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He’s got a point. After his stint working in the government I’d like him to go work in the mines.

This is grotesque. I hope no one accepts this bizarre and evil rationalization.

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

Revealing just how selectively this administration respects national sovereignty. With Canada and Greenland, Trump threatens invasion enthusiastically. With El Salvador, Trump sees sovereignty as sacrosanct.

This is the stupidest regime ever.

WATCH— @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?” Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.

What a pathetic little man

Not only is this grossly corrupt, but it is patently insane. Why are we using a public app to discuss Social Security information? Why are we relying on it to disseminate anything? What the actual fuck

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

You gotta be kidding me. No one should be forced to create an account on X to boost Elon Musk’s numbers just so they can get info about the Social Security benefits they paid for. www.wired.com/story/social...

NASA’s budget would be slashed nearly in half under Trump’s current proposal to Congress—a move that would wipe out billions in ongoing and future missions. Wonder who that benefits? (Sarcasm, of course.)

They are obviously slow learners

Bingo🎯

Why the fuck does the judiciary need to show deference to the executive branch when it comes to foreign policy? If the president is doing something bugfuck insane that the courts can stop, they have a goddamn obligation to stop it.

It's worth noting that the only reason America is in a position where its highest court needed to rule on whether a Maryland father who was wrongfully deported to an El Salvadorean prison (FFS) is entitled to be returned at minimum to face due process, is because we are led by a sociopath. Period.

If he’s saying he can use the promised free lawyering “after I leave” office, he’s admitting he committed extortion for personal gain. Another day, another impeachable offense.

No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.

Oh, for fuck's sake. They haven't cheated us, and they don't owe us billions of dollars. They are TRADE partners. We buy stuff from them. They buy stuff from us. That number doesn't have to equal zero. Are they really this fucking stupid?

They are definitely doing things differently. They are not following the constitution and are doing blatantly illegal things.

This is almost exactly opposite of the truth. The truth is that the connection between vaccines and autism was extremely tenuous and supported by bad data. Come on.

Rubio is arguing that a grad student participating in protests and "disruptive activities" (no specifics, no crimes named at all) is going have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States. This is so absurd. It is a bad law to start, but damn, this is a joke of reasoning.

If the US is going to start sending US citizens to prison in El Salvador then the first person who should be shipped there is the guy convicted of 34 felonies for cheating in the 2016 presidential election.

Isn’t it weird how quiet all those “weaponization of government” yahoos get when Donald Trump personally orders his DOJ to go after people who criticized him?

Now this…is not good.

"While there are countless concerns that engaged citizens may have about a massive range of policy issues, for the moment our attention needs to be focused on just one thing. We either stop Donald Trump and MAGA and America survives or we do not, and America as we know it dies."