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So some people *are* above the law, apparently… Democracy can’t co-exist with oligarchy. I gotta meditate more. Dogs rule, ya know they do!🐾
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Kash Patel has been confirmed as the F.B.I. director. Last month, Tess Owen wrote about how he has “made it clear that he sees himself and Trump as being united on their righteous campaign to destroy the very government they are meant to lead.”

We now have a government staffed completely by a 4 Chan message board.

To everyone who could have voted for Harris & chose not to: Fuck you.

Elon, community noted *and* ratioed.

“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Elon Musk is dismantling the Social Security Administration. Expect delays or pauses in SS checks starting immediately.

WSJ says Twitter is telling advertisers to spend more with them “or else” — “They are afraid of the legal/political ramifications of not doing so.” Do y’all get it yet? www.wsj.com/business/med...

Joe Biden took over when the US economy was wrecked from the pandemic, businesses shut down, schools closed, global inflation, etc. Our economic recovery was the envy of the world. Donald Trump took over during a booming economy BOTH TIMES, and he's going to wreck it even faster this time around.

Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

Pete Hegseth is about to purge military officers—and make no mistake, this is 100% political retribution. 📌 Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth is planning to fire generals and top officers as soon as this week, per two Defense officials and three Congressional sources. Most of them tied to Lloyd Austin.

The entire democratic world wishes Zelenskyy was their leader, so I would say he is doing an admirable job. Carry on and Thank you for the example.

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Senate Democrats should put a hold on every U.S. attorney nomination for about six different reasons.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Facts

A Trump outrage that stands apart The president blames Ukraine for its own brutalization. By David Ignatius www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them. ~ Pete Buttigieg

Did we have protests today for "not my president" day? Why yes we did in every major city! Thank you, for showing up America!!! 🇺🇸🦅 #Protests 🔥🔥🔥

The Inquirer is covering the protests, even if Vichy NYT won't www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are *trying* to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

In 2021, Ed Martin was subpoenaed for being an organizer of the Stop the Steal Movement formed after the 2020 election. Four years later, he’s now the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C., a branch of the DOJ.

Trump never fit into New York Society, so New York became his enemy. Then Trump was rejected by America in 2020. Trump doesn’t want revenge against his political opponents. He wants revenge against America. This is the only way to clearly understand Trump’s actions to destabilize America.

"There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs. His name is Elon Musk. He’s snatching farms, government jobs, jobs to root out fraud & those that are keeping us safe. So I’ll admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were correct." - Jasmine Crockett

Billionaire co-founder of AirBnB Joe Gebbia has joined Elon Musk’s DOGE team, so let’s spread awareness and make sure nobody books a goddamn thing through AirBnB ever again, shall we?

from today's post — please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/41irHtM

“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

I absolutely love this idea.

Latest from Vichy: Multiple top prosecutors appointed by former President Joe Biden to federal districts across the country were left without official means to communicate Friday after their government-issued phones and email accounts were deactivated, two sources familiar with the move tell CNN.

This.

I've been waiting for an instance of censorship by government outlet Xitter that someone could build a 1A case around. This might be the one! @mluckovich.bsky.social

It’s a cliché to say it—and no two historical scenarios offer a perfectly compelling analogy—but what each American is doing now is what they’d be doing were they a German living in Germany and were it 1936-38 There’s no more doubt about who the appeasers or the bad guys are—they’re in the open now

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

"When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it." - John Lewis. It's not enough to simply recognize something is wrong; we have a moral duty to act.

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Zelensky says if Trump pulls out of NATO, Russia will “100%” occupy at least parts of Europe.

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

🇫🇷🇪🇺 Macron is convening European leaders for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday, - Politico 🇵🇱 Sikorski said later that Polish PM Tusk will travel on Monday at Macron's invitation to the meeting. "We need to show our strength and unity."

If Americans knew history they'd recognize the populist con Trump and Elon Musk are perpetrating is no different than Hitler's. Under the guise of cutting waste, we're witnessing an unprecedented power and money grab by fascist oligarchs. The enemy is within. It is the president.

Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics. “American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening. Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/

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