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Wait. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Medicaid recipients could replace immigrant farmworkers. Is she daft? Does she have any idea why folks are on Medicaid? Or what’s involved in picking crops? My goodness.

Please read this whole fucking article to your maga moron relatives.

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China went into effect last night at midnight so here’s a reminder from Ferris Bueller on how that’s gonna go

Just making sure everyone sees what the former Social Security chief told CNBC on Saturday: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

I cannot remember a moment in American history when our foreign policy shifted so dramatically & quickly. Trump doesn't want to be the leader of the free world. He wants to join the autocratic world. I hope the US Congress and the American people will prevent this switch.

This was Winston Churchill when he came to the White House in 1942. Did he wear a suit? No, because his country was at war.

Not pro-life

Good trouble

this week's cover is on point ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social

NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

This administration does not represent the views of the majority Americans. Just those who are financially benefitting from Russia and the minions who can’t/won’t think for themselves.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Narcissistic personality disorder is one of several personality disorders. People with this condition have an inflated idea of themselves, and they need a lot of attention from other people. Their NPD may be more related to feelings of entitlement.

The only war that Putin is winning is inside Trump’s head. Putin only wins the war on the ground by setting American policy, through Trump. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

You know this is 100% going to happen…

Bill Browder to Bartiromo: "This is like war reparations from Ukraine, who's the victim. Russia should be handing over their natural resources for all the money we've spent, not Ukraine. Ukraine needs to rebuild, they need to defend themselves. To punish Ukraine is a highly unsympathetic position."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

The fcker in chief in his infinite idiocy has illegally cut $600M in grants for teacher training. Professors and teachers were immediately and unexpectedly fired. There are families across this country that are in dire straits right now. Can anyone explain this? thehill.com/homenews/edu...

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

Utter incompetence. It’s almost as if DOGE isn’t attempting to find fraud, but to clear house & gather info for musk.

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

@jvl.bsky.social had the excellent suggestion to members/senators to get on a plane and start making video about these stories. Personalize the victims, make them real people, DARE the MAGA cultists to say "yes, that person is undeserving of life"

Hey Brian let’s get this 📢 for tomorrow so everyone watches youtu.be/sofj0ECODeU

👀 “[I]f there is an intent to punish perceived enemies, someone could erase your earnings record, making it impossible to collect the Social Security and Medicare benefits you have earned.” Powerful warning from @socialsecurityworks.org as Musk’s DOGE hacks reportedly are breaching Soc Sec Admin.

How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right AfD.

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist