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Every accusation is an intention.

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Right

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Musk just gave the game away in his interview with Joe Rogan. He said that it's because of Social Security that "people are living longer than expected"—which coupled with a lower U.S. birth rate creates a situation he finds intolerable. He _is_ a Yarvinist—and he's coming for our Social Security.

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This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

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The settlement here will not be for a trivial amount

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If you're a podcaster/content creator that needs a better way to get voice mails from your listeners/viewers, BIG recommendation for voicecast.app Insanely easy to use for both caller and receiver. Been looking for something like this for YEARS.

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Hell yeah, Missouri!✊🏽💙 No peace for me, no peace for thee. #3E

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A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress in Yosemite National Park — on Saturday. The protest came just over a week after the Trump administration abruptly fired at least 1,000 National Park Service employees. nyti.ms/4ka2zwF

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During the US governors ball, the US Army Choir surrounded the MAGA leadership and sang: "Do You Hear The People Sing" The oligarchs didn’t even realize they were being protested. #3E #USprotest #EndOligarchy

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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#Krasnov

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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 75. Trump’s approval ratings are sinking already. Here is everything you need to know about that and everything else that happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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It looks like Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at the end of his CPAC speech.

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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Kash Patel. Fucking Kash Patel. 😡

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Woo woo woo! So, we’re talking about saving taxpayers’ money, Congress? Federal employee compensation costs $271 billion—so even if you fired all of us, that’s all you’d save.

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Trump may have pardoned the rioter who viciously attacked officer Michael Fanone on January, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson made a few things clear when she dismissed the case, as she had to:

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BREAKING: The US State Department flag has been spotted flying upside down—a universal signal of distress.

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Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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last night was my first time experiencing TRUE dark skies. it was such an emotional experience and it made me hate light pollution even more.

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Eggs UP Taxes UP Gas UP RX drugs UP Dow Jones DOWN Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block. Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.

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I'm digging how this WWII guide is basically "gum up fascism by being an energy vampire." Let Colin Robinson be your guide in the fight against fascism. The link: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Never trust people who make Bible references they don’t remember the outcome of. (Spoiler: David kills Goliath.)

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Wired is doing the heavy-lift work we need on the biggest story of the moment (far bigger than the new tariffs, as big as that is).

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NEW: Two top security officials at USAID were put on admin leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Musk’s DOGE to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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Digital coup

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Everyone realizes they’re trying to shift the Overton Window, right? They’re conditioning you to be accepting of the insane shit they’re doing now so you’ll accept the more insane shit they do later.

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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Musk and his team are stealing govenment secrets. These are felony level crimes.

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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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She's not wrong.

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Support Canadian alternatives!

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NEW reporting from @yamiche.bsky.social: At the Dept. of Education, dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course encouraged by former Education Sec. Betsy DeVos during President Trump’s first administration have been placed on paid leave as part of Trump’s targeting of DEI programs.

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

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