Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
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Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
We can all tell by his face that there is something seriously wrong
They know that. This is more pandering to the maga base
Trump and his supporters pretend that he made money from real estate. He didn't. That was a myth created by "The Apprentice." He *lost* money in real estate. The most money he ever made--$3.4 BILLION--was from his presidency, which he got elected to by pretending he was successful in real estate.
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
BREAKING: Texas DEMs are FIGHTING!!!💪 They just fled the state to prevent Republicans from having a quorum. They risk jail and a $500 daily fine blocking Texas from gerrymandering seats. If there's a GoFundMe for these DEMs, let's get it out there to support their efforts!!!! PASS IT ON!🙏
What?! No!
GWAR says “Call your senators. Make a difference. Do it now because there's not a lot of time." We agree 🤘 Protect public media by calling your senators at 202-224-3121 NOW! www.nme.com/news/music/g...
WATCH: “More could’ve been done.” KERR COUNTY folks didn’t want to take money from “The Biden Regime” that could’ve been used for a flood warning system 👇🏽
Whatever you do, don't use this online form to tell them to resign in shame. Don't do that. Do not do that.
You really have to have a special kind of contempt for the intellect of your supporters to expect them to believe this. They do though. But still.
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.
As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.
So, what’s the least one on a passport renewal? Are things still normal in that department?
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Is it worth it for my husband to try to renew his green card?
Republicans are pushing for a proof of citizenship requirement to serve their own ends while perpetuating harmful myths about noncitizen voting.
This. Citizens are not immune.
Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.
While the Arkansas masses clustered in a crowded church for a town hall, their no-show representatives wined and dined at a hoity fundraiser where the cheapest tickets were $1,000.
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There are two chapels very similar in AR
Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
House Democrats are fighting to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The partisan Republican spending bill is an attack on veterans, seniors and families. Unacceptable.
“The targeting and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil is intended to silence dissent and scare officials at colleges and universities across the country. It is deeply un-American.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
Trump wants to control all federal firing & hiring. He wants to be able to reduce & refill the ranks of career fed'l employees. It's soft coup (non-military) happening before our eyes, but too many people aren't paying attention. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/humphreys-...
I’m getting one tomorrow
Is the Democratic leadership suggesting now is not the time to be disruptive? If not now, when? Because it really seems like now is the time…
This sucks. I wish people felt empowered to get loud and punch back twice as hard. If people did that en masse, Shitler and his entourage of loathsome losers wouldn’t know how to handle it.
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.
Trump doesn’t want peace for Ukraine, he wants surrender. That’s the only messaging you need.
NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
Groceries are more expensive, air travel is less safe, infectious diseases are raging and inflation is higher than it’s been in months, but at least Trump was able to strong-arm a sovereign nation into releasing a couple of psychopathic sex traffickers. At least there’s that.
Chicken shits
This is a great and unfortunate reminder that there are some incredible Democrats elected throughout the country that many of us have never heard of. Another reason why we need to make sure we lift those voices up now.
Yes that is the accusation.
VACCINES SAVE LIVES Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide. Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5. theconversation.com/infectious-d...
This is our chance to fight back. Everyone that has had enough should email HR@opm.gov Tell them what you did last week! Flood the server and shut it down. Looking for eggs Watching your freedoms get taken away Drinking Saying that is now how the constitution works More drinking #Emails2DOGE
When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
All top level Dems need to do a united presser every day and highlight every crime committed by a pardoned January 6er. Hang them all on Trump. They also have to highlight every nightmare story his DOGE cuts are creating. They have to personalize every narrative. Every day.
I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”
These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.
This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.
I scrambled an entire dozen like a crazy person
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
🚨This is an awful, MASSIVELY suppressive voter suppression bill. We must not let it pass. Call your senators and rep and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act. 202-224-3121
Get your tdap as well!
As an anti-vaxxer & anti-vaccine RFK Jr. is about to be INSTALLED by the spineless GOP Senate in Congress, TODAY would be a good day to get YOUR Covid and Flu vaccines, while you STILL can.
Europe just stood up. This is the way!
As we’ve been calling out for weeks, they had more than just “read access.” The Treasury has now revoked the editing access that was “mistakenly” given to a musk staffer.
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i am mostly ignoring Nancy Mace these days because the thing she wants more than anything is attention but i will just note that her signature move during the presidential campaign was claiming women who allege they were assaulted are liars
That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/
Yes. Why coders
For a quick sugar high to “own the libs,” the attempts to shutter USAID would do long term damage that couldn’t be reversed for a generation. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
I received this letter to participate in the American Community Survey from the census bureau. Is this legit? There are a lot of questions that feel like nobody’s business
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍
Sickening
One of the most important websites in America right now.
This is so good.
Everyone realizes they’re trying to shift the Overton Window, right? They’re conditioning you to be accepting of the insane shit they’re doing now so you’ll accept the more insane shit they do later.
Musk’s allies were granted access to the U.S. Treasury payment system. Treasury stays silent. White House stays silent. Why the secrecy? Time for an explanation and full transparency.
This is a national emergency:
My son and his friend love your movie and dressed as the characters for Halloween
She lost her life serving our country and because of the smears by the President her family doesn’t want us to know her name. It’s two weeks and this Administration is the most shameful imaginable. — Army withholds name of Black Hawk helicopter crew in D.C. crash www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass
10 types of #misinformation and #disinformation Be smart. How to recognise disinformation: Designating #scapegoats Evoke strong #emotions (fear and anger) Causing #polarization #Impersonating an 'expert' Spreading #conspiracytheories with no clear evidence #Trolling to evoke a lot of reactions
Folks don’t notice the mundane bureaucracy when it works as intended - when it’s just a minor annoyance. The forecast only called for 10% rain…but it rained. The long line at the (insert here) office. Your mail ended up at the neighbor’s. You followed the CDC’s advice but still got sick.
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85% seems low.
Everyone contributes their fair share.🤑
This may be the last annual report of its kind for a while, I do expect that US Climate Science will be silenced. Over the next decade, The United States could lose significantly more in damages and economic losses due to climate change than the profits generated by the oil and gas industry.
Why is the federal government blowing over $800K on a huge military plane to deport just 79 immigrants to Guatemala, when a regular flight used to cost us $100K? It’s all for show! And the truth—they weren’t rapists, murderers, or criminals.
This is the Ben & Jerry’s video that has folks talking and MAGA losing their shit! We need to support @benandjerrys y’all, because we don’t ever want them to “stick to just the ice cream”. 👀
It was all in Project 2025…
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i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
What congress should have done for all social media: 1. Require all algorithms to be open source. 2. Require best efforts to ban bots. 3. Ban the collection of personal data. Apply these rules to all social media: Tic Toc, X, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
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And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.
