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BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

This tweet from Elon Musk is, of course, false. The first known victim of DOGE died around February 2 after the refugee hospital that was giving her oxygen shut down. But the tweet will be useful as there's abundant proof he's lying (or ill-informed) about Ebola & restarting payments.

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

huh weird!

It’s the only way. And not just some of them—every single Democrat needs to boycott it.

New Yorker's editor-in-chief David Remnick expresses frustration with Democratic Party leadership, asking "when is the opposition going to come?" He then criticizes Hakeem Jeffries' remark that one shouldn't swing at every pitch, saying: "What pitch are the Democrats going to swing at finally?"

This guy still gets invited on respectable TV news shows all the time.