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“Hello, New York Times, this is John Barron. I'm at Mar-a-Lago and I can tell you that President Trump just won the golf tournament again with a score so low the judges gasped. Really. Nobody in the history of golf has done better. He's an amazing athlete. And man. Everyone loves him A LOT.”

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Pay no mind to that fact that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven for her invisible business while others who truly needed the funds went without. #ToneDeaf

This is who we are. The questions are, is this who we should be? Is this who we want to be? LEO boarding school buses to demand papers & making kids disappear. #DemVoice1

federal employee says what

So are you going to put a hold on DoJ nominees? On US attorney nominees? Or at least on Ed Martin himself?

This is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

no, you don't. you, and the president, work for the american people. what Duffy is describing is not democracy, it is the fuhrerprinzip.

Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

I’ve been saying for almost a decade now that trump was recruited when he went to Moscow in 1987. He was $10 billion in debt at the time. An easy target. Over the next few years, his debts magically disappeared. Not coincidence. It was a plan. The plan has now come to fruition. Know the enemy.

But why? It’s a mystery!

Enough with the price of eggs, please media. We can live without eggs. But voting rights, human rights, trans rights and civil rights aren’t optional. Let’s focus on the true cost of those issues which is clearly too little for the corporate media to worry themselves about. 🥚 #EggPrices #HumanRights

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

At this time, I do not advise invading Canada. It is very cold and you need to wear winter clothes and they have invented a whole martial art based around pulling your sweater over your head so you can’t see and your arms are pinned.

look, Senator. anyone one of us goofballs could have posted "oh look at how awful this is, it shouldn't be allowed" — bellyaching is easy. BUT YOU HAVE ACTUAL POWER. SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO STOP THIS

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

Of course Trump will screw over Ukraine. Of course he’ll sell out Ukraine. Trump is working for & negotiating on behalf of Putin. That’s always been the case. It’s up to the rest of the free world to tell Trump & Putin to go fuck themselves. It’s up to the rest of the free world to defend Ukraine.

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

Absolute cowardice. This person thinks protecting one’s job at the “Integrity” section of the DOJ is more important than actually doing the job with integrity. When we learn their name, we won’t forget it.

Pete Buttigieg verses JD ~ This will not turn out well for one of them and hint: It won't be Pete!

The asshole doesn't fall far from the tree.

Trump: "If all the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12, I would say cancel it and all bets are off, and let hell break out."

Do we have any idea how many people have been shipped to the concentration camp at Gitmo? Are any of them US citizens? Legal immigrants? How are they being treated? Do they have access to lawyers? Corporate media is planning to forget about this, but I am not.

People in the Great State of Kansas never give up!

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

A statement from the Kennedy Center

Now the New York Times wants to act appalled at transphobia they helped normalize. I am going to become the joker.

Holy shit this cartoon.

This is hilarious.

This country was founded on the separation of church and state Get the word out AGs need to protect our freedom #Voices4Victory #ONEV1

The cruelty *is* the point.

Not a Parody. "The White House says Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his companies." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...?

lol. They’re not even trying to hide it.

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

Knowing the names of the an unelected oligarch’s underlings who are destroying the government from within is a crime now, apparently.

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Wait until Elon Musk has control over the Treasury Department and access to all of our data including SSNs. Read the room Chuck.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk: Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly King (Independent) Peters Shaheen Slotkin Warner

Is this post supposed to count as your entire response

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.