Sarah! I love you but this weeks (4/25/25) Focus group was one of the most depressing episodes I have listened to. Is there any hope?

I have been a Whitmer fan but in this act she proves she lacks the political instincts to see this coming a mile away.

Exactly. I have been trying to give a lot of grace to leaders in difficult state but this is terrible political instincts. Just God awful.

I have been trying to give a lot of grace to leaders who have to make difficult decisions but as another Michigander she lost me. It says a lot about her political instincts that she did not see this coming. Her response has been tepid and disappointing.

I am getting pretty sick of these “miss me” posts. There were some GREAT accomplishments but he should have never have tried to run for a second term. He should have put people in charge who could communicate their accomplishments more effectively. He failed to defend democracy in the end.

Thank you to whoever made this

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Antarctica Tariffs Announced

It's about time those deadbeat slackers started pulling their weight...

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Marc Thiessen has possibly the worst take/excuse for this bit of inexcusable incompetence and obvious attempt to avoid accountability, which is no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the inexcusable incompetence of Marc Thiessen.

💰All these cuts to programs as they pretend to care about the debt, meanwhile Senate Republicans (and Trump) are set to explode the debt with tax cuts for the rich.

TLDR: Blackburn & Hagerty don’t care about the debt and never did.

www.crfb.org/blogs/rumore...

How much you want to bet they will contest it like they did in NC?

How much you want to bet they will contest it like they did in NC?

Yes! This!

@booker.senate.gov for minority leader!!!

Opinion | RFK Jr. Is Already Vindicating His Critics Shrinking HHS makes sense, but giving power to antivaccine crusader David Geier doesn’t.

Wall Street Journal editorial board:

"Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..."

www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

This is the top half of one page of an HSI report on Tren de Aragua. UNCLASSIFIED: Homeland Security Investigations. Detecting an identifying. Open Source material has depicted TdA members with a combination of the below tattoos. "Jump man" symbol (the tattoo depicts a man dunking a basketball over the number 23, Michael Jordan's number). AK-47s (the tattoo depicts a stylized AK-47). Trains (the tattoo depicts a steam train). Crowns (the tattoo depicts a crown). "Hijos de Dios" Quotes (the tattoo depicts a stylized crown over the letters HJ, with a note below saying 'HJ' or "hijos de dios" translation 'sons of god.'")

Second half of the document, which starts with 4 more tattoos. "Real Hasta La Muerte" quote (the tattoo is on someone's arm and shows that phrase. There is a note that says 'real hasta la muerte' translation: 'till death.' As an editorial note, "Real Hasta la Muerte" is a major studio album by Puerto Rican singer Anuel, a Trump supporter). Stars (the tattoo depicted is a nautical star). Clocks (the tattoo depicted is a clock and other clocks spread across a whole sleeve). Skull with gas mask (the tattoo is what it says). ADDITIONAL IDENTIFIERS Homeland Secw-ity Investigations, Chicago Field Office, has obtained additional information to help identify TdA members: • Typically males in the age range of 18-25 years old; • Dressed in high-end w-ban street wear; • Favor the Chicago BullsusPER basketball jersey, specifically Michael JordanUSPERjerseys with the number "23", and Jordan "Jump Man" footwear/sneakers; and/ or • Often wear sports attire from U.S. professional sports teams with Venezuelan nationals on them.

Adding some more context here: The document linked above also has an unclassified ICE HSI list of some Tren de Aragua tattoos and "identifiers."

Wearing a Michael Jordan jersey can get you halfway to being deemed a TDA member, and having a nautical star tattoo can get you the rest of the way!

This thread is WILD. It appears as though the tattoos pictured in Trump’s Tren de Aragua checklist for deportation were all lifted from UK tattoo artists’ Instagram pages. Not a single one is from an actual gang member.

DOGE will wipe out $500 billion of tax revenues according to the Internal Revenue Service’s internal estimates. How is that “efficiency?” 😡

m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

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Journalism - once again unable to figure out how to cover this administration, capitulating to fascism, failing the country at every turn.

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

The goal was not make America great but make China and Russia Great.

All the free speech. Can’t you see it? 😂

RIP the millions of people around the world who will die from this action. RIP the image of USA as the shining city on the hill.

And with recent rulings the courts are failing us. I am afraid no one is ready to defend our democracy.

Question: how much money are we taxpayers paying to defend the administration in court?

Elon Musk and DOGE Aides Try a Charm Offensive in Fox News Interview Most of Elon Musk’s associates at the Department of Government Efficiency have kept a low profile. Democrats have repeatedly criticized his effort to shrink the federal government, warning that critic...

The problem here is that they are charmless www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

Texas docs blow off RFK Jr's measles cure as kids who take it show 'signs of liver damage' Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pushing doctors to treat measles-infected children with cod-liver oil despite the fact that medical experts believe that this is an u...

Trump killed many of us last time. This time all his cabinet members seem to be in a contest to out do him, but I might be wrong😉🤷‍♂️

www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-measl...

What a hero 🙄 🦸

Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not on military information being shared in advance in a group text among top officials.

Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

For the record…
Pete’s password is…
IsucKdOnald$d1cK

…and?