It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint.

In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry.

Make sure everyone knows it.

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

(gift link)

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

Just a 1933 article from TIME Magazine for no particular reason.

time.com/archive/6751...

I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked my resolution that simply condemns pardons for dangerous criminals convicted of attacking Capitol Police officers.

It's outrageous that we can’t all agree to stand with the people who kept us safe, over violent insurrectionists.

The only bacon I love

After hundreds of people were hospitalized and at least 83 dead from a measles outbreak in Samoa, RFK Jr. doubled down on spreading dangerous disinformation & STILL promotes conspiracies about the lives lost.

He shouldn’t be anywhere near our nation’s public health system.

Angles matter.

The NYT won’t call it what it is.

Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

Please deport them all!