#101 2025-02-25 15:42:03
Measles case count hits 124 in ongoing West Texas outbreak
By Neha Mukherjee, CNN
Updated: 2:22 PM EST, Tue February 25, 2025
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The number of confirmed measles cases reported in an outbreak in West Texas is now at 124, the Texas Department of Health Services said in an update Tuesday, an increase of 34 since late last week.
Eighteen people have been hospitalized, and most of the cases are in children ages 5 to 17.
The bulk of the cases – 80 – remain in Gaines County, where the outbreak began. Cases have also been reported in more counties this week, with four in Dallam County and three in Martin County.
Most of the cases are in people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. Five cases were reported in people who said they have been vaccinated.
The state health department issued an alert Monday notifying residents of possible exposures in Central and South Central Texas; a person who was later diagnosed with measles visited the San Marcos and San Antonio areas last weekend.
Given the contagious nature of the disease, the department expects further spread.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s assisting the state health department with lab support, vaccines and technical assistance.
Coverage of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. Other affected Texas counties also fall below a goal of 95%, set by the US Department of Health and Human Services, that’s necessary to help prevent outbreaks of the highly contagious disease.
MMR vaccine coverage is also declining across the country: The US has fallen short of the 95% threshold for four years in a row.
No connection has been found between the measles outbreak in West Texas and the one in bordering Lea County, New Mexico, which has grown to nine cases as of Tuesday, but investigation is ongoing, according to state health officials.
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#102 2025-02-25 16:30:06
For Trump, 3 court losses in 90 minutes
By Devan Cole, CNN
Updated: 4:16 PM EST, Tue February 25, 2025
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Three different federal judges delivered legal setbacks and slap downs to President Donald Trump in the span of an hour and a half on Tuesday in a series of cases challenging controversial moves taken during the early days of his second term.
The rulings from judges in Washington, DC, and Washington state are the latest to pump the brakes on Trump’s agenda, underscoring the critical role courts have taken on for foes of Trump looking to frustrate his actions.
In DC, Judge Loren AliKhan issued a preliminary injunction that indefinitely blocks the administration from freezing federal grants and loans. The ruling expands an earlier block the appointee of former President Joe Biden issued last month shortly after the White House ordered the funding freeze.
Trump’s spending freeze, she wrote, was “irrational, imprudent, and precipitated a nationwide crisis.” She said the nonprofits that brought the challenge were likely to succeed on their claims that the freeze was unlawful.
The issue of withholding federal funds has become a major flashpoint during the opening weeks of Trump’s second term, with other pending cases challenging the White House’s decision to suspend all foreign assistance.
Shortly before AliKhan issued her ruling, a separate jurist in the DC federal courthouse – Judge Amir Ali – ordered the Trump administration to pay foreign aid-related money owed to government contractors and nonprofit groups by Wednesday night, amid the legal fight over the freezing of USAID and State Department funds.
That order amounted to a legal reprimand after the plaintiffs in the cases repeatedly accused the administration of not complying with Ali’s earlier temporary restraining order that revived the funding contracts and grants that existed at the end of the Biden administration.
Ali – also a Biden appointee – rebuffed an earlier call by the challengers for the administration to be held in contempt for its alleged non-compliance. But he issued a new order requiring, in more forceful terms, that the government pay money owed to contractors and non-profits for work that had already been completed by the February 13 order.
Meanwhile, across the country in Washington state, a federal judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that halts Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions and funding.
Judge Jamal Whitehead, who was also appointed by Biden, said that Trump’s “actions amount to an effective nullification of congressional will in establishing the nation’s refugee admissions program.”
“While the president has substantial discretion to suspend refugee admissions, that authority is not limitless,” the judge said.
Trump’s executive order, signed on his first day back in office, also directed a review of the refugee program and stated that resettlement should only resume if deemed to be in the “national interest” – a move critics argue is a de facto refugee ban.
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#103 2025-02-25 20:06:02
Baywolfe wrote:
Measles case count hits 124 in ongoing West Texas outbreak
Expect a rapid crackdown on reporting of health information. If the data makes Orange Jesus and his toadies look bad, they must declare war on the data.
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#104 2025-02-26 07:37:22
The fucker goes around naming things like a dog pissing on a tree.
