS, read this first before opening ANY emails about your employment status www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

The DOJ clash over Adams "has set up what promises to be a protracted and damaging battle over the integrity, independence and direction of a department that Mr. Trump views like a piece of captured battlefield artillery he is now able to turn against his attackers." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

NEWS Before she resigned, the Acting US Attorney for SDNY wrote an eight page letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Eric Adams case. In that letter, she said that Eric Adams’ attorneys said the Mayor would help the DOJ with enforcement if his case was dismissed. Must Read Letter!

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Holy shit.

Emil Bove is Stringer Bell

👇🎯 All because of a total, comprehensive failure of Article I of the Constitution. We have a legislative branch that is non-functional, led by a far right authoritarian party that refuses to fulfill the oaths its leaders swore to country & Constitution.

When Trump took office, the NLRB had 24 separate investigations into Musk’s corporations for violating workers’ rights. But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases. See how this works?