Over 11,000 people were either fired or took buyouts at the IRS.
And roughly $500 billion in revenue will be lost just this year because of the cuts.
Remind us again how that improves government efficiency?
Props to the Portland Police for being so nice today 👮 🪧 I genuinely felt protected by them as a citizen protester and seeing the PDX Fire Department come out to support was amazing. 👨🚒 🙏
Portland is rad. ❤️
Minnesota deserves the same Freedom from terrorist murder & political violence. 💔 🇺🇸
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Trump is profiting from his own crypto currency while overseeing crypto regulation
He’s endangering the public interest & taking advantage of his office for profit
I discussed on Anderson Cooper 360 @cnn.com
Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.
This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
They can come into your home & if you fight them they will charge you for obstructing justice. No warrant is needed, they can just go in if they feel like it.
The gestapo are here people.
Are you gonna wait in at home waiting to be taken next?
www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-...
The VA is having mental health clinicians work in cubicle farms and tell veterans they can’t guarantee their privacy because of SecVA’s asinine return to work order. There isn’t room! Veterans will suffer. That’s the real goal. Force VA to fail. The price? Veterans. Enough is enough.
What the actual fuck are these law firms doing?!? If they strike a deal with Trump government, so they can continue representing clients with gov’t contracts or with gov’t regulations, that’s a conflict of interest right there. Who’s going to hire a law firm beholden to Trump for gov’t business?
Dear Elon,
You’ve put thousands of Americans out of their jobs, then go on TV crying about your stock price? Fuck you! Go back to South Africa you fucking Nazi!
Elon Musk takes $8 million a day from the federal government—your tax dollars—while doing zero philanthropic work. No giving back to society.
FOCUS: gutting jobs in the most ruthless way possible. Hoarding wealth, boosting Nazis, and leaving folks terrified about their future.
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
I own guns. I'm an Army vet, FBI-certified firearms instructor, and a retired Deputy Sheriff.
It is just common sense that some people should not drive a car, perform brain surgery, or own a gun.
Laws and rules to practice medicine or to drive a car are OK, but gun laws are not. Why?
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die.
[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]
A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.
["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]
I feel like not enough Americans know we’re living through the darkest period in American history since the Civil War and the main reasons for that is our corporate media decided nine years ago to prioritize clicks and views over their unique responsibility in a democratic society.
📌Goddammit, media, STOP calling DOGE a department. It is NOT a department.
What it is, is a bunch of snot-nosed, pock-faced Orcs headed up by a racist billionaire, to reek havoc on America, and stuff his bottomless pockets.
Start doing better.
-Thanks
📌I want to be crystal clear here: Every one of these Democrats who had the audacity to vote to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up to the vile, America-attacking fascist who is ripping OUR benefits away CAN KISS MY ASS.
You are on notice.
Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.
An old friend just might pay good money for these –
Trump takes the boxes of classified documents recovered in the FBI raid last year back to Mar-a-Lago on Air Force One on Friday.
Reminder:
Between 2014 and 2022, Ukraine held 200 talks w/ Russia, reaching 20 cease-fire agreements.
Russia violated EVERY ONE of these, leading to Putin's invasion on Feb 24, 2022
Those advocating for negotiations are either uninformed, misled, or aligned with Russia.
Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.