‘Trump Gaza is finally here!’: US president promotes Gaza plan in AI video
By Mick Krever, CNN
Updated: 6:46 AM EST, Wed February 26, 2025
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US President Donald Trump posted a video on his Truth Social account late on Tuesday, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like resort featuring a golden statue of himself, a hummus-eating Elon Musk, and shirtless American and Israeli leaders lounging on a beach.
“No more tunnels, no more fear,” a voice sings over a dance beat. “Trump Gaza is finally here!”
The American president has proposed expelling 2.1 million Palestinians from Gaza and transforming the enclave into a “Riviera” that would be owned by the United States.
The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority has called that proposal a “serious violation of international law.” The PA foreign minister, Varsen Aghabekian Shaheen, said earlier this month: “We have tried displacement before, and it will not happen again,” referring to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced during the Arab-Israeli war that led to the creation of Israel in 1948.
The video opens on barefoot Palestinian children walking through Gazan rubble. “What’s next?” a title card asks. They walk towards a skyline of skyscrapers lining Gaza’s coast.
“Donald’s coming to set you free,” a voice sings. “Trump Gaza shining bright. Golden future, a brand-new light. Feast and dance. The deed is done.”
The video, incongruously, features bearded and bikini-clad belly dancers, a child holding a golden ballon in the shape of Trump’s head, and Elon Musk dancing on a beach under a shower of US dollars.
It is unclear whether Trump intends to carry through on his expulsion plan. After receiving forceful pushback from Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, Trump told Fox News on Friday: “The way to do it is my plan. I think that’s the plan that really works. But I’m not forcing it. I’m just going to sit back and recommend it.”
As the video ends – “Trump Gaza, number one!” – the camera pushes in on Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sipping drinks on a beach.
CNN is asking the Palestinian Authority and Hamas for comment on the video – and asking the White House for clarification.
Correction: This story has been updated to correct the timing of Trump’s post.
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#105 2025-02-26 11:09:26
You gotta admit, kinda rolls off the tongue. Quite the catchy songwriting.
“No more tunnels, no more fear,” a voice in the video sings. “Trump Gaza is finally here. Trump Gaza shining bright, golden future, brand new light.”
The video also features children holding gold balloons also made to look like Trump, and a renovated beachfront with luxury hotels and money flying in the air.
The AI footage then pans to a scene of who seems to be tech billionaire and senior adviser Elon Musk enjoying a meal and laughing, as the sun shines and people dance around him.
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#106 2025-02-26 15:53:22
square wrote:
Baywolfe wrote:
Measles case count hits 124 in ongoing West Texas outbreak
Expect a rapid crackdown on reporting of health information. If the data makes Orange Jesus and his toadies look bad, they must declare war on the data.
And it gets, unsurprisingly, worse. I hear RFK Jr. has some supplements that would have helped, something.
Child in West Texas is first US measles death in a decade
By Neha Mukherjee, CNN
Updated: 3:33 PM EST, Wed February 26, 2025
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The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child.
The child was unvaccinated and had been hospitalized in Lubbock, Texas, said Lauren Adams, Lubbock city spokesperson.
This is the first US measles death since 2015, when a woman in Washington state died.
The number of confirmed measles cases reported in an outbreak in West Texas is now at 124, the Texas Department of Health Services said in an update Tuesday, an increase of 34 since late last week. Most of the cases are in children ages 5 to 17.
At President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting on Wednesday, he deferred a question about the measles outbreak in Texas to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, who said, “We are following the measles epidemic every day.”
Kennedy said during the cabinet meeting that there had been two measles deaths but Texas officials confirmed Wednesday afternoon there has been only one death. New Mexico officials said no measles deaths have been reported in the state.
Eighteen people have been hospitalized so far in the outbreak. Kennedy said that hospitalizations were “mainly for quarantine” but local health officials told CNN most patients were admitted for respiratory issues.
“They’ve been needing supplemental oxygen and respiratory support to help them get over the viral pneumonia part that we see with measles,” Dr. Lara Johnson, the chief medical officer of Covenant Health Lubbock Service Area, told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta last week.
CNN has reached out to HHS about Kennedy’s comments at the cabinet meeting.
The bulk of the cases, 80, remain in Gaines County, where the outbreak began, but there has also been spread to eight additional counties. Most of the cases are in people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. Five cases were reported in people who said they have been vaccinated.
