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“And then we break windows, assault cops and shit all over the floor.” “Amazing, what do you call this act?” “The January 6th Prison Choir!” consequence.net/2025/02/j6-c...

Not breaking any new ground here, but my god is Bari a bad writer and thinker

i don't think reading this to yourself does justice to how bad it is. read it out loud. you'll immediately notice how stilted and uncomfortable the prose is, like someone struggling to articulate an actual thought

Donald Tusk: “If we, Europeans, fail to spend big on defence now, we will be forced to spend 10 times more if we don’t prevent a wider war. As the Polish PM I’m entitled to say it loud and clear, since Poland already spends almost 5% of its GDP on defence. And we will continue to do so.”

repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else

genuinely curious how many democrats have worked a full 8-hour day in the past month. feels like they've been out getting cigarettes since christmas.

Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States of America siding with war criminal Vladimir Putin and lying about Ukraine starting the war. My god.

Musk makes a lot of errors and bad decisions.

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

I don't think we should be allowing people this incapable of seeing the obvious to amass enormous amounts of money, but then again, I think we should eat the rich

A number of center-left pundits—including some whose work I generally respect—have been doing this thing where they try to assess individual Trump/Musk moves in isolation instead of as part of a program. This is supposed to add nuance, but it comes off as a lobotomized way to approach policy.

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

A lot of white Dems really thought their politicians were saviors. They are finding out the hard way that even and especially in the most dire times, their electeds are not leaders. Until they reckon with the fact that their faith was misplaced, they will not be able to locate hope.

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

On left: Acting Deputy A.G. Emil Bove memo orders firing FBI officials because they worked on Jan 6th cases On right: As SDNY co-chief, Bove "gave strong, direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation, legal process, support FBI," former colleague tells NPR

This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

Doesn't Trump's decree only describe the area above the red line on this map? Even on its own terms it's a partition of the Gulf of Mexico, not the full renaming that Google and Apple are giving him

America's new plan for AI safety is "let's see what happens." I wrote about JD Vance in Paris www.platformer.news/paris-ai-act...

Meta continues to fact check but only leftist content. They added this “context” to a photo I re-posted.

This office let SpaceX get away with murder and the tiniest bit of pushback means they're still on the chopping block. That's why giving 90% of what these freaks want always backfires

The biggest story in the country right now is how many lawsuits DOJ is losing trying to defend Musk and Trump. I've never seen so many courts, so clearly outraged at the federal government. The latest one, blocks cuts at HHS and FDA. Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.

Good thing he didn’t look or sound high AF in the Oval today.

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

Musk wouldn’t have taken questions in the Oval Office and looked like a cornered criminal if the pressure and attention wasn’t building. Don’t stop highlighting that the richest man in the world is taking over government. Keep talking. Paper your city if you have to. Do not give in.

amazing that they predicted this website.

I started putting together a real bootleg tracker for all the court orders that the admin is out of compliance with because I couldn't find a single place to gaze at them all :( If anyone knows of a better version please send it to me! Otherwise I'll try to keep this updated, I guess??

NEW VIDEO: I have never seen as many federal judges angry with the federal government as there are right now. And one judge in Rhode Island seems poised to find someone in criminal contempt. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzF...

Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

Garrison replaced Trista, who was the first person to ever do a candidate launch party at Black Hart. It was from Trista that I learned just how under-the-radar essential County Commissioners are.

We're so fucked

It seems like Curtis Yarvin’s blueprint for the future of society should get more attention, especially given that his tech billionaire admirers & colleagues are invested in the “network state” movement and defense technology.

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

i get why the Democratic leaders are tired of opposing everything. Me too! But the thing is, I have a job and have to do this too. Opposing everything IS their job. Do it 8 hours a day! Do it overtime! What else are you even there for?

Roger Stone is promoting Prospera, a “Freedom City” (per Stone) in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen (who once tweeted that “anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people…”) & Balaji Srinivasan (author of The Network State: How to Build a New Country). 1/

A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.

We had to cut off registration for our Indivisible meeting at 85. We are seeking a larger meeting room so that we don’t have to turn people away next time! More than half of attendees reported that it was their FIRST Indivisible meeting! @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social