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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Elon crashes and burns at first Cabinet meeting
Elon Musk hosted his very first Cabinet meeting as president yesterday, and, uh, things did not go very well, as the ketamine popper actually admitted to accidentally canceling ebola outbreak prevention. One small oopsie for a man, one massive f*ck up for mankind! [RETWEET THAT!]

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GOP lawmakers put forward ridiculous bills in race to suck up to Trump
Making Donald Trump’s birthday a national holiday, carving his face on Mount Rushmore, and renaming a Washington, DC, airport after him are just some of the ridiculous legislative changes that Republicans are pushing to honor the convicted felon, serial fraudster, and adjudicated rapist. Nope, definitely not a cult.

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Defeating the Trump administration and the GOP starts at the bottom
Lead Locally: Protecting our institutions, rights, and the climate from Trump and his GOP cronies starts at the local level — and that's why Lead Locally is working overtime to empower progressive candidates who will wrest control of our statehouses away from the GOP and put our nation back on the right path. Will you chip in to support local activism and the fight against Trumpism?

Musk says federal workers should expect another round of "pulse check" emails
President Trump on Wednesday warned that the roughly 1 million federal workers who did not respond to recent emails asking them to describe "five things" they accomplished are "on the bubble" suggesting they are at risk of losing their jobs. This comes just days after several of the MAGA cult leader's Cabinet heads explicitly instructed their agency employees to simply ignore the DOGE ultimatum. Undeterred, Elon Musk doubled down on his initial "pulse check" email and vowed a follow-up email was imminent. Wondering who's actually in charge yet? And who answers to whom? Yeah, samesies.

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JD Vance’s hometown paper rips him as "lapdog vice president"
In a searing op-ed this week in the Ohio Capital Journal, columnist Marilou Johanek pulled zero punches, calling Vice President JD "He Ain't From Here" Vance a "lapdog vice-president." Johanek slammed Vance’s first few weeks in office as a "nondescript role as an appendage in the Trump-Musk administration." To be fair (to lap dogs), Vance is more like a donkey — a beast of burden useful enough to carry some of Donald's dirty water and incredibly heavy baggage, but not one to be trusted with tasks better suited for the likes of Elon Musk and his tech tykes at DOGE. On a positive note for JD, the MAGA cult leader is 78 years old, so...there's that...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville accidentally comes up with a demonic new name for a triangle in babbling rant about the Dept. of Defense
Hey, look who's back with more incredibly stupid hot takes on how things definitely do not work! It's none other than sentient jock strap and former football coach Tommy Tuberville, who is also somehow still a United States senator. During a conversation on Fox News about defense spending, the Alabama Republican fumbled his way into some rather surprising, supernatural territory, inadvertently conjuring up a powerful, dimension-hopping demon from the DC Comics universe called a "Trigon." Known as the "living embodiment of evil itself" in the DC universe, "trigon" is also Tommy's super cool new name for a triangle. You see, Tuberville thinks Elon Musk should swing his DOGE hatchet around at the Pentagon (not a terrible idea in theory) and — checks notes — lop off a few sides of the building and turn it into a... trigon. Get it? The world's dumbest American senator expounded: "We have to start in the Pentagon. We need to make a trigon, three sides instead of five sides, in the Pentagon." Tuberville urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to continue to "cut out all the bloat, and all the DEI, get our military back to a killing machine." Yeah! If it weren't for all that damned DEI just think how much more killing the ~~Pentagon~~ Trigon could be doing! Heck, if we're really lucky, we just might even bear witness to the literal "living embodiment of evil itself!" It is so good to be great again.

USAID workers will be given 15 minutes to clear their workspaces as the agency gets dismantled
Thousands of US Agency for International Development workers who have been fired or placed on leave as part of the Trump administration’s incredibly stupid dismantling of the agency are being given the briefest of windows Thursday and Friday to clear out their workspaces. USAID staffers will have all of 15 MINUTES to gather their belongings and vacate offices they occupied, in a lot of cases, for many, many years. A report from the Congressional Research Service earlier this month said congressional authorization is required "to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID," but the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate have curiously made ZERO pushback against the administration’s actions. There’s virtually nothing left to fund, anyway: The administration now says it is eliminating more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in US assistance around the world.

Jeff Bezos overhauls The Washington Post's opinion page in continued capitulation to Trump and MAGA
Uh, looks like democracy definitely just died in the darkness.

Supreme Court pauses judge’s order for Trump to unfreeze USAID payments in first DOGE test for justices
The conservative-packed Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze roughly $2 billion in foreign aid payments. On Wednesday night, a brief order from Chief Justice John Roberts said the lower court’s order will remain on hold until the justices consider the case. The MAGA cult leader had called on the high court to intervene hours before a midnight deadline to pay up. Attorneys for aid groups suing the administration have said that their clients are facing a crisis, from forced layoffs to legal and physical threats for failing to pay vendors and creditors for work already performed in some of the countries in which they operated.

Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest "should scare every American," experts say
As Donald and Elon work zealously to purportedly slash billions in federal spending by axing tens of thousands of jobs and gutting government agencies, Musk's glaring and painfully obvious conflicts of interest are coming into sharper focus every day. The wrecking ball that is DOGE is dismantling the very agencies — including the CFPB, FAA, SEC, and others — that have investigated or fined Musk's federally subsidized companies in the past. Matt Platkin, New Jersey’s Democratic attorney general, who has joined a few of the state AG lawsuits targeting Musk and DOGE actions, called the richest man-toddler in the world's conflicts "astounding and deeply concerning" and said "the disregard for the rule of law should scare every American."