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"“Empire’s Deceit” “explores the seemingly contradictory yet intrinsically linked relationship between imperialism abroad and xenophobia at home—an attitude that defines much of the right’s politics today.”" www.brooklynvegan.co...

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Republicans at town halls are pissed about Musk and Trump. Yes, Republicans talkingpointsmemo.co...

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Captain Ketamine is reaching whole new levels of incoherence.

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Flashback to 2019 in Vegas after rare snow. Sue asked me to make a snowman and, voila, a snow... duck?

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This is 100%. Almost everything in the constitution is general or implied. The document literally says there's going to be a post office and congress is in charge of setting it up, deciding what it's rules are.

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Okay, Tom Homan. You coming to Boston? Let’s talk about Boston, which is now one of the safest cities in the country. Why? Because we go after gun violence, not immigrants. Because we invest in community programs, not ICE. We don’t want you, Tom Homan. We’re good. open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

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"1. Boycotts are taking hold" We're boycotting Walmart, Target, CVS, Coke. We live in Vegas. Smiths, Winco (employee-owned chain), the always amazing Costco, Sprouts, and La Bonita supply everything we need. And do so without groveling to Trump. Who are you boycotting? robertreich.substack...?

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Judge blocks DOGE from accessing Treasury payments system. "Vargas said the states successfully demonstrated they were harmed by the Treasury Department’s unauthorized disclosure of their confidential information to the DOGE team." www.courthousenews.c...

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Republican senators Thune, Tillis, Murkowski, Coryn, Kennedy, Curtis, and Cramer have broken with Trump on Ukraine. Let's support them when they do this. www.independent.co.u...

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Be clear about what you are seeing. The firing of these senior officers has nothing to do with competence. This is creating an oath of loyal by the Armed Forces to the Leader. We face an uncertain future.

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This is how it’s done.

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Deep red state tourism whacked by layoffs in national park staff. Utah has iconic national parks, including the amazing Zion. Local areas rely on tourism money. DOGE apparently wants to destroy that. www.axios.com/local/... 1/2

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Flashback to 2019 here in Vegas after rare snow. My wife Sue asked me to make a snowman and, voila, a snow... duck?

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DOGE is cutting Medicare telehealth services starting April 1, in a belligerently stupid move that will most hurt those in rural areas (who generally vote overwhelmingly Republican.) www.medicare.gov/cov...

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Astonishing crowd inside Manhattan Criminal Court two hours before Luigi Mangione’s follow-up appearance. Organized chaos, people are in cordoned-off gaggles down the full length of the hall, chatting casually. Feels reminiscent of fans waiting for a concert ticket line to open.

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Jesse Wells, this gen talking blues, His new album Middle is out. "The Black Hawk flyer was a DEI hire and the LA Fire was too... We got to get into fixing get the women back into the kitchen. barefoot, pregnant cooking dinner." youtu.be/_xAswA556a8...

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Our job now is to point out the price loudly and constantly. "Musk, Trump, and the AWOL Republicans in Congress... may relish breaking government; they may revel in the nihilism. But all of this comes with a steep price." substack.com/home/po...

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Toddler has a tantrum “What a lie,” Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen said. "And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.” newrepublic.com/post...

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Farmers are not happy about USDA firings, which impact their farms, projects, and thus their incomes. And most are probably Republicans. Genius move from DOGE. www.wired.com/story/...

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Respected pollsters Pew and Quinnipiac show a majority of voters disapprove of what Musk is doing. Public opinion matters. The public is ahead on Congress on this. Let's make sure they know our views. www.politico.com/new...

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americans are ahead of the politicians "Americans disapprove by a 2-to-1 margin of Musk shutting down federal agencies that he decides are unnecessary, and most (63 percent) are concerned that his team is gaining access to sensitive personal data of individuals"

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Drug-addled extremist pretends to have data showing horrible things happening in government. But he doesn't. Elon Musk is quite a lot like Joe McCarthy "DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up" www.npr.org/2025/02/...

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I feel like Andy Borowitz would have a field day with this. Like, “DOGE fires 1,000,000 instead of 1,000 federal employees due to basic math error.”

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I agree, you don’t typically build an authoritarian regime by destroying state capacity. And you would want to maintain/gain support, & not piss off everybody. If, however, you think of it as an attack by Putin, that’s being perpetrated by Musk & Trump, it makes more sense.

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Mike Pence to Trump on X: "Mr. President, Ukraine did not 'start' this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth" Link: x.com/Mike_Pence/sta...

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Powerful Republican senator slams Putin (and Hegseth, and by inference, Trump) Senate Armed Services Chair Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) "Slams Idea of Trump Negotiating With Russia: Putin Should be ‘Jailed, Possibly Executed’" www.mediaite.com/new...

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). "We should have no Medicare cuts of any kind" because it helps low-income Republicans too. Thus, Trump's budget bill that must pass by March 14 is doomed, because it assumes big Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts for the rich. www.huffpost.com/ent...

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Smart ideas on how to organize. And hey, if these don't work for you, find your own ways to organize. We're all inventing it as we do it. "Organize. Hold town hall meetings. Set up a Daily Opposition Briefing" substack.com/home/po...

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🚨 NEW: Wow, Trump's former VP Mike Pence just called Trump out for lying about Ukraine.

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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TLDR; House Republicans don't have the votes to pass a budget bill and thus must get Democratic votes. Good luck with that. Deep dive. Worth reading couriernewsroom.com/...

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@govpritzker.illinois.gov is using his "state of the state" speech today to bring the fight straight to Trump/Musk/MAGA. "My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one."

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If Trump violates our treaty with Ukraine, every country will assume the word of the U.S. is now worthless. www.loc.gov/item/glo...

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This would be a great time for Republican senators who support Ukraine to find their spines and denounce Trump's clear signal he will abandon it.

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Accurate. "Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian-made ‘disinformation space’" apnews.com/article/r...

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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

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Fedica is excellent for posting in advance. I use it multiple times a day.

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Galaxy brain genius Elon gets it wrong again. Dead people are indeed in the Social Security database. However, they are marked deceased and are not getting checks. "Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks" apnews.com/article/s... 1/2

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