DOGEr in DC, A Different Story Back Home
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doger-in-dc-a-different-story-back-home
"Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), has been cheering on the #DOGE wilding spree down in #DC. And now his constituents are paying the price.
...he’s one of many #Republicans who are cheering on DOGE in DC and fretting about its impact back home and trying to cut special deals with the #WhiteHouse or directly with #ElonMusk to soften the blow in their districts."
Another day, another politician forgets (due to an 'oversight') to declare shares in companies that are directly related to his political activity.... this time Lord Darzi & interest in four private health firms.
They're a forgetful lot these senior politicians - perhaps the House of Parliament register of interests should be handed over to the DWP, who seem to have a lot less patience with such oversights (by benefits claimants)!
“Starmer-Kendall disability benefit change is targeted war on people with mental health issues”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
“New points structure is designed to deny support to those with mental illness or neurodivergence”
The hypocrisy of American politicians continues to baffle.
Within the next 15 days, they are legally required to vote on a resolution that would reduce Trump's destruction.
To avoid going on record for this vote and facing Trump's/Musk's ire, Republicans added a sentence to the continuing resolution to count the rest of the year as one single day.
Thereby never facing the legal deadline of having to vote within 15 days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDPrsMaZU8
#USA #Congress #Republicans #Hypocrisy
WaPo, but it’s an exclusive 
#GiftArticle
#ElonMusk’s business empire is built on $38B in #GovernmentFunding
Govt infusions at key moments helped #Tesla & #SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s #wealth
#Musk & his cost-cutting US #DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim govt largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers.
#hypocrisy #USpol #law #economy #business #finance #tech #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers #kleptocracy
https://wapo.st/41uIOJ4
"Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit."
-W Stancil
Le bon vieux présentateur télé à cheveux blanc dans une matinale pepouze sur une télé US quelconque…
et là c'est le drame (de trop) il lâche tout ce qu'il a sur le cœur, et punaise il met le paquet, y en a un peu plus je vous le mets quand même 
#USA
#USpol
#YetAnotherMassShooting
#Guns
#GunControl
#Racism
#ThoughtsAndPrayers
#Hypocrisy
Remember when Republicans lost their minds and cried foul every time Joe Biden signed an Executive Order?
Now, Trump is signing order after order after order like he’s signing autographs at a Nazi rally and Republicans stay quiet, too scared to squeak up.
The war on drugs would be easier if Canada and Mexico didn’t border on the biggest drug addict in the world.
No market … no illegal drugs.
The guys putting a Fox News host in charge of the military, a January 6th supporter in charge of the FBI, and an anti-vax quack in charge of the health department are lecturing everyone on having "the best standards in who you're hiring".
"I feel that if you can see it, you can say it, and the fact that so many notable publications were like, 'he did a thing that appeared to be', ...none of us have ever got the leeway that Elon got that day."
c: @joshjohnsoncomedy
Fact check: Trump’s FAA used the same language about hiring people with disabilities he’s now blasting
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/faa-disability-hiring-trump-fact-check/
Trump provided no evidence whatsoever that there was any such connection. But it’s also worth noting that some of Trump’s specific assertions about the FAA’s push to hire people with disabilities were either inaccurate or missing critical context about what happened during Trump’s own first presidency.
“SAS ‘ROGUE HEROES’ – OR JUST ROGUES?”
by Richard Norton-Taylor in Declassified UK @Declassified_UK
“How many more shocking allegations about the SAS must emerge before the ‘who dares wins’ regiment is subject to transparency laws?”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/sas-rogue-heroes-or-just-rogues/
I generally don't post a lot of politics here, but this is important.
#Fascism uses #hypocrisy as a display of power. Pointing it out makes them stronger.
When you point out that they are not living by their professed ideals you are feeding them.
They are not lying to you to deceive you. They are lying to you to insult you by proudly demonstrating that they are unencumbered by truth.
It's time to find the new strategies. It's time to fight dirty.
There are unspeakable horrors to come.
Lest we forget: “Oliver #Eagleton’s book ‘The Starmer Project’ is packed with detail about Starmer’s political and legal career. It often makes for unpleasant reading: his political life is defined by duplicity; his legal notable for defending the state while prosecuting activists. His leadership bid was an act of fraud”
- via .@Terina Hine in @counterfire
The family of my Jewish grandfather was murdered by Nazis. My grandfather was sent to slavery camps. He survived.
And now Gaza is a concentration camp, fully supported by Auschwitz management.
