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Showing young BusinesSquire from 2002 this tweet and watching his head explode scanners style

BREAKING: The Department of Defense Inspector General has launched an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for sharing secret attack plans against the Houthis using Signal.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

CNN becomes the first US media outlet to report on Putin's Murmansk speech in which he essentially said "I get Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics, Trump gets Greenland, Panama and Canada." Other US media ignores it.

Ignore the third term talk - it’s meant to distract you, and it’s working. “No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

So aside from losing the house if Elise left and not being able to pass anything else ever, losing the majority in the house creates a very real possibility half his cabinet gets impeached over signalgate.

Marco Rubio really sent innocent people to foreign gulags for what is likely.. decades?

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.

Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."

All you need to know about Twitter

Shot. Chaser.

Something to think about

So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.

New Quinniac poll: If there's a shutdown... 32% blame Dems 31% blame Republicans 22% blame Trump That's a majority blaming Trump and/or the GOP. Hang tough, Dems.

I know it has been said before, but it is worth repeating: The same people who are putting their hands over their ears and eyes saying that Republicans won’t come after Social Security, are the same people who said Roe would never be overturned.

This is the most accurate headline I’ve seen so far, with lots of media & all the usual Russian shills on here swallowing Putin’s BS. Did he sign the agreement? No. Have they ceased firing? No. We have empty words & caveats - this is no different than what he’s said for 2 years

Merkley: "I think that the House Republican plan is horrific. And we should be, Hell No."

Tell Schumer and every Dem NO on CR

I will just put this out there. If all the senators who are saying they want to block this bill really wanted to badly enough they could force Schumer's hand. This isn't 'if Mike Pence has courage'. A leader doesn't buck the overwhelming majority of his caucus. Doesn't happen.

Dem Senators- vote no on cloture! Please!

"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

He knows he will lose the lawsuit.

Court says the Office of Personnel Management’s new director must testify in the case alleging the mass firing of probationary fed’l employees was illegal, violating the requirement that there be specific, individualized justifications for each firing.

This is a BFD on its own right, but there's been a great deal of evidence that DOGE has been assuming it could evade FOIA and so sloppy about following obligations that FOIA may now give cause to enforce.

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

What he's doing in the federal government now is intended to make the U.S. similarly dependent on him. It won't matter who controls Congress or the presidency if he can turn off social security on a whim. That's the crisis we're all yelling about

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Ironic how the applause lines don’t match the budget cuts.

So…..fraud and waste? Eh?!?!

What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

Democrats in Congress- stand firm on budget guardrails. Do not give Musk and Trump the ability to impound funds!

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

Flood the zone with facts