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One reason Trump is doing this is bc Trump has failed to come close to meeting his deportation promises. If that were to become a bigger narrative--if the mob learned that he was diverting NatSec resources yet is falling behind Sleepy Joe Biden's deportation numbers--Trump'd be in trouble.

Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor? Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo […]

We'll soon have horrors like this again with the Musk Administration in charge. In the 1850s, New York City babies were being mysteriously poisoned. Nearly 8,000 babies a year shriveled to death from uncontrollable diarrhea. Without the luxury of advanced medical diagnostics, doctors […]

More adventures in FAFO.... https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/irs-employee-who-voted-trump-now-out-job

#ProLifeMyAss 😷💉 Via Bloomberg: “The #Trump administration’s mass layoffs of health workers hit a key vaccine unit of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to people familiar with the matter.”

"The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act threatens to disenfranchise millions with strict in-person requirements for voter registration. This will disproportionately impact service members and civilians abroad, making it harder for us to exercise […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📢Via Erin Reed: Big protest coming to Stonewall National Monument in just an hour or two. If you are in the area, get down there, be active, show your disapproval of the removal of #transgender people from all online websites for the Stonewall National Monument page! #LGBTQ ‪The Transexual […]

This is why JD Vance was in Europe claiming that the US values free speech. It is part of the imperial project to force Europe to allow Nazi incitement like the US allows.

Via Joyce Vance: At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night. ‪Jacob Silverman‬: NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward […]

Keep ‘em coming Via Bloomberg: The #EU is exploring more aggressive ways to seize part of #Russia's frozen central bank assets— $280 billion —amid signs the US will pare back assistance.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Unless we call our elected and get loud. Really really loud.

My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

This just went down: 1. US has spent 114.2 billion on aid to Ukraine — far less than European countries. 2. Trump pulls the imaginary number 500 billion out of a hat, and demands Ukraine pay this sum back to the US by letting the US take control of mines in Ukraine. 3. Zelenskyy says no […]

RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! You may believe Trump is a Russian asset, you may not But the facts remain facts. And they're worse than you think. Soviet and Russian intelligence identified, groomed, and leveraged Trump as an asset ...starting all the way back in the 1980s. A thread. 🧵 Trump 1/

Of course it is.... https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/20/the-new-plutocracy/

Good read.... https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/20/354884/

Keep ‘em coming Via Kyle Cheney: JUST IN: A 9th Circuit appeals court panel has denied the #Trump administration’s bid for emergency relief from the injunction blocking Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. Trump appointee Danielle Forrest agreed with the decision but issued a […]

“DOGE sic] Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke - A coalition of congressional Republicans from the New York area rebuked #Trump for cuts to a federal program that administers aid to emergency workers and others suffering from toxins related to the terrorist […]

There is indeed a dictator between #Trump and #Zelensky and we all know it's not Zelensky #Ukraine did not start the war, #Putin did Mr. Trump is a failed real-estate dictator playing with fire #USPol

“ #Trump administration freezes funds to Palestinian security forces The freeze comes as the Palestinian Authority struggles to maintain its rule in pockets of the West Bank and jockeys to govern a postwar #Gaza Strip.” […]

🚨 “2nd case of #measles has been confirmed in #BC in a Lower Mainland resident who recently travelled to southeast Asia.” #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/measles-second-case-b-c-1.7463226

8 Republicans are calling on Speaker Johnson not to target Medicaid. One short of the number it would take to oust Johnson.

[Politics, USpol, Zuckerberg, oligarchy, racism, DEI] The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg’s charity guts DEI after assuring staff it would continue https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/19/mark-zuckerberg-chan-dei #racism #zuckerberg #dei #oligarchy #Politics #USPol

30! dimensions... is interesting, but they fail when they call time a dimension because they need to distinguish if these multiple dimensions are spatial or not. Besides, the 4th dimension is spatial, and it extends from the infinitely small thru to the infinitely large... get a grip […]

Bozeman, Montana: 'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses "...just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread […]

2/18: Starting at 8PM Eastern, we live toot Star Trek episodes playing on the H&I network, using the hashtag #AllStarTrek. If you don’t get the H&I station, you can also stream. Join our group @allstartrek for updates! Wesley is the first person to be put […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Via Rupar: REPORTER: ..Big wave of probationary fed workers fired..Some workers who focus on nuclear weapons security were immed rehired. Do you have any concerns about how these terminatio--? #TRUMP: No. Not at all. I think we have to just do what we have to do ....... Safety first, right […]

Turns out Senate Dems are doing what they can do.

RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has been planted by Trump in the role of Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. He wants to slash […]

The Vatican says Pope Francis has the “onset of bilateral pneumonia” as he remains hospitalized for a respiratory tract infection. Read more from @[email protected] https://flip.it/oTe-C7 #Vatican #Francis #Pope #Catholicism #Rome #Religion