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The official policy of the United States of America is that having values or believing in the rule of law is the equivalent to having a fetish for watching your wife get nailed by a stranger. That’s Trumpism.

“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

May you be lucky enough to have a leader who loves his country half as much as this man loves his.

There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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...

Never write this off as just teasing and trolling, goofing and goading. Not from him. It's probing. It's "softening up." You normalize talking about a third Trump term, then over time people become acclimated to the possibility. "Haha" becomes "Sure, why not?" becomes "Let's make this happen."

"The public and private sector, companies large and small, and even the average person use government data to make decisions about program effectiveness, business prospects and life choices."

Some of DOGE is retribution, some is corruption, some is incompetence, some is a mix of those, but this is destruction for destruction's sake. It's undermining American science, industry, and commerce just because they can.

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

They have the votes to impeach and convict him So they are not helpless They are complicit

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

Hegseth orders military to draw up plans for 40% total budget cuts over the next fives years, 8% per year. Exponentially worse than sequestration that crippled the military in 2011. wapo.st/4hHV3Yt

Musk, who has pushed out mass hate and lies to millions on X, now wants the ability to send out propaganda direct to your phone.

Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

This Executive Order is not a direct attack on Marbury v. Madison and SCOTUS; it IS a direct attack on the 19 independent federal regulatory agencies, including financial regulators: SEC, FDIC, CFTC, CFPB, NCUA, FHFA, OCC and much of the Fed. It's the next step in Musk making X everyone's bank.

This drink is called a Susan Collins, with a Polio garnish.

If Joe Biden said this, the entire Republican Party would be yelling about Munich/1938/appeasement, & it would prompt nonstop front page headlines about whether he was mentally unfit to be president.

This weasel actually insists it’s a “longstanding norm” that only the president or his attorney general can say “what the law is” which is, of course, absolute garbage.

Trump has signed an executive order asserting that only the President and the Attorney General are authorized to speak on "what the law is."

How Europe can defend itself without US help https://www.ft.com/content/beb38eb8-408c-4cdb-8086-77545d52099f

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

There are reports of units that raise endangered animals having all the animal caretakers terminated, leaving no one to care for the animals. 😱 And in the news, you may have heard they terminated a whole swath of nuclear weapons employees.

For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

The latest Pew Research Center survey found that most rank-and-file Republican voters believe it'd be better if Trump "didn't have to worry so much about Congress or the courts." This reminded me of a pre-Trump public admonition from David Souter. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

We spoke to some current and recently fired FAA officials about Trump and Musk’s purge. “The danger to the national airspace can't be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Imagine if, after weeks of deadly plane crashes, Joe Biden was firing hundreds of employees at an already-understaffed FAA. Fox News would not be talking about anything else.

Mass Deportation agenda has far downstream consequences… and its not just on immigrants. RIP Jocelynn An administration thats about making this place “safer” isn’t about protecting your family or your kids or your community. Hateful language has real dangerous impact.

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

Heartbreaking story. Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, age 11, took her own life after her bullies constantly threatened to call ICE to have her Hispanic parents deported. Her story is one of the many real human consequences of Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. youtu.be/vwMGdnM24Cw?...

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

Dom Lucre was suspended from Twitter for posting brutal child pornography / child murder videos. Elon Musk personally reinstated him. A White House visit for this felon is unthinkable.

A leading DOGE wrecker — Kliger is right at the top — declaring he was converted to the cause by Ron Unz, an open white supremacist who says Jews drink non-Jewish blood.

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

The question is: Do they want to replace all teachers with AI because they actually think that would work, or because they know it wouldn't and like how it would damage education?

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

They’re killing people for no good reason. What do they gain politically from anti-vaccine hysteria? Nothing. Except that they twisted themselves in knots over a pandemic that made their leader look bad and now they’re beholden to this ideology of death.

I just finished up a security clearance hearing trying to save the clearance of a client and I find … this…. If you’re a clearance holder, stay away from the DOGE site. These ignorant virgins are going to find themselves prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act before all is said and done.

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Pam Bondi Praises Eric Adams and Says Case Will Soon Be Dismissed, even after seven DOJ prosecutors in New York City and Washington DC quit over the quid pro quo between Trump and the NYC mayor www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

In announcing the Fort Bragg name change today, the U.S. Army's official X account tagged Elon Musk directly. This is not good.