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Lesley Stahl reports on President Trump’s efforts to halt the work and cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an enforcement agency that was created in response to the 2008 financial crisis. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

WTF

From United Humanists on FB

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He nails it.

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

Sweden launches probe after yet another Baltic Sea cable is damaged Sweden has launched an investigation into suspected sabotage after yet another underwater cable in the Baltic Sea was found damaged. The cable links Finland and Germany. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

I'm just saying...

It's mystifying and infuriating that these BC truckers still can't get their act together. Are they a) not paying attention, b) not properly trained , c) choosing to drive recklessly, or d) all of the above? So much for the threat of those increased fines. vancouversun.com/news/highway...

How long until they realize FAFO

I’m sorry, but he was high as a kite and it was WILD, this footage. This is one of 2 men responsible for all the garbage. All of it.

Stephen King has returned to Twitter. 10/10. No notes. 🔥

I’m glad Miller is gone from the Canucks. We don’t need that energy here.

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

There are no words to describe just how evil a man Trump is. www.politicususa.com/p/trump-spen...

I have nothing to add

Fox was banned from our home in 96, whats your excuse???

Another Trump Plane Crash in Arizona 2 hours ago. 2 People Dead. The 8th in 29 Days of the Elon-Nazi-Trump Regime. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

TOMORROW (WED): Rallies are being held across the country to protest the funding cuts to science and the illegal firing of federal workers. Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare. Details: labor4highered.org

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

I get we're all numb to this but another way of looking at Trump pushing 25% auto tariffs is the world's richest auto executive trying to ban much of his competition

These are the faces of REAL PEOPLE who are going to suffer and die under the MAGA regime.

Elon Musk cut farmers’ subsidies and JD Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel owns a tech bro app for buying up cheap farmland from desperate farms. I’m sure it’s nothing. 👀

If I were a Canadian MP, I'd create a list of every American politician and media personality who's joking approvingly about or otherwise encouraging the idea of the US annexing Canada and ban them from Canada forever. They won't care, but it would show how seriously we're taking this.

He truly believes that he can do anything he wants. Anything. The Constitution, separation of powers, rule of law, even the sovereignty of other nations, all completely irrelevant to him already, 4 weeks after being sworn in. Is he right, America? He’s right if you let him get away with it.

So Bill Guerin and all of USA Hockey can eat literal shit forever www.thedailybeast.com/us-hockey-te...

The irony and perhaps horror is not lost on me that Canada may be signing security / defence pacts with Germany to protect against the Nazis that control the White House. Just 80 years later. Astonishing really.

#NeverTrustConservatives

Listen up.

The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.

NEW: The Trump admin is considering destroying 160 million COVID tests, worth half a billion dollars. This would be a horrible waste. COVID is still around, and causes high levels of illness and deaths throughout the year. Tests are expensive. The government should send them to people for free.

So Trump’s USDA is now saying that it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them. If bird flu escalates into a pandemic, with this kind of leadership, we are going to be toast.

Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

This tells me I should no longer eat anything made in the US.

I wrote in January that "Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents." It has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...