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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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"Aren't you the country where people hang plastic testicles on their cars?" Ok wise guy, and where do people in your country hang them?

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Does this qualify as an emergency yet or should we check the polling in swing districts first

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It's a basic Republican principle, paying taxes is voluntary for rich people. It's only mandatory for ordinary workers who have taxes deducted from their paychecks.

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New from @propublica.org: We studied a massive set of hospital discharge data to see what happened after Texas banned abortion. …

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Trump's latest executive order puts independent agencies — including the FTC, SEC, and NLRB — under his direct control. It's a blatant attempt to shield his corporate donors and his own business from agencies that hold the powerful accountable. This is an alarming power-grab.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Sorry, refugees and Medicaid recipients. Under President Trump, the GOP is taking America back from the elites. by Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Thiel

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Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

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Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . It's yet another alarming move by the most unabashedly corrupt president in American history. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bribery-unbound

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Donald Trump and Eric Adams show model of bipartisanship in new America

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Whether it’s Mussolini making the trains run on time or Donald Trump making the planes crash, both fascist dictators showed a strong interest in transportation.

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It was always obvious that the TikTok ban was on behalf of Israel. If you were one of the people who denied this, then this is yet another opportunity to confront how easily you’re being programmed by your government.

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A Rare White Bison

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Trump has begun firing several hundred FAA employees. Guess who is visiting the FAA command center today to "suggest improvements"? Elon Musk, of course. The billionaire grift continues. https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437

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A Delta Air Lines regional jet crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, flipping upside down on the snow-covered tarmac — but, remarkably, leaving all 80 people on board alive. wapo.st/412JljV

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The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

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Elon Musk's Argentine buddy gets caught up in crypto scam cepr.net/publications...

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One of the most middle of the road and longest running news programs in the US. This rhetoric is an attempt to shape the most basic contours of what people are allowed to say in public.

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This is the click-through engagement my shadowbanned account on Twitter has had over the past 67 days, where I still have over 30K followers. We live in a fascist algorithmocracy. Thank you to those of you who found me on bsky. You can also subscribe on tsakraklides.com. Fuk technofascism and Elon.

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The monopoly round-up is out. I laid out the specific legal concessions that Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to score from Trump. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

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This was all too real with Steward in our state: private equity companies are vampires, sucking out value from our health care system and funneling it to their investors. And patients suffer. This is a great report, and I have a bill to stop private equity's abusive practices.

submitted 40 days ago • 144 comments

There are five million people between Gaza and the West Bank and none of them are allowed to travel freely, nor are they granted their basic freedoms and human rights. Every single one of them is a hostage held by Israel and the United States.

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The fact the ruling class now knows exactly how to force through a genocide in the 21st century means nobody, anywhere, is safe ‘Nobody is free until everybody is free’ is not some fluffy little slogan; it is a measure of an undeniable reality in which injustice connects us all

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Occasionally

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Citing funding uncertainties and the failure of Congress to pass a 2024 budget, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated under contract by Caltech, on Tuesday announced that it is laying off 8 percent of its workforce, about 530 people, plus another 40 contractors.

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