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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
Harvard rejected the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to keep billions in federal grants. Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch. Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
President Trump says he is "not joking" about the possibility of a third term in the White House, even though it's unconstitutional. "There are methods" for doing so, he says, but "it is far too early to think about it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how
Absolutely zero justification for Musk getting access to this.
Now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City (@NLBMuseumKC) exists to tell a deeply important American story -- one that is ultimately about triumph. Our history, good and bad, is all we have. Learning it is our duty.
Fire season won’t wait while the Trump Administration decides whether it is worthwhile to train the next generation of firefighters. The cancellation of courses at America’s premier fire training center is another example of this administration putting our communities at risk.
To clarify: Trump has done everything he promised he would. The economy is now reacting exactly as economists said it would. And unfortunately it took actual economic pain for Americans to wake up to the fact that Trump doesn’t care about you.
"I am insulted you're testing my knowledge of economics" says woman claiming tariffs are not taxes.
EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAW. Can somebody please help to explain this to people.
It is crazy cognitive dissonance to argue that the goal of tariffs is to bring back domestic manufacturing but then try to kill funding that is actually bringing back domestic manufacturing… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
Remarkable: Numerous Fox News figures are now openly panicking about Trump's economy, warning that it's in real trouble. It's a sign that the MAGA project is quite fragile: If voters keep turning on him here, the whole edifice could collapse. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1925...
Seems like the resources dedicated to writing this absurd article could have instead gone towards more coverage of the millions of people negatively impacted by government cuts…. But I guess that’s too much to ask for
Opinion | The FAA is in great hands with Elon Musk. SpaceX hasn't had a rocket explode in over two hours.
So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.
I'm going to keep repeating this until they haul me away but -- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976) -- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this
….free speech?
This is ominous. Commerce Secretary suggests new GDP calculations might deliberately exclude government spending to obscure impact of DOGE cuts. apnews.com/article/trum...
If you've never been part of a government procurement process, it might be hard to understand just how much of a "go to prison" thing this would have been at any point from 1946-2024.
These things are supposed to go through months long processes before investment decisions are made.
I have no words for this other than that it’s objectively insane and corruption at the highest level.
Keep making them squirm about this.
It turns out that indiscriminately slashing programs and contracts isn’t actually the best way to produce government efficiency and cost savings. A real Congress might investigate this, but alas. apnews.com/article/doge...
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
And this right here is the entire problem - empathy is out greatest strength. Not a weakness.
This treatment of anyone, let alone a foreign leader in the midst of a battle for his country’s existence, is simply disgusting. No one ever tell me that women are too emotional to be president. This is embarrassing behavior.
I appreciate the deep reporting here but would add one thing: This isn’t just an attack on the federal workforce. It’s an assault on the entire country. We ALL rely on government services that Musk is paralyzing. The impact of his cuts will only grow more horrific. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?
Oliver Darcy has some very good points here
JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
Wow. So the new free market WaPo is going to excoriate Trump on tariffs, abortion, cronyism and attacks on lgbtq+ Americans. Tough, tough, tough. Next time they should endorse a candidate like Kamala Harris who was on the right side of all those issues
The corruption is blatant at this point.
Cowards
If you voted for Trump, do you feel proud of this? Absolutely disgusting that this is what we’ve come to.
We continue to get closer and closer to authoritarianism by the day. Limiting the free press is straight out of the playbook. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
Neither vaccines nor the virus prompted an increase in the number of cardiac arrests, contrary to misinformation that has circulated repeatedly.
Again, was this contract put out for open bid? There are existing contracts in place with incumbent providers. The FAA can’t simply “decide” to use Starlink. That is not how any of this works.
We only barely avoided another major airline catastrophe today in Chicago. And Trump's proposal today is not to bring back FAA staff but to give Musk control over airline safety. Innocent people will die as a result of this administration's recklessness.
The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE
Love this from Denmark
I work for the American people, actually.
Yeah, these federal workers actually understand what they do for us and how devastating these cuts are for us. It'd be great if the media could explain that clearly instead of taking Elon Musk's word that he's magically produced "savings" that come with no downside.
What a joke
Almost like they have zero clue of what they’re doing
Asking questions about DOGE is a thoughtcrime on Musk's X.
According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.
It’s pathetic and cowardly that they still refuse to come out and publicly say anything.
Trump & Musk claim they’re cutting waste, but their priorities tell a different story Jobs or money cut from feeding starving kids, fighting bird flu & protecting the nuclear arsenal—while Trump pushes for TWO new Air Force Ones when what we have now is just fine Fake populism at its finest
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Federal government overreach into a local issue!
The sheer incompetence continues
So, we expect the Dear Leader to force him to walk this statement back in… like 24 hours?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
Fuck him. He is selling us out and breaking America from the inside. All for the benefit of our biggest adversary Russia. I wonder how much of the data DOGE is stealing is going there.
Sorry, what?? The Trump Admin lying per the usual. Americans are rightfully angry that an unchecked, unvetted billionaire is illegally gutting vital programs and firing workers who keep us safe — so now suddenly Elon “is not part of DOGE.” 🙄 apnews.com/article/elon...
Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.
man you've really just gotta hate America and its citizens to cut back on the damn National Park Service. you've gotta have no interest in what makes our country unique and no desire for people to experience it
Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...
Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?
So a company that is regulated by the FAA is going to overhaul the system? Don’t like that one single bit
There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
Look what happens when you have an inexperienced unqualified person talking out his ass.
"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
You want to talk about fraud, waste, and abuse? Well, here you have it. The American public didn't vote for Donald Trump so he could hand over billions in taxpayer dollars to his biggest donor. This is corruption of the highest order.
Remind me again what President Trump said he'd do to inflation? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
Opinion | President Trump attending the first half of the Super Bowl cost taxpayers $4 million. Here's why DOGE must lay off a bunch of federal workers making $75,000 so that the government can live within its means.
Dropping the corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams is a blow to ethics & accountability DOJ is shirking its duty to uphold the law—& thus enabling further corruption I discuss why anti-corruption efforts matter👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
“Mr. Trump doubled down on the idea of forced displacement of roughly two million Palestinians, a move that some scholars have said would amount to a war crime and ethnic cleansing.”
Remind me when the policies that reduce prices start to go into effect? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals.
Because as always, cruelty is the only objective
this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
Opinion | As a Republican senator who likes to invoke Reagan, I know America can't afford to have a Russian asset running our national intelligence. But it also can't afford for me to have a primary challenger. Therefore, I will be voting for Tulsi Gabbard as DNI.
I think their goal is to set a record for impeachable offenses
DOGE is a grenade in the heart of the U.S. national security apparatus, chapter 288 www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court. This order effectively puts the US on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice. Read more: bit.ly/4gxSvuD
Only the best and brightest
Man, it would be great if there were a trustworthy health organization that could widely disseminate information to the public.
Attempting to erase history now? Surely this is what a good democratic government does!
USAID does a lot to advance American national interests, and to undermine the interests of anti-American authoritarians in Russia, China, Iran, and elsewhere. But defending USAID on those grounds to Trump/Musk/MAGA doesn't work, because they agree with the authoritarians over US national interests.
I love that these complete morons assumed we were sending palettes of cash to countries and not sending things like rice and wheat while paying American farmers for those goods
Coming back to this because of sheer lunacy (and arrogance?) to think that if the FAA could’ve just “upgraded their safety systems” they wouldn’t have already done it 🙄
Hypocrisy is the only constant with these people
The national airspace system is so immensely complex. If these unelected, unqualified morons mess around in it, they are sure to fuck something up.
The Republican Party, which has spoken for decades about limited government and states rights, is now backing an autocratic takeover of the entire nation. But the real problem is the Democratic Party.
Organization that isn't real eagerly surrenders to law that isn't real
To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Whether they voted for President Trump or not, the American people emphatically do not support sending U.S. soldiers to "take over" the Gaza Strip so that he can build a "Riviera of the Middle East." This is a reckless and dangerous proposal.
This should have no legal impact on the NCAA, which is not part of the executive branch of the federal government, and they will be absolute cowards if they change their policies because of it