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Author and journalist. Author of Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine. See me in Netflix’s Payday episode of Dirty Money. Three time Pulitzer finalist.
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China is now threatening war.

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Why don't other countries put a 100% tariff on Teslas?

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Tesla stock is in freefall today, continuing the bloodbath ytd. Barron's quoted a stock analyst who says there's a buyer's strike, "with CEO Elon Musk’s increasingly political activity turning off core Tesla buyers—politically left-leaning people looking to go green."

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In 2021, Congress overrode President Trump's veto of the Corporate Transparency Act, a law designed to combat money laundering and the use of shell companies for criminal activity. Now, Trump has announced that he will not enforce the act, disregarding the fact that Congress already rebuked him.

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Why even have a military if the commander in chief is willing to surrender to our enemies?

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Liz Cheney has become a rare truth teller in the Republican Party.

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This is a major scandal.

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Hillary Clinton's emails, Benghazi and Hunter Biden's laptop were stories covered ad nauseam for months and years. President Trump's pardon of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists faded within a month.

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The maker of electric vehicles wants to tear apart NOAA because it believes in climate change.

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It was less than a month ago when offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were seized. Elon Musk and his DOGE gang stormed past security and demanded access to NOAA’s IT systems. They forcibly gained access to massive amounts of data — including highly sensitive,…

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See if you can find the one person who is not a Senator in this photo of the Senate DOGE caucus.

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John Roberts is easily the worst chief Justice in history.

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Think of all that brain power in Trump's cabinet meeting.

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This is what happens when you reject science. Children die.

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This is what actual waste, fraud, and abuse look like: an altered document that gives Elon Musk's company $400 million to sell the State Department cars it doesn't want.

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Do you think they're talking about Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas?

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Trump says he may create a "NICE NEW LAW" to silence criticism in the media.

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Elon Musk wants to shred the separation of powers.

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The lead scientist whose study set the standards for the Clean Air Act, Harvard professor Douglas Dockery, told me once that eliminating air pollution saved as many lives as finding a cure for cancer. publicintegrity.org/environment/...

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Because of a far-right media site, Marjorie Taylor Greene, head of the DOGE subcommittee, will visit Fort Knox to examine the gold bars. No conspiracy theory can be ignored. www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-po...

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There's not a single Dan Bongino video that isn't hyperpartisan and fringe.

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Secret Service managers are giving Elon Musk the finger.

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Do people realize that Trump has given up on his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza after Jordan and Egypt said no?

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Has anyone told him yet that the new chancellor of Germany said election interference by Elon Musk and JD Vance was shameful?

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I wonder what the record is for having the courts overturn executive orders?

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Think of it, a modestly successful reality TV star, Donald Trump is talking to Putin to make concessions for his invasion of Ukraine while rejecting the wishes of Ukraine and all of our allies.

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Ed Luce of the Financial Times says Donald Trump has killed NATO.

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Opposite world.

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President Trump ordered agency heads to be completely transparent about cuts to waste, fraud, and abuse in their organizations, but only to the extent that they "deem appropriate to promote the policies of my Administration." Isn't that the opposite of transparency?

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The JFK Library has changed its website to say this: The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will reopen on Wednesday February 19.

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Trump blames Ukraine for Putin's invading. Does he blame Poland for Hitler's invading?

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Trump says Ukraine needs elections because Zelenskyy's approval rating is down to 4 percent. Zelenskyy's approval rating is 52 percent. Trump's is lower, at about 47 percent.

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In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

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Donald Trump is firing people who keep open the site where the Constitution was signed.

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Donald Trump says the Founding Fathers would be spinning in their graves if they thought immigrants would be let in the country. I’m sure it didn’t bother Alexander Hamilton. #immigrantswegetthejobdone

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Things President Trump doesn't understand: 1. Americans, not foreign countries, pay tariffs. 2. Trade deficits are not subsidies or loans. 3. Countries don't pay for NATO. 4. You cannot buy a country.

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Donald Trump says tariffs will lower prices and businesses love them.

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A month ago, we were on the side of a friendly democracy being invaded by a ruthless dictator. We seem to have switched sides in favor of a war criminal.

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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Elon Musk admitted he was wrong about the US spending $50 million on condoms in Gaza. No mention of Donald Trump embellishing the lie by claiming Hamas was making condom bombs.

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During Trump's first term, his Attorney General appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate his campaign's ties to Russia. Now, the Justice Department is going after anyone who investigated Trump or Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

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The White House says court rulings against Trump's executive orders “is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the will of the American people.” Democracy may already be dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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"Up until now, while presidents might engage in particular acts that were unconstitutional, I never had the sense that there was a president for whom the Constitution was essentially meaningless.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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I'm sure she was a Chiefs fan until they lost.

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If you’re someone who’s gotten screwed by a bank or lender, the architect of Project 2025 has seized control of a government agency that could have fixed your problem and won’t let them help you. The scammers win.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

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Fox News reports that Donald Trump is pursuing both civil and criminal options against news media. Trump has a lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize board for honoring the NY Times's and Washington Post's coverage of Russian election interference.

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"This isn't something that you can rummage through American history and find an analogy for what Trump wants to be - what he keeps telling us that he wants to be - and that's Vladