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Chicago, Normal, Dairyland, NorCal, the Western Reserve. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. I like 🍍on 🍕& ketchup on 🌭.. Agnus DEI 🥄
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@washingtonpost.com #FireElonMusk

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Nicolle, I think your program & analysis is top tier. One aspect always bothers me. You don’t introduce a frequent guest with the NYT by a “full disclosure”. You leave yourself open to a nonissue criticism. That could be used against you. We’re in that kind of world now.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com I like your idea about Dog-E instead of dowzh. Hey, can’t we name anything we like these days. It’s a dog-e dog world.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

Pass it on

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

“Elon Musk’s influence appears unchecked,” @jonlemire.bsky.social writes. “But the Republican-controlled Congress has shown no desire so far to rein Musk in. There has never been a private citizen like him.”

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

All roads lead to the GOP Tax Scam.

submitted 19 days ago • 868 comments

Disgusting move to fire the 30 career prosecutors in the DC US Attorney’s Office who worked on the Jan 6 cases. These lawyers did their jobs to protect our Capitol from political violence.

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

The new U.S. Department of Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, issued an order this week that threatened to shift federal transportation funding away from local governments that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

submitted 22 days ago • 96 comments

Senate needs to respond to mass firings of Jan 6 attack prosecutors by rejecting Trump nominees. Have a spine and stand up to this autocratic effort to rewrite history and embolden political violence. Block Bondi and Patel.

submitted 22 days ago • 243 comments

JUST IN: FBI agents are stunned by the scale of Trump’s expected purge of the bureau, which could include hundreds of agents and officials, @shaneharris.bsky.social reports.

submitted 22 days ago • 137 comments

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 91 comments

Donald Trump’s expected purge of the FBI is far larger than many anticipated, Shane Harris reports—and it comes after Kash Patel assured senators that politically motivated firings would not take place at the agency Trump has tapped him to lead. Read more: theatln.tc/9mTYgslu

submitted 22 days ago • 102 comments

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

submitted 25 days ago • 2075 comments

Disturbing move that may fly under the radar - Trump removes members of PCLOB, the board the oversees privacy in the intelligence community, leaving it inoperable, at least for now.

submitted 30 days ago • 45 comments

It’s remarkable how swiftly Republicans in Congress can unite to pass legislation targeting and vilifying immigrants, yet when hundreds of people are shot weekly by fellow American citizens, addressing that issue somehow becomes too complex for them.

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."

submitted 31 days ago • 641 comments

This guy just got a full and unconditional pardon from Donald Trump.

submitted 33 days ago • 131 comments

President Trump commuted sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardoned over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters. cnn.it/42lnCpy

submitted 33 days ago • 217 comments

President Trump revoked a Biden-era executive order that affirmed the longstanding practice of including the total number of persons residing in each state in a census count used for election maps.

submitted 33 days ago • 90 comments

If you picked up a #Threads account when #X #Twitter was cratering time to dump that too. #Zuckerberg kissed the ring and now is doing a Musk on #Meta platforms too. #BlueSky may be the last hope.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments