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🚨 JUST IN: Senate ends historic 40-day US gov shutdown with a tense 60-40 vote, funding most agencies till Jan 2026! Drama unfolds as Dems defect. Follow us for more! #USShutdown #SenateDrama #Politics2025 #DnnPress

🚨 JUST IN: Senate ends historic 40-day US gov shutdown with a tense 60-40 vote, funding most agencies till Jan 2026! Drama unfolds as Dems defect. Follow us for more! #USShutdown #SenateDrama #Politics2025 #DnnPress

🚨 JUST IN: Senate ends historic 40-day US gov shutdown with a tense 60-40 vote, funding most agencies till Jan 2026! Drama unfolds as Dems defect. Follow us for more! #USShutdown #SenateDrama #Politics2025 #DnnPress

🚨 JUST IN: Senate ends historic 40-day US gov shutdown with a tense 60-40 vote, funding most agencies till Jan 2026! Drama unfolds as Dems defect. Follow us for more! #USShutdown #SenateDrama #Politics2025 #DnnPress

🚨 JUST IN: Senate ends historic 40-day US gov shutdown with a tense 60-40 vote, funding most agencies till Jan 2026! Drama unfolds as Dems defect. Follow us for more! #USShutdown #SenateDrama #Politics2025 #DnnPress

#politics #politics2025 #coup #Musk #ElonMusk

Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies [SpaceX and X], has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-4-2025?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

Sure, this image is a fake (although I can't guarantee that to 100%), but the message is all too real.
#MAGA #Politics #Politics2025

#Politics #politics2025 #Research #Pandemic #birdflu

Vin [Gupta] The federal government, through its health agencies, funds about 25% of in total medical research occuring in the country in any given area. This number represents at least $60 billion in actual direct grants given to researchers…Pandemic preparedness will experience a significant setback if this pause lasts for any sustained period of time.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/five-questions-with-dr-vin-gupta?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

#Politics #politics2025 #FBI #purge #Fascism

#politics2025 #hegseth #PeteHegseth #AaronRupar

Markwayne Mullin: "It was phenomenal to see the type of person that President Trump election to straightened out the Pentagon" (Pete Hegseth was not elected)

Aaron Rupar

#Politics #politics2025 s#Budde #Inauguration
“In one short hymn, the entire inaugural address …Trump gave .. was ripped apart, using the voices..from the throats of everyone sitting around him…prayers offered by folks from all kinds of religious traditions – Christians of various denominations, as well as Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh leaders. These prayers were filled with words like “all” and “every” to paint a picture of our common life together”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/22/herod-goes-to-the-national-cathedral-and-is-disappointed/

#Politics #politics2025 #law #resist #resistance #executiveorder #executiveorders #hope
“…But for all their claims to be hitting the ground running, lawyers noted that some of the executive orders were poorly crafted to accomplish what they claimed—an observer called one “bizarre legal fanfic not really intended for judicial interpretation”—and lawsuits challenging them are already being filed. Others are purely performative, like ordering officials to lower prices…”. Heather C Richardson

#Politics #politics2025 #women #womensrights #womenshealth #WomenHealthCare #HumanRights #GenMilley #milley
“…Trump officials have also taken down a government website that helped women find health care and understand their rights. They have also removed the official portrait of former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley from the hallway with the portraits of all the former chairs…now all minus one…”

Heather Cox Richardson

#Politics #politics2025 #pardon #Pardons #Biden #JoeBiden #J6 #Jan6

“…Biden clarified that the pardons “should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.” He noted, “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”But, he said, "These are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing…”
HCR

#Politics #politics2025 #ethics

“…Trump’s corruption and naked profiteering is so open, extreme and pervasive this time around that to comment on any one aspect of it would be to lose the forest for the trees. The very idea of government ethics is now a smoldering crater.” Walter Schaub, former head of the Office of Government Ethics under t….”

#Politics #Politics2025 #Inauguration #InaugurationDay
Mother Nature has spoken.

Sums it up nicely.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jan/20/trump-is-back-how-do-we-prepare-for-life-under-a-brutal-regime-of-ai-climate-crypto-madness?CMP=share_btn_url

#FirstDogOnTheMoon #Politics #Politics2025