BREAKING - Trump just said he doubts whether France or other NATO members would help America if we needed it.

WRONG. The Article 5 mutual defense obligation has been invoked only ONCE in the 75 years of NATO.

To help America. After 9/11. And our allies answered the call.

Tweet from Donald Trump, November 2012.

Well, let’s stand on business. #impeach #Trump

If you haven’t, go watch the entire 10-ish minute video of their meeting

Zelenskyy stood his ground. I will continue stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

Trump is not only a narcissistic lunatic—he is a continued threat to global stability and our relationship with allies. Leaders across the world condemned the U.S. today and reaffirmed the support for Ukraine—while reiterating the aggressors continue to be Putin and the Kremlin.

This was a stunt and an ambush by the American government and it was actually painful to watch. They should be ashamed and every American should be concerned about what happened today.

This was a global embarrassment a pathetic attempt to play schoolyard bully. Trump/Vance were not displaying strength and they were not diplomats. I also don’t think it was coincidence that a Russian state media reporter from TASS was in attendance (allegedly unauthorized).

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

It's been confirmed. This is such a loss. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

A Different Kind of Special Counsel You may find the terminology around the case the Trump administration is appealing to the Supreme Court confusing.

The first challenge to the Trump 2.0 administration heads to SCOTUS: "If you’re interested in rooting out waste and corruption, you want someone like Dellinger in place. So, Trump’s insistence on firing him is telling." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Post from Donald Trump that states: “He who saves this Country does not violate any Law.”

It’s giving authoritarianism.
It’s giving Germany circa 1930s.
It’s giving Viktor Orban.

It’s giving very much, “stand back and stand by” vibes, in preparation for what he knows is the resistance.

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

On left:

Acting Deputy A.G. Emil Bove memo orders firing FBI officials because they worked on Jan 6th cases

On right:

As SDNY co-chief, Bove "gave strong, direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation, legal process, support FBI," former colleague tells NPR

Nice code. Well done. Pretty easy to see how this guy could lead a team to hack an election. This script could be part of adding a discrimination code to invalidate scans or swap target scans out for other pre-stored ballots. A Swing State AG should look into bringing him in for questioning.

Republicans continue to be spineless and controlled by the Trump regime, rather than remembering their oath is to the Constitution and that they serve the American people.

We told you so. We’re done for.

The United States Senate has confirmed the architect of Project 2025, Russ Vought, to serve as the next director of the OMB. Trump disavowed Project 2025 his entire campaign—but to no surprise was following its exact blueprint.

Musk, nor Trump have legal authority to do this.

Where is Congress?!

@repjasmine.bsky.social @ocasio-cortez.house.gov

Screenshot of Elon Musk’s post about alleged “illegal” payments through Lutheran Family Services. Original post was from former General Michael Flynn.

The level of disgust I am at with the so called administration—every single one of them from Trump, to Musk, to Vance, to his Cabinet and remaining nominees and whatever other patsies/supporters…and it’s only week 2.

It’s also seemingly on point that they are attacking religious (Christian) affiliated organizations while the administration works under the guise of Christianity AND simultaneously proving the point that bashing these services these orgs provide that they aren’t pro-life, they’re pro-birth.

Their work and services including various things but one personal example I will use is adoption services. LSS provides adoption services to ensure infants and children that are put up for adoption can go to a stable and loving homes. Without them, I wouldn’t have my parents. Full stop.

These payments/funds are often grants awarded to non-profits based on an extensive application process or they consider it replacement designed funding where the government in essence says we will contract your organization to provide these basic (and essential) services and do the front end work.

Is he aware what these payments/funds do? Clearly not. The fact that they’re targeting Lutheran Social Services (now Lutheran Family services) and Catholic Charities is terrifying and absolutely absurd. The blatant hypocrisy, as I don’t see any of Musks company payments being labeled as “illegal”.

Morgan Sandell on Substack The trade wars begin.

Trade wars have begun.

I agree with Tim Snyder: it is time for Democrats to form a Shadow Cabinet just like they do in the United Kingdom

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

Elon Musk got so mad about the FAA's caution around his exploding rocket facility that he bribed Donald Trump to fire all the safety personnel there & now 60 people are dead.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

A horrible mid-air collision. 67 souls dead. And as bodies were just pulled from the water, as family members are being notified, Trump casts blame. He blames Biden & Obama. He blames brown & black air traffic controllers. He. Blames. Brown. And. Black. People.

Shame on us for putting him in power.

“I coached football long enough to know that, when somebody draws up a playbook, they plan on using it.” @governorwalz.mn.gov

We told you.
We told you.
We told you.

Cutting off grants to academia, pausing clinical trials, etc., is key to this administration’s plan to kill higher education. Targeting intellectuals is textbook fascism.

Hot take for the day. If the books How Facism Works and On Tyranny were required reading in high schools or higher education throughout the U.S., we wouldn’t be in this mess we’re in today with Trump. The following phrase is hitting hard this week: “An uneducated country is a country of oppression.”