President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter. U.S. agents, however, suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. (Published June 2025)

People will die.

There’s no such thing as being TOO close to a hummingbird… Ever 📷🪶

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Logged off for a bit. What’d I miss?

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Democrats keep joining Bluesky - we need to stay connected and keep the pressure on. I built Voices of Congress - a feed of every Senator and representative here. Click below, pin it (top right), and it’ll stay on your homepage. Share this and let’s keep growing! bsky.app/profile/did:...

New—The Food & Drug Administration (FDA), an agency that falls under RFK Jr.’s purview, just mass fired probationary employees via an email reviewed by me. They’re citing performance issues as the reason, even for employees who had great performance reviews. Don’t know how many people affected yet.

BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron has invited European leaders to an emergency summit in Paris tomorrow (Sunday) to respond to Trump and the situation in Ukraine. Presumably will include the UK too.

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order to defund schools of federal dollars if they mandate COVID vaccines for students.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS It’s official. Donald Trump has just announced he has BANNED the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One for refusing to recognize the Gulf of America.” This a direct assault on the Constitution and the First Amendment.

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

$240 a year per taxpayer. That less than a buck - $0.66 - a day. That funds 10,000 American jobs. Buying from our farmers. Feeding kids. Fighting disease. Stopping wars before they reach us. That’s USAID - America leading the world. Trump & Musk want to kill it. Weak. Reckless. Un-American.

Mesa Public Schools will be cutting nearly 150 staff positions across its schools, the Governing Board decided. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

This week, I met with Nathan Smith, CEO of Central Arizona Shelter Services. I’ve worked with the team at CASS for many years and recently secured federal funding to renovate their Vista Colina Family Shelter. Vista Colina is a safe, supportive shelter for families experiencing homelessness.

PRESS RELEASE: Hobbs, Legislative Democrats respond to wildly irresponsible Republican election proposal #azleg

According to the states, Musk has used this unauthorized power to access sensitive government systems, cancel contracts, remove employees, and even try to shut down entire federal agencies via @ashleymurray.bsky.social

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

NEW: A group of 14 states filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Thursday, arguing that the authority granted by the White House to the tech billionaire and DOGE is unconstitutional.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging parliament to declare a state of emergency citing “the events of the last 24 hours and statements from the U.S. government” on Ukraine. Translated video 👇

Lots of folks will be keeping up with today’s @housebudgetdems.bsky.social markup (@ 10 AM) where Republicans are considering major cuts to Medicaid and more. All to fund tax giveaways to the 1%. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🚨 Trump & Elon Musk illegally revoked $80 MILLION in congressionally appropriated FEMA funds from NYC’s bank account yesterday—money previously disbursed for shelter & services—says NYC Comptroller Brad Lander. Lander is demanding that the state pursue legal action. Statement:

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Thousands of investors in Trump’s crypto scheme lost $2 billion in just weeks while the Trump Organization racked up $100 million in trading fees. Just so happens that the CFPB, which Trump is trying to kill, recently announced new regulations for the crypto industry. Hello?

The New York City Comptroller says Elon Musk and the DOGE team raided New York City’s bank accounts and illegally clawed back $80 million in federal funding.

Treasury processed my tax refund. So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

Well… today I have my first DOGE subcommittee hearing along with a Judiciary hearing, all while DC is snowed in! If I had normal coworkers & the country wasn’t going to hell lead by DOGE Douchebags, I’d say, “nothing to see here,” but something tells me, today is going to be pure insanity…

FT Editorial Board | Elon Musk’s dismantlement of federal agencies, freezing funding and pushing staff to resign goes far beyond a mere restructuring. It aims to shift the constitutional separation and balance of powers. www.ft.com/content/f766...

Trump just suspended enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a key anti-bribery law signed by Carter in 1977. For 50 years, it stopped corporations from bribing foreign officials. Now, Trump is letting corruption run wild.

BREAKING: A judge has granted the request from @azagmayes.bsky.social and other Democratic AGs to enforce the court's temporary restraining order blocking Trump from freezing federal funds. Story TK Background 👇

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has determined that the Trump Administration has violated his order that stopped his spending freeze on federal grant programs. Trump has just been ordered to immediately unfreeze funds, including for the National Institute of Health.

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

NEW: Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons immediately upended the biggest single prosecution in U.S. history and signaled a broader reversal that threatens to create a more permissive climate in which extremists could regroup and weaken the FBI’s independence. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

It is inevitable. The question everyone should be asking is: then what? 🇺🇸

the American flag made up of all Black Men✊🏾 #kendrick #superbowl

The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at the consumer finance watchdog, and is cutting off new funding.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will announce 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on Monday.

NEW: President Donald Trump and Elon Musk nearly destroyed USAID in three weeks. And the new administration may have broken the law almost immediately, experts told ProPublica. By @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy

On this day in history, February 9, 1964, The Beatles made their American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, launching the British Invasion.

There’s no set timeline for your life. Reinvent yourself, take risks, and embrace change. The hardest moments will shape you, and the best moments might still be ahead. Keep moving forward.

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained access to the bureau's systems and accounts, including sensitive data.

Researchers found that today, insurance underprices climate risk for 39 million properties across the continental United States — meaning that for 27% of properties in the country, premiums are too low to cover their climate exposure. By @abrahm.bsky.social

The University of Arizona has already received some "stop work" orders from the Trump administration on federally funded projects, its senior vice president for research and innovation told the Faculty