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I’ve decided to donate to AP after unsubscribing from WaPo and NYT due to their failure to be ethical and unworthiness to represent freedom of the press.

Nailed it.

He nails it.

Jeffries: Elon Musk has emerged as one of the most unpopular figures connected to the Trump Administration. Trump’s poll numbers are moving in the wrong direction, and it hasn’t even been a month. The real question is: What is the corrupt bargain that has been struck between Trump and Elon Musk?

Does it really matter whether Trump was actually recruited by the KGB to be a Russian asset (code name "Krasnov")? Trump is doing so many things that Putin wants to do to undermine US global political and economic power. Effectively, Trump is a Russian asset.

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

Raskin: "It's becoming obvious to the American people that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are not opponents of corruption, they are agents of corruption."

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

Another possible explanation why Republican congressmen aren't doing their jobs is they're busy abusing their young mistresses www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

Ruh roh

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

I'm starting to think that the Russia thing wasn't a hoax.

From 1980 until the pandemic, top earners in the US saw real wages grow at more than double the rate of every other income group The top income TAX rate has fallen from 70% in 1979 to 37% today These 2 factors (and others) have shifted $50T from the middle class to the wealthy

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

So much winning 🙄 edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/i...

Steering us and his sh*tty vehicles toward disaster. Tesla recalls 380,000 vehicles in US over power steering assist issue www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/b...

We asked Senate Republicans: is there any millionaire or billionaire rich enough who doesn't need another tax giveaway? $10M a year? No. $100M a year? No. $500M a year? No. $1 BILLION a year? No. With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.

NEW: The Associated Press is suing Trump Administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from events over the organization continuing to use the name 'Gulf of Mexico.' AP says the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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I want to salute the Governor of Maine Janet Mills who, in that room with a raging Trump and silent complicitors, stood her ground and said, “see you in court!” Maine residents, show your support for your Gov for standing up for your independence.

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

BREAKING: The 8th circuit is letting 17 states move forward with challenging the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rule (h/t @gbbranstetter.bsky.social). We have new analysis out today showing that would impact nearly 3 million pregnant workers each year. nationalpartnership.org/report/attac...

Goldman asks, “Is the consumer healthy?” 1. $WMT guides below 2. Restaurants warn about slow start to the year 3. January retail sales, biggest one-month drop in nearly 2 yrs “.. 9 straight weeks of net selling in Consumer Discretionary .. the most net sold sector at GS YTD”

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

The FDIC protects your hard earn money in the bank and helps prevent another financial crash. Trump and Musk’s move to fire these workers is dangerous. I led Senate Democrats in pushing back, and now independent investigators are on the case.

Nearly one in 10 adults in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ, according to a large analysis from Gallup released Thursday — almost triple the share since Gallup began counting in 2012, and up by two-thirds since 2020. nyti.ms/42ZZGIN

Some interesting posts re: John Fetterman's staff turnover

My latest piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social on Dems needing daily press briefings (preferably with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social) to fact check Trump/Elon/Putin www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/21/d...

Despite everything he's tried, the vast majority of Americans, including six in ten Republicans, still really don't like Mark Zuckerberg www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

know one thing, Trump isn’t going to dig Elon’s 34% approval rating dragging his ass underwater like an anchor indefinitely. Because that anchor is firmly attached to Trump.

🚨 TODAY at 12pm - CT Sen. Blumenthal, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will demand an immediate reversal of the Trump Administration’s politically motivated terminations of more than 300 safety-critical employees of the Federal Aviation Administration

“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

A new report today shows consumer sentiment dropped 10% since last month, and a new poll shows 62% of Americans say Trump’s isn’t doing enough to address inflation.

I forget where I read it, but someone online suggested that maybe we need to dump a bunch of Teslas in the Boston Harbor and declare independence against fascism and oligarchy.

This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

A lot of MAGA voters are going to have to get burned by Trump/Vance/Musk before there will be any real change. Even as the pain continues to spread, some of them will continue to look for someone to blame other than their 🍊savior and his GOP accomplices.