Acyn on X: "Watters: You are trying to impress people that no one cares about. That’s what’s wrong with the Democrats. They are always trying to be popular with the wrong crowd like… women https://t.co/pwYnuAePqz" / X Watters: You are trying to impress people that no one cares about. That’s what’s wrong with the Democrats. They are always trying to be popular with the wrong crowd like… women https://t.co/pwYnuAePqz

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Jesse Waters here, embodying everything that is wrong with the USA. Link in comments below ⬇️

I heart Tina Smith.

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

Is Zelensky’s Approach to Trump Hurting Ukraine? Through three years of wartime leadership, Ukraine’s president has mostly played weak hands wisely. But his approach has fallen flat with the Trump administration.

Dear @nytimes.com, this is not "objective" reporting, or whatever you call it so you can make yourselves feel better. This is kissing the ring. How is the Post doing better than you right now? Shame on you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report "This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request."

NASA is "scrapping key terms from its websites related to accessibility, indigenous people, women, and other topics deemed “wasteful” by the current administration"

gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

A Senate panel pushes through Kennedy’s nomination along party lines.

Basically, the deciding vote was cast by someone "torn" between his professional and ethical obligations to people and his loyalism.

"Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican torn between his concerns as a doctor and supporting President Trump, cast the deciding vote"

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Perfectly captured.

This!

Van Hollen, Colleagues Host Press Availability At USAID HQ Amid Illegal Shut Down Of Agency YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

In case you need more proof of the illegality of what is happening right now:
www.youtube.com/live/QU1G7C1...

Congressman Jamie Raskin live now. This is the strong stuff we wanted.

Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...

I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR and PBS’s sponsorships.

And then they came for the independent journalists

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.

Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...

maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks

Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson · Jan 22 Bishop Budde hijacked the National Prayer Service to promote her radical ideology. This was an opportunity to unify the country in prayer, but she used it to sow division. Even worse, she’s continued her political crusade in media interviews. Shamefu

Ben Garrett @tompawnbadil Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God’s enemy and yours too. She hates God and His people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity. [with picture of the Episcopal Bishop of the National Cathedral--the one who spoke to Trump and Co. about kindness, thereby upsetting Maga very much]

When they show you who they are, believe them. Christians against Christ.

Trump signed an order preventing additional regulations until he controls the government in full.

That Trump will get inaugurated on MLK day feels like a cruel joke. If you are wondering how we got here and perhaps, just maybe, what systems we need to dismantle so humanity can be humane again, these three are my January book picks.