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Look. More Nazi bullshit.

First half of clip is Trump last month telling one of his favorite ‘Sir’ stories about his Joint Chiefs Chair nominee Dan Caine, which he has told hundreds of times. Second half of clip is Caine testifying today to the Senate that Trump lied.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

Breaking WaPo: Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW: CDC FOIA page are being dismantled, including pages containing FOIA request logs and the portal to submit FOIA requests.

At long last, I am ready to stand an do my duty for this nation. Senator Booker, would you roll for initiative please?

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

ELIE MYSTAL: “This is what fascism looks like. I don’t know what y’all expected it to look like… People are being abducted and disappeared from our streets. These people haven’t even been charged in court.” 🇺🇸

GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 is -3.7% on April 1, down from -2.8% on March 28. The alternative model forecast, which adjusts for imports and exports of gold as described here, is -1.4%. The steepening of the drop is shocking. t.ly/MHuFd #EconSky

Breaking news: The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing that it had wrongly deported an immigrant living in Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador despite a court ruling prohibiting it.

State troopers at the TN statehouse just carried a woman out of a Senate committee for protesting a bill that would allow schools to refuse undocumented students, Troopers warned her that they would press charges if she didn’t leave.

I think the problem with this exercise is that the person who played the part of Trump, Emily Kilcrease, is probably not a narcissistic, self-dealing moron. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

Heinous

Some thoughts: 1/n - How many of our national security/military struggles and failures around the world over the past decades have at their foundations a failure - by pol and mil leaders - to understand the human drivers of insecurity and war? How many times did we get it wrong – and at what costs?

Aaannnndd there it is. NIOSH, SAMHSA, HRSA, and others are being eliminated and the functions moved to an “Administration for a Healthy America (AHA)” www.hhs.gov/about/news/h...

Those Commies at Goldman Sachs have no faith in the Führer's economic plan.

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.

And there it is.

DOGE staffer Marko Elez, fired from Treasury for racist posts, wasn’t just rehired but has had his portfolio expanded to at least five agencies, new court filings show. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

"Formerly we were in the habit of saying: ‘This is right or wrong.’ Today we must ask the question: ‘What would the Führer say?’ We are under the great obligation of recognizing as a holy work of our Folk Spirit the laws signed by Adolf Hitler." -- Hans Frank, the role of lawyers and judges (1933).

The goal is no accountability on any level for corporations and billionaires.

Up is down.

1. #ShitministrationShakeup could become a thing...federal buildings in lieu of car lots. 2. Doing the Electric Slide at an electric dealership while its namesake's stocks continue to slide down in the market. 10/10 creativity. 😎🔥

“My opponent Elon Musk” is perfect. Vote, Wisconsin!

That’s the Pam Bondi-led United States Department of Justice that Judge Jackson is talking about.

FDA’s director for the center for biological evaluation and research: “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

BREAKING — Nearly all employees at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) received an email tonight informing them they were fired effective immediately, multiple staffers confirmed with me. Just a few HR and IT staffers are being kept on to assist DOGE’s illegal dismantling of the independent nonprofit.

Hegseth doesn’t want midshipmen reading an autobiography of MLK www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

And…that’s the point.

Senator Bill Cassidy, MD, should never get another full night of sleep

NEW: Noah Weiland spoke to Dr. Marks & we updated the article: “I did everything I possibly could for this administration to work with them in an effort to restore confidence in vaccines,” Dr. Marks said in the interview. “It became clear that’s not what they wanted.”

Pretty sure the plan is just to kill us all.

New fascist policies dropping every day.

About damn time.

The extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week, an ominous signal about the effects of climate change in the world’s fastest-warming region.

At one time people thought that Spiro "Ted" Agnew was the worst choice for VP.' (Among other things, he resigned after taking cash bribes in paper bags.) Those people were wrong.

This is so bad. Worse than people can imagine. When you work in our systems, you're generally working in dozens of separate programs that interact with the COBOL architecture. Every one of those would need to be rebuilt. Even if they succeed in migrating, no one would be able to do their jobs.

"Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died #OTD 1969

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."

Remarkable of what doesn't get covered on TV at all. For instance, this has to be one of the biggest corruption stories of the year. Musk Is Positioned to Profit Off Billions in New Government Contracts Can't find any coverage of it at all.

Axios now confirming👇🏽what we posted about earlier today: t.co/ZepxZXrQGO Here’s the email we shared that went out from the CEO: www.instagram.com/p/DHtDtAHP7Q...

Don't look here, look over there. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...