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Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

The Dow has dropped 1300 points over the last two days as Trump defiantly plows forward with tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China — America's most prominent trading partners.

Donald Trump is lying to you.

Trump’s murderous freezing of aid that Congress enacted a law to send to Ukraine unconstitutionally usurps the power of the purse, violates the 1974 Impoundment Act, and is an impeachable “high crime and misdemeanor” akin to the extortion for which the Senate should have convicted Trump in 2020.

Tens of thousands of people are dead, multiple cities and towns have been almost completely destroyed, and millions of people are displaced. And JD Vance laughs and smiles with Hannity about the invasion like it’s a game.

In addition to being wrong, this is against our own self-interest. If Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, they will simply continue to advance. Increasingly, that seems to be the point: Trump/Musk/Vance are aligned with Putin's interests & not ours.

Alight runs six centers for extremely malnourished children in Sudan, where the group treats babies + infants so sick that they will die within hours without ongoing care...They're trying to fundraise, knowing that the day they close their doors, children will die www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

We are all Zelensky.

I do not agree with what is going on and I wish it to stop

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

POV @oddernod.bsky.social hate-watching today's show

Going live with @ecabrams.bsky.social in about 40 minutes! If you're anti-Corporate Memphis, we welcome you to come hate-watch! 😅 (But know that we're in on the joke...) See you on @adobelive.bsky.social! Noon ET / 9a PT 👉 behance.net/adobelive 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Deh...

This week, Motion Design Hotline takes on Corporate Memphis. @ecabrams.bsky.social & I break down the style and tackle tips for creating your own elements using After Effects and Illustrator - because we know they're still asking for it. 🤷‍♂️ Wed Noon ET / 9a PT Links below!

The Kansas City metro region is home to roughly 30,000 federal workers. At a town-hall, some of them confronted their GOP member of Congress about their worry they'll lose their job. He responded "God has a plan." www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Just a reminder that what he's talking about is the private information about every American and business, and there are laws against this access. "Transform the way the government works" by doing what? Targeting opponents? Microtargeting political ads so Republicans never lose?

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

February 23, 2025

Tonight in her newsletter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting Maine Senator Angus King telling the Senate to wake up. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

February 22, 2025

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...

How many of these do we need to see before the "persuadables" admit what's happening?

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

My *FREE* Intro to After Effects course has made its way over to Adobe's YouTube channel. If you'd like to learn how to put your ideas into motion, spend a couple hours with me learning a new skill! What will you create? youtu.be/ALmYrTm6EKQ

If confirmed this is going to blow MASSIVE holes in the US budget. It will serve only to transfer wealth from American taxpayers to the wealthiest Americans who are the hardest to audit. This isn't fiscal responsibility - it's theft by Elon, Trump and their grifting goons.

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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

Motion Design Hotline going live in just under an hour! @ecabrams.bsky.social & I will be continuing our Milk-to-Money animation concept (don't ask!). Today we'll be doing some rough animations & initial blocking. Join us at Noon ET / 9a PT! youtube.com/live/97yEatJ...

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...

A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war