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His brain is cooked

Big Balls is a descendant of a Russian spy!

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

lmao, jesus

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEW: While the agency is allowing disability discrimination probes to resume, the Trump administration’s investigation shutdown still applies to cases of alleged civil rights violations based on race and gender, according to a memo obtained by ProPublica.

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

This power grab is a major threat to the reliability of voting by mail, which is disproportionately used by Democratic voters

Kash Patel, just confirmed as FBI director, reposted a social media post that showed an AI-generated video of him chainsawing off the heads of Trump’s political foes, including Schiff, Cheney, and Fauci. This is far more threatening than what MAGA-ite Ed Martin has cited. Will he investigate this?

This is absurd. We built this database to stop officers who commit misconduct at one police agency from being rehired at another. It's about transparency and safety -- it helps the hiring agencies and the public. With due process protections. Trump shut it down

The richest man in the world is drugged out of his mind and in charge of the United States government. What could go wrong?

Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Also these firings are illegal so why legitimize them with severance pay?

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DOGErs now accessED into systems designed to protect US critical infrastructure from cyber attacks

Not at all surprised

Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1

This is the intersection point between Muskian arrogance and idiot populism: The conviction that there’s an extremely simple solution for everything that, somehow, nobody else has ever noticed & that you via either genius or “common sense” have uniquely hit upon.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

This is untenable

🇨🇿 Petr Pavel: "What value would elections have in a country that has been defending itself against aggression for 3 years? How can elections be organized with 1/5 of territory occupied and country under daily shelling? Calling president of such country a dictator requires a great deal of cynicism."

Well...it only took him a month to declare himself King.

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

Alexander Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist and Neo-fascist, celebrates President Trump’s post on President Zelenskyy. Dugin, a top Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

In 1938, Nazi Germany held "peace talks" about Czechoslovakia with England, France, and Italy. The Czechs were not there. In 2025, Putin's Russia is holding "peace talks" about Ukraine with the US and Saudi Arabia. The Ukrainians are not there.

Russian State Media praises Trump’s latest statement trashing Zelensky as a dictator.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

For those seeing rapid de-institutionalization occurring in the United States, there's plenty out there on unconstrained executives that stops short of full-blown, North Korea-esque authoritarian rule. There's a term for it, too: Hyperpresidentialism papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

When you fire a bunch of air traffic controllers, then you have a bunch of accidents: you are not saving US money When you fire a bunch of poultry inspectors, then you have a massive outbreak that wipes out chickens & eggs, leading to soaring scarcity & soaring prices: you are not saving US money

US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.