Where's my Democratic Brooks Bros. riot? Why isn't AARP filing a lawsuit to protect seniors from the drug-addled Nazi? Why aren't those who are employed to protect US cybersecurity stopping any of this? Putin is running this shitshow.
I expected John Fetterman standing in front like the American giant defender of the Constitution he pretended to be while campaigning. What a jagoff, played us for fools.
Please show up to meet these people with a fire axe, Halligan bar, sledgehammer, pry bar, brick sock, and any other handy forced-entry tool, and explain you're doing your job and going inside. Make them choose between physically assaulting you and stepping out of the way.
I watched that. They would just hand him an order and he would sign it having no idea what he was signing. Especially the one where he was signing to hire a bunch of “highly qualified people” and he kind of shrugged.
Because he’s not president, it’s clear who’s running the show (fElon) He just wants to sign EO, avoid federal prison, and golf his entire “presidency”…
Maybe they'll do something. Musk got all our Social Security information including bank deposit info. What could go wrong? They should be at SCOTUS filing an emergency request for a stay order stopping this crap. It is absolutely illegal for Trump to do this.
Incredibly! Apart from it all just being wrong, right before Joe left office he signed a bill that righted a great wrong that went back 40 years. Mostly widows were affected because we no longer could collect our husband's Soc. Sec. pension because we got state retirement instead. He fixed it.
Excellent. More actions like this are needed by Dems to keep the pressure and attention on. Please try and enlist more of your colleagues, this needs 24/7 attention
And photos for Pete's sake, so they can be identified and profiled if they won't give names. Who are these people? Are they actual US employees, and if so, for how long? If they aren't US employees, whose are they? Muk's? (sic)
USAID has been funding subversion of sovereign nations through organisations such as the National Endowment for Democracy and without doubt many other entities who are cut outs of the CIA.
The end of this pernicious organisation (USAID) is a matter for rejoicing, not mourning or wailing in agony.
Give one example. I know their ins and outs far better than you, with your Putin avatar. It is the biggest humanitarian donor by far, and if anything nefarious, it's been propping up the US military with "hearts and minds" campaigns for decades.
Thank you, but don't stop there. So much damage by these Elon cybercriminals has happened already. Demand accountability. INVESTIGATE ELON. The GOP holds a slim majority in the House. USE YOUR LEVERAGE!
I’m waiting for the op ed in the Times that says this was a stunt and Dems should politely wait for their turn to do something in 2026. Good for these members!
The first MFer who posts that Congress cannot legally enter, yet the 20yrolds waltz right in. The programmers should be shot. Then arrested, you know the way cops normally operate.
Shouldn't they be beating the guards with flagpoles and fire extinguishers? Isn't that how it's done now? Trump pardoned the last group that did that.
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Thank you @beyer.house.gov & @vanhollen.senate.gov. Where are @padilla.senate.gov, @daveminca.bsky.social, & @schiff.senate.gov. @robertgarcia.bsky.social too, while we’re talking Cali politicians
If they’re letting 19-24-year-olds with sketchy clearances and employment in to wreak havoc and not elected MoC, that is a problem that should be blasted through the airwaves and internet.
Alt-text - Senator Van Hollen, Reps Beyer, Omar, Vindman, McGovern, others stand at a glass door at USAID. A man in a Police DHS uniform and a man in a bluish suit are standing in their way.
Where are @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social? They also have huge numbers of constituents affected by Musk's rampage through our US government infrastructure.
@markwarner.bsky.social has been too busy voting to approve garbage candidates with the Republicans to do anything for us. What did they promise you senator? What bribes did you take to vote with the fascists?
I’m one of Don Beyer’s constituents, residing in Alexandria. Tell Rep. Beyer THANK YOU for taking action. Please encourage him to KEEP GOING until the unelected co-president is OUT of the building and OUT of our confidential data.
When is the media, yes u MSNBC, going to stop calling it Trump's "war on bureaucracy". Call it what it is, a takeover of the government and the destruction of the legislative branch and the ripping up of the constitution. War on bureaucracy sounds like a policy initiative. Cowardly!
Yeah, well just how is that little technicality working out. Are you living under a rock? They're behaving as if they it's a real thing, people are obeying their orders, no one is stopping them, they disobey court orders and they the cops as well.
Unbelievable! Where are the judges taking action against Musk and DOGE for illegally removing federal workers from their jobs and for putting their grubby hands on millions of taxpayers’ personal info and money??
The judges judge that don't enforce. You know who's in charge of enforcing the laws? The same ones who are breaking it. They can be "sued" that's it, and these fuckers will have no problem with ignoring court orders, who's gonna stop them. Laws are as useless as our congresscretins.
Ooh, performative bullshit. I am sold. We are well and truly saved. Surely play-acting the bare minimum will save us all!!
Say some shit for the cameras and worry about voting to approve trump's insane and vile appointments later. That's the ticket.
@vanhollen.senate.gov Thank you for listening. Now, don’t back down. Make them arrest you. Make them make the poor choice. The DOGE people in that building have no right to be there either. Go back tomorrow and push harder please!
@vanhollen.senate.gov @beyer.house.gov Thank you. I'm encouraged to see this.
For the future, Elon / Trump and the rest of the gang aren't taking weekends off. They can do a lot of damage from Friday evening to Sunday morning. Please stay dilligent. WE NEED YOU.
Why didn't they just move forward. MAKE the security physically stop them with the cameras on. Then call the Capitol police. They simply don't get it still...
If you are in DC and can go peacefully protest it looks like it's at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue in the Ronald Reagan building on the Ground Floor off 14th Street.
Big numbers...in the US. Thing is, this 'could' garner world-wide attention since it's some 120 countries affected...
That said...they kinda need to hit up all of them...but this is a good one to do as well...
It was streaming on Senator Van Hollen's YouTube channel but apparently security didn't allow his aide (or whoever had the camera equipment) inside, and the feed stopped.
They did stream the presser they did before going inside. The members of congress were just admitted inside USAID but the staffers and press were stopped at security. Unclear if they just needed to go through the metal detector or if they are being held to wait for the MOCs. Livestream just ended.
National security threat reported by Democracy Now! Breach by Musk & crew at USAID far exceeds that of Snowden. Where are senators from Gabbard hearing who were outraged about Snowden? Where is the outrage over Musk from Republican senators on that committee? https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/usaid_shutdown
JEREMY KONYNDYK: So, I have not seen any reporting that suggests that Elon Musk has a valid security clearance, particularly to access the systems that it seems like they were trying to access, which were tapped into the highest-level national security networks that the U.S. government has. =>
USAID is a national security agency. ... It has a couple of SCIFs ... Elon, through that, if he has access to that, if his minions on this DOGE group of twentysomethings have access to that, that is some of the most sensitive national security information that the U.S. government possesses.
By the way, I keep trying to call my senators, Booker & Kim, can’t get through. And my rep, Gottheimer, also, can’t get through. That means A LOT of people are calling! Keep it up!!
Call their local offices, all the voicemails at the Capitol are full, but they're local offices within their state are likely still open to leaving voicemail.
"Now is not the time for bipartisanship when the other party is in the process of an authoritarian power grab. I expect you to use every democratic means to slow and resist. Our nation is under attack from the inside out."
"We the people need you to keep Elon Musk's unauthorized personnel out of our nation's database and fight their access to the Treasury. Our collective futures and lives are at stake. The information of the American people cannot be in the hands of unelected private citizens." [3/4]
Everyone, keep calling your senators EVERY DAY UNTIL MUSK IS OUT, USAID IS FULLY RESTORED, THIS FUCKERY AT OUR AGENCIES IS RETURNED TO NORMAL FUNCTIONING
DENY THE GOP A QUORUM— use @indivisible.org scripts immediately
The pressure is working: Today's speeches from Democratic Reps and Senators denouncing Elon's illegal and unconstitutional move to shut down USAID, watch it here:
Every one of Fetterman's phone lines goes straight to busy, the coward. Clearly he doesn't want to hear from his constituents. You can't even call his office about a passport issue
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Please show up to meet these people with a fire axe, Halligan bar, sledgehammer, pry bar, brick sock, and any other handy forced-entry tool, and explain you're doing your job and going inside. Make them choose between physically assaulting you and stepping out of the way.
You can not reason with bullies.
The end of this pernicious organisation (USAID) is a matter for rejoicing, not mourning or wailing in agony.
• 1980s: USAID provided support to anti-apartheid society
• 1994: Post-apartheid, USAID supported democracy, governance, legal reforms
• 2003: major HIV/AIDS program to fight epidemic
• 2000s-Present: economic growth, trade education, employment, renewable energy.
@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @repvalhoyle.bsky.social
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
@repjasmine.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov
@adamschiff.com @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social @tedlieu.bsky.social
*no Administrator appears to have been appointed yet, and DOGE scope is limited to unclassified info and Modernizing Technology and Software
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/
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Rush the fucking door likes it’s Jan 6. A tour of love..
no sound on the feed, right now the camera operator is pretty much just wandering around
finally the democrats grew some balls eh
"No"
"Okay thank you for your time"
The law means fuck all now.
Say some shit for the cameras and worry about voting to approve trump's insane and vile appointments later. That's the ticket.
Take the building.
For the future, Elon / Trump and the rest of the gang aren't taking weekends off. They can do a lot of damage from Friday evening to Sunday morning. Please stay dilligent. WE NEED YOU.
where were you Friday
Throw those snots out
-Suppression of Opposition
-Co-opting or replacing institutions
-Night of the Long Knives
We are at these three stages simultaneously. While Congress & media are pointing fingers, Musk slips in and out compromising all US Agencies, legally.
Just walk in.
Make them shoot members of congress (they won’t)
That said...they kinda need to hit up all of them...but this is a good one to do as well...
Is that one cop? Take em all out
By the way, I keep trying to call my senators, Booker & Kim, can’t get through. And my rep, Gottheimer, also, can’t get through. That means A LOT of people are calling! Keep it up!!
Input your ZIP and click the icons under the portrait to the left: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Script: "I need you to hold the line, to sound the alarm to constituents of the authoritarian threat to our democracy & rule of law." [1/4]
[2/4]
DENY THE GOP A QUORUM— use @indivisible.org scripts immediately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqytZHscGAM
Jamie Raskin and Chris Murphy were especially good!
Speeches start around 4 min. mark