The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

The WSJ reports that he is doing this as a sort of "madman strategy." I don't buy it. I think he can't help himself. He's a thug who makes threats thinking that his opponents will cave. But it's not working and I'm worried he's going to need to escalate to justify himself.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

Because he is having phone conversations entirely different n his head. He’s negotiating with imaginary people.

I think Trump’s posts of the last week are clear, cumulative evidence that he has gone full doolally. He genuinely needs help, but so does our entire country. Enough already.

Mass murderers, holocaust-scale mass murderers, except it was a handful of almost teenage tech bros impersonally crossing out budget items.

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Apparently, the Pentagon summoned a Vatican representative to the White House and gave them "a bitter lecture, warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side."

Holy shit.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

The warnings are getting louder about Trump trying to take over voting at the national level.

Are we paying attention?

Sen Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is sounding the alarm, and he’s not guessing. That committee sees things the public can’t.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Text: HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STATEMENT ON DONALD TRUMP'S THREAT TO KILL A WHOLE CIVILIZATION "Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III. "For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump's deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm's way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice. "It's time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.' HOUSE DEMOCRATS

House Democrats are demanding Congress return to session NOW to stop Trump's lunacy. 12+ U.S. troops dead. Hundreds injured. Billions wasted. And Trump is threatening to eradicate a whole civilization. Call Republicans at the Congressional Switchboard: 1-202-224-3121.

Called my Congressperson and Senators. Told them I didn't want to hear about them merely "opposing" an "unauthorized" war, and needed to hear them talk about actual accountability and prosecution.

What the hell is happening? Who talks like this? Why is he still being allowed to do this insane shit?

Seconding this 👉

He would just ‘run’ it from the Mar-a-Lago SCIF. The corner of the ballroom partitioned off with black curtains.

Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

I’ve been around the army for 53 years. Never been more pessimistic about the health of the institution — it’s likely to get much worse over the next 34 months. Rebuilding the norms and ethics of the profession is going to take a generation+.

I think whathe’s actually saying is Davy Crockett, white man = high IQ, Jasmine, black woman = low IQ…an insult he has used with Rep. Crockett before, and always applies to POC and women. He’s a low IQ pig.

This Is the Scary True Reason Trump Unleashed His Torrent of Lies We’ve been here before. We’ve heard this baloney already. Why do we have to listen to it again?

When you sift through the lies and peel back the incoherence in Trump’s speech last night, you’re not left with much. But what you are left with is pretty frightening. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-...

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

This is absolutely devastating news. 💔💔💔

Fakery Is the Key to the Right’s Cultural and Political Dominance The Kid Rock alternative halftime show is a symptom of the larger unreality constantly produced by the right.

"The idea that there are huge swaths of the United States populace who want and need the right wing’s unreality—their alternative reality—is a farce: a gaudy, festering artifice constructed and maintained by a million people who need it to be real for financial, political, and cultural purposes."

Trump has not “given” the USPS special control over mail ballots because that is not a thing that is his to give.

PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THAT THE CARNIVAL BARKER HAS MAGIC POWERS JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE HAS MAGIC POWERS.

Looking forward to it. It’s a brilliant light cast over a bleak 250th anniversary. I wish we could’ve celebrated with Kamala and Tim in the White House. No demolitions, no banners, no WWE embarrassments, no vanity projects. The list goes on and on. They would have brought joy, decency and honor.

Was at the WH Sunday. The Penn Ave plaza is closed to foot traffic & there’s a large construction trailer complex there. In the biz & can say contractors’ names are usually plastered all over these trailers… zero signs on this one, which I interpret as embarrassment (but will take the $).

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(archive document) Memorandum of Disapproval I have today vetoed H.R. 11897, a bill which would name the United States Courthouse and Federal Office Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the "President Gerald R. Ford Federal Office Building." Although I appreciate the honor expressed by the Congress in enacting this legislation, I intend to continue the policy of past Administrations that the executive branch not endorse the naming of Federal office buildings. Generally, the executive branch has deferred to the desires of the Congress on such matters. Although several Federal office buildings have been named for incumbent members of the Congress, I know of none that have been named for a President while still in office. I consider it improper for me as an incumbent President to approve legislation which places my name on a Federal building. This is a precedent I do not wish to establish. In general, I feel this way: office buildings which house the functions of Government should not be used as monuments to Federal officials, but rather as workshops for the people's business. In particular, I would hope our Presidents will be remembered for their labors in building better Government rather than for their efforts in constructing public works projects to themselves.

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.