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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Sorry I haven’t been tweeting as much lately, my mental health is in a really good place and I’m loving life a lot these days

Elon broke like twelve different election laws (Super PAC coordiantion, and the sweepstakes most notably) but unless some state prosecutor wants to step up, he'll never be charged federally because Trump won.

This is incredible. #Survivor parade.com/tv/survivor-...

YES! Amtrak loses tons of money on its rural routes but keeps them open because there's a public interest in rail through rural areas. Ditto the post office delivering to rural areas. Ironically Republican voters are the ones who benefit most from these inefficiencies.

Can DOGE cut this obvious waste where Trump is using taxpayer money for thinly disguised political ads?

They want war crimes. I do not know why the media will not say this. They say they want war crimes. Heggy got his job because he supported war crimes on Fox News. They think it is good to hunt children for sport.

Not only this, but high-info Americans will make up a much larger percent of the 2025 electorate than they did in 2024, so are much more relevant for the immediate short term elections (specials, WI state Supreme Court, VA/NJ off year gubernatorials).

When we fight Elon and Trump’s unpopular agenda we can win. We won’t win every fight, but we have to try or else we won’t win any.

Smart strategy to win the GOP senate primary

The congestion pricing graphic design game has been on point

I've never related more to a person than Britney apologizing for wearing a hoodie and jeans in Parvati's presence. #TraitorsUS

"Republicans secretly don't agree with the things they do & say in public" is not a newsworthy story ten years after Trump took over the party. Any three House Republicans could grind DOGE to a halt, yet they all refuse to b/c they are either cowards or they actually do agree with all these cuts.

god is real and she loves us

cursed energy at CPAC

There’s no such thing as a permanent majority but this is The Way It has cross-partisan appeal, eg Rob Sand in Iowa

Elon and Trump fired the guys responsible for fighting bird flu, and now eggs are $8/dozen

Any three House Republicans could single-handedly stop this nonsense in a heartbeat if they had the spine to stand up to their ‘King’

what are we doing here?

Revisited the politics of congestion pricing on the substack today (spoiler alert: it’s popular now) herdmentality.substack.com/p/two-short-...

DEI is more popular than Trump, Musk, Congressional Republicans, and Congressional Democrats

Elon and Trump are pushing through brutal cuts to Alzheimer’s research newrepublic.com/article/1917...

The British on countering fascist propaganda:

It should be illegal to be this cold in the morning.

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

They sure did.

Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Bill Cassidy let RFK put your children’s lives at risk

guillotines for whoever put Betty Who in the third tier

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

In practice, the federal workforce is partly a jobs program for veterans, especially those disabled in service overseas. Our troops are disproportionately hurt by Trump and Elon’s illegal mass firings

“Myles, his aura was full of polka dots. To me, that means he’s strategic.” #SurvivorAU casting is on a whole other level

"The anarchocapitalist president of Argentina promoted a rug-pull crypto scam" is like the opposite of "real communism has never been tried." This is the hardest real libertarianism has ever been tried.

the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

"aesthetic catholics" or "aescaths"

I think this will be extremely interesting and encourage folks to apply: www.war-room.us

RFK Jr is taking down information on flu shots because he’s an antivax extremist. He got dozens of children killed in a measles outbreak in Samoa and now he’s trying to do the same thing nationwide.

Running Thread of the Dumbest Ways Congressional Republican Backbenchers Have Tried To Suck Up To Trump 1) Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has put forward a bill to add Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore. herdmentality.substack.com/p/the-new-go...