Republicans in Congress can end this any time

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is incredible and depressing.

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington.

Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

I joined a protest outside the office of Senator Ron Johnson today

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

✨️Market season is fast approaching, and I have been whipping up some crochet items. Frog pattern by Firefly Crochets. ✨️

"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup."

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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

Hi there! I'm an artist on a quest to find a new home far, far away from Meta. My name's Carissa, and I run a little business called Plantroom Art—named after my studio, which is absolutely packed with plants (but it’s not a plant problem, I promise... maybe). #art

I'm massively disappointed they won't have the #NFLonNickelodeon broadcasting Super Bowl LIX this year 😞 It was something that brought a lot of us neurodivergents into the sport; why didn't they do it again this year?

Ouch. But he has a point.

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

I'm starting to think that everyone else finally discovered how great #TSAPreCheck is, all at once. The PreCheck line is now almost as long as the regular line.

It's ironic that for all of Congress' fear mongering over China, the US government is now poised to create their own version of "The Great Firewall of China," controlling the flow of information by dictating which apps are blessed by the State, and which are banned. Ban lobbyists, not TikTok!

Why hasn't anyone made a service that lets you search for a movie and it tells you exactly which streaming services it's available on? Or why hasn't IMDB partnered with the streaming companies to provide this info?