I love how decisive Musk was in shutting down the continuing resolution. Did you see how Trump complied immediately? Going to be awesome having Musk running things for the next four years and making America great again. Unfortunately, as a South African he couldn’t be President, but he can govern through Trump
Congress was moments away from passing a bipartisan funding agreement that would have helped our farmers, seniors, families, and small businesses – almost everybody.
Then, a billionaire & Trump said, “Nope, shut the government down.”
10 ways they just screwed you 🧵👇
Just a reminder to the people still here:
Kamala had a plan to lower food costs, cut student debt, 25k help with buying a first home, 6K for a new baby, 3K a year to help with children, a plan to make housing more available by blocking private equity from buying homes, and
In this picture:
1 drove his wife to suicide for constant infidelity
1 is an adjudicated rapist
1 smacked his wife in the face at a nightclub in public
The MAGA Republican party of Christian values and protecting women.
This shit should be a much bigger story. The Nat Security folks are raising the alarm because if this doesn’t get done, the new team won’t be ready on day one, and we will be vulnerable to bad guys like Putin.
(Which is probably the goal).
Why isn’t the media talking about this?
In this video, The Intellectualist examines Trump’s plan to investigate officers over the 2021 Afghan withdrawal, despite his 2020 Taliban deal. Politicizing the military endangers trust and readiness, recalling Stalin’s purges that weakened the Red Army.
https://t.co/AeMpt6m8xW
BRENNAN: Do you think experience is necessary?
JIM HIMES: How far we have come that on a major news show the question we're examining is, 'is experience necessary for one of the most powerful positions in the land?' Of course it's necessary!...how is this what we're focusing on?
Despite numerous sexual misconduct accusations, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump & Matt Gaetz are elevated to positions of power - while their victims are silenced & shamed. The ugly reality of American misogyny.
Here is my take on the commie-nazi cult/ideology. Let me start with this: I was born in Poland and lived through communism, witnessing terrible things. I watched communism collapse in Poland and hate it with the same passion as Nazism/fascism. We Poles were the first to fight Nazis and commies. They actually attacked us together from two sides and split Poland apart. Did you ever hear about the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact? Well, it was a pact between the Soviet Union/Stalin and Nazi Germany/Hitler to work together to take over Poland. They did this, and then Hitler felt too powerful and decided to invade the Soviet Union (the worst decision of his life).
Anyway, Putin is an old communist, an ex-KGB officer, but also an admirer of the old Russian Empire before the Red Revolution. He wants to revive some new form of communism and the Russian empire with elements of fascism – some new insane utopia. While MAGA cultists in America are definitely racist, almost like Nazis/fascists, they also really like Putin's ideas. I believe that the commie-nazi cult is a combination/hybrid of the worst elements of Nazism/fascism and communism combined, plus Christofascist evangelical cults. It's a new monster, a Medusa which I call the commie-nazi cult.
Many people think that these two ideologies can't work together and be combined. We live in a different century; old rules don’t apply anymore. Everything is possible. That’s why we're witnessing the birth of a commie-nazi powered MAGA cult. And do you know what Putin’s plan is? It's almost the same as Hitler's plan. He's been working on it since the collapse of communism in 1989. The MAGA cult is his work. When America is weakened from within by the Russia-loving MAGA cult, then Putin will try to destroy America, probably together with China. He hates America and has manipulated and brainwashed the dumb, far-right American conservatives to the point that they believe and support Putin and Russia but not their own first-line defenders like the FBI, CIA, DHS, or NSA🤦🏻♂️
Don’t you really see this happening? If not, I don’t know what to say. Remember, I am a foreigner who has lived in America for 27 years, but I lived under Russian oppression for decades. I know Russians, communism, and Nazism very well. I know my history, I speak and read Russian, and I have Russian friends. I know things that Americans don’t understand. As I mentioned before, the commie-nazi cult was born and is now growing. We need to stop it before it's too late!
Donald Trump: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it’s a tax on us. No… It’s is a tax that doesn’t affect our country. @Acyn
Fact-check: Wrong. (September)
The full list of things Democrats tried to pass but were unable to deliver is super long: paid leave, the expanded child tax credit, minimum wage hike, public option, childcare, housing, union protections, pre-K, and on.
They slowly died, almost entirely because of Manchin and Sinema — who ate at the bill from different sides.
Florida's SAT scores drop again.
We're now 47th, trailing even states where more students take the test.
This is the sad yet unsurprising result of a state led by politicians more interested in culture wars than public education.
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https://t.co/Y8SBgWU5d2
US Senators call for probe into Musk's contact with Russia. Musk responded that he's "going to find out who's making these accusations and nuke them".
They have urged the Pentagon and DOJ to determine whether the conversations should force a review of the federal contracts with SpaceX.
https://t.co/hZ3BBYlRfg
I will work with President Trump when it benefits my constituents and hold him accountable when it doesn’t.
His national security appointments are troubling and their lack of relevant experience should highlight what is at stake over the next four years.
Using private companies to conduct background checks endangers our national security. They will be unable to access all relevant information, and who knows what standard they will use to assess suitability.
The same Trump voters who will tell you this election was about “freedom” just handed unprecedented control over our finances, our food, our medicine, our families, our health, our information, our military, our environment, our schools & our bodies, to a handful of billionaires.
BlueSky is still small and a bit of a bubble. But there are many good reasons for being on BlueSky too.
It feels almost exactly like twitter but under the hood it has some substantial improvements.