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Portland ICE goons violently slam a protester 🪧

He called his 17 year-old daughter “a piece of ass”, so, yes.

This Stephen Colbert monologue from Monday night, followed by a bit about the MAGA contingent calling for Trump to release the Epstein files, is the reason why Paramount fired Colbert and canceled his show. That, and the Midterm elections are coming up, and he would continue to go after Trump.

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Insanity. Sheer insanity.

Sen. Jim Banks on the job held by a fired federal worker he mocked: "It was a woke job." Then in the next breath Banks admits he doesn't know what his job actually was.

FACT: You don't destroy the CDC unless you want people to die in large numbers.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.

The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a Coast Guard pilot today.

This isn't going to stop. This country is a powder keg about to blow and this is just a sign of it. You cannot move this quickly to dismantle democracy and expect people not to react.

Illinois leads the nation in many areas, but none more so than being the number one producer of soybeans, horseradish, and pumpkins. Our ag traditions are passed down through generations — 96% of our farms are family-owned. Happy #NationalAgDay to them and all of our state!

Sometimes I wonder if people take me literally when I refer to Trump—the main subject of my professional research as a journalist and historian for ten years—as a lunatic. Please take me literally. This is an unwell man who—without $410+ million his dad gave him—would have ended up living in a box.

This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.

He still hasn’t ended the war in 24 hours like he promised, but apparently he is setting up hockey games with the guy who is murdering civilians, torturing prisoners, and kidnapping children.

Friendly reminder that the monster criticized by Chief Justice Roberts was created by Chief Justice Roberts.

Sorry not sorry.

From Scotland for ya Donnie

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

At least the memes from this era will be killer.

"There are so many stories we never could have told if not for the connections we made on Twitter. But that bird has flown the coop," Ashton Pittman writes. Here’s why the Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X: www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

In case you missed my latest: Vandal Strikes Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, Rebrands It “Fat Nixon”

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

A 2024 report found that the IRS netted savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns — a return that “would leave Wall Street hedge fund managers drooling,” per the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

oh so *now* the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd immunity.

Thousands of protestors marching around the Wisconsin Capitol right now. My favorite sign so far: "no science, no cheese"

SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

efficiency. www.kgw.com/article/news...

A speaker at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington D.C. against NIH funding cuts: "These cuts are a means to steal from the health of Americans to provide tax breaks for the rich. We cannot accept this. We must stand together for the health of our nation." Spot on!!!!

Canadian authorities display 835 kilograms of seized drugs smuggled across the US border into Canada...🇨🇦

When you put a FOX News talking head in charge of our country's Department of Defense, it is inevitable that he is going to be more worried about defending his reputation than our country. #AmericaLessSafe #HegsethUnqualified

AP: “Nearly 40% of the federal contracts Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.” apnews.com/article/doge...

1. The benefit of Trump's "shock and awe" approach to governance is that there is so much going on that brazen corruption goes virtually unnoticed. Consider Coinbase. It was charged by the SEC in 2023 with violating numerous laws. Now the SEC is dropping the lawsuit. Why? FOLLOW THE MONEY

It’s fascinating to watch Leon learn about the American government

This is fun

This seems bad

Maddow on the @msnbc cancellations ( @joyannreid.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social Wagner etc ): “A mistake. Indefensible. And I do not defend it.”

Wild. Bond villain stuff. Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to describe this. The national security concerns here are off the charts. www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

A listeria outbreak linked to frozen nutrition shakes has infected 38 people and killing 12 across 21 states. I'm sure the brain worms guy is on top of it. 🙄

Hey @msnbc.com You could have at the very least, thrown a white guy in the group y’all fired! Need a splint for your bent knee? Trump dictates. MSNBC obeys! #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory