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MSNBC: Trump Media sues Brazilian Supreme Courr Justice Alexandre de Moraes in the US for allegedly violating the 1A free speech rights of a fascist Brazilian pal of Trump’s, whom DrSantis is protecting. Brazil has laws against misinformation, and Justice de Moraes is enforcing them.

Esquire:Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board and place the USPS under Trump’s delusional Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, which Trump doesn’t have the authority to do. Trump and Lutnick want to privatize USPS.

Daily Beast: Trump told the FDA to quit using the words woman, women, elderly, disabled, underrepresented, under served, diversity, sex, identity, promote, continuum, definition, ideology, intersex, equity, transgender, and more. Republicans are literally the thought police.

Steve Bannon does Nazi Salute During CPAC Speech After Calling for a Third Trump Term. Crowd cheers wildly. MAGA is a FASCIST movement just like the Nazis and Mussolini. The options when confronted by FASCISTS are 1. Submit or 2. Destroy them. I pick option #2. www.mediaite.com/tv/steve-ban...

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are *exceptional* thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

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.

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

General Charles Q. Brown Jr., Faithfully and Honorably served the Constitution and The People of the US for 41-years in the USAF. His last posting was as the 21st Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was unjustly fired by the dangerously unqualified SECDEF. I proudly stand with Gen. Brown.

🇺🇦 "If you are so generous to Russia, why not give her a piece of your country? Why should any sovereign country satisfy Russia? Let me ask, on what basis does Russia deserve anything — especially someone else's territory?" - 🇵🇱 President Duda

NBC: The Supreme Court leaves in place a lower court order that stopped Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, head of the watchdog agency Office of Special Counsel, which protects federal whistleblowers. Further litigation pending.

AZCentral: “Trump’s job approval rating is 15 points below the historical average for all other Presidents in mid-February going back to 1953.” Gallup poll.

Daily Beast: Texas ICE prosecutor, James Rodden, outed as the White Supremacist author of a virulently racist and anti-immigrant Glomar Responder account on Twitter. Self describes as a Fascist. “Immigrants are all criminals” “All Blacks are foreign to my people” “America is a White nation.”

Rolling Stone: DOGE’s cuts to the CDC has halted health care for 9/11 Ground Zero rescue workers.

Oh, for fucks sake. You folks go on and ON telling the rest of us how important your work is to the very foundations of polite civilization and then cave on the most basic premise of that existence. Shame on you, and bless those remaining in your profession with dignity, knowledge, and grace.

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

NBC: Freed by Trump, Enrique Tarrio is arrested for assaulting a peaceful woman protester in DC.

REMEMBER: Next Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can do this. I'm IN, are you? 👋💙

I did not know the USPS was the largest employer of vets...now they are about to all lose their jobs. 5calls.org #RISE #REVOLT #REVOLUTION2025 #OpUSA

Yes CAROL or Karen

How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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"The state of Maine will not be intimidated by the president's threats," Gov. Janet Mills said after a public exchange over Trump's attack on trans athletes. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

So the President of the United States threatened the governor of Maine, in public, acting like the monarch he thinks he is. The story is nowhere to be found on the homepage of the WaPo or WSJ; the NYT has a small story buried deep down with a headline that makes it look the governor picked on POTUS.

Maine Gov. refuses to be bullied: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Trump employs mob tactics once again and threatens Maine governor with defunding for not breaking the law and complying with his illegal executive order banning Trans people from sports but she stands her ground. He hates when women stand up to him. Weak little man child.

Oklahoman: Weapons grade fascist asshole, OK Director of Education Ryan Walters attacked weapons grade fascist asshole Gov Stitt’s plan for windmill power, so Stitt attacked Walters’ requirement that school children disclose immigration status when enrolling. The feud is on. Cannibal cockroaches.

Oklahoman: OK state sen Dusty Deevers, Baptist preacher, said “May Jesus be praised”, then presented 3 bills: 1. To create covenant marriages, a legally binding contract for lifetime marriages and no exit possible 2. Sharp restrictions on divorce 3. Women getting abortions is murder Nope X 3. Yay

In a Friday WH meeting, a blustering Trump demanded Maine Gov Janet Mills comply with his exec order banning trans from college women’s sports. Mills, defiantly: I’m complying with state and federal law Trump: You better comply or no federal funding Mills: See you in court More balls than any GOP.

Trump voter, and IRS employee, Robert McCabe, is shocked and outraged that DOGE just fired his ass, saying Trump and Musk are act like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason”. See, he’s one of those people, if it ain’t happening to him, it ain’t happening.

WAPO: Fired by Trump one month into his tenure as acting ICE Director, Carlos Vitello has been blamed by the aggressively stupid border czar Tom Homan and Ms Pointless Photo Op Kristi Noem for failing to meet deportation quotas. Because Homan and Noem know they’re next. Schadenfreude.

The Friday Brief, February 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

John Fetterman’s staff are leaving him in droves and there are awful rumors about how he treats them. Are we sure he’s not just three Kyrsten Sinemas sitting on each other’s shoulders in a hoodie? Our latest:

WAPO: One month into Caleb Vitello’s tenure as acting ICE Director, Trump has fired him because ICE wasn’t arresting and deporting immigrants fast enough. One Month. 🤣🙄 It hasn’t helped that ICE has not been able to hire more staff, nor received a larger budget, to ramp up to meet Trump’s boasting.

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

Elon Musk's super PAC donated $1 million to support conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. Schimel's opponent, liberal candidate Susan Crawford, criticized the donation, alleging Schimel is being bought. I think — or hope! — Musk’s attempt to influence this race will backfire.