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And here’s a little something extra from @axios.com about today’s White House shit show “Another small but not insignificant factor that irritated Trump — Zelensky didn't wear a suit. Trump's advisers had told Zelensky's team several times that he should wear a suit to the White House.” Really?

"If there is justice in the world, the photograph of Bondi looking straight ahead as a row of women raises their hands behind her will haunt her for the rest of her career."
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Let’s not pretend this is complicated theology. It is not. You cannot stand in front of a golden statue built to glorify a political leader, surround it with preachers, bless it, praise it and then act shocked that the rest of us might consider it a false idol. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The newest Trump monument disobeys the biblical commandment to ‘flee from idolatry’

The Old and New Testament are clear about why Christians should shun a golden statue of a political leader.

Ooof! Mexico, Canada and Wall Street call Trump's Tariff bluff. NOW he wants to talk to Canada, delay tariffs on Mexico for a month and Wall Street is telling him real time his tariffs are "dumb". Ahh, the price of eggs, cars, avocados...

Damn, a Keystone Cops-Three Stooges combo would handle our national security better than these clowns who risk the lives of our military personnel. thehill.com/policy/defen...

“Mr. King and his Queen and y’all can pick which one is which”. —Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

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Standing up now is not radical. To speak out, to march and to demand accountability is not defiance; it’s what Americans do when they see a wrong being committed.
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Opinion | The GOP’s coordinated attack on the No Kings rally is ridiculous

The Republican talking points are out of touch with the reality of Saturday's protests.

Congress is useless. This Administration is dangerous. This President is compromised. There is NO reason for Musk to have this level of access across our government. Our nation will rue the day we returned power to the GOP and re-elected this menace. #thepriceofeggs

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Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China

“it’s just a supply-and-demand issue that’ll drive down the value of that real estate considerably.”

And that’s the point. Now who in Trump world is sitting there waiting to swoop in and gobble up all of that depressed government property? Hmmm.
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Federal agencies given deadline for plans to move offices out of D.C. area

A Trump administration memo gives agencies an April 14 deadline to submit “any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly p...

This man is dangerous. He is unelected. He heads an "agency" made up out of thin air with no congressional oversight. He now has access if not control of the federal payment system at Treasury. Republicans don't care and Democrats have no clue how to stop him.
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Opinion | Elon Musk is sweeping through Washington — and answering to nobody

The mega-billionaire's astonishing power grabs, explained.

Yo DOGE idiots, the GlobeMaster C-17 used to transport 104 individuals deported to India cost $28K/hr to fly. At 35 hrs round trip for this military transport, it will cost US taxpayers $980K. Have you considered using Expedia? So much for “efficiency”. Dolts.
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US military aircraft transports 104 deported people to India

Plane departed Texas and landed in Amritsar as Washington prepares to welcome Indian PM Narendra Modi

As he swore the oat of office, Trump did not place his hand on the Bible.

June 19, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 ordering the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” #Juneteenth

Tell me again why Elon Musk and his DOGE creeps need to see or have access to sensitive child support information? What efficiencies is he looking for in violation of privacy rights; and why are Republicans allowing this access?
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HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections

The decision came after resistance from career staff at the agency.

Trump was never truly interested in the presidency as a responsibility. He was interested in it as another construction project in tribute to himself.

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Opinion | Trump is turning the White House into another tacky development

The president's ballroom plans don't even live up to his own federal standards.

The problem with Musk didn’t start with Trump. But given Musk has significant government contracts now has unchecked power as an unelected head of a made-up “agency” here’s a little refresh from a @WSJ story from October. Pay attention people.

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Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.

Republicans don't give a damn about "law and order" and don't get me started on their "Back the Blue" BS. They use these words to illicit the illusion that they actually mean something to them.
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Michael Steele: After Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioters, where will Republicans draw the line?

Michael Steele explains how Republicans' reactions to Trump's Jan. 6 pardons are an endorsement of the breakdown of law and order

“Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.”

Sums up exactly what the Trump infection known as Elon Musk is designed to do. In every agency. Across the entire government.

USDA cancels $1 billion in local food purchasing for schools and food banks.

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me” Matthew 23:35

Trump refuses to feed poor children while wanting to charge $5M to welcome the stranger.

For a man who tries to paint himself as an anti-intellectualist and who once praised President Richard Nixon for saying “professors are the enemy,” Vance is using a lot of Ivy League jargon as a smokescreen to attack a fundamental tenet of the American judicial system.
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Opinion | Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s due process isn’t up for debate. JD Vance should know this.

JD Vance has now joined the chorus of voices in Trump’s Cabinet eager to justify Abrego Garcia’s illegal deportation by throwing the principle of due process to authoritarian wolves.

This is laughable.“Conservative” groups threaten GOP Senators will “pay a price” if they don’t support Pete Hegseth. I submit if they support him, they’ve already paid a price.

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Trump Supporters Go All In for Pete Hegseth With Money and Coordination

Conservative organizations are targeting Republican senators, saying that they will pay a price if they do not back the president-elect’s choice for defense secretary.

Menagerie of dangerous misfits

Resistance is not futile because it is up to us to make certain that this “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth.”
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Opinion | There's no one but us to save the country from Trump and Musk

It’s time for a pro-democracy opposition to stand up for American ideals.

Headline from USA Today: "Trump says Republicans should 'nationalize' elections, take control from states"

"...a nation won’t rouse itself if it doesn’t hear the alarm"-- @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social

Hey America, WTFU
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Opinion | This Is Not a Drill