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It’s a free for all, a contest, to see WHO can exploit the American people the most😡

The practice of law is the least diverse profession in the United States. A supermajority of lawyers are cishet white men. We need (a lot) more diversity, not less. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The Texas GOP! Always searching for ways to traumatize women!

Trump and Putin, just making the world safe for autocracy!

A #publichealth professor looks at how the CDC protects Americans’ life and how it’s likely to be affected by the Trump administration’s actions, including laying off thousands of its staff. By Jordan Miller, Arizona State University #COVID19 #BirdFlu #Ebola 🧪 🩺 #EpiSky

Trump’s honeymoon period is over.

Here are two candidates for Patel's wrath who are doing great harm to our way of life and our citizens.

Thank you Democracy Docket for putting this handy Trump Accountability tracker together that gets updated each week!

If Medicare would no longer cover telehealth services, vast stretches of America will be without physical or mental health care

If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

Even easier is using the 5calls.org website, they have scripts you can use or modify. Call ESPECIALLY if you have a red House Representative or red Senator!

ICYMI: Tesla paid only $48 million in federal income tax between 2022 and 2024 on its $11 billion income. How does it avoid paying taxes?

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Want to know why Trump's approval rating has already taken a huge hit? Consumers understand his policies are re-igniting inflation and weakening the economy. From the new U of Mich consumer survey:

Brutality-Desensitization Process Nearly Complete theonion.com/brutali...

I fear that if Mr. Rodden had been more overt about his racism, he would have been given a higher position.

'On Wednesday, recently confirmed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick... said, “You know Social Security is wrong, you know Medicare and Medicaid is wrong, so he's going to cut one trillion,” ' www.yahoo.com/news/trump-o...

I was pretty buoyed by a demonstration today in Dodgeville Wi in my rural county today The ex-sherrif who is a Republican from a conservative village spoke Lots of supporting honks to go with the stink eyes and ashamed eye averting from passing cars Then we get home and see that Himmler is in fbi

I second the motion, let's take the emblem for our own and take it away from the oath breakers.

And what about the Liabraries, our places of learning about the world around us? www.yahoo.com/news/jfk-gra...

Satire is alive and well in the DT age... creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

We definitely need some humor to get us through this.

Let's thwart Musk in Wisconsin!

I like humility much better than hubris.

How can he successfully run his multiple businesses when he cannot add numbers accurately! No wonder he pays no taxes--funky math.

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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

Trump is out of step with the American people in his adoration of Putin 81% of Americans do not trust Putin thehill.com/policy/inter...

This is not the time to panic about this "wishful tanking" executive order. That would come if/when the courts uphold it.

Literally suing to help another authoritarian who also tried to overthrow his country's government. City on a hill no more.

Yesterday, a friend in academia told me about a "bizarre and poorly worded letter to our graduate school from the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office, explaining that our school could no longer offer scholarships based on race, ethnicity, or national origin!" www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

The EU cuts loose.

Trump Cutbacks Force FAA To Unplug Giant Magnet That Keeps Planes In Air theonion.com/trump-c...

Welcome back, Cathy.

How does this avoid waste or abuse?

Abolish bank regulators. “Delete” the CFPB & IRS. Gut Social Security and Medicare. The Trump administration’s plots all boil down to the same thing: swindle working people, funnel money to the ultra-rich.

Ana Cecilia Reyes (born 1974) is an Uruguayan-born American lawyer who is both the first Latina and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a district court judge in Washington, D.C.

Musk has an identity crisis! Neither an administrator or an employee--So what IS he doing mucking around in confidential files!

When your administration is too corrupt for DeJoy…

7 Pillars to Defend Democracy By Norman Eisen and Jonathan Katz www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...