Measles is an airborne illness that can cause rash, fever, red eyes and cough. Severe cases can result in blindness, pneumonia or encephalitis, swelling of the brain. In some cases, the illness can be fatal.
While details on the specific death in Lubbock are still unknown, experts have long warned that measles complications that can result in death in children.
Up to 3 out of 1,000 children with measles will die from respiratory or neurological complications, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Specifically, 1 in 20 children with measles will develop pneumonia, the most common cause of death from the disease, according to Dr. Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist with UTHealth Houston who was not directly involved with the Lubbock patient.
“These outbreaks last between two to six months. That’s a long time. That’s a lot of kids infected … death is rare, but tragic when it happens, but there are a lot of other sequelae, encephalitis, for example, and deafness. There’s a rare neurological disease that can happen. So, as you have more people infected, these sequelae become more common.”
The best way to stay protected against measles is to get vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, according to experts.
The Lubbock department of health has opened free vaccination clinics which have given about 70 vaccinations since the start of the outbreak, according to city officials.
Coverage of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. Other affected Texas counties also fall below a goal of 95%, set by HHS, that’s necessary to help prevent outbreaks of the highly contagious disease.
Given how contagious measles is, health officials warn that cases may continue to rise in West Texas.
“I very rarely say I’m 100% sure of something, but I am 100% sure we will see an increase in cases … Texas as a state is under vaccinated, so there are susceptible people,” Troisi said. She also worries because of the contagious nature of the disease: People don’t show symptoms before they become infectious, and the virus can stay in the air for up to two hours, even after a person with the virus leaves the area.
“Measles is the most infectious virus we know. However, it’s a harbinger of low vaccination rates, and it is quite likely we will start seeing outbreaks of other diseases that are vaccine preventable as well as these vaccine rates decrease,” Troisi said.
Even the 124 cases identified in Texas are likely an undercount, according to Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He says some children may not be seeking medical care or could still be waiting for laboratory confirmation. Texas health officials have listed several public spaces, including a university campus, a museum and convenience stores, where measles exposures may have occurred in recent weeks.
Hotez worries specifically about an upcoming rodeo in Houston that draws families from West Texas.
“It will continue as long as the virus continues to find unvaccinated kids. And unfortunately, the vaccination rates in many counties in West Texas are still unacceptably low. So that’s why I think it could go on for a while,” Hotez said.
CNN’s Amanda Sealy contributed to this report.
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#109 2025-03-04 08:31:17
A decent framing of the manipulation. Ezra Klein has done some well run interviews on policy goals and maneuvering since January. Asking more focused followup questions from his disparate guests.
Hard to fathom that with all at hand Trump really does lack a longterm plan except to leverage an autocracy for his patrons profit.
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#110 2025-03-04 10:36:47
A stronger warning
Ezra Klein is Wrong: Trump and Musk are Enacting an Administrative Coup that Does Not Require our Approval to Succeed
Klein’s note that “Trump’s political capital is thin” mistakes what type of political capital matters in this moment. Authoritarians do not need overwhelming support from their legislatures to consolidate power, just enough government muscle to prevent the opposition from getting in the way.
We are drifting toward territory only occupied by developing countries with whom we have little to no cultural connection. Anne Appelbaum just told The Bulwark podcast, “We’re now in the realm of illegality.” I spent one year in Cairo studying the Egyptian government where my readings left my jaw agape at how methodically Hosni Mubarak had gutted the oppositional husk from every institution, company, and organization. They were all crafted to serve the president, his family, and his military through an intricate web of incentives, bribes, and threats such that any internal pressure that emerged was squashed like a gnat.
Only two institutions stop leaders like these, the military and the people.
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#112 2025-03-04 20:52:18
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Hard to fathom that with all at hand Trump really does lack a longterm plan except to leverage an autocracy for his patrons profit.
Dude's got a 200 word vocabulary, there are no long term plans in that brain anymore, the lizard is driving the bus now. But I'm sure his minions are continuing to follow the plan.
