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Clearly Trump saves his most audacious and objectionable acts for weekends and evenings. We need to be ready to counter him immediately during these times.

Speak out, people. Especially in Republican districts.

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

🚨Not just the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Trump Pentagon Purge.🚨 Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Cannot stress this enough.

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

Reminder that a month ago Politico did a puffy soft focus interview with Steve Bannon, who today literally threw up a Nazi salute at CPAC. Inexcusably terrible editorial judgment at the time and looks even worse now.

Bannon: "The J6 choir is gonna play the Kennedy Center!"

DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

Strong case

Donald Trump, a scam artist, thinks scammers should be able to rip you off.

"Republican Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials... trying to finagle exceptions to Trump’s executive orders or cuts made by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service that freeze hundreds of billions of dollars..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.

Shameful.

"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."

Reminder: we already paid for this. This is our tax $$ he’s trashing.

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

How is so called DOGE not a de facto line item veto?

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.

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

Trump is trying to single handedly save Russia from certain collapse

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

It is not a badge of pride for a media organization like Axios to join Apple and Google in anticipatory obedience. Every org should refuse to participate where AP is barred— starve Trump of the media attention he desperately desires.

The lure of Elon’s alternate reality for his followers is so powerful that he will tell them that pulling books off shelves, deleting words from government websites, and banning programs for their kids based on words they used is all part of fighting back against censorship. And they just let him