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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

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The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

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We asked Senate Republicans: is there any millionaire or billionaire rich enough who doesn't need another tax giveaway? $10M a year? No. $100M a year? No. $500M a year? No. $1 BILLION a year? No. With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.

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What's happening in Ukraine is both tragedy and travesty. If the U.S. withdraws from NATO and it can't step up without our support, it will also be disaster and atrocity. And all of it can be laid at the feet of the traitor, Donald Trump. More in my latest: www.marytrump.org/p/at-the-ful...

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Causing "global catastophe" will be judged one day as crimes against humanity. A reckoning will come. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

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Valuing diversity is not a crime Installing white men in every position of power is not a meritocracy

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Donald tonight took the last key step needed to become our dictator. As someone who has known and closely covered him for 36 years, I've been warning about his dictatorial aims for almost 10 years. Please read my post at Facebook.com/davidcay

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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Let's be very clear. The Constitution says that presidents are limited to being elected twice. Anyone who says otherwise needs to read the 22nd Amendment.

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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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NEW: The Trump/Musk blitzkrieg aims to destroy government to advance oligarchy & autocracy—and to crush the Democrats & the progressive agenda. It's an existential crisis. Yet so many Dems are missing in action. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I ask, WTF? Pls share. link.motherjones.com/public/38721...

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Putin just received a dream goal g(r)ift from his puppet: the destruction of NATO. Before Trump II, that was absurd. NATO was successful, strong and growing. And what did Transactional Trump get in return? Bupkis. America is no longer the leader of the Free World. It might be a new threat.

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Judge Abelson of the USDC MD issued a preliminary injunction against the anti-DEI executive orders on Feb 21. His compelling opinion outlines numerous grounds for deeming the EOs unconstitutional, including 1st A freedom of speech. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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My new DCReport.org column detailing how Donald Trump in just 32 days established himself as America's first dictator, the very thing I've warned about for almost 10 years: www.dcreport.org/2025/02/22/t...

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The world is watching Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and our European allies to curry favor with the Kremlin. All of us — Democrats, Republicans, elected officials and ordinary citizens — must push back with every tool we have if we are to save our own democracy and others.

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Trump's executive order “Unleashing American Energy" destroys energy regulations and shifts the economic costs of pollution from guilty industries to taxpaying Americans. Democrats must fight this. #Project2025 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Recent release from Craig Unger - House of Bush House of Saud, the Birth of Modern Terrorism, Kindle Edition www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Corporations are training grounds where bosses learn authoritarianism and impunity from responsibility workdaymagazine.org/political-ph...

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If it were not for Jim Crow voter suppression tactics, Kamala Harris would have had 3.5 million more votes and would have won the presidency. Trump doesn’t have a mandate, there was no landslide — so what do we do now? Full interview with @jessicadenson07.bsky.social >>> youtu.be/UhzJfiYHXZw

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🇩🇰 Danes support sending peacekeepers to Ukraine post-war, with 53% in favor, Bloomberg reports. 66% want Ukraine in the EU, 68% in NATO. Denmark, with a population of 6 million, has donated $7.55B in military aid since the invasion.

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The FDIC protects your hard earn money in the bank and helps prevent another financial crash. Trump and Musk’s move to fire these workers is dangerous. I led Senate Democrats in pushing back, and now independent investigators are on the case.

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The context makes it clear:“Fight. Fight. Fight.” Nazi salute “Amen”

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“If you destroy the rule of law, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” the DOGE lawyer said literally five months ago.

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NEW from @crew.bsky.social: President Trump is poised to interfere in DC's local governance, making it clear why statehood for DC isn't just an issue of fairness. It's the clearest way to protect the 700,000 people of DC from federal overreach. www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysi...

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It's no coincidence that Musk's companies are soaring in value as the regulatory agencies that were investigating or suing them are being gutted. The DOGE agenda isn't about "efficiency" — it's about Musk freeing himself from any accountability so he can line his pockets.

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term—and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.

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Read the full newsletter here: plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trumps-app...

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Todd Blanche, Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, promised he would follow the advice of career ethics officials at the Department of Justice. Then they fired the career ethics officials. Piece by piece they are destroying the Justice Dept. And any hope of justice along with it.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are waging an attack on American consumers — we won't stand quietly by.

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President Trump didn't divest from his businesses, and now he's hosting meetings at the White House with the PGA tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf, which has hosted multiple tournaments at his courses. We're likely to see far more of these blatant conflicts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/trump-musk-oligarchy-russia-far-right

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A heartfelt thank you to former Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema for repeatedly blocking popular policies to preserve “norms” and protect “the rights of the minority” We couldn’t have gotten here without you

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Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

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Translation: That’s a nice country you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

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Trump aims to use the tragedy of the Ukraine war to fatten the coffers of America’s military-industrial complex and capitalist classes.

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Politicizing the U.S. Marshals Service, and making security contingent on staying in the president's good graces, is a threat to our democracy. @crew.bsky.social lays it out here: www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysi...

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Someone send @schumer.senate.gov to a retirement home and give his seat and platform to AOC

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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

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Trump’s most sweeping executive order yet has placed Elon Musk’s unelected, unofficial, bogus "DOGE" in charge of every agency’s hiring and firing, putting unelected Elon Musk in charge of the US government. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...

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