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TRUMP: You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished. The most beautiful domes. FOX: But that's Russia's fault, Mr President T: 1,000 year old domes. Everything is demolished. It's sorta like Gaza F: That's Putin's fault T: I get tired of listening to it

Y’all, this tool from @housebudgetdems.bsky.social is 🔥, and I want to hear how the #RepublicanRipOff would hit YOUR community. I’ll go first. 🧵

Post offices are critical infrastructure in rural communities. It’s hard not to see the first month of this administration as a wholesale attack on rural communities, its most loyal voting base.

RFK Jr.’s CDC just pulled a flu vaccine campaign in the middle of the worst flu season in 30 years. 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths—including nearly 70 children. Public health shouldn't be political. Get vaccinated.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

When they fire the Chair of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of the Navy next week, they’ll use words like DEI. The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism. But that’s only part of it. Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.

Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.

Minnesota’s deputy director for the Small Business Administration was fired Feb. 7, rehired days later when the government said it made a mistake, and then fired again last week. Another federal employee who was abruptly fired has newborn twins in the NICU. More stories of chaos + cruelty:

“Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; they crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they kicked the Nazis’ asses throughout Europe.” “No entitled reality-TV has-been backed by an addle-brained billionaire who cheats at video games is going to roll over us now.”

A King makes a lot more money than a President, if you’re wondering where else this is going.

This is the goal.

This. Let’s be done with the whole “run government like a business” bs, shall we?

he. is. not. popular.

Call your senators!

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

The guy who used to run social media for the NRA is now creating the same violent rhetoric for the White House.

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@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abcnewsgo.bsky.social @pbsnews.bsky.social This is terrorism against and within one of our major political parties. Why isn’t this being covered? www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

This is terrorism.

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

Someone gets it…

This is the language I've been wanting to hear out of Democrats. We're at the crossroads. We can't hem and haw with egg speeches anymore.

New Quinnipiac poll— Congressional Republicans Approve 40% Disapprove 52% Congressional Democrats Approve 21% Disapprove 68% Elon Musk Favorable 38% Unfavorable 50% Donald Trump Approve 45% Disapprove 49% Trump plan to take Gaza Pro 22% Anti 62% DEI policies Good 53% Bad 38%

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

This is probably a good time to point out that one big group of IGs Trump fired were busy finding $100s of billions in COVID fraud, enabled by Trump's own incompetence. Another big group fired were in charge of tracking spending in Ukraine. He literally fired people tracking problems with this $$.

The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...