Amazing! Please come to deep red Indiana. The people will show up!

Marines and soldiers discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine show limited interest in rejoining Officials say roughly 650 Marines and Army soldiers who were forced out of the military for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine have so far expressed interest in returning to the force under an execu...

I’m dying! None of them actually want to go back in! They wanted to get out! The vaccine was the perfect excuse! — Marines and soldiers discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine show limited interest in rejoining apnews.com/article/pent...

Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S. Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

$19,000,000,000,000.00

The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

They Are a Minority Get your mind right.

This x10000000000

“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

Trump Suddenly Slips in 3 Brutal New Polls—and Musk Looks Even Worse As several national polls offer bad news for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, a leading political scientist explains why conditions are ripe for Democrats to run harder against their authoritarian overreac...

Elon Musk is cratering in polls:

WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access

CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role

Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup.

On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...

Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct The Trump administration has removed a nationwide database of federal police officers’ misconduct, launched by the Biden administration to keep bad cops from jumping from job to job.

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.”

Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite?

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

Someone better tell DOGE there’s this guy working from home

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

Actual headlines in the past week.

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?

1, Joshua Fisher, declare, under penalty of perjury, as follows: 1. I make these statements based on personal knowledge and knowledge obtained in the course of my official duties. 2. I am the Director of the Office of Administration. that capacity, I am personally involved in the appointment of special govemment employees. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Elon Musk's employment status with the federal govemment. 3. Mr. Musk is an employce of the White House Office. He holds that position as a non- career Special Govemment Employee. 4. In that job, Mr. Musk is a Senior Advisor to the President. It is not uncommon for the President to have Senior Advisors who are SGEs. For instance, Anita Dunn was an influential Senior Advisor to President Biden, while serving as SGE. 5. In his role as a Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors. Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no

actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself. Mr. Musk can only advise the President and communicate the President's directives. 6. The U.S. DOGE Service is a component of the Executive Office of the President. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service. Both are separate from the White House Office. Mr. Musk is an employee in the White House Office. He is not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service or U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator. Dated: Washington, D.C. February 17, 2025 Joshua Fisher Director Office of Administration

The White House says Elon Musk is not administrator of DOGE and that he’s merely a Senior Advisor to President Trump.

Incredible but not surprising.

Reminds me of the movie Casino when DeNiro played a Casino boss but said he was food and beverage manager to avoid scrutiny.

He's nicely explaining how their misinformation system works 👍

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.

Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal” — Richard Nixon, 1977

“He who saves his country does not violate any law” — Donald Trump, 2025

He's preparing to do something really bad.

am i losing my mind or is the president openly bribing a mayor with dropped charges right in front of us? and now we're just gonna watch the mayor pay it off and no ones going to do anything? is that whats happening?

Elon: Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was:

* first awarded under Trump
* paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom
* for researching *defenses* against deception
* not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article) Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

Kendrick Lamar’s Multilayered Halftime Show Was About Far More Than Just a Rap Beef To dismiss the performance as the squandering of a global platform in service of nursing a petty grievance is to miss the significance of exactly what he is saying.

this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk

More coverage this am: US isolationism is China’s gain. 🇨🇳