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“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.” Words from Frances Perkins, FDR's labor secretary and an architect of Social Security. Remember this as the program is under attack.

Elon Musk slandered Social Security over the weekend by calling the vital and beloved program a criminal Ponzi scheme, the same lie Donald Trump used before he decided to run for president. Musk has recently begun the wholesale dismantling of our Social Security system.

#Trump said we’d be tired of winning. What he meant was we’d be tired of #Putin winning.

All part of the GOP plan.

Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

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Breaking news: President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia.

In its 60 years, Medicaid has grown from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance, covering 72 million people. Here is where enrollment in the program is highest. nyti.ms/4intZxz

This is awesome! LOLOL

The most shameful betrayal of an ally by a U.S. President in modern history.

There are many veterans with disabilities. They are included in DEI. Americans with disabilities warn protections are vanishing in Trump's DEI rollback www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer dreams of becoming an oligarch, he's launched a political party Trumpet of Patriots, feeling directly inspired by US autocrat Trump. #OpCanary #E3 #EndOligarchy www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

United States support for Ukraine was never about securing mineral rights. Or providing security for money. It was about democracy and sovereignty. And a willingness to defend our allies and oppose our enemies. Trump is betraying Ukraine, but also our values. Our history and our legacy.

Ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover, sources said. Meanwhile, performers are mulling their options.

This is resistance.

“New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

The politics of spite are alive and well in Donald Trump's Washington. This compelling piece from The Big Picture explores how the MAGA Republican Party has transformed obstruction into an electoral strategy and what Democrats can do to counter this trend.

Todd Blanche, Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, promised he would follow the advice of career ethics officials at the Department of Justice. Then they fired the career ethics officials. Piece by piece they are destroying the Justice Dept. And any hope of justice along with it.

It’s been a long first 30 days. And there’s been a lot of bad news lately. So how about some good news for a change? There’s a shift in public opinion over Trump’s aggressive moves. Check out the evidence in my piece today: https://buff.ly/4beyVCE

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

Georgia protestors on day 84 of mass protests stand in solidarity with Ukraine: "Glory to Ukraine, glory to Georgia, fire to oligarchy" (📹 @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social ) #3E #Georgiaprotests #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #StandWithUkraine #Feb19

The State Department has ordered the cancellation of all news subscriptions deemed “non-mission critical,” according to internal email guidance viewed by The Post. The move aligns with the Trump administration’s crackdown on media companies that count the U.S. government as paying customers.

The Kennedy Center, currently run by gay quisling and Trump toady Richard Grenell, has cancelled the concert by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, performing alongside the National Symphony Orchestra previously scheduled for May. Their hate has no shame. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/k...

Trump will finish his Presidency by making Putin great again. Not America, not our allies, but Putin. Europe’s Leaders, Dazed by an Ally Acting Like an Adversary, Recalculate www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician, is sounding the alarm over a massive measles outbreak in neighboring Texas. Cassidy fucked around and voted to confirm anti-vaxxer RFK Jr as head of HHS. Now Louisianans, and all Americans, get to find out about deadly outbreaks of containable diseases.

This is horrifying www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

MAGA in a nutshell: "Please only viciously hurt *other* people for giggles and kicks!!!"

fuck the washington post www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

January 22.

The incompetent engineers at SpaceX who create aircraft that explode after takeoff are going to take control of the FAA to make aviation safer. Nothing to see. Everything is fine. GIRL, TAKE GREYHOUND!!!

A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

JFC indeed.

Ready for protest day! #Resist #Protest #ImpeachTrump #3E #USProtests

Build the wall! Around DOGE!

New guidance has been shared with coalition members. If you’re outside the coalition, please download anything you might need. Terminations will escalate this coming week.

It's odd that Elon Musk's emulation of the Nazis stops short of creating reliable cars and rockets that get to their destination.

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

An hourly reminder that DOGE is not about Elon Musk cutting government money waste, it is about wasting more government money on Elon Musk. Here is Elon cutting NASA, a government agency that his private company competes with for federal funding. They aren't even bothering to hide the corruption.

A federal judge ordered the nation’s premier health agencies to restore online access to several websites that monitor HIV, health risks for youths and assisted reproductive technologies, which were abruptly taken offline to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order.