NEW: If you want to know how the Trump administration is dismantling civil rights enforcement in schools, and how that affects families, read this story from @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social of @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The most important thing you must share today. Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family. Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

Unlicensed Peanuts books released this month. A.I. shall doom us all.

Travel from Canada is down 74%.....that's huge. We are your number one incoming travellers, visitors, vacations, bachelor/ettes. You blew it. Small Michigan Inns saying they will likely go bankrupt. Nashville suffering. How did you think we would react? He promised to be a dictator and..???? #Idiots

LOL. Savage (but accurate I guess) Also, another well written 'Big Story' from @wired.com 👏

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

I had legit completely forgotten this.

URGENT: Join us in urging Governor Hochul NOT to ban face masks in New York! bit.ly/StopMaskBanNY Criminalizing masks does NOT make New Yorkers safer. It puts our health at risk, enables racist enforcement, exiles some people with disabilities from society @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social #NoNYMaskBan

here's today's post: "stop whining about your missed Social Security check, says psycho oligarch." thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Dan Bongino and Kash Patel are in charge of “redacting” the Epstein files. What could go wrong? www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

There are 2 special elections coming up in Florida and those 2 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans who are doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, and 2 seats to stop them!! JOIN US & PLEASE DONATE WHAT YOU CAN!!! 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Kos6Pu

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

Grimes Slaps ‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ Sticker On Child

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

Five things I did last week … 1. Wake up 2. Brush my teeth 3. Sign autographs 4. Your mom 5. Donate my Elon Sux-mobile to NPR

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

oh got it www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-and-l...

Privatization you say? And it's not just Social Security. It's the VA, Medicare, Medicaid, the Postal Service, schools, the police, prisons, NASA, scientific research... They want to privatize everything.

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs. When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

“Launch Musk to Mars” and “Democracy Dies with DOGE”. #3E #endoligarchy #teslatakeover #teslatakedown

Empathy is a requirement for civilization.

JD Vance best watch this vid ‘cuz yesterday he bitched that his 3-yr-old was scared by a group of protesters shouting “Slava Ukraini.” The hypocrisy is staggering: This girl lost her leg in a Russian attack & is a symbol of the unyielding strength of the Ukrainian people who are fighting pure evil.

This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

That time Prince sang “Raspberry Sorbet” on Muppets Tonight. The show debuted 29 years ago today.

Let's do it PM MARK CARNEY 🇨🇦🇨🇦

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

These guys lie so easily — especially Senator Rick Scott, who presided over the biggest Medicare fraud scam in history (but never saw the inside of a prison cell)

I’m reviewing an official DOGE staff list. Everybody’s number. Everybody’s email. Yes, including Elon’s. This Amy Gleason isn’t even on the list.

#JonAlter had an excellent suggestion on the @contrariannews.org live coverage of SOTU yesterday. With R advisers telling R members to avoid town halls, there should be an organized effort to hold them anyway, w/ empty chairs for the missing members and the same personal anecdotes of Trump disasters

I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

The same week that Elon Musk baselessly called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," his co-president Donald Trump announced that he wants to create a national crypto reserve. This could result in taxpayer dollars being used to prop up an actual Ponzi scheme. Hello?

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In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

A great place to find and cut wasteful spending.

This seems bad

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

🚨Holy shit. Trump has just launched a scathing attack on Zelenskyy. He’s actually called him a dictator. There can be no doubt: the President of the United States is now a Kremlin asset.

Acosta: It’s hard to see somebody out-Spicer Sean Spicer or out-Huckabee Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but Karoline Leavitt—she’s making a run for it. Unless they’ve already done it on SNL, I have to think something like that is in the works, because the skit writes itself.

"Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency"