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In response to the network’s Freedom of Information filing on Elon Musk’s security clearance details, CNN received an email reading, “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT… they just fired the whole privacy team.” That’s the OPM team overseeing federal workers security clearances! www.mediaite.com/news/cnn-get...

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Elon Musk has now set his sights on the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox, insisting on personally ensuring the gold remains intact. The vault was last opened to journalists and a congressional delegation in 1974.

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The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

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#ICYMI: We've added eight previously missing disclosures from Justice Clarence Thomas to our Supreme Connections database. The newly added filings, which cover 1992 to 1999, reveal more than 100 gifts or travel-related reimbursements.

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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...

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With Trump + the NFL likely to turn today’s Super Bowl into at least some degree of fascist spectacle, it’s worth remembering Colin Kaepernick (@kaepernick7.bsky.social) literally gave up his career to challenge the regime’s white supremacist project the first time around. Solidarity to the GOAT.

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Excellent- all faith groups should do

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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

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Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇

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Meanwhile, egg prices.

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"Musk's team have already gained entrée to data on federal student aid, including the personal information for millions who receive student loans from the government..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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"Texas authorities arrested a Jan. 6 rioter recently pardoned by President Trump on Thursday for online solicitation of a minor..." thehill.com/regulation/c...

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Good news, Republicans— those jobs you wanted are available.

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Please share this post widely! Approximately half of the country's agricultural workers are undocumented. In California, it's 76% & we grow 2/3 the nation's fruit & nuts, 1/3 of the vegetables & produce 80% of the wine. Mass deportation is unbelievable stupid & cruel.

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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From Clay Bennett)

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www.canada.ca/en/public-he... Find updates on threats to public health, recalls and safety alerts here. Thank you, Canada!

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Crucial SF-50 forms, detailing job titles, salaries, and Social Security numbers, have disappeared from a federal database managed by the Office of Personnel Management.

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List: Examples of Trump’s Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits .. FFS. He is breaking the law. just say it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Trump administration, along with Elon Musk’s staffers, has jeopardized the security of the C.I.A. by making employee names public—a move both illegal and dangerous. Current officials confirmed that the C.I.A. sent employee names to the OPM, complying with an executive order signed by Trump.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice

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Critical stuff

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The verdict among far-right activists and neo-Nazis is that the next four years will be a time to relax, organize and take advantage of the popular awakening of American fascism. -The Guardian Guantanamo Bay would be better utilized for the imprisonment of these domestic terrorists. 👇

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Stop what you’re doing and read this.

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“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”

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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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This is Twilight Zone stuff....

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‘Reckless and shameful’: Kansas Rep. blasts Trump’s comments on fatal D.C. plane crash. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2-...

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Morning saints! When you have five minutes, pop over to Substack and read this post by the great @thomhartmann.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

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Air traffic controllers were included in the Trump administration’s offer of buyouts to all federal workers. -thedailybeast And Trump is deflecting all responsibility as usual.

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The guy from The Apprentice, who hired a Fox weekend host to run the Pentagon and a cast member from the Real World to run the FAA (the two agencies associated with the incident) says the real cause of a deadly plain crash is DEI.

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"...NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking." @tomdreisbach.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

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On Tuesday, the US office of personnel management (OPM) sent nearly all of its 3 million employees an email offering them deferred resignations and warning that, if they choose to stay, they may be laid off or reassigned. —The Guardian This is part of that project that he “knows nothing about”

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'It's obscene': Mike Barnicle slams Hegseth pulling Gen. Milley's security detail www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

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this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

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Important follow-up on my pinned report and my recent post about the takeover at OPM: The Washington Post has confirmed the claims below. There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.

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Red alert!

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Of course he's gonna do that. The neo-confederates are in charge now so they have to bow to their forbears...

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substack.com/@weissmann/n...

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