stock market surges following trump executive order outlawing lower numbers

Agree

These are very evil people destroying our government.

Senator Angus King: "I have to point out, Mr. Chairman, in the hour that we've been sitting here, investors in the United States stock market have lost two and a half trillion dollars."

It seems to me that all of this needs to be more of the conversation given it’s the reason for dismantling the “administrative state” and all the social programs necessary for sustaining democracy. Their endgame is clear. They’re not hiding it @maddow.msnbc.com @msnbc.com youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...

It’s really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.

2022: "The Supreme Court would NEVER overturn Roe v. Wade!" 2025: "The administration would NEVER take away Social Security!"

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

One of these things is not like the others

We need more honesty and courage like this to break the spell—urgently. “I’m going to say this at risk of my job,” reporter Steve Liesman said on CNBC. “But what President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane. It is about the eighth reason we’ve had for the tariffs.”

God is right. But we may be needing much higher than level 5.

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)

"Your government has chosen to do this to you." - Trudeau to Americans today

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Every Democrat should be wearing gold and blue at tomorrow’s SOTU in support of Ukraine. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

America is being crushed under fascist boots. It’s just that we’re only now realizing they belong to Putin. Trump, Vance and even Musk are just the glorified bootlickers for a dictator who has played them for fools.

There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

Putin's puppet and couch-fucker VP Eyeliner should both be impeached for this. Every American who voted for them should be disgusted with themselves

I hope Zelenksyy knows that a majority of the US watched that appalling “performance” from Putin’s WWE tag team of the World’s Oldest Toddler and The Couch Defiler, and saw that he was the only adult in the room. And that he has our support.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

RFK Jr has cancelled the US’s participation in creating next fall/winter’s flu vaccine. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...

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If there is a war in Europe, Trump will place our troops squarely on the side of Putin against Europe.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

The Trump regime wants to hurt Americans just to prove they can.

Heh

Musk is an unelected, unconfirmed private citizen with access to classified information, financial systems, and federal policy decisions—all while running companies that directly profit from government contracts. This is corruption, plain and simple.

Elon Musk retweeted a conspiracy theory about white people being ethnically cleansed from South Africa, a lie spread by white nationalists. Not only that, the person he RTed said this is the “human rights cause of our lifetimes.” You shouldn’t need a salute to know that this man is a Nazi.

Any one of these cabinet confirmations is dangerous. The fact that they all came from the *same* network of foreign influences is terrifying. The US has been captured by hostile foreign powers, and it may not be reversible.

Elon and his Tech Nazis are accessing your personal data illegally, and there IS something you can do about it. Contact your state's Attorney General, or your Consumer Protection Agency here: www.usa.gov/state-consumer. Fight back.

The DOGE playbook seems to be: ➡️ Leak data ➡️ Let foreign actors use the leaked data to compromise peoples' bank accounts ➡️ Abolish CFPB so banks can say "Sorry you lost all your money, nothing we can do to help you. YOLO!" Can't wait to see what comes next

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

In a recent announcement, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that he doesn't see a path for Ukraine to join NATO and doubts Ukraine can regain all its territory from Russia. This marks a major shift in U.S. policy—one with serious consequences.

My god.

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

I don't make predictions. I monitor threat actors, their motives, their opportunities to cause harm, and then explain what will happen if we fail to protect from those threats. Again and again, we fail to protect ourselves because we fail to comprehend the adversary's motives.

This, notably from a Meta board member, is where all of this ends. The only question is how quickly we get there. But his question — and the unknown that follows — is real.

WTAF? In one stroke #ISIS will be one global heroes, daily suicide attacks against Americans will occur. Iran will let this stupidity play out laughing at their luck. China will become the world’s political & economic leader. America will be broadly sanctioned. Its a total #TrumpCatastrophuck

I mean, why not throw a measles outbreak into the mix. What have we got to lose 🙄

How does a man like Putin, who grew up in a rat infested apartment end up being worth $200 billion and owning a house as such. Without ever working in any business? He becomes a President and steals from the people. This is where we are at. Now imagine it’s America. How much can they steal?

Five trillion dollars

The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.

Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.

"Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative, an organization founded by former President George W. Bush, have been fired, including some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...