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Spy family…

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Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $394.2 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $241.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $254.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

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📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5) • a new option for who can reply to your posts • search posts by a user • lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

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Understanding what the courts can do helps us understand what we must do. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...

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The processing fee for a passport is $130 but there can be other costs and you have to get documents establishing your citizenship like a birth certificate and a photograph. This is the new pull tax if the SAVE act passes.

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities” electionlawblog.org?p=148644

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Yikes. This is a great summary of the dark ideology behind Musk, Thiel, & Yarvis. This is why they're burning it all down. Trump suggests we erect 10 new "freedom cities" on federal land... the precise blueprint for feudalism. You own the land, no government regulates you, you create serfdom.

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I really just cannot brag enough about how good this new @indivisible.org resource on next week's congressional recess is. If you're looking for practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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"It will completely upend our voter registration system." Wendy Weiser from the ‪@brennancenter.bsky.social explains what the SAVE Act is.

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The Word of the Day: "quid pro quo": something for something; a favor for a favor.

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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She's right and we should call her colleagues and say so.

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

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

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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

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A portrait of an artist devouring her pain.

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Fareed Zakaria, clear as a bell www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/p...

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"Coup Klux Klan" feels like a keeper

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Your periodic reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

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Yes! Great news. Been watching for this encouraging outcome. Protecting voting rights. Thank you!

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Leadership.

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If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...

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I know folks are frustrated that congressional Dems aren't yet a unified opposition force. Same. But while we're working to build that, we can't give a pass to these complicit Senate GOP facing reelection next year. Proud Indivisible is launching this today:

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God bless @propublica.org projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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