2/12/26 Trump shows his failing mental capacities while he receives an award from coal businesses. #politics #news #currentevents

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

I could not be less surprised.

Trump is mentioned more in the Epstein files than Harry Potter is mentioned in Harry Potter.

Republicans and Democrats put language in the #defensebill threatening to withhold 1/4 of Hegseth's travel budget until he provides unedited video of the Caribbean boat strikes to House and Senate Armed Services Committees, as well as the orders authorizing them. www.npr.org/2025/12/17/g...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is the problem. The GOP claims accuses opponents of supporting election insecurity. That’s utter bullshit. Make universal ID free and easily accessible to everyone. Done. Don’t be fooled. These other attacks on voting rights quietly tucked in the text are the REAL purpose of this bill.

@maddow.bsky.social given the latest nomination of Kevin Warsh as #FedChair and ALL the baggage he’s dragging around, don’t you think it’s about time to resurrect “the wall”? Obviously, instead of tallying departures, it would detail conflicts and corruption. Just gobsmackingly unbelievable.

If ICE and CPB can forcibly enter this man’s home BY MISTAKE, violating his 4th Amendment rights with no consequences, they can forcibly enter ANYONE’S home—even yours. If ICE and CPB can ignore the 4th Amendment, they can ignore EVERY amendment, and the Bill of Rights means nothing.

Currently, the organizational leadership of ICE/CBP is telling agents to be more aggressive, not less. This fits with a pattern of impunity we see with authoritarian security forces. For example, the are rewarded for the number of arrests, which incentivizes indiscriminate arrests.

New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel. This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social have you seen this AI-generated video of you? I thought you should be alerted. @bsky.app needs to add an AI content warning. youtu.be/zcZHAI3ysxw?... WARNING: THE ATTACHED VIDEO IS AI GENERATED PROPAGANDA.

@sanders.senate.gov after listening to your interview w Chris Hayes this evening, I hope your talk of rallying freedom-loving Americans is serious enough to take real action. We’ve protested, we’ve contacted MOCs, we’ve been clear that we DON’T want a dictatorship. It’s time for a General Strike.

The article says there were 242 ppl aboard the #India #Dreamliner, that 240 died, and Viswashkumar Ramesh was the 1 survivor. What the heck?? I’m terrible at math, but I can do basic arithmetic, NPR. www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

If you have any loved ones in nursing home care, it’s time to formulate a new plan for their care. It’s hard it is to find a bed now, and it’s only getting worse w the Boomer bottleneck. Add to that crisis $ 880b in mandated Medicaid cuts. Don’t be caught off guard. Source: Morningstar, Inc.

Not surprised.

@journeygurl.bsky.social I just found this group. Very well organized already! @genstrikeus.bsky.social

It’s time for a #generalstrike. It’s almost too late. I suggest we all urge 50501 to set a start date and put out the call. It has to be at least days, maybe weeks. Some suggest a 3 mo consumer strike. It sucks, but what’s the alternative? Marching around won’t force change. 50501movement.carrd.co

DOGE employees are non-govt with NO LEGAL AUTHORIZATION to enter private agency spaces or compel employees to break the law in releasing protected records. They are trespassers. THROW. THEM. OUT.

it doesn't get better ...

DOGE Bros, show us on the doll where Peter Theil touched you

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

Great work. Now here’s another DOGE creepy character who shouldn’t be anywhere near US government computers (or anything else):

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

100%. If you’re blaming ppl who are powerless for being powerless, please stop and think about how messed up that is. Ppl hoarding the money and the power are the problem and we can solve it by holding them to account.

Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”

We NEED and appreciate our federal employees! Don’t wait until they’re purged to find out just how essential they are to your everyday life. Ppl think they don’t do anything bc everything seems to hum along on its own. Spoiler: it does not. These ppl are WHY you can do everything you need to do.

Amen! Gum up the works.

The fact that Trump had/has zero idea that he’d be nothing but dead weight five minutes after swearing in has been a head-scratcher since the election. He’s stupid, but come ON, grandpa.

Well, this sounds like a pretty bad deal for Mike Johnson & Co. I’m trying to work up some tears but they just aren’t flowing.

@fednews.bsky.social look, any agency where these DOGE punks show up needs to trespass them and call the police to have them removed. They have no legitimate authorization to even BE there. Do not bend to these illegal actions.

And here we go. The only way DOGE can come close to eliminating 1-2 trillion in government spending is to seize and gut Medicare and Social Security. Millions of GOP voters depend on these programs. Rock meet hard place.

MAGA values.

That really says it all, Brad. Be well.

The American Accountability Foundation needs to be fully outed.

Go get them.

The folks responsible for the "DEI Watch List" website targeting Black federal employees are, according to @src161.bsky.social: Cari Fike, 38, of Cheverly MD Elisabeth Guinard (nee Osloff), 34, of Helena MT Adam Cahn, 43, of Austin TX

Read this from @indivisible.org about what Senate Democrats can do and insist that your senators read it too. @schatz.bsky.social, as my senator, I'm counting on you.

Action Today in DC! Labor journalist Kim Kelly reports DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor — workers ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything and do whatever the DOGE kids ask. It feels dirty and illegal.”

If Democrats fail to act boldly now, they risk becoming an irrelevant opposition—while Trump’s authoritarian oligarchy cements its control. The grassroots has spoken. Now the party must listen.

maybe if you’re a member of the opposition party you don’t vote to confirm their nominees during an ongoing autogolpe

Billionaires want to defund your kids' education. A half competent opposition party could be battering the GOP with this and mobilizing millions of people.

@oppositionparty.bsky.social who is running this profile? Actual MOCs, party leaders or regular civilians?

This blatantly illegal move by the Trump Administration should have severe consequences. None of his remaining cabinet picks should receive a single Democratic vote until all is remedied and we can ensure this won’t happen again. Congress holds the power of spending, not him.

Hit Like if you want the Pentagon and NASA audited (and reveal those agencies spending on Musk) in the same way USAID is being audited.

Fucking finally! NOTHING, NOTHING in the Senate. NOTHING. And NOTHING until it's over. They did it to Obama and Obama didn't break a single law.