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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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Oh my god, Eric Adams is going to accidentally free Luigi. Amazing.

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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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The richest man in the world being handed all of the trappings of public office, with zero accountability

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Here’s a little secret: America isn’t $36 trillion in debt because working-class people have Social Security and Medicare. It’s because billionaires and corporations aren’t paying their fair share… End of story.

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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Trump has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities to end all DEI programs or risk losing federal funding. The DoE has already canceled some $600 million in grants for teacher training on race, social justice and other topics as part of its crusade against “woke” policies.

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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A key line @atrupar.com skipped here: Trump using the royal we—“WE are the federal law” It’s all happening right in front of all of us, folks

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Watch this clip, folks 👇 Does Bannon sound like he's joking about Trump becoming dictator for life? Because he isn't.

submitted 2 days ago • 343 comments

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

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"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative."

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This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

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"Trump Is Planning to Take Control of the Postal Service, Officials Say" The USPS employs around 600,000 people. Think about the hit to our economy, let alone the employees. BTW: The government doesn't fund the USPS. This is pure privatizing graft. Gift link. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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Just a coincidence....Bannon must be autistic too...

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Was listening to someone talk about the people who are regretting their votes and they dropped a quote I will never forget “They are only crying now, because they are being treated, how they voted for other people to be treated”

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US switches stance on Russia-Ukraine war and is seeking $500bn in payback after a war of words broke out between Trump and Zelenskyy aje.io/h5udzc

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New — Social Security Administration (SSA) probationary employees were told today that they have eight hours to agree to be reassigned to a field office, tele-service center or payment center and waive all rights to appeal reassignment, or they will be fired, agency source tells me.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Get. Off. X.

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“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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BREAKING: The 8th circuit is letting 17 states move forward with challenging the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rule (h/t @gbbranstetter.bsky.social). We have new analysis out today showing that would impact nearly 3 million pregnant workers each year. nationalpartnership.org/report/attac...

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"The senior US Republicans tasked with dismantling Joe Biden’s signature climate policy have enjoyed an investment boom of more than $130bn in the areas they represent thanks to the former president’s law." www.ft.com/content/e627...

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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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NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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This is @murray.senate.gov's effort to track what Trump has cut. I'd love to crowdsource a way to make this a point of exchange, to collect info from contractors who've gotten cut off, and match it to what she's learning as Appropriations Ranking. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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“Once, I swallowed my pride to offer him what he values the most—public praise on the Sunday news shows……Going along to get along does not work.” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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They were never going to lower prices. They never cared about egg prices. It's the same lie as CRT. They want us chasing their bullshit while the real mission is to disassemble the government so the rich can get richer. They are on a mission to destroy it all. It's beyond a coup.

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

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New—Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner stepped down bc she wouldn't comply w/ DOGE. Lower-level staffer Leland Dudek replaced her. In a now-deleted LinkedIn post (pre-promotion) shared w/ me, he said he was placed on admin leave bc he "circumvented the chain of command" to help DOGE.

submitted 4 days ago • 136 comments

NEW from me: a source tells me yesterday the Trump admin moved to reduce the size of the Board of Immigration Appeals from 28 Appellate Immigration Judges to 15, in the process laying off judges appointed under Biden. This comes as the BIA faces historic caseloads and delays — which will get worse.

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 767 comments

I think there’s a huge divide between finance, where many believe this, and actual professions where these claims are comically untrue.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

I just did this. It took 5 minutes. If you want protection against DOGE fucking with your data, do this now.

submitted 6 days ago • 78 comments