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This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.

This really is a repeat of the twitter takeover (and all the people who stayed on twitter helped to make him think this approach worked)

Washington evangelical pastor & chaplain, David Franklin, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recording himself sexually abusing a 4 year old girl & possessing child sexual abuse material. www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/c...

the person actually running DOGE is marc andreessen

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

200 million dollars of waste.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds

Breaking News: There’s a purge happening at the Pentagon. Joint Chiefs Chairman = FIRED Chief of the Navy = FIRED Vice Chief of the Air Force = FIRED Judge Advocates General for the Army, Navy, and Air Force = FIRED But the alcoholic, weekend anchor is still mumbling about “our war fighters.”

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Billionaires talking billionaire bullshit.

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

Wisconsin GOP Rep Glenn Grothman faced a hostile townhall today too in Oshkosh. It’s spreading and turning into a pattern

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

The parallel with Nazi Germany is just striking They think they can control Trump, but he is out of control. The remaining democratic forces need to put up resistance now before it is too late

They keep showing us exactly who they are.

“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Republicans in Congress want to cut health care for 80 million Americans to pay for tax giveaways to billionaires and greedy corporations. Don't let them get away with it. Tell Your Representative: Don't Cut My Medicaid!

NEW: The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal food and climate grants awarded last summer. Projects breaking ground this year were depending on that money. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/21/t...

🧵 on creating locally issued *Public* Money Since our Constitutional Public Money has been seized by Fascists: bsky.app/profile/kati...

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory A new study projects as many as 20 million people could lose Medicaid coverage under a Republican congressional bill to cut the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion match rate. #DontCutMyMedicaid www.alternet.org/medicaid-cut...

Houston police captain, Daryn Edwards, who was arrested for possessing videos of children being sexually abused & released on a 250k bond, has been arrested again for child rape charges & is being held without bond. www.khou.com/article/news...