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Finding our voices in unexpected places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_M...

Yeah when????🙄😡

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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This is the truth! Only idiots or racists can’t understand this…

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

Trickle up economics.

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

Bless you to the folks at @wired.com for this fantastic piece. I spent all day contemplating how to write a thread explaining all of this but now I don’t have to. I remember thinking Musk’s shitler youth might struggle because our computer systems are older than their parents 🙃 I hate being right.

Overwhelm… Overreach… Overthrown. open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

“There is no logical stopping point for them, and … the only recourse will be for people to get out and say, we want the rule of law, we want a government that obeys the law, and that's going to require people to go out on the streets, because … there is no other alternative,"

Nixon's letter to Elon Musk open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

“Lawmakers from Republican-dominated states are now acknowledging what those of us who study the federal budget have pointed out for decades: the same Republican-dominated states that complain bitterly about the government’s tax policies are also the same states that take most federal tax money. “

A lot is going on. Here are 3 things for the weekend. #fightback

From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.

No Super Bowl for me. No sir. Make the Trump Regime loving Broligarchs waste their money.

🚨 An Iowa Democrat flipped a state senate seat held by the Republicans in a district that went for Trump by 21 points in November. Iowa Senator-elect Mike Zimmer! 🔥 LFG!! www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

If Elon Musk can afford to pay people to look at your taxes, he can afford to start paying his own.

Asked why she was convinced that Trump would not remember the tariff, she said, “Please. He can’t remember his wife’s name.”

Palestinians Propose Taking Ownership of Mar-a-Lago

This says it all. youtu.be/hBf0N8SU43Y?...

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

YES.

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