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KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE

He nails it.

lol what It’s about 160 million in 24 hours at peak. It’s a few dozen in a few minutes at a polling place. This not strenuous for a computer.

Year-ahead inflation expectations jumped up from 3.3% in Jan to 4.3% this month, the highest reading since November 2023 and marking two consecutive months of unusually large increases. This is the largest month-over-month increase seen since May 2021. www.sca.isr.umich.edu

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I think the energy that can be harnessed right now if someone in a leadership position wants to step up and be a leader is extraordinary.

Trump’s envoy is the only person in the administration to praise Zelensky in recent days.

“Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service” www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

The only good thing about this is that McConnell is still alive to reap the scorn of Democrats and MAGA Republicans. He deserves all of it and more. An absolutely horrendous American figure.

Trump is unpopular, Musk more so. And their actions even more. Republicans who tie themselves to them overtly or by silence will be sitting ducks in 2026.

I kinda like this and think it sorta works. Can we make it stick?

Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

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

Now that the Trump people are doing everything they can to remove trans people from public life, I have to ask those who support such measures and the suffering they cause: in what ways have these actions improved your life?

morons

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

Here we go …

Still waiting for stories of waste, fraud and abuse rather than those of savage betrayal of people who have dedicated their lives to make America more prosperous, healthier, safer and more secure. bsky.app/profile/madd...

EXCELLENT!

Speak with your dollars! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

It is costly to defend Ukraine -- costly in money. But a Ukrainian defeat, and a Putin victory, could be costlier still -- in money and in blood, too. | @jaynordlinger.bsky.social trib.al/gy8fF44

"Native-born Americans consume, on an average per capita basis, more welfare and entitlement benefits than all immigrants, and this pattern has held for several years across data from multiple datasets analyzed with different methods" www.cato.org/briefing-pap...

"The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned, citing what she described as an improper demand by officials appointed by President Trump's administration to launch a criminal probe." ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

The NIH is slashing $850M in funding for lifesaving medical research in New York. This is unacceptable. I led a bipartisan, bicameral letter with my NY colleagues to NIH acting director Matthew Memoli demanding an immediate reversal of this decision.

Marcy makes a very nice point here. If Trump asserted that Special Counsel Jack Smith—who was in charge of just two cases against basically one person—was a principal officer who required Senate confirmation, then how could Co-President Musk—who’s remaking the *entire* government—be anything less?

I understand that Big Brother Musk is now going through Americans' tax returns. Remember that IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

A Delta flight carrying ~80 passengers from Minnesota appears to have crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport. No casualties reported as of this time. Numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. At least 8 people injured.

Trump's approval is crashing hard. Gen Z is pissed.