"Any security professional - military, government, other than otherwise - would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information."
- Pete Hegseth on Hillary Clinton in 2016
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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The wonderful Mike Luckovich
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who will happily and enthusiastically be reminding trump voters of ALL his broken promises because he's too busy golfing, grifting, tweeting, and being an overall tyrannical shithead.
My field of "I Told You So's" is full.
The first Trump tax scam cost $2 TRILLION and never trickled down to workers. Now, Republicans want to waste another $4.6 TRILLION on the same failed policy. How will they pay for it? By cutting Social Security, healthcare, education, and more!
Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
NEW: Trump plans to slash USAID from 10K+ staff to just 290—12 for all of Africa, 8 for Asia, 10 for Europe.
Founded by JFK in 1961, USAID promotes democracy, peace, and prosperity worldwide. Congress funds it through the Foreign Assistance Act and annual appropriations.
In JFK’s own words…
Senator Lindsey Graham, before: “USAID is a force for good, creating a great impression for our country, improving the lives of others, which is good foreign policy, good national security.”
the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account
“Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
James Madison nailed it
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Harry T. Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving original Tuskegee Airmen, who scored three victories in WWII, died Feb. 2 at the age of 100.
Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.
I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
📌QUESTION: How can a private citizen, with zero govt. clearance be walking through the doors of OUR federal departments and the treasury, ransacking the places, stealing information, and NOBODY is stopping him?
📌And what the fuck is law enforcement doing right now?
📌THIS IS A COUP.
This week, China found out the price for being an undermining foe is 10%.
And Canada found out that the price for being a helpful friend, who helped with California's wild fires, is 15% more.
Thank you, totally incompetent Donald Trump.
None of us voted for Elon Musk to do shit.
NEWS: 180 Republicans voted AGAINST funding the FAA, the agency that keeps planes from crashing. Trump selected eight of them to serve in his administration.
Read our new research—and yes, we name names.
Ronald Reagan: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.
We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From Clay Bennett)
Your list misses this one.
Montage of clips of Trump “guaranteeing” that he will end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office, that “it wouldn’t even be tough” for him to do, and that “everyone will be happy” with the end result.
This is irrefutably true. Let’s see how long it lasts.
