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No racism going on here. Move on.

Note here: a foreign head of state mocking and assisting defying the order of a US federal judge and then the Secretary of State amplifying the mockery.

It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

The Dept of Defense tweeting about the "Russian collusion hoax" is one of those daily indignities we have to live with now They're lying to you. They know they're lying to you. You know they're lying to you. They know that you know that they're lying to you And there's nothing you can do about it.

New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

this administration is speed running us into multiple disasters, some of which may be catastrophic

"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."

we all know where Schumer got his strategy from

I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.

It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.

destroying everything they can in a fruitless effort to find the wokeness button

They're *already* shutting down large parts of the government and, as an added bonus, inflicting permanent damage on other parts of it. Shutting it all down would be a *better* route, honestly. All you've done here is give a bipartisan stamp of approval to their agenda of closures and cuts.

The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal. The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who thinks that’s manly and admirable and right.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

If you vote for this Republican Funding Bill, you are complicit in all that DOGE, President Elon, and Trump does.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

They’re really trying to force this lie and news anchors have a responsibility to refute it with the facts every single time. And you know, maybe they could stop giving habitual liars air time? I’m just spitballing here, but that seems like the bare minimum for a “news network”

These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory. He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

Senate Democrats— A vote AGAINST the Republican CR isn’t a vote to shut down the government—they’re in charge and need your votes. But a vote FOR the Republican CR is a vote to allow Elon Musk to continue shutting down the government and nullifying the role of Congress.

Elon Musk has received $38 billion in government handouts but okay.

Warning: Fascists believe a very wide array of First Amendment activity is “anti-American.” This will not stop here.

The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

This was his exact sales pitch for people to attend Trump University. Right before he ripped all of them off.

The study will be overseen by Amber, a 33 year-old housewife from Huntington Beach who has an AA degree from Saddleback College. Amber has 3 boys: Jaden, Kayden and Different Jayden. Her husband, Bret, once convinced her he got chlamydia from sitting on a riding mower at Lowe’s. She is a Scorpio.

They got so mad that it became socially taboo to use a handful of racist, sexist, homophobic, and ableist slurs, that they took over the federal government just so they could ban the words people use to express how racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism work and can be dismantled.

Build a high-income/high-price electric vehicle in which the core market is affluent liberals. Then go full Nazi and try to overthrow the government. Solid marketing move.

No one could possibly have predicted that the NYT & WaPo would suddenly shift gears on how they covered the economy now that a Republican is in the White House: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Ironic how the applause lines don’t match the budget cuts.

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

“The president of the United States is illegally impounding critical research funds in an attempt to silence members of the Columbia community. As a university committed to free inquiry, free expression and the rule of law, we categorically reject these efforts and will see him in court.”

The Times has moved on from sane-washing lies to just straight up creating them.

Everything got so stupid so quickly.

During my final year as commander of US Army Europe (2012), we drove the exercise & training program for most of our European allies. We planned & executed over 400 multinational training events each year that contributed to all our nations readiness & ability to come together as allies.

i like how everyone in trump world is telling us we “need” to go through some economic pain without telling us why or for how long or what the payoff is supposed to be

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

i just dont know what the answer is when for dems this would be damn near a career ending thing to say

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

We will not normalize…

This was pretty evident from the math: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

Exactly this.

“I won’t forget” ?

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.