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lshade.bsky.social
Retired teacher; Teeny tiny blue dot in ruby red rural MO. They said I was overreacting in 2016!
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

The pro Putin Presidency. www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-he...

It’s just keeps getting better & better! Now many around the world will die of tuberculosis! I detest republicans! They enabled all of what is happening!

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

Kids are dying of measles. Egg prices are skyrocketing. Bird flu is out of control. Planes are falling out of the sky. Inflation is rising. Tariffs are coming. Consumer confidence is collapsing. A recession is now likely. The stock market is dropping. Donald Trump is golfing.

Mass firings, shutting down critical services, blowing up our alliances, crashing the markets, encouraging inflation... These aren't the actions of a political party aspiring to get reelected. These are the actions of an authoritarian regime that does not intend to honor elections ever again.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

I’m going to be angry for a very long time about how this time in history made it feel like being a good person was somehow political

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You can either support the United States of America and our democracy, or you can support trump. You cannot do both.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

TONIGHT: @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

This is the Republican budget! It’s REALITY, folks! They're trying to cut Medicaid funding and SNAP benefits. They're trying to take out all programs that support working families! That’s the REALITY! Call your Republican representative & tell them you disapprove!!!

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

Dear Europe, Trump completely melts under pushback. So push back.

Wow! What a great cover!

OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

Donald Trump replacing a black four-star general with a white three-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is everything MAGA claims they hate about DEI: giving a less qualified person the job based on their race, not their resume.

NOT a landslide! NOT a mandate!

Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

This is the energy we need!

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

#MOleg Dems fighting for us ✊ www.komu.com/news/state/d...

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

@hakeem-jeffries.bluesky.social. You stood in public & asked “what power do we have?” Right now, before you blow it, democrats have the POWER OF THE PEOPLE! Listen closely: You have an opportunity to take back the govt & we will support your efforts. But if just want to wring your hands & cry, you

WTH?!?

Such an intelligent and respectful response…NOT!

First IRS, Now DOGE Busts Its Way Into the Social Security Administration talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

AND ALSO THERE'S A COUP

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

We need our senators to choose Missouri over MAGA in Trump’s war on the Constitution missouriindependent.com/2025/02/17/w...

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

A cartoon from several years ago finally coming to fruition, via Paul Noth.

Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID "The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people." Well done.

I’m so embarrassed by what our country is doing and the impact it’s having on the world right now. We have not had a President of the United States since January 20th. We have a “Donald Trump Looting and Pillaging the World.”

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

If you need a giggle!🤭

It will always be surreal to see Russian assets in our government.