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Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children ā an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This aināt subtle, folks.
Wonder how Luigi is Doing.......
No surprise when Hegsethās first actions were to gut the JAG office and get rid of any senior officers that might object.
Moderation in all things, including moderation.
"You don't have the option of buying," Chief Executive Elon Musk said at an investor gathering in California in April 2019. "We want them back." "Next year, for sure," he added, "we'll have over 1 million robotaxis on the road." Just world historical fraud on a daily basis.
Incapable of common decency.
but seashells!
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
Iām not confident thatās going to be the process used. missouriindependent.com/2024/05/24/t...
Whatās the point of calling it private data? Itās no oneās business what our health records say.
Itās not that theyāre not recognized, itās that theyāre idolized instead of run out of town.
BREAKING: the heroes at Susman Godfrey sue the Trump administration over the illegal retaliation against them They have more integrity in their pinky finger than these other firms that have been capitulating have in their entire partnerships And kudos to the team at Munger for representing them
Cowards. Doesnāt say a lot for the quality of their staff and lawyers if they believe they need to fold immediately. Is that how they represent their clients?
You can tell how much respect he has for physical labor and the people who do that essential work. None. The one thing they really want from you? Your dignity. Hand it over.
If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, itās on all of us now.
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isnāt reminiscent of anything in the american past
If we require ID, it needs to be free. And readily available. Itās neither. Not with the GOP shuttering offices in blue areas.
There's two sides to this monstrous coin: 1) His fake study will blame vaccines, producing all the damage which follows from that. 2) The fake study will be used as an excuse to stop genuine autism research. E.g., no grants for anyone who doesn't cheer the fake study and repeat the propaganda.
What do we get when he fails? Do we get our scientists back?
students are being deported for writing op-eds, not vandalizing a library. Taking part in a protest, not taking over a campus. Rubio is making claims about guilt without offer any evidence.
Meanwhile, the libraries at the service Academies, and my old Elementary and high schools on Base in Germany, are purged of anything worth reading because these guys donāt like anything that offends their privilege. Poetry, history, may as well have torched them all.
Penguins canāt fly. www.bbc.com/news/article...
If you canāt follow orders, you donāt belong in the military.
Well, the women were trying to unionize so they brought the fire on themselves. But since any history of unions or women is off limits, it may as well have never happened. The administration in a nutshell: Never Remember!
Warner: "I just talked to senior folks on Wall St, and he described today's market as 'a good day in hospice.'"
Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."
Killing off any chance of understanding our history and associating it with the shit show in DC. They come for the intelligentsia first for a reason.
There are memes, and there's memes with dates
We really need a 90% top tier tax bracket and make donations over $100 illegal.
šREPUBLICANS: "We need more election integrity!!!" šALSO REPUBLICANS: "How much will it cost to buy your vote??"
Weāre living in the reign of the stupid. Incompetence, obedience and an ability to lie straight faced with no remorse gets you a cabinet position or a committee chair. Weāre doomed.
Itās like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
Thatās some fashy shit right there.
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
Sweet baby Acorn needs your help! Her brother got adopted but she didnāt and sheās struggling in the kennel after 122 days! Sheās at NYc ACC! Sheās precious! Repost pls!
If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, theyād be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But itās Hegseth, so probably not.
Okay, but how could we have possibly known Hegseth's lack of experience would lead to a colossal national security disaster?
How drunk was Hegseth?
We live in a Monty Python Sketch. That is terrifying.
O Canadaā¦
On the day lifelong public servants at the Department of Education have their 30-minute, Trump/Musk-ordered ātake your shit and goā windows to pack up workspaces and exit buildingsābring your own boxes and tape, they were toldāthe AG is _fuming_... about vandalism to Musk products. This is America.
Her monthly hair budget alone is probably more than my car payment.
I no longer believe you. A united front was important, you could have leveraged it. You collaborated with what is rapidly becoming the enemy of the people and the enemy of the state, 45ās administration.
