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Trump autogolpe.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

This is why we need smart women in power. We are fed up and not taking shit.

“Look what you made me do.” Right up there with, “well, what was she wearing?” I loathe this man.

How is this not an @theonion.com headline?

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

Business acumen? The guy who bankrupted a casino? Sir, it’s too bad you’re an idiot but my sympathy meter is at negative here.

Showed my wife this photo and she asked why a dog dressed as a flasher was getting arrested in front of Ronald Reagan.

We could’ve had the intelligent Black woman but no. The racists and/or misogynists lost their minds and we have this.

“Sounds” 🙄

🚨The Trump admin is moving to terminate Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians in the United States, seemingly illegally moving up the expiration date from next February to August of this year. In a single day, 500,000 people could lose work authorization and deportation protections.

Masculinist blue collar identity politics 👏👏

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Even if he had “saved” $55 billion, that’s the equivalent of $160 per person. Are we really willing to give up ALL of the services the government provides for $160?

Republican pollster Frank Luntz debunks Trump’s lie about zelensky’s approval numbers, points out they’re actually higher than Trump’s 👇🏽

Yesterday morning, with no notice, ImmDef received a stop-work order from the Trump administration cutting off all funding for our legal services program for children. This order impacts more than 85 legal service providers nationally and 26,000 vulnerable children who are facing deportation.

I’d chop off my own arm before I would type out “fondness for injecting regal themes.”

New policy: every simpleton whining “what are Dems supposed to do, they’re in the minority?!?” will be (metaphorically) slapped upside the head and then blocked. The GOP wrote the playbook on obstruction when Obama won. They’re supposed to USE IT.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

If you think Putin’s winning in free and fair elections, you are too stupid to vote, please refrain. Countless dictators throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have held “elections.” I can name a dozen just in the Western Hemisphere.

They screwed this all up.

This

A racist disinformation crisis. It’s not a coincidence that the misinformation that jump started his campaign was a racist conspiracy theory purposefully touted as The Truth.

41% of new ICE detainees have no criminal record, according to new data obtained by NBC News, despite Trump promises to target the “worst first” in arrests and deportations www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Outsourcing our concentration camps.

That’s how you write a headline, people.

This is why I have no patience for the “we have to welcome reformed Trump voters” shaming. A LOT of these people voted for Trump because they wanted the freedom to be this kind of grotesque asshole; the only thing that’s changed for them is the discovery that people also get to be assholes to them.

When breathtaking incompetence meets autocracy. Again.

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

English-language report on this horrific tragedy: www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

It is a violation of international and domestic law to deny these people the right to seek asylum. But we can’t just stop there. No, we have to shackle, traffick and dehumanize them.

Sigh. 1. There’s always been a place to do that. They’re called “libraries.” 2. Plenty of people still don’t have great access to internet or computers. 3. LLMs were not made to educate people, but rather to steal people’s work and livelihoods. 4. They’re wrong a LOT.

Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Schrodinger's "Free Speech Absolutist" is both alive & dead. Or maybe not...

"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"

Yeah, no. Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts. AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.

"Oh, will this horrible year never end?"