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LIBERAL: belief in progress and stressing the essential goodness of the human race, freedom for the individual from arbitrary authority, and protection and promotion of political and civil liberties.
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You don't have to wonder why his numbers are tanking, almost everyone immediately recognizes an idiot boss who wastes everyone's time instead of doing something useful

AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

When the GOP says they are cutting Mandatory spending they are saying they are cutting Medicare and Social Security. Examples of mandatory spending: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Interest on the federal debt. That’s our money!!! They are stealing!!!

General Charles Q. Brown Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGYzxlX...

KNOX NEWS LTE: “Trump has exceeded all expectations in corruption & incoherence. Where are our elected leaders? — @RepTimBurchett yells on tv about how his father fought in WW2, why is he so enthusiastic about giving unilateral concessions to a dictator?” www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

From New Yorker Humor: I believe that marriage is a lasting partnership between one person without health insurance and one person who gets pretty good coverage through work.

More of this. Less complying in advance. EOs aren't laws. Stop responding like they are.

"Congress, not the president, writes and amends the laws of the United States. Congress, not the president, allocates funding to federal agencies and programs."

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

STATEMENT: “This Is The Move Of A Weak And Insecure Tyrant, Not A Strong Commander-in-Chief”

This

Maine Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump in a room full of reporters. Officials must keep showing people Trump is a weak tyrant. We need to show defiance collectively, because like all bullies, with pushback he will snap & break. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

The Homeland Security secretary said tonight that Trump told her to film ads that “thank me for closing the border.” DHS has budgeted up to $200 million for its anti-immigration ad campaign. w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

this week’s economist, on point

The GOP convicted felon has launched a war on the American people & our constitution. We have guardrails to stop a rogue president. But are our lawmakers? Happy to be part of it & obey, in the foolish belief that THEY will be spared. Wait for the final irony. #Opposition #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

1/ Trump will continue to do whatever he wants as long as Republicans in Congress allow it. R’s will let Trump do whatever he wants as long as they fear for their safety from his cult. The only way to break that cycle is to break through to the cult so they know who is actually hurting them…

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

The GOP Tax Scam is here. MAGA is stealing 880 BILLION away from healthcare - (that's 92 million people) so that the wealthy can buy some more yachts.... Don't Cut My Medicaid

Ilhan Omar introduced an amendment to make corporations pay their fair share. Instead, the GOP voted it down and have moved along the budget bill that would strip $880 BILLION from Medicaid. Fun fact - that's the ENTIRE budget. #HandsOffMyMedicaid

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Please ask yourself what the worst 10 allegations a prospective Secretary of Education could ever face are and then tell me this is not one of them Preventing child abuse and child sexual abuse is central to the mission of the American education system and McMahon already allegedly failed that test

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

This is how it’s done.

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

ARE THERE NO REPUBLICANS WITH A FUCKING SPINE?

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

It’s the federal government, not “self-policing” industry, that makes sure these calamities aren’t happening. If they did, the economy would be a shipwreck.

It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT 💅👏👏👏👏 I stand with Governor Mills.

So an open threat against a sovereign state. Where are all my “state’s rights” people?

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.