"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least thereās no economic upside."
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and theyāre higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd āGO FOR BROKEā infantry regimentāthe Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.
ICYMI: āArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its websiteāā¦in order āto remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.ā
Cowards.
There is already tremendous pain. We are losing our democracy. DO NOT WORK WITH THEM.
All of this misery and disgrace is happening because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have tiny broken useless weiners.
For profit prisons in action. As many as they can, as long as they can because each one is a payday. Actual status is an afterthought.
Is it just me or does it piss off anyone else how much other countries remember 9/11 better than American fucking citizens? To have a president disregard allies so publicly is disrespectful, not just to them - but to us.
Again the fascism is already here
Whoever cut funding has no idea how difficult it is to work a sports conference when the schools are hours apart and transportation includes an overnight Duty Train.
HISTORY KEEPS REPEATING......
How? What are you doing? Why is it invisible?
This is how you deal with conservatives. You don't "engage" with them. You make them afraid to show their faces in public. You beat them back into the margins of society where they belong.
That is exactly true.
the Pentagon "woke" media purge is a little weirder and, dare I say, stupider that I thought gizmodo.com/here-are-som...
We are being led by the kids who spent high school smoking in the can and beating up smaller kids. They made it to adulthood, somehow got jobs, but they have no clue whatās going on, what to do next, or how to deal with all the complaining about their poor performance.
www.vice.com/en/article/h...
38 days to go? šŖ
Maybe a couple years ago but itās so much darker now. Racist is an opinion, segregation is a policy. Weāve moved beyond rudeness into legality.
The point was to destabilize and crash the economy. Itās not a bug. Itās a feature.
As the plan is to replace NASA with SpaceX, the likely successor for the NOAA is tomorrow.io, which already has several contracts intended to "support" and "explore" privatization of core NOAA functions. #IStandWithNOAA #SaveNOAA @climate.noaa.gov @altnoaa.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social
In a stunning reversal, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces that for the first time in its long history, a non-member of the entertainment industry will be awarded an Oscar for best performance by an actor in a supporting role. Mike Johnson for his portrayal of a Christian.
BREAKING Tesla board offers Musk $782 billion early retirement package - Top shareholders reject offer as insufficient - Musk stays focused on SM - COO, CFO resign citing mental health issues - Institutional investors warn Tesla is "losing value like a burning Zepplin" #RenameAndShame #MuskDay911
It Is What It IS!! Should have never doubted!
He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.
To summarize: -They stopped almost all USAID work -Then they conceded that some programs actually saved lives & granted waivers for those -Then they promised a ācarefulā 90 day review of everything -Then they cancelled 90% anyway within just weeks, including many they had just deemed life-saving
There's much more in this piece abt Marco Rubio getting USAID contractors robbed, but he also cut off USAID Inspector General's phone. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
If you thought they were abusive to Zelenskyy, just wait until you see what they're doing to your Social Security.
H/T @jilldlawrence.bsky.social
āDonald Trump and J.D. Vance just destroyed the transatlantic partnership that kept the western world safe for 80 years and rather than spend the weekend trying to repair they both went on vacationā Jake Broe youtu.be/RdXV53a5AzA?...
Florida: Sanctuary State for Sex Offenders www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...
Brutal.
There need to be public congressional hearings as to why. And jail time. Lots of jail time. apnews.com/article/doge...
It's not that they won't do ANY more town halls, it's just that they want to hold off until they have a good answer to "what the fuck is wrong with you guys?" And JD Vance can go goose step into a volcano. Fuck that guy.
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
A Predator movie where the Predator shows up in Washington DC, but gets all bummed because there are no spines for him take as a trophy.
we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Hi, former White House intern, DNC communications staffer, and re-election team partner here: One does not āslipā into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. Thatās not a thing.
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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My Senator is a traitor.
Weasels.
This only makes sense if the US has surrendered sovereignty to Russia.
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