Trump and Vance are not selling out Ukraine because of anything Zelenskyy said to them. Trump and Vance are selling out Ukraine because of things Putin and Musk said to them.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS: CDC disease detectors—fired. The Trump administration is using a hatchet, not a scalpel, to slash jobs during a bird flu and measles outbreak. At this rate, we’ll be relying on word of mouth for disease outbreaks like it’s the 1700s.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

New Column: This Eric Adams situation. Insane. Times five. newrepublic.com/post/191552/... via @newrepublic.com

One of the truly great resignation letters of all time. Emil Bove is engaging in unethical and likely even criminal conduct at the highest levels of DOJ. This is a time for all men and women of principle to stand up while so many in the GOP remain silent. AUSA Scotten is a hero.

Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.

Raskin: "Trump is suing CBS for $20b in damages because, check this out, he believes an interview with Kamala Harris produced too favorable an impression of her. That means I could sue Fox News because I think their interview with Trump produce too favorable an impression. I mean, this is lunacy."

WH Correspondents Association backs up AP: "This is a textbook violation of not only the First Amendment, but the president's own executive order on freedom of speech and ending federal censorship. We again call on the White House to immediately reverse course and restore access to AP journalists."

"This woke has cost us a fortune and cost us our reputation." What the hell does that even mean? His mind is just a soiled diaper filled with grievances and gutter gossip.

Clip and save this for when he spends the majority of his time at his golf courses again, I guess

Warren: "Only Congress -- not Donald Trump, not Elon Musk, not some 22-year-old programmers -- only Congress can shut this agency down."

Trump: "We took over the Kennedy Center ... it's not gonna be woke. There's no more woke in this country."

In the horror and anger most of us feel right now (trump/elon), it's great to have a little ray of sunshine. I smiled for a while thinking there are still a lot of people who care!! globalnews.ca/news/1101318...

An bright red ad sits high above the Hard Rock Cafe, Yonge St, in #Toronto, #Canada. I don't think Americans fully appreciate what's happening to the collective Canuck consciousness up here... #CanadaSky🇨🇦 #Resist

Bribery...how trump does business. Is he going to try and use it to get his hands on Greenland, Panama Canal and Canada? news.yahoo.com/news/trump-l...

Rep. Pete Sessions on DOGE accessing Americans' private information: "They brought their own people in who broke into, so to speak, these databases."

I’d call their legal arguments “laughable”… but the Supreme Court granted Trump absolutely immunity from prosecution for “official” acts so clearly some of them also think being elected makes you a dictator

Van Hollen: "Part of their goal is to eliminate important services for the American people, and use those savings for tax cuts for the very rich and the very wealthy, people like Elon Musk"

New in PN: Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship "The arguments being made by the administration boil down to this: if Trump wants to do it, he gets to. Their stance appears to literally be that laws are irrelevant in the face of Trump’s wishes and the courts can’t stop him."

“Trump’s high-dollar lawsuits go … beyond harassment. They’re part of a mob-style protection racket. Corporate-owned media are being pressured to pay an extremely powerful newsmaker to dissuade him from using the government against them.” My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Déjà vu all over again.

Correct.

Baier: “The Prime Minister said this weekend to a group of Canadian businessmen, it was a private meeting, he said that your wish for Canada to be the 51st state is a quote ‘real thing’. Is it a real thing?” Trump: “Yeah, it is”

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

Trump: Tommy Tuberville, a great coach. You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes, he was a great college coach. Tuberville: I recruited him.. I got to be very good friends with him Mahomes: He did not recruit me at the time. I don't remember if I ever got to meet him or not.

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

FROM CNN: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

"I was racist before it was cool" "I would not mind if Gaza and Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth" “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" “Normalize Indian hate" -- Top Musk/DOGE aide; posts discovered by WSJ's @klong.bsky.social Gift link www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Staff at the key cybersecurity agency were initially excluded from government efforts to leave their jobs, but then on Wednesday, they were given deferred resignation offers with just hours to decide.

Trump Tower Kushnerland

This is what happens when 49% of the voters in this country are stupid enough to make a demented psychopath president. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I’m sure Americans at home and abroad all feel safer tonight now that Trump announced with Bibi that the US is going to take over Gaza, level all the buildings, and forcibly remove the population. Might want to cancel any vacation plans you may have had to Europe.

Trump really knew how to get his humiliating surrender on tariffs out of the news cycle. Just announce an invasion of the Middle East. MAGA!

Every day is Christmas for Putin now.

I’m sure they will build a really terrific casino in Rafah, like nothing the world has ever seen

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

NEW CBS reports that Trump almost FLOODED the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley. 1/

If Trump's idiotic statements torpedo the hostage deal he'll be responsible for their and their families' ongoing hell.. and he's likely blown any chance at his Saudi deal. Such a destructive ignoramous

“They are mean and stupid”

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

The fact that FBI agents have brought a class action lawsuit against the acting Attorney General is an enormously important legal development for several reasons, as I discuss in today's #JusticeMatters video, posting shortly.

Wow, trump just signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council. America is the fucking bad guy now.

After declaring that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza and that the US should take "ownership" of the strip, Trump issues an executive order ending US funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Update: I and dozens of other Members of Congress were denied a meeting at the US Treasury today. But while we were trying to get in something awesome happened. Thousands of people began filling the streets. Americans are not going to let Elon steal their money and data.