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I’m just here to not be there. Go Spurs Go, Hook’em, Let’s Go Texans, Let’s go Mets. Alt/new wave music afficiando. Love to travel, eat great food and laugh with friends and family. Full time band parent, part time music writer.
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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.

Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

You first.

House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.

Even the people working at DOGE say it is a lawless nightmare for America. In fact, they know it better than anyone. Thanks to these true public servants who won’t stand for such a dangerous betrayal of the American people.

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

Anyone want to bet that no one looks at the email responses that Musk asked for ? It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone. If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.

I miss DEI

This is the way.

It must suck to attend a WH Press briefing while AP is locked out and most of the questions go to right-wing podcasters and internet channels while you sit there and get ignored. I’d rather be AP taking a principled stand than whatever that is.

"No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.” apnews.com/article/ukra...

Here we go. A little more good trouble.

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

Melissa Harris-Perry. Tiffany Cross. Alex Wagner. Joy Reid. I'm sure there's a pattern here but I can't quite put my finger on what it could be. (/s)

It’s truly staggering how little the president of the United States actually knows about world affairs.

Everybody in America! You don't have to be as dumb as the US president! The guy who won in the German elections is from the same party (CDU) as Angela Merkel was - somewhat like Democrats in the USA. AfD - the openly neo-fascist party (like 2025 GOP is) got under 20% votes, less than predicted.

OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

I would be difficult to overstate the degree of confusion, disagreement and uncertainty right now within the federal govt over whether or how to comply with DOGE on everything from the firing email to the demanded firings.

WELKER: Talk to the people in Oklahoma who have lost their jobs. What's your message to them? They say enough of these cuts. MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I would tell you that the majority of the American people want to make sure that their tax dollars are being used correctly

Hero President Zelenskyy is a real leader. 🇺🇦

REUTERS: ZELENSKIY SAYS HE IS WILLING TO GIVE UP HIS POSITION AS PRESIDENT FOR PEACE IN UKRAINE, CAN EXCHANGE THIS FOR NATO

Damn @sanders.senate.gov. Just when I compliment you, I looked for info on the event. NONE HERE. But multiple posts on X. WTF. You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.

Van Hollen: "European allies & others around the world who believe in freedom & democracy are wondering if this is just rhetoric or a real shift. My warning to them is I think this is reality. I think Trump is much closer ideologically to Putin & other autocrats than he is to democratic countries."

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

Looking like a dork aside, hurting grandma, the economy, and the military without much thought is definitely peak MAGA.

This is how you hold Republican Congressman accountable. Keep it up.

BREAKING: Donald Trump purged the Military to install loyalists, his Administration suffered a significant loss at the Supreme Court, and Republicans are being held accountable by their constituents. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

This is how it’s done.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

What a shock, dudes been in office for a month and already tanked the economy. Well played morons! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

I am going to give @thedailybeast.bsky.social a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Johnny Cash gave at San Quentin in 1969.

CP3 said this morning if the Spurs have any chance of winning going forward, it's going to be by committee. Eight of nine players who played in 1Q scored, with none logging more than six points (Paul, Castle).

NEW: Judge warns Trump appointees not to try to evade his order halting a blanket pause to foreign-aid payments, but stops short of holding officials in contempt. Minutes later, aid groups file new evidence Rubio may have violated court order www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

I got raked across the coals for this take in 2022.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