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In all my years in the business world where I've had the authority to hire and fire people as appropriate, I have NEVER taken the decision to deprive someone of their ability to provide for their family lightly. I never took joy in having to do that. Musk treats it like a joke. To him it's

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Made a blatantly political post on FB for the first time. Until now I've kept FB as the place to connect with family and friends, free of politics. But the ignorance is more than I can take - because now it's dangerous. Actually had to tell someone to be nice or get off my timeline. 😞

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This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

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Every single article about Trump being “elected” Chair of the Kennedy Center must mention in the headline that Trump fired all the Board members that wouldn’t vote for him. “Made Chair” is such weak, passive language that fails to call out what’s really going on. Our media must do better.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

Hey, Dems in Congress, the reason we keep calling & asking you to do more is b/c we need you to do more. From our POV it looks like there’s no strategy & we elected you to represent us. If there’s something you need us to do, tell us & we’ll help but whatever you’re doing now isn’t working.

submitted 11 days ago • 160 comments

Louder for the people in the back ...

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Kick rocks, Google. I'm done with your maps. It's been the Gulf of Mexico since before there was a United States of America. The Gulf is an international body of water, and no one gets to rename it. Kick rocks.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 551 comments

This is really good messaging from Senator Gallego 👏

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

The Trump Administration is breaking the law. Period. Never stop showing this. They are not “implementing unpopular policies” or “auditing the government.” They are breaking the law and ignoring the courts.

submitted 12 days ago • 153 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Since JD Vance just converted to Catholicism 5 minutes ago, he might not know this: the Pope authoring a letter where he goes out of his way to correct you, specifically, is considered "bad" in the Catholic tradition

submitted 12 days ago • 136 comments

As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."

submitted 12 days ago • 1288 comments

Mr. Patel has been directly involved in secretly orchestrating a purge of career officials at the FBI. Emil Bove, then acting No. 2 at the Justice Department, fired career civil servants solely at the request of a private citizen.

submitted 12 days ago • 165 comments

They walk among us .... 🤦🏼‍♀️

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No coincidence — Musk’s attack on the CFPB came as he cut a deal with Visa to go into a payment business the CFPB has been regulating to make sure people don’t get ripped off. His companies have been investigated by many agencies he is dismantling. www.levernews.com/musk-targets...

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

Yale Law wants its degree back. And Vance needs to go back to school to learn about separation of powers…

submitted 14 days ago • 739 comments

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YUP. Puppy bowl is great. Elon is not.

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments

As Rubio and the felon high five and MAGA cheer…the world once again laughing! Are we winning yet?🤦🏻‍♀️

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The point about Trump’s deranged comments about Gaza is that we’re wasting precious seconds talking about Trump’s deranged comments about Gaza and not unelected Elon Musk’s coup to dismantle our government.

submitted 18 days ago • 162 comments

PROGRESSIVES AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: "Don't vote for her!!!! She isn't good for Palestine!!!!" DONALD TRUMP IN 2025: "We should ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza so I can build some Mediterranean-view condos."

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This is a private company taking over a federal agency, with no authority to do so. Why does anyone think their rights are being protected? “Two top security officials at the independent agency were removed after they refused access to” Musk employees. This is gone past “unprecedented.”

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

Why bother even being a Senator if you think Tulsi Gabbard is fit for DNI? Just admit you're a g-d rubber stamp for a felonious rapist.

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

Mob. Tactics. 101.

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Good to know. Vote'em out.

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“Then the elected officials tried to walk into USAID headquarters, only to have security turn them away, allegedly on Musk’s orders. This is the moment where we remind everyone that ELON MUSK IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR A (REAL) GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.” www.wonkette.com/p/democrats-...

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Memo to JD Vance: When a President attempts to rule by decree and outside Congress, that's a dictatorship. When that President's attempt to be a dictator is thwarted by the courts, the rule of law, and the American people, that's democracy. We the People refuse to bow to a dictator. Buckle up!

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

Mob tactics 101, folks."Nice country ya got there.. Shame if something happened to it..." Wake up! This is the way tRump has always operated!

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An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 23 days ago • 135 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 23 days ago • 1827 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

Utterly obscene and vile.

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If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

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He spent years demonizing immigrants. Then sent his Gestapo to round them up. Now he’s building a concentration camp. Welcome to Germany in the 1930s.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Good.

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Serious question: can the president just spend all his time in office suing people and then use the litigation as a "legal" way of accepting bribes via "settlements"?

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To every American of good will: The time is at hand. The time is now. This must be opposed. This is an order for a concentration camp in a place where it will exist largely outside of the American conscience and outside of the law and due process. This is a recipe for abuse on a mass scale.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

it was pretty obvious earlier today that this was a straight up lie. and now there's proof. of course it was.

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