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Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

WOW. This from The Telegraph last week, about BREXIT 🤗 "New research sponsored by Best for Britain suggests the UK could boost growth by between 1.7 & 2.2 % simply through deeper regulatory alignment with the EU, without breaching the government’s Brexit red lines. What are they waiting for?"

This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

Also useful brentgiannotta.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wrote in a post on X Saturday.

Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

#Krasnov

AP sues Trump, stocks crash, consumer confidence plummets, Trump fires the ICE director over poor deportation numbers, GOP has horrible fundraising numbers, and more. Catch up on today's news!

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

An invitation to Russia by a high-level KGB official in 1987 under the guise of a preliminary scouting trip to build a Trump hotel in Moscow, was in fact 'deep development' by KGB handlers that furthered creating secret back channels and allowed the Russians to… www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Well, turns out there’s another layer to his dubious background. According to independent journalist Jacob Silverman, Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a former KGB spy. Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage division… gizmodo.com/doge-staffer...

Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

Buy European stocks. We have the rule of law

If it looks like a traitor...

Mayor Eric Adams’ trial DELAYED INDEFINITELY.

The streak continues. apnews.com/article/heli...

Hunter Schafer was ‘shocked’ that her new passport lists her gender as male, following President Donald Trump’s new gender policies. ‘I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration,’ she said.

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

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Like when you said: “Fuck Your Feelings”…👇 Yeah, remember that?!

hey did you know haha you can change your search engine in the firefox browser from google to duckduckgo, which allows you to toggle off AI nonsense in search results and will probably lower my blood pressure by a point or two? because I didn't until just now

1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵

Pete Hegseth has a long history of mistreating women, according to his own mother. Yes, you read that correctly.

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.