Seriously

The image is a screenshot of a news article headline that reads: "Influencer Paid by Russia Added to White House Press Pool." The article is labeled with "WARM WELCOME" in red text. It is authored by Janna Brancolini and was published on March 28, 2025, at 12:25 PM EDT. Below the headline, there are social media sharing icons for Facebook, X, email, and Reddit. The accompanying image shows a person wearing a black beanie and large headphones, sitting in front of a microphone and a laptop, with a colorful background featuring shades of red, blue, and purple.

Oh look, another Russian mouthpiece in the White House. Nothing to worry about here, folks.

Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.

NEW: DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.

Oh my fucking god

“Beautiful thing to watch.”

20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

We’re past a constitutional crisis.

We’re well into constitutional collapse.

In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics
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JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.

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NBC News story with the headline: Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers over messages in a chat tool. A picture of Gabbard sits beneath the headline

Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

A proposed bill in Florida would allow kids as young as 14 to work overnight shifts 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠.

It won’t be private school kids who would take those jobs.

With fewer migrant workers, defunded public school kids would fill the void.

It’s all part of the plan.

Hey guys remember the Hillary Clinton email server?

Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?

Social media post by Kyiv Insider (@KyivInsider ) with the text: 'While the US is lost in a sea of Russian disinformation, French Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets have just appeared in Ukrainian skies.' The post includes a photo of a French Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet flying in a clear blue sky, credited to @soniah_hub

When America faltered, others stood up to lead.

Tanking a 10+ year gaining economy in only 6 weeks has to be a record for any President

Let this sink in.

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.

NEW:

“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”

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Friendly reminder that when people tell you that no one opposes housing that is “truly affordable” those people are wrong or lying (to themselves or us or both)

Our ninth grader learned what tariffs were in History class today.

Our ninth grader now knows more than 77 million American voters.

New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.

New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

Republicans are pulling a reverse Robin Hood. The House could vote on its new budget resolution as soon as tomorrow. Call your rep to let them know how you feel about the GOP's plan to gut programs used by millions to fund tax cuts that will predominantly go to the richest Americans. (202) 224-3121