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Bannon is not going to be "out Nazied" by Musk especially while Trump is recreating the Hitler-Stalin pact to erase Poland by dividing Ukraine with Putin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reckless and drunk are qualification in the Musk/Trump administration.

75M Americans voted for Vladimir Putin.

Relevant

Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

13wham.com/amp/news/nat... The layoffs are already having a negative effect. The VA is in complete disarray. I was told the other day, 4-6 week wait just to process a referral for an orthopedic surgeon I need. It will take months to get an appointment with the surgeon after that.

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.

Some of DOGE is retribution, some is corruption, some is incompetence, some is a mix of those, but this is destruction for destruction's sake. It's undermining American science, industry, and commerce just because they can.

Morning Butterflies Another cloudless sunny cold morning here. Last day We have the ability to stand up to the 🤬 evil 🍆 and 🍊 why are our governments so hesitant? I want to share this again

The intellectual foundation for the Declaration of Independence, Locke's Second Treatise described such a state of affairs as the 'dissolution' of government and the justification for society to form a new government based on consent and the rule of law. We call that the American Revolution.

I have to congratulate Canadian stores and companies in adjusting so quickly and letting us know what products are Canadian. Buy Canadian! 🇨🇦

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

72 Million Americans are on Medicaid 2/3 of Nursing Homes are funded by Medicaid Cuts to Medicaid will affect 15,000 Nursing Homes Cuts will also affect seniors, the disabled and children’s health care Rural Hospitals would close and Healthcare Workers would be unemployed #SaveMedicaid

Putin interfered in the 2016 election and helped Trump win. Trump tried to build Trump Tower Moscow while he was President. Trump chose to believe Putin over our own intelligence community in 2018. Trump withheld aid from Ukraine in 2019. Trump is Putin’s puppet.

Blue states secede

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Father Pence is not having the ‘King’s’ BS.

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

UKRAINE = GOOD RUSSIA = BAD USA = STUPID AF

Shocked, I tell you. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

Good News! The chance an asteroid will crash into the earth in 2032 is increasing, but the probability won't be known until 2028. The good news is that by 2028 NASA will be gone, the remaining federal government scientists will be creationists and we won't know what the hell happened!

Time to stop pretending what's happening isn't real.

“Once, I swallowed my pride to offer him what he values the most—public praise on the Sunday news shows……Going along to get along does not work.” - Gov. JB Pritzker

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Dark Pence is back.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

As expected paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-to-n...

An IT guy explained that Musk's HS age geniuses didn't realize that they were looking at COBOL output where the default missing date of birth for deceased was 1879.

Ontario PC candidates are not showing up to town debates. Folks & friends, this is a tried and true tactic by the party that avoids accountability. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I suggest:

Works as advertised

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

Elon Musk attacked me on the platform he owns. I will not back down from the fight for democracy. @briantylercohen.bsky.social and I discuss. I hope you watch. youtu.be/XsR4QzK4yZ4

Nothing and nobody is stopping Trump from being a dictator. The courts are not stopping him. (It was wishful thinking before the the election to think they would.) The Congress is not stopping him. Bands of stalwart resistance marchers are not. These facts needs to be carefully weighed.

Elon Musk’s claim of Social Security fraud is…a fraud. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

European leaders meet to plan defense of Ukraine and Europe and can't come up with a coherent response as described by The Guardian: "US ‘backstop’ vital to deter future Russian attacks on Ukraine, says Starmer" and "Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US"

60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...