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another Nazi salute at CPAC

Everything Musk does is in the "bad boss" or "dick move" or just "villain" categories.

It's a public service. It's not a business. It serves people in places that private companies are not willing to go. It isn't supposed to be profitable.

Yikes.

Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked. via @jackdolan.bsky.social

Get ready for self driven deaths in the near future

BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

Once they saw Devin Williams clean shaven this was imminent.

The judicial branch determines constitutionality, not the executive branch.

Corruption

“parents in Kenya whose children are believed to have tuberculosis cannot get them tested. There is no clean drinking water in camps in Nigeria or Bangladesh for people who fled civil conflict. A therapeutic food program cannot treat acutely malnourished children in South Sudan.”

The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

With more natural disasters incoming because of climate change, republicans are signalling they don't care about people surviving the next one. I guess they want everyone to move?

The numbers are quickly getting worse and based on the republican administration's actions, it will sink lower. The weak president who's afraid to govern, his henchman who's taking a hammer to government, and the flaccid Republicans in Congress are in for a rude awakening.

remarkable that the White House cannot just say that Putin is responsible for Putin's war

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

I've been saying this for years. This is one of those things that the government needs to provide for the people.

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

Seems smart

America isn’t ruled by kings. That crap is anti-American, and it isn’t welcome here. Pass it on. #NoKings

Murphy: "Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law is unprecedented. What we are all watching right now is Donald Trump throw away the idea that laws apply to everyone equally. And it is astonishing to watch so many of my Republican colleagues fall in line."

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

Why did the DNC have to prevent Bernie from being the nominee? He could have stopped trump the first time and we wouldn't be in this situation.

A law firm representing Elon Musk and Tesla has drafted a bill that would overhaul Delaware corporate law specifically to let Musk collect a compensation plan of up to $55.8 billion. The bill has now been introduced in the Delaware General Assembly. www.jalopnik.com/1794019/musk...

Why can't Americans elect competent people? An idiot with a plan (Project 2025) is still an idiot.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

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."

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

Federal crash test ratings are broken. Case in point: The Cybertruck, of all things, just got a top five-star rating. Did NHTSA consider how it could kill pedestrians? No. The likelihood that its rigid body might pulverize those in other cars? Nope, not at all. These ratings are useless.

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

Make America dumber

Trumpflation

US President Donald Trump said that he will block the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One until the news agency stops referring to the Gulf of Mexico reut.rs/4gOkxCf

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Eggs have reached $8/dozen. Families are squeezed at the checkout counter. Farmers and ranchers are hurting. The Trump administration needs to act fast to get this avian flu crisis under control. www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

“The news doesn’t cover the planes that land.” — @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Kaine: "Yesterday the DOGE guys post classified information on their website, and they had to realize, 'Oh, we didn't realize that agency was a classified agency.' You shouldn't let people rampage through offices that have classified information."

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.