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Waiting to hear from all the “Trump-Russia was a hoax” crew and somehow they’ve evaporated into nothingness

“.. wiping out almost all of its gains since President Trump took office last month ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

Uber CEO supports Trump's push to eliminate taxes on tips. Gee I wonder why www.reuters.com/world/us/ube...

This is a drug addict who can barely put together a sentence.

IRS funding ensures the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Trump’s attack on the IRS isn’t aimed at protecting ordinary Americans — it’s protecting rich Americans.

🚨 **BREAKING:** Trump & House GOP swore they’d lower costs for families. Spoiler: They LIED. Instead, they’re gutting healthcare for MILLIONS—just so their billionaire buddies can snag another yacht. *Priorities, right?* #DontCutMyMedicaid

What do you think?

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

Though the FDA is believed to have lost about 700 of its 18,000 employees following President Trump's mass firings, some cuts hit small teams so deeply that staff members believe the safety of some medical devices could be compromised. Here's what to know.

Biggest concerns for public right now: healthcare costs, inflation, budget deficit. Good thing Trump/Congress plan to: -slash Medicaid, let enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies lapse; -increase tariffs; -expand deficits by trillions of dollars through tax cuts www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Holy shit. You have to see Real World Sean (Secretary of Transportation) deservedly get his butt booed- Hard to believe this is a Cabinet Secretary in the United States of America. We’ve had aviation tragedy after tragedy since he’s been sworn in.

The reason the USA is so messed up is because everyone thinks bad things will never happen to them.

"No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States." from @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The level of derangement, my God. He's going to blow up his already fake/broken "factchecking" scam because he's angry that he's being called out for his Kremlin disinformation. Don't be surprised if Community Notes goes away altogether. Musk has no intention of being factchecked on his platform.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

He break it, you bought it www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

This is the reason I think @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov should ask GAO to investigate the fraudulent claims on DOGE's receipts page. Because it's serving as cover that DOGE is not seeking waste fraud and abuse but instead canceling programs Congress duly appropriated.

Republicans are slashing Medicaid to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately serve the wealthy. The top 1% will get an average of $70,000. How does that make sense? My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

Kash Patel was confirmed as the FBI Director, which completes Trump's handover of America to Putin. As a child who practiced bomb drills in school in case Russia attacked us during the Cold War, this sickens me. #ProudBlue #PutinsPuppet #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

Europe’s Moon plans at risk as Trump team reviews Nasa’s Artemis project https://www.ft.com/content/e14e3a07-3b5f-447e-a190-04955bb71dae

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PSA: Under the Attorney General Guidelines, an investigation on anyone cannot be based solely on First Amendment activity.

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IL Gov JB Pritzker is sounding the 🚨 alarm Pritzker is stepping up to fill a Dem leadership void as the Trump-Musk regime carries out its coup attempt --- Please read Prtizker's entire thread

You know this is 100% going to happen…

Reality Check: Right now Republicans are trying to pass a budget that includes 4.5 *trillion* in handouts to the ultra-rich. It's an average annual tax cut of $314,266 for the top 0.1%. Translation: they are blowing up the debt and deficit to help their billionaire donors.

BREAKING 🔥🔥🔥

Siri, what are some things that happened to kings

Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

Fucking heinously irresponsible, and dumb as hell considering most natural disasters occur in red states now. They want to cut 84% of the staff at HUD that rebuilds after catastrophe in the midst of climate change fueled disaster after climate change fueled disaster.

Is this even real? We are just pigs to them.

I love it when our nazi crackhead shadow president screams slurs at astronauts when they push back on his insane lies

Why is any U.S. media outlet pretending there have been sufficient savings associated with this Musk debacle—or even any confirmed _net_ savings at all—such that every American can be given $5,000? This is clearly a desperate attempt by Musk and Trump to simply _pay_ people to stop criticizing them.

COLLINS: “In 2023 you wrote in Putin is to blame like Al-Qaeda was to blame for 9/11 - Do you still feel that way or do you share the president's assessment that Ukraine is to blame?” WALTZ: “That was back when I was in Congress.”🤷🏻

GIZMODO: “.. Many people try to credit Musk with inventing Community Notes, but it actually launched in 2022 under the name Birdwatch. Musk didn’t create the program, he just changed the name.” @gizmodo.com gizmodo.com/elon-musk-sa...

Huh, is he admitting his crimes?

God is love. God is good. God is powerful. But God is not forceful and God is not magic. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-christi...