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#113 2025-03-04 23:23:50
Oh his minions have a plan, and they are driving the bus now. All Trump's grand ideas have been articulated before and then sold to him as a way to unlimited executive authority. Reviewing where these ideas come from reveals who funded both the proselytizers and the campaign. The Trump appointees at first just appear to be a bunch of Trump loyalist sycophants, but dig a bit into their own associations produces the influence of disturbing reactionist authoritarian ideology bent on replacing democracy with another form of government altogether.
I for one welcome the Network State and can't wait to serve my better's hedge fund accounts basking in the financial freedom the territory of Greenland US provides. Please send me any extra socks or some gloves you can spare. The thicker the better.
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#114 2025-03-05 07:42:40
Well, at least it answers the question, "What would happen if a Private Equity company took over the FedGov?"
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#115 2025-03-05 13:09:40
Baywolfe wrote:
Well, at least it answers the question, "What would happen if a Private Equity company took over the FedGov?"
I'm afraid it is fate accompli.
In Palm Beach they talk longingly of those halcyon days when they were able to raise the drawbridges at night.
“And another thing. Back in the day, before my first term, we had protesters wanting to come to Palm Beach. So I just called the authorities, great people, and they held the bridges up so they could not get in.”
One thing you can say about President Trump is that when he wants something done, he gets it done on time. But in this case, he couldn’t.
Trump spoke about the drawbridges leading from West Palm Beach to Palm Beach.
“We have control here,” he said. “And the drawbridges are useful for other reasons too. Large yachts have to get under those bridges. Years ago, I had such a yacht. It was the biggest yacht in the world at that time. But it couldn’t fit under the bridge at Shinnecock. When I tried to get to the U.S. Open in Shinnecock by coming through the canal, I was stopped and forced to sail all the way around Montauk Point because there was no drawbridge at Shinnecock. And even then it turned out we couldn’t get into Sag Harbor or Montauk. We were too big. We anchored offshore.
The Sunrise Highway, which crosses the bridge, is a divided highway, with two lanes coming eastbound and two lanes going westbound. If you raise the bridge when the Hamptons is “full,” nobody can get in, yes, but also nobody can get out. So there would still be the same number of cars in the Hamptons and the neon sign reading “full” would never change to “normal.”
What was really needed were two drawbridges side by side, so when one’s up, the other can be down. Cars go in, cars go out. It only works that way.
Trump, in the White House when he learned about this from the Army Corp of Engineers surveyors
...before they left Trump ordered “I wanted this done by Memorial Day.”
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#116 2025-03-05 13:43:53
Their Here! Oh joy, Bridge Up.
Some attendees said they originally converged at Southern Boulevard and Flagler Drive, across the Intracoastal Waterway from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, but found the drawbridge raised and the street flanked by sheriff’s deputies who told them to leave.
So instead they joined the gathering crowd downtown.
The West Palm pickleball paddles are a nice touch.
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#117 2025-03-05 13:48:58
#118 2025-03-05 14:31:09
Look to our elders.
Shops on Worth Avenue shutter in anticipation of protests
Store owners on hung hurricane shutters and boarded up windows along Worth Avenue, but by 4:30 p.m., only one protester arrived on the scene.
That protester was 80-year-old Leta Austin Foster. She says she only started protesting in 2016 after President Donald Trump was elected and the president just seemed to "bring out" a new side in her.
Foster was inspired to protest in Palm Beach on Tuesday after she saw her daughter protesting in another major city, but was surprised to find that no one else joined her outside of the police station.
“I don’t blame them if they don’t want to come," Foster said. "That’s their right and I don’t blame them at all, but I can’t not come.”
Foster stood outside the police station alone with a "Black Lives Matter" sign, but she said she would be prepared if the situation escalated.
"Marchers aren’t going to hurt you," she said. "And so what? I mean I’m 80. If I die, too bad.”
She caused quite a stir, being the only Palm Beach Island resident to show up, being on the opposite side of intercoastal from the unwashed rabble in West Palm.
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#119 2025-03-05 15:32:54
Hot mike shenanigans
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#120 2025-03-05 22:20:25
Contrary to what some think, gun control under the Nazis was much different that what you might expect.
Say the words "gun registration" to many pro-gun Americans and you are likely to hear that one of the first things that Hitler did when he seized power was to impose strict gun registration requirements that enabled him to identify gun owners and then to confiscate all guns, effectively disarming his opponents and paving the way for the Holocaust. One of the more curious twists in the historical debate, though, is that the most vocal opponent of this argument is also pro-gun. It is the National Alliance, a white supremacist organization. According to them, "German Firearms legislation under Hitler, far from banning private ownership, actually facilitated the keeping and bearing of arms by German citizens by eliminating or ameliorating restrictive laws which had been enacted by the government preceding his." So which pro-gunner should we believe?
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#121 2025-03-06 15:17:49
“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream,” he said. The American Dream is “the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility, economic security”, he added. “For too long, designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this.”
During an appearance at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday, Bessent conceded there could be what he referred to as “a one-time price adjustment” as a result of Trump’s tariffs.
It comes a few days after Bessent said he was “laser-focused” on high prices in the US. At the weekend, he announced the treasury would recruit an “affordability czar” to help address the issue.
Top retail CEOs have cautioned the move would swiftly lead to higher prices for US consumers. Trump, too, has acknowledged there would be “a little disturbance” as a result.
Trump has repeatedly pledged to bring down prices rapidly for consumers, and declared during a joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening that he was “fighting every day” to “make America affordable again”.
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#122 2025-03-07 11:58:04
Didn't we have a one-time price adjustment about seven years ago? As for Donald, he must believe the solution to "make America affordable again" lies in some fairway at some Country Club.
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#125 2025-03-09 21:25:11
US representative Melanie Stansbury before Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on 4 March 2025
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#126 2025-03-10 16:55:12
In case there was any doubt about whether or not Trump holds a grudge:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential … -coie-llp/
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#127 2025-03-10 18:41:15
The Weaponization of the Government meme was one of the biggest issues for my Maga friends.
That and managing the flow of information. 
While it’s not uncommon for the cancer institute to outline a couple of administration priorities, the scope and scale of the list is unprecedented and highly unusual, said six employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly. All materials must be reviewed by an institute “clearance team,” according to the records, and could be examined by officials at the NIH or its umbrella agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The “focus on bird flu and covid is concerning,” Woodruff wrote, because “not being transparent with the public about infectious diseases will not stop them or make them go away and could make them worse.”
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#128 2025-03-11 14:14:34
Wait, what's our governments policy on such crimes?
Philippines ex-leader Duterte on plane to The Hague after arrest
His populist rhetoric and blunt statements earned him the moniker "Donald Trump of the East". He has called Russian President Vladimir Putin his "idol" and under his administration, the Philippines' pivoted foreign policy to China away from the US, its long-standing ally.
Marcos restored Manila's ties with Washington and criticised the Duterte government for being "Chinese lackeys" as the Philippines is locked in sea dispute with China.
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#129 2025-03-11 19:14:28
Lara Trump: “People ought to be kissing the feet of Elon Musk and Donald Trump”
— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This sounded better in the original North Korean.
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#130 2025-03-11 21:29:42
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Lara Trump: “People ought to be kissing the feet of Elon Musk and Donald Trump”
— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This sounded better in the original North Korean.
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Send the Bitch to NK.
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#131 2025-03-11 21:30:16
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Wait, what's our governments policy on such crimes?
Philippines ex-leader Duterte on plane to The Hague after arrest
His populist rhetoric and blunt statements earned him the moniker "Donald Trump of the East". He has called Russian President Vladimir Putin his "idol" and under his administration, the Philippines' pivoted foreign policy to China away from the US, its long-standing ally.
Marcos restored Manila's ties with Washington and criticised the Duterte government for being "Chinese lackeys" as the Philippines is locked in sea dispute with China.
Double tap to his knee caps as a start.
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#133 2025-03-12 04:09:41
SpacePuppy wrote:
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Lara Trump: “People ought to be kissing the feet of Elon Musk and Donald Trump”
— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This sounded better in the original North Korean.
[image or embed]Send the Bitch to NK.
Send them all.
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#134 2025-03-12 11:40:17
That is why, today, we are launching the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker. The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker allows anyone to easily cut through the spin about DOGE and see how much savings can be verified. It also allows the public to go deeper and see what is being cut and who is being impacted. It will be updated weekly.
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#135 2025-03-12 17:02:27
“Pretending to work while taking money from taxpayers is no longer acceptable,” Musk posted on his social media network, X, in January.
Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office
Well,you gotta admit, its very efficient doing 2 jobs at once along with cutting affiliate fashion promotion deals.
The videos were filmed inside the office of the OPM communications director on the fifth floor of the agency’s Washington, DC, headquarters, according to three former OPM staffers. The office is across the hall from a secure annex that has become a hub for workers at the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting effort pushed by Trump ally Elon Musk.
“I saw it, and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me, that’s my office,’” a former OPM communications staffer, who asked not to be named out of concern for retaliation, told CNN. “She’s the spokesperson for the agency that is advocating for the firing based on performance and efficiency of the rest of the government workforce, and she’s using government property as a backdrop for her videos.”
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#136 2025-03-12 20:08:43
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#137 2025-03-13 11:08:15
A slap-back to Donald, et al from the people who won the War of 1812
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#138 2025-03-13 14:17:20
"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
–President Donald J. Trump
I long for simpler times, like last month, when the The White House @WhiteHouse could make jokes and poke fun.
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#139 2025-03-14 21:00:50
https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswro … g_2024_ei/
Proof of potential manipulation. The smoking gun will be found with a recount of the votes in the presidential election and/or review of the code in the voting systems.
Due to smartelections work, SMARTLegislation (Action Partner of smart elections) recently received judicial consideration for recount in Rockland County, NY!
https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024- … n-analysis
https://smartelections.substack.com/p/so-clean
https://bsky.app/profile/smartelections … yxoc3pik2z
https://smartelections.us/
https://bsky.app/profile/tiredmortalhum … 7ekydu2c2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR5KDY_zNgA
The work these organizations are doing is called election forensic, using advanced statistical methods and computing power to determine whether the results of an election accurately reflect the intentions of the electors. https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/defau … mebane.pdf
To get them out of office, everyone needs to be contacting their local and state representative demanding a full forensic audit be done on the 2024 presidential election. The tiny audits that most states conducted have limitations that would prevent them from detecting manipulation especially in cases where there is a small win margin.
Another way to get them out office is to help these nonprofit organizations by donating so they can pursue legal actions and recounts.
Well...
https://www.revolt.tv/article/trump-say … -to-pa-win
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#140 2025-03-14 21:45:57
I would not be surprised in any way to find that they actually did steal the election. They set it up with the whole "stop the steal" four years ago so that the Dems would look like assholes if they complained since they proved the voting machines were safe. You watch, some poor Asian kid working for Musk will get convicted and everyone else will go on to the next big thing.
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#141 2025-03-14 21:52:50
I am absolutely willing to believe that something nefarious happened to Trump back in power. Indeed, it's the only scenario that truly makes sense. But until I see actual evidence, I have no choice but to believe my fellow Americans are just fucking assholes who, apparently, hate women just enough to elect Trump a second time.
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#142 2025-03-15 01:10:08
“I believe that CNN and MS-DNC, who literally write 97.6 percent bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party and in my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what do they do is illegal,” Trump said.
He also claimed the media outlets work in coordination and that their reporting is able to influence the opinions of judges.
“And it has to stop, it has to be illegal, it’s influencing judges and it’s really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal, and they do it in total coordination with each other,” he added.
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#143 2025-03-15 07:21:10
Call me when CNN forks over $787 million for lying.
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#144 2025-03-15 10:28:20
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
“I believe that CNN and MS-DNC, who literally write 97.6 percent bad about me...
That's an oddly specific number. Of course Donald thinks everything said about him that is negative is corrupt and illegal. He must have been such a "delightful" child.
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#145 2025-03-15 16:40:35
A little something...
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#146 2025-03-17 14:41:31
Trump claims Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 committee are 'void'
Weak whiny tiny man bring it.
Donald, bring it. I’m so tired of your victimy whiney belly aching crap. You friggin won and you STILL are complaining all the time.
— Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.bsky.social) March 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
BRING IT YOU SMALL LITTLE BOY
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#147 2025-03-18 08:04:43
That's how our federal government works now. Donald declares it on his social media site and all Republicans bow three times and consider it law.
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#148 2025-03-18 12:59:45
At least we can finally be proud that the trains run on time.
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#149 2025-03-18 14:29:57
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
At least we can finally be proud that the trains run on time.
There are going to be trains? I thought that was defunded as well.
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#150 2025-03-18 21:22:57
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