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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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People keep talking about “touching the stove” in terms of tariffs and inflation and such, but don’t sleep on the pain that hordes of enraged middle-class parents with kids on 504 plans can and will bring.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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I still can’t believe that Donald Trump berated a governor and said “I am the law” yesterday. And it was like the fourth most important news of the day.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

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It’s journalistic malpractice — to the extent that’s a thing any more — to talk about this Ed Martin letter without clarifying that every expert, other than administration hacks, thinks that Garcia’s statement was not remotely plausibly a true threat. It’s simply ludicrous.

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DOGE is getting a whole lot of headlines mainly because our brains aren't wired to make sense of millions, billions, or trillions of dollars. Lemme help: Math out the DOGE numbers and you'll discover that your DOGE dividend may buy you a coffee or two. The problem: There's just not that much waste.

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When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

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“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

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This is how it’s done.

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More of this. Do not give in.

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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i missed this story when it came out. if the nomination process were a court proceeding, we would describe what happened with the Hegseth nomination as witness tampering and obstruction of justice. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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Ziff Davis, owner of sites including IGN and CNET, quietly removed DEI language from its website. 🔗 www.404media.co/ziff-davis-d...

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“We’ll see you in court.” Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1158 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2155 comments

I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

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X is censoring journalists. The United States Attorney for D.C. is sending officials communications exclusively through X. An agency that purportedly runs the government under an unconstitutional principal officer(?) who owns the site the agency communicates on exclusively. We got a problem!

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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“Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service” www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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did a tomahawk steak for me and the boy while mom was away. smoked then seared - but while I got the temp to ~130, I forgot to account for carryover cooking and this ended up medium. Still delicious and tender despite my horrific crime 🍽️

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i generally stay out of the masculinity discourse because i just don’t care about it very much, but this endless fucking whining and refusal to simply take accountability for one’s own behavior is about as far from any representation of positive masculinity as i can imagine

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BREAKING: A cadre of largely unidentified actors in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are controlling major government functions with no real oversight or transparency. We're suing to force them to comply with the law and turn over records by March 10.

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Elon Musk throws a tantrum after a Danish astronaut exposes one of Elon's many lies. No matter how much money he has, Elon will always be a pathetic loser.

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They have the votes to impeach and convict him So they are not helpless They are complicit

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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“White House officials have told Ukraine to stop badmouthing Donald Trump and to sign a deal handing over half of the country’s mineral wealth to the US, saying a failure to do so would be unacceptable.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Elon Musk says he's going to "fix" X's community notes system because he disagrees with a note on President Trump's claim that Zelensky has a 4% approval rating in Ukraine. Musk also claims community notes are "being gamed by governments & legacy media", but provides no evidence for that claim.

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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"“In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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the most dishonorable and malevolent elected official in my lifetime including Trump, frankly, because he understood exactly what he was doing and what the consequences would be

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🚨 Scoop: Treasury Dept agrees to block DOGE access to personal taxpayer data at IRS 🚨 IRS was preparing to try to reject this request, but was able to negotiate with the Trump admin to narrow access. Now DOGE will get the same access as academic researchers and some IT professionals, per sources.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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AGAIN: If they actually cared about the deficit they wouldn’t also be cutting trillions in taxes for the rich. They think we are all very dumb.

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@katherinestewart.bsky.social explains how Americans can still keep the rising tide of fascism at bay.

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The threat of political violence is informing Donald Trump’s grip on Congress. “They’re scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” a former member of Trump’s first administration tells @gabrielsherman.bsky.social.

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

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