"Trump will continue to claim prices are falling when they aren’t, bc he doesn’t care whether prices are falling and thinks voters too stupid to notice his lies. He will also occasionally continue to boast that prices are up while doing everything he can to enact policies that harm working people."
Last January, when many of us were telling everyone that Trump's appointees were all terrible, The Washington Post gave thumbs up to many of the worst of the worst.
Listen to and support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
I am outraged by the horrific killing of a legal observer perpetrated by Donald Trump's ICE agents in South Minneapolis. Video footage shows clearly that this killing was unjustified. I demand a full investigation and this agent must be held accountable. www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...
@maddow.msnbc.com
My dad is 98, WWII USNavy Veteran. Showed up for democracy in San Diego today. "I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again!" 💙🇺🇸💙 THIS is what democracy looks like!!!!
Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
It’s not just about being ‘published’. It’s not just about being cited. It’s about having your work recognized as fundamental, by your peers, and not two decades too late.
Oh.
"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
I mean a couple of weeks ago I said be patient. Not that everything is great, it’s not. But things now get real hard - funding the government, raising the debt ceiling and passing a tax bill.
Elon Musk is cratering in polls:
WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access
CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role
Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup.
On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.
A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...
What the hell is this statement? Elon Musk is raiding our most sensitive data and dems are treating it like he's lobbying for a bill.
Can someone please get loud?
This man is in regular secret contact with Vladimir Putin. Get his grasping mitts off the U.S. Treasury, and NOW. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Missouri is 50th in starting teacher pay and 49th in classroom funding. For over a decade, Republicans said they couldn’t budget for public schools but now they found millions for charters ? Weird. missouriindependent.com/2024/12/31/m...
The biggest difference you can make in politics is always going to be local.
I can write Josh Hawley about school vouchers and get a canned response. I can write my State Rep and tell him our town is watching his votes on vouchers and he has to listen. We are too close to him — we can replace him.
Ya’ll can put the pieces to that puzzle together:
donnie JR breaks up with Guilfoyle, then to purchase her loyalty, trump puts her in a position she is unqualified for, And Drum Roll… American taxpayer gets stuck with
the bill.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/10/p...
@hookskat.bsky.social
Nice to see you here.
Counting down to ditch Twixter
Now Elon Musk to telling his 130M followers: “Alexander Vindman is a traitor to our country and he will pay”
Delicious vitriol, NOT. X is like Roman coliseum where the violence excited them to the point of masturbation
so is anybody even going to bother to go through the motions of calling for Trump to divest from his businesses this time around, or did we just give up on that one too?