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our billionaire oligarchs worship this guy as if he were john locke

Masked “ICE Agents” with assault weapons and tactical gear are a ridiculous escalation when the reality is that you are arresting moms, bus boys, and college students. Are they are looking for an excuse for violence?

Sure. Tell Grandma to just head on over to X to sign up for her benefits.

Rhetoric-wise, I’d steer students away from ever arguing “we’re as ethical as a murderer”.

US treaties are part of the supreme law of the land. I question whether a presidential directive to the US military to invade and annex the territory of a NATO ally would be a "lawful order."

This should INFURIATE you

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

Bullshit answer: This one. Good answer: "Federal government employment was already at its lowest level in years." Better answer: "Because we're not fucking insane." Best answer: "Fuck off with that bullshit question."

This is excellent news if you are extremely wealthy and commit a lot of complicated tax fraud. For everyone else, fewer agents won't make enforcement less likely, because they just pull the info from W-2s and 1099s and the like and if the computer says it doesn't match then that's that.

Let this sink in.

🔥🔥🔥 I’m 80 years old. I decided to call #SocialSecurity “If you are calling about a disability application due to staffing reductions, our average processing time for disability applications is 200 to 230 days. The estimated hold time is greater than 120 minutes”

The GOP is crazy.

“Stop the count!” 🇺🇸

No mystery there! Elon wants to discredit Verizon's FAA contract so he can award it to HIMSELF! Geeze, get a clue.

Chris Murphy: "Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule and get to steal from regular Americans."

Tens of thousands of people are dead, multiple cities and towns have been almost completely destroyed, and millions of people are displaced. And JD Vance laughs and smiles with Hannity about the invasion like it’s a game.

and there it is

YOSEMITE: “Hey hey! ho Ho! Elon musk has got to go!”

This seems bad.

Can’t get this image out of my head.

This is insane. They are going to destroy the entire planet.

Straight-up theft by the Trump admin from relief contractors and aid workers, carried out in open mockery of the good faith and credit of the U.S. government.

Protest to protect Medicaid in Mount Kisco, New York. This is NY-17, Republican Rep. Mike Lawler’s district.

Just so we're clear, the first major powers to leave the League of Nations were Japan and Germany, in 1933, and we all know why Germany left in 1933

A bunch of Trump’s most influential advisors are advocating for the US to leave NATO and the UN. Short-sighted, reactionary morons. You should really ask yourselves why anyone that has the US interests at heart would want us to leave the most powerful alliance in history.

MORE: As Judge Chuang pressed for more information, counsel for the government revealed that DOJ's Federal Programs Branch “has been cut in half.” "They're cutting people across the government," the judge replied. "If you're saying you don't have enough people, maybe that's part of the problem..."

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

Whoever supports this is a murderous ghoul

This is also why I’m not a fan of the FAFO line of post-election shitposting. How many people actually thought they were voting to, like, ban trees in cities and to pull the US out of the World Health Organization? Maybe they were naive. They were also lied to by a lot of powerful people.

Europe and Canada should ban X immediately. It's Putin's propaganda and an existential threat to democracy globally. They should also put tariffs on anything Edolf sells.

Mind blowing.

Brutal.

The party line by the IRS has been that it is illegal to share IRS data. There isn't a "to help deport" people exception in the Privacy Act.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

huh, is this bad?

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

It doesn’t “raise concerns about” a conflict of interest. It is obviously a direct conflict of interest.

W/ a $230 billion AG instruction, if they don't cut SNAP, that means they're cutting all US farm programs by ~75%. Do you think they're doing that, or do you think they're cutting SNAP, like Arrington's public document says they're doing? Have a modicum of shame & quit lying to the American public.

A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress in Yosemite National Park — on Saturday. The protest came just over a week after the Trump administration abruptly fired at least 1,000 National Park Service employees. nyti.ms/4ka2zwF

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is 100%. Almost everything in the constitution is general or implied. The document literally says there's going to be a post office and congress is in charge of setting it up, deciding what it's rules are.

I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.