Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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Just fucking evil.

I bet Jake Tapper is all over this right????

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

The Democrats have invented time travel. This goes deeper than we thought

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Just learned about a brilliant scientist friend who is at risk of being deported because their research field (brain chemistry???) is apparently considered a priority for the People’s Liberation Army and I cannot express in words how much I despise this administration

no, the idea that America is the root of all evil in the world, or that Americans are uniquely greedy or whiny or materialistic or whatever, these are other ways of calling America exceptional. so much of the fringe left is just fixated on America in the mirror image of the way MAGA is

100% chance Vance is Russian Orthodox at the end of this term
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I... do not believe this was a "procedural lapse."

Not surprisingly, they didn't want to dismantle a "deep state"

They wanted to be in control of it and make it shallow, brutal, and cruel

hmm ok

They really do take the Eucharist quite seriously. Like it's entirely plausible to find a Catholic who is fine with immigrants being arrested and extremely mad about not having access to the Eucharist.

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

“Members of the M.M.W.R. team were laid off “in error because of a misclassification” of job codes and would be brought back, as would anyone working to contain measles and the Ebola outbreak in Congo… The timing of their rehiring was unclear.” I can’t keep up with what is happening at the CDC.

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
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it's pretty bleak that the destruction of USAID isn't even really on the radar of major trump second term evils in most discussions. I'm not sure how to change that. it makes me worry there won't be much done to try to reverse it even if Ds get into power.

Lol looks like we're once again falling prey to the What's The Worst That Could Happen Act

One would think headlines couldn‘t get more abnormal, but they can. www.oregonlive.com

I don't think I exaggerate when I say that the abolition of the filibuster is a matter of national security and the continuity of civilization

It's absolutely disgusting that the paper of record refused to say "Trump is doing something that is pretty clearly illegal"

The problem is that the lesson the GOP learned from Nixon that he didn't go far enough

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff