Headless Rex

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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“What Do J.D. Vance, Dimes Square, and the Art World Have in Common? More than You Think…” Not so long ago, Peter Thiel “was reported to be courting influence among a nebulous art-adjacent constellation of downtown NY creative types.” 8/29/24 1/ www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Correct.

Lithuanian president & people paid their respects to 4 American servicemen who died during training exercise. When the soldier’s remains arrived at Dover Air force Base, no US president was there to honor them on behalf of a grateful nation. Trump was golfing & will dine with rich Saudis

The consistent message is "I will sacrifice nothing and you are not sacrificing yourselves enough for me"

love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

Every officer involved in these grabs knows what they are doing is illegal. It is absolutely essential that they be criminally prosecuted once possible, in order to restore basic rule of law. The correct response to an order you know to be unlawful is to refuse it and resign if necessary.

They're doing this on purpose. Snatch people off the streets and then try to move them to another state as quickly as possible so a judge in their home state has no time to tell them they can't. It's a disgusting flaunting of accountability and due process.

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MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, a Claremont Institute alumnus, is throwing a misogynistic tantrum bc Justice Coney Barrett ruled against Trump in his bid to freeze congressionally approved USAID payments. 1/

It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Steve Bannon has claimed that he’s the guy who “headed up” the “Peter Thiel deconstruct the administrative state part” of Trump’s 2016 transition team and that Thiel protege Blake Masters was his (Bannon’s) “wingman” in that endeavor. (It appears that Thiel has been pulling strings all along.) 1/

"Mobilize your alumni networks. Enlist families whose children's lives have been saved in your hospitals; reach out to companies that have commercialized your research, make contact with universities in red and blue states, public and private, who face the same threat. Do it fast." /2

Trump’s Education Department layoffs will gut the Office for Civil Rights — the team that investigates racial and religious discrimination, sexual harassment in schools, and ensures students with disabilities get the accommodations they need. apnews.com/article/trum...

Our Democratic senators need to step up and call for new leadership. Send your senators an email and urge them to publicly demand that Sen. Schumer steps aside.

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

A must-read for everyone who thinks that things are fine because life is going on normally for most people

The Trump administration has ordered that the Justice Department unit responsible for prosecuting public corruption "will essentially be disbanded." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Admin leader Dudek asked at one point, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.” (!!!)

Does this look familiar?

1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:

Never enough of YOUR tax money for YOUR Medicare, veterans benefits, or social security but always enough of YOUR tax money to protect THEIR corporations and oligarchs. #3E #TeslaTakeDown #EndOligarchy

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

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“The Frightening Intersection of Christian Nationalism & Techno-Fascism *** Justifying social stratification & the uneven distribution of power through religiosity is a very old trick that has resulted in some familiar social forms.” By Kelly Hayes, 8/8/24 1/ organizingmythoughts.org/the-frighten...

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Why are you not wearing a suit? Why are you not thanking me enough?

We are on Russia's side now. But it is important to remember, they are not on our side. Our administration will work to advance Russian interests while Russia's works to undermine ours with the ultimate goal of destroying us.

Democracy Forward seeks answers for the American public and files suit to release public records on OMB’s role in freezing federal funds. The suit seeks transparency around administration's decision to abruptly pause critical federal funding for essential services for Americans (1/2)

Hungary has requested that EU member countries get full access to grant contracts signed between the European Commission and NGOs.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

How much does it cost to feed a child with SNAP benefits? $6 per day.
  How much does the GOP Budget give away to the rich? $6 million — per billionaire.
  The American people won’t forget the GOP's betrayal.

Here is what the inventor of free markets, Adam Smith, had to say about lawless capitalism:

Posted by @acnewsitics.bsky.social on another platform: “Why is Pam Bondi taking so long to release the Epstein files? What is she hiding?”

BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

the pinkscare is upon us

Yevhen Kompanets keeps cooking amazing food for Ukrainian Defenders. This time, he cooked "combat varenyky", as he called them. 📹: zhenjakmpanec/TikTok