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Elon Musk instructed federal workers to respond to an email summarizing their weekly accomplishments, a tactic he previously used to downsize staff at X. “Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished this week and CC your manager,” the message stated.

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🎉 This is the best news in a month!! Hold the line, America.

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Another reason to celebrate tonight!! 🎉

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This is really something

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In remarks to reporters Tuesday and in a social media post on Wednesday, Trump made numerous false claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Russian war on Ukraine – some of which echoed inaccurate talking points from Vladimir Putin. Here is a fact check of some of his assertions.

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Flooding swept parts of an interstate into the Pigeon River Gorge in Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests last year. North Carolina is in talks to quarry rock from USFS land, for repairs. This USFS employee was on the job Thursday, helping. Gone, Friday. ✍️: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

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When NWS forecasters can't communicate with Canadian forecasters, things like plane accidents happen.

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Law profs warn SCOTUS of collateral consequences in Hampton Dellinger case: Don't put the "Fed's independence in doubt." "Any hint that the United States is abandoning its commitment to [central-bank independence] could shake confidence in the American economy." https://buff.ly/4hLFLC2

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Wow — in their list of savings Elon’s DOGE guys claimed to have found $8 BILLION in savings by canceling a DHS contract…. It was actually $8 MILLION. Then “tried to cover their asses” NYT Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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What our Founders might say about Trump's behavior: "𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅. 𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎." 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 on President Trump's Mass Layoffs of Federal Employees:

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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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A federal judge considering whether to indefinitely block President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender service members described it on Tuesday as having “unadulterated animus” toward transgender Americans.

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War takes many forms. If you don't think that the struggle facing this Nation is a form of war . . . You either don't understand the concept of war, or you don't understand the threat.

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Reminder☝️: these are unlawful terminations, not layoffs. There is an established, lawful way to conduct a Reduction In Force. Cutting people off at the knees with just a moment’s notice isn’t it. This seems more like retaliation against the most vulnerable employees that did not agree to resign.

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Fellow Gov. Please take a moment today and do me and yourself a favor. Check your leave. If it’s correct, grab a hard copy. If a portion or all has been called back, quietly reach out to your fave press. I like Indy media and can recommend @muellershewrote.bsky.social

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“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

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It's Going to Take Years to Train Another Generation of Federal Workers www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

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My son is a beautiful gift from God, and we were lucky to have him thanks to the miracle of IVF. That so many right-wing Christians want to rob my family—and yours—of this technology is both disgusting and a gross abuse of faith.

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When We Invited You To Join Our Trivia Team, It Was With The Understanding That You Knew ‘Star Trek’ theonion.com/when-we...

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Someone please explain to me how "not voting for the lesser of two evils" made anything better. I'm so fucking pissed about the sanctimonious bullshit right now. How many hundreds of millions of lives were sacrificed for your "conscience?"

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Please share this far and wide!

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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

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Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:

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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

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Odds of “city-killer” asteroid YR4 impacting Earth now increased to 2.6%, per NASA Just about equal odds of betting on a single number straight on one spin of American (double zero) roulette

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The asteroid is approximately 220,000,000 kilograms or 440,000,000 pounds, about as heavy as a very large cargo ship—moving at 17 kilometers (11 miles) per second.

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@warren.senate.gov: "Elon is gonna do X Money... There's just one bump in the way and that's the CFPB... He doesn't like that... Move the bump out of the way before you start. It's like a bank robber saying, 'Before I go into the lobby with my sacks, I'm just going to fire the cops.'"

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Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.

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We the People are pissed! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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Musk’s website, DOGE, leaked classified government information to the entire world. NOFURN [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] information on their website about the [intelligence community] headcount has prompted a scramble as people check whether their information has been accessed.

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Source: Daily Kos

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1. Yes, this is some weird shit. 2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.

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Imagine the reaction if Obama’s White House tweeted this

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I love it when MAGAs that think they "won" if you block them. Nah, dude. If you'd actually won an argument with me, that would mean I learned something from you and I'd follow you. What happened is you proved you're so irredeemably obdurate that there is no point in ever talking to you again.

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

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The people in charge of this kill the gov mess are all fucking morons.

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Dear recently fired, federal, employees, Apply for UCFE unemployment benefits ASAP !!! dol.gov

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If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

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