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BREAKING: On the Daily Beans podcast this week, our #GoodTrouble segment was to call Josh Kaul and ask him to DO SOMETHING about Elon buying votes in Wisconsin. Well, guess what #Leguminati ? www.wkow.com/news/state/w...

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Trump says PBS, which makes educational programs like WordGirl, “should be defunded.”

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The fascist is resurrecting racial segregation in the U.S. The Felon47 quietly signed an executive order for the federal government to no longer explicitly prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains, transportation, housing and more. #MOMSky

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"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a Cabinet meeting: "We are going to eliminate FEMA." FEMA’s work is a vital resource for Americans recovering from wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and more—it should be strengthened, not gutted.

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Yep. You read that correctly.

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They are about FAFO. Knapp said that around $116 million is injected into local economies from the Social Security checks 67 million Americans receive monthly, with much of it spent with small businesses for food, rent, and living necessities.

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www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Elon Musk Made No Promises open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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apnews.com/article/wisc... group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election

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Germany, the UK, and Canada are warning their citizens not to travel to the United States because it is now a dangerously corrupt country under Donald Trump. But, sure, MAGA, keep telling yourselves that lie about Trump raising America's standing in the world. Idiots.

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Who knew the Canadian flag would become the flag of resistance for angry voters in the US? Angry voters raise the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 as GOP Rep. Baumgartner faces loud, disruptive town hall in Spokane, WA […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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A French scientist who flew to a science conference in the U.S. was denied entry and deported back to France by Trump's Border Patrol just because they searched his phone and found messages that criticized Trump's spending cuts to scientific research, reports French newspape Le Monde.

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Asking for America, here: is knowingly destroying evidence of war crimes aiding and abetting war crimes? Maybe a question Donald Trump and Elon Musk would like to think about also.

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It looks like Tesla needs DOGE's services to find fraud and waste Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing electrek.co/2025/03/19/t...

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A 25-year-old Musk staffer violated Treasury policies by emailing an unencrypted database containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.

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This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this: "The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵

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Let’s do it!!

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Are we okay with this? "Amazon is forcing Echo users to make a couple of tough decisions: Grant Amazon access to recordings of everything you say to Alexa or stop using an Echo; let Amazon save voice recordings and have employees listen to them or lose a feature..." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Democrats are seeking an immediate hearing & copies of all agreements that DeJoy signed with DOGE & Musk. Charges to USPS can only be made by Congress, not fotus or his billionaire backer who bought his way into the White House. www.politicususa.com/p/top-democr...

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Interesting

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Noted.

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Unbelievable the cuts go deep

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It’s at times like this when you hope people will realize how vital FEMA is.

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Elon Musk’s mission, END WORLD HUNGER!

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This is truth! Why was this not publicized during the election? If the Dems had said these things, the GOP would've had a field day. This should have been and should be now plastered everywhere. I'll repost this again and again. Where's main stream journalism?!

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We WERE warned...

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If you attack the Capitol to overturn election results and to overthrow democracy on behalf of a criminal, you’re a hero. If you attack a Tesla dealership, we’ll throw away the key.

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This is a new issue that can't be resolved with an over-the-air software update.

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I’d love a federal government that cares much about protecting people as it does about protecting Teslas

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Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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Cracking the Magafacists code

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One of these things is not like the others

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A complex and confusing scheme whose myriad corrupt dimensions would take, I don’t know, a second-grader to sniff out

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