Opinion | I am a Republican because I believe in traditional family values. Here's why I support a government run by two men who between them have 19 children by 8 different women.
Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) won reelection by more than *20* percentage points in Nov.
Yet his voters booed & yelled at him during a town hall this week.
Flood saying “ I support Elon Musk & DOGE” prompted boos & thumbs down.
One attendee held a sign that read “LIAR.”
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Elon Musk is everything Republicans accused George Soros of being.
“Elon Musk's political action committee is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition expressing their opposition to ‘activist judges.’”
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“The Trump administration is weighing whether to offer economic aid to farmers that experience hardship as a result of President Trump’s upcoming tariffs, Brooke Rollins, the secretary of agriculture, told reporters on Friday.”
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One defense official said of the removal of “firsts” in the military, “That’s just history. It’s not really DEI – it’s literally just history.”
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“Of all the things they could be doing, the places they’re putting their focuses on first are really things that just don’t matter … This was a waste of our time,” a defense official said.
“This does absolutely nothing to make us stronger, more lethal, better prepared.”
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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Full poll here.
It also shows Trump at -11 job approval (from +3 in January).
He's underwater on immigration (-3), the economy (-13), the federal workforce (-15), Ukraine (-17), and trade with Mexico and Canada (-19 and -22).
Disapproval for Musk/DOGE is at 60% - 68% among independents.
“Her argument is fantasy wrapped in historical inaccuracies inside a lousy policy proposal. Manufacturing isn’t dead, real wages arent lower & young ppl dont want to work in manufacturing.“
A must-read on what the nostalgia for 1970s manufacturing gets wrong.
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“The critics declared Meghan Sussex’s Netflix show With Love, Meghan a failure before it even aired…
The media tried to control the public perception, but audiences made their own decision. The real failure was not Meghan’s show. It was the media’s credibility.”
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“At Social Security, the DOGE team was initially focused on fears that dead people were fraudulently receiving benefits...
[But] none of those deceased people or their relatives were actually receiving benefits.
The DOGE team appeared to drop the matter.”
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Trump “is trying to defenestrate Perkins Coie to intimidate elite law firms from representing his opponents or plaintiffs who challenge his policies. This violates a bedrock principle of American law, which is that even the worst clients deserve representation.”
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“I know why so many lawmakers sit by & watch as the arson unfolds: fear for their jobs...But there must be more who harbor a deeper fear: of what history will make of them if they don’t speak up now about the wanton vandalism to the country they were elected to protect.”
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NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland
State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"
From “I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One” to “shut up about egg prices.”
It was inevitable.
More than anything else, Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
1. Alienate your friends.
2. Destroy your business environment.
3. Slaughter your golden goose (i.e., science and research).
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… Shift, Rishda, & Ginger prepared me to recognize deception & treacherous ambition.
The dwarfs remind me not to become so bitter & cynical that I grow disillusioned with the truth.
For those who feel similarly, may we remain steadfast Friends of Narnia.
People tend to talk about books like 1984 these days, but C.S. Lewis’ THE LAST BATTLE does not get enough credit.
For me, there was perhaps no better prep for politics today than taking to heart the lessons from THE LAST BATTLE — from Shift, Rishda, and Ginger, to the dwarfs…
A three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons. Two people of sitting together. In the first panel one says "Let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the second replies "Same." In the second panel, they sit together in silence. In the third panel, the first person says loudly "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person responds "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS".
It just sucks all the air out of the room.
There are too many Americans who have grown bored and spoiled living in a world in which America has influence and power, but they’re going to miss American hegemony when it’s gone.
“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”
Well, it looks like we finally found "the Deep State." So much for all those transparency pledges. Not even the leadership of the CIA is classified.
Lord give me the patience to listen to Chris Christie speak about the dangers of Donald Trump — when he was one of the very first to endorse Donald Trump in 2016, long after it was obvious who and what Trump was. #PrinciplesFirst
At the #PrinciplesFirst summit in DC this weekend! @billybinion.bsky.social is one of my favorite reporters so I loved getting to hear from him in the very first panel this morning! 👏
As someone who doesn’t drink coffee or tea, I wish more hotel conferences offered hot chocolate packets as one of the beverage options. 😂
I didn’t get the impression at all he was blaming Trump on progressives but that he was highlighting that this is the issue with an all-too powerful president.
“Progressives have the presidency they have long desired but a president they abhor. James Madison warned them: “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm” (Federalist No. 10).”
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These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history.
