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When Trump gets those detention camps built in every state and ICE has implemented their nation-sized military budget and staffed it with all the tattooed jackbooted dipshits wanting to cosplay soldiers we are gonna be truly f*cked. Know that, USA. No court or Congress saving us.

JUST IN: Judge Gallagher says either El Salvador is lying to the UN or the administration is lying to her about the people deported to CECOT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: If the courts fail to hold the Trump regime in contempt over this, there's something wrong with contempt proceedings. www.muellershewrote.com/p/big-surpri...

Are you talking about this creep Donald?

“We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Today, we remember Uvalde. We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down. The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive. The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies. We need an assault weapons ban. Now.

The Presidential Cabinet of Trump 2.0 was assembled for their disgraceful loyalty to DJT and their apathy to the American people. A few months in, "It is becoming increasingly clear how little there is to it apart from self-enrichment and nihilism." "This is governance by arson and sabotage."

Wearing a mask might hide your face, but it won’t save you from the fact that you sold out self-respect and dignity for Trump’s grift.

For the #HandsOff , there were a group of seniors that couldn't make it to the Capitol. So they held their very own! 57 of them came out! Aged 67-104! They all walked down to the main street! So proud of them! They had s sign making day before the event! They sent this video to me to share.🥰

This will feel like it doesn’t impact you personally. Until you’re diagnosed with a condition we don’t have a cure for yet.

He said he was going to make things cheaper and now he’s saying “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices.”

If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary just said seniors shouldn’t “call and complain” if they stop getting their Social Security checks: “A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and complaining.”

it's almost like, and bear with me on this, public opinion might move on these issues if there was a whole network of politicians, pundits, and aligned media doing everything in their power to highlight the abuses and unpopular aspects of the deportation regime instead of triangulating on it

Beyond stupid.

WTF. This is insane. For so many seniors, there would be no money for food, rent, or prescriptions without their Social Security check. Howard Lutnick says if they complain about missing a check, they're a fraudster.

This all day long! 🤣

My two cents: we don’t abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. It’s a good party. It just has bad leadership.

As he faces Senate confirmation, remember that Dr. Oz: -Pushed Medicare privatization plans on his show -Owns ~$600k in stock in private insurers -Has ties to pyramid scheme companies that promote fake medical cures His main qualification to oversee CMS is loyalty to Trump.

WYDEN: Do you believe in a nursing home there should be a registered nurse available around the clock? DR OZ: As you know, that's a complicated question WYDEN: No it's not. We need a nurse in a nursing home. Not too complicated.

They gave up their dignity and bent the knee, betraying both their customers and their country. And they did it for money. Money they had no need for. The result? They lost billions and billions. The worst deal with the devil ever.

Does he have any idea that he is now a complete asshat?

Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

Sen. Sanders continued his “Fight Oligarchy” with stops in WI (4K) and MI (10K people). Sanders stated: “The only way we successfully stand up to authoritarianism is when millions of people come together to fight back.” open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

Department of Education lays off nearly half of workforce. There it is folks. What a sad day in American history. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

The unlikely bipartisan duo of Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have introduced a bill that would cap credit card interest rates at 10%, something Trump repeatedly pledged to do on the campaign trail in order to win election.

The Republican budget is a slap in the face to every veteran who's ever served. Cutting $23 billion from PACT Act funding will leave thousands without access to life-saving care. #RepublicanCutsHurtVeterans

It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.

Stranger than fiction department:

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.” —the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

Paging DOGE: I found your government waste in your Trump. Fire him.

Elon Musk's boiler plate is burning up America's institutional knowledge one good citizen at a time.

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

The memes are still coming many days later.

1. Yes, this is some weird shit. 2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.

The Air Force has withdrawn and is reviewing an introductory military training course that features videos on the history of trailblazing Black and female pilots from World War II. This action follows Trump's directive to suspend DEI programs — this is precisely what white America voted for.

This week ICE was so keen to violate the rights of immigrants that they arrested veterans instead Despite his lack of qualifications-and character-Pete Hegseth became Secretary of Defense And the US abandoned its allies in Afghanistan-likely condemning them to die That’s the military under Trump

@marcelias.bsky.social: "There is a reason why Trump nominated Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth. He wants to humiliate these Republicans, because he knows that once they have voted for these folks, he will own them. They will not have a shred of dignity or standing left."

Soon we may need to Boycott #CNN. Let’s get mentally prepared for it.

MAGAs claimed Judge Jackson wasn't qualifed for SCOTUS but Hegseth is qualified for Defense Sect. Judge Jackson went to Harvard, was on Harvard Law Review, Judge for 9 years, public defender, & 3 Federal Clerkships including on SCOTUS Hegseth is a credibly accused sexual predator with Nazi tattoos

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once voted against poor moms having easier access to baby formula, said she is “one of the few members of Congress that literally stood on [her] faith and biblical truth the last 4 years.”