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FUN FACT: Stephen Colbert still owns a home in South Carolina.

"His office leadership instructed appointees to act as servers for a multicourse meal. They dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a staffer was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar..." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! Trump: ? Schumer: you forgot this piece

Russia’s election disruption and interference also taps into public dissatisfaction with democracy.

Elon Musk's net worth fell below $400 billion for the first time in two months, dragged down by a double-digit slide in Tesla Inc.'s share price. Read more: www.ndtv.com/world-news/e...

After Brett Baier asked Trump if he saw Vance as his successor, the president quickly said, "No," though he conceded his vice president was "very capable."

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

They are aged 19 to 25, with no government experience — and have been asking state employees to justify their jobs

So, let me get this straight ... Trump requires all government workers to return to their offices and then terminates all the office leases. apnews.com/article/trum...

Gifted article because I really appreciate Brian Driscoll stepping up as a strong leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

NEW: The Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury’s payment systems in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of violating the law by giving private info to DOGE. But Musk lackeys, Krause and Elez, are still permitted access “as needed.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

It really is incredible how much control Elon Musk has over US policy right now. Also, Rubio is pathetic.

Despite general EV sales being up in Germany by 53.5%, Tesla sales dropped 60%. Guess the Germans don't appreciate Musk playing fascist politics over there. electrek.co/2025/02/05/t...

💯 I completely agree with this take by Rick Wilson. “Y'all might want to do any and everything you can to save it before it’s too late.” cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @adamschiff.com @schiff.senate.gov

"My jaw dropped, my eyes bulged."

I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier

As I used to tell my ex and so many others during Shit Show I, the walking that WH staff really should be doing is walking Trump into the psych ward at Walter Reed!

“Morality is of no interest when there is a real-estate deal to be made.” David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s declaration that two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip.

"What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos." www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

It's obviously unconstitutional.

The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Elon Musk is viciously targeting USAID as retribution for USAID attempting to probe Starlink equipment.

Why Elon hates USAID

"appalled" but a Politico reporter tweeted 15 minutes ago that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee just moved to subpoena Elon Musk and the motion failed 19-20, with Ro Khanna "notably abstaining from the vote" @khanna.house.gov you ain't shit x.com/DaniellaMica...

The guy who hates immigrants thinks that Jordan and Egypt should take 2 million immigrants from Gaza

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

The origin of the world's most stupid idea. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Could Donald Trump be a moderating influence on an Elon Musk presidency?

Ah yes, Musk and Trump engineering a government shutdown by sinking a bipartisan funding bill and preventing aid for disaster relief...Merry Christmas from the Republican party and their Billionaire owners!!

Congress had a deal to dodge a government shutdown. Then Elon Musk tweeted. Inside the 12 hours that pushed the U.S. to the brink of a Christmas closure, with me @faizsays.bsky.social, @jeffstein.bsky.social & @tonyromm.bsky.social

Elon Musk Calls For Government Shutdown Over Christmas A man who has never run for election is now calling on the federal government to close over Christmas and New Years meidasnews.com/news/elon-mu...

Elon Musk causing a possible federal government shutdown *over Christmas* before Trump is even in office has some real season finale vibes to it, doesn’t it?

The American royal wannabes, Trump, First Lady Musk, and their stepchild Vivek, now want to serve up a government shutdown right before Christmas! A bunch of billionaires telling people to go with no paychecks and no services. YOU suffer, while THEY sit in their mansions. Welcome to the chaos!

Elon Musk has called for a government shutdown during the Christmas season. "Elon Musk, the new head of Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, is now calling on the federal government to close until January 20th, after Donald Trump is sworn into office."

This dipshit Elon Musk is really trying to shut down the government over Christmas. Fine. Go ahead. Let Musk try to explain to Trump why a shutdown sapped every bit of Trump's political leverage before he even got into office. www.palmerreport.com/analysis/elo...

Just wait until he singlehandedly ruins Christmas by manipulating a government shutdown.

BREAKING: President Elon Musk and Vice President Donald Trump.

Trump is now actively trying to force a government shutdown — seemingly based on nothing but Elon’s Twitter feed.