You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
A federal judge barred the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from firing intelligence officers who had been assigned to D.E.I. roles eliminated by the Trump administration, ruling that they should be given the opportunity to seek reassignment to other open positions.
They are going to break Social Security under the guise of fighting fraud and waste so that public trust collapse while 68 million people grow increasingly desperate such that they can privatize it in the name of efficiency and anti-corruption.
It will be the biggest mugging of the century.
Trump on emissions standards for cars: "It doesn't mean a damn bit of difference to the environment. It doesn't matter."
Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants.
My latest for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/3...
If George Conway is saying it’s time to march on the streets…it’s time.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, naming one of its young software engineers as head of the agency after it refused to allow DOGE employees into the building earlier this month.
Here’s the email that Harvard University’s president, Alan Garber, sent to members of the Harvard community in response to this news.
This is devastating and all to common from the heartless health industry. Sickening and horribly horribly sad.
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
Looking for corporate media coverage of the @booker.senate.gov filibuster and finding NONE. Currently live on CSPAN2 and YouTube.
Yup.
Can we permanently put to rest the myth that a businessman knows more how to manage the economy? Or do we have to wait for our economy’s collapse for some among us to grasp it?
It’s not a joke. We need to take it seriously. This is the same man who repeatedly refused to commit to accepting the results of an election if he lost. People who were shocked when he made good on that in 2020 should not have been, and we must not be now. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-thi...
Lots of churn over the parl. BUT Cornyn, leaving a Finance Cmte meeting, said that Rs are discussing if Graham as Budget chair can "basically say under his authority what the baseline is." "That may be how this proceeds" - though he cautioned that talks are still ongoing Jordain Carney @jordainc •1d News w/@meredithllee: Senate GOP could take first step as soon as WEDNESDAY on budget resolution: politico.com/news/2025/03/3...
So far, Republicans having been toying with using “directed scorekeeping” to force CBO/JCT to pretend the Trump tax cuts are free.
Now Republicans are flirting with abusing Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act - to just assert the power to fabricate their own cost estimates on the spot.
The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.
ALERT: Democratic Natl Committee & campaign leaders file suit, asking judge to declare new Trump executive order on elections "legally void"
They argue the new Trump orders would "suppress voters, upend voter registration systems and hand over sensitive information to DOGE"
Pushback works, part gazillion:
"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
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There’s a very unwell man clutching the levers of power who badly needs an intervention.
Chris Murphy has confirmed he’s joining Cory Booker in solidarity on the Senate floor all night to protest Trump’s lawlessness and corruption.
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA):
“A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."
Also lol the Alaska lawmaker (Begich) who said there was nothing he could do to stop DOGE layoffs affecting Alaskans is a member of the House "DOGE Caucus"
To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.
