No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Or just listen to the women who have been naming names for years.

The inside of the nutshell summed up by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

If you have a Republican House representative who is lying to you about how Medicaid is “not a line item in their budget” please call and say exactly the below. And please share.

#Medicaid

As Senate panel advances nomination of former Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche to Deputy US Atty General,

Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL): "Far too many of Pres. Trump’s nominees simply don’t understand that they swear an oath to the Constitution, not the President. Todd Blanche falls into that category"

Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump’s America Goldman Sachs reports a surge in short bets against US stocks

Hedge funds are making a multi-billion-dollar gamble against the US economy, betting Donald Trump's presidency will result in a massive market crash that could devastate 401(k)s, pensions, and household savings across America.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America A bishop asked the president to show mercy to immigrants and scared children. The response tells us everything about the next four years.

The question isn’t whether Budde was right to speak up. The question is whether the rest of us will have the courage to join her.

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

Important to really pay very close attention to the ways plural that the EOs are propaganda, as Akilah notes

Senate confirms new government ethics chief David Huitema advanced on a party-line vote after one Republican attempted to delay the nomination until the new administration.

www.eenews.net/articles/sen...

Elon Musk merging with Alex Jones would be the synchronicity the writers' room was aiming at. And Musk's support for this miscreant disinformationalist would be fitting and another sign of Musk's lunacy and his self-serving war on truth.

It is important to remind everyone science is nonpartisan in that a virus doesn't care if you don't believe in vaccines, virus is in fact thrilled you don't believe in vaccines.

THIS. It applies to Covid, abortion, HIV/AIDS, all vaccines. The whole patoot!

November 15, 2024 Three years ago today, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more popularly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

"He won less than 50% of the popular vote with many voters apparently unaware of his policies." Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for the continued reminder that this was no landslide. And that context matters. #2024Elections #Infrastructure #Perspective | open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...