I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

If this administration is truly concerned about reducing the deficit then WHY would they reduce the ability to generate revenue? www.propublica.org/article/how-...

February 25, 2025

This, this, a thousand times this.

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

The Dems need to get off their backside and fight. Rolling over like Carville suggests is what got us here www.theframelab.org/carvilles-pl...

Yes, Dan Bongino once wrote 'cold civil war' warning to 'scumbag commie libs' www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...

Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness theconversation.com/cutting-fund...

Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe theconversation.com/firing-civil...

Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shake-up that has rattled national-security officials, who fear they could be next, report @shaneharris.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social:

It's not about Brown, or Caine, or other individuals. It's not about reforming DOD . What it's about, at DOD and DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community, is breaking all institutional resistance to Trump, and ensuring as much as is possible personal fealty to Trump.

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Who wants spies who look like they could fit into other societies? What's the point of that?

He nails it.

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

This is how it’s done.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

NEW: Trump tried to unlawfully fire Federal Election Committee chair and outspoken Trump critic, Ellen Weintraub (D), without cause. This move adds to growing concerns over the administration's disregard for the separation of powers.

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Since Trump took office, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disrupted the federal government. Three lawsuits have been filed to determine if its actions are legal. Here's where the legal challenges stand.👇

People will get sick and die. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

If Republicans really wanted to cut costs for families, then they wouldn’t slash the funds we use to educate and feed our kids, cut access to health care coverage, allow oil companies to pollute our air and water, and shovel even more money to defense contractors.

They are protecting the elites who screw real Americans. How does that fit in with the MAGA view?

“According to one Trump ally, Musk is not fully briefing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles about his plans and the White House is effectively in the dark.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair. He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.

There’s a lot of confusion and misinformation about how much we send in foreign aid and to what countries. Here’s a chart that explains it. www.cfr.org/article/us-a...

Here’s another excellent analysis of the ‘government should be run like a business' fallacy that the GOP of back in the day, tRump 1.0 and 2.0 and now DOGE rely on. hbr.org/2017/03/the-...

An administration spokesman suggested that the government should be run like a business. That’s the point of much of the DOGE manifesto. It confuses the essential roles of the public and private sectors. Here’s an excellent article from Forbes on the subject. www.forbes.com/sites/johnth...

List: Examples of Trump’s Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits .. FFS. He is breaking the law. just say it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here’s your cheat sheet for the resistance complete with scripts for phone calls and important resource links open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Thanks to all the amazing people who showed up in Carson City today to protest against Felon 47 and Elon. www.2news.com/news/local/h...

I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?

The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government in the name of efficiency, writes Franklin Foer.

Jared Kushner has deep financial ties to Israel and took $2 BILLION from Saudi Arabia. Trump & Jared will personally profit from genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. This is why they keep talking about the beautiful shoreline and the weather in Palestine.

Breaking News: President Trump signed an order aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports. Schools that do not follow these laws can lose federal funding.

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

Muzzling the agencies won't stop the irreperable harm ... www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Have you seen this? Getting rid of the inspectors general so there's even less oversight on Elon's activities. gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e...

Breaking News: Cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu, indicating that the virus may pose a more persistent risk to people than thought.

Today's events are making me nostalgic for the old days when Tricky Dick seemed like a real danger to democracy. I said to Ron this morning that what Elon and his lackey, Felon 47 are doing would make Nixon turn over in grave in disgust.

You don't need eggs ....

@raskin.house.gov: "Mexico said they were gonna put 10k troops on the border-- they already had 15k troops on the border! ... He just likes a lot of razzle dazzle and noise, but the leaders of the world are laughing at him. And we can recognize what a fraudulent pretense this whole thing was."

Donald Trump’s "contempt for government employees is not driven by some sort of noble, reformist instinct: He distrusts public service because he does not understand it," Tom Nichols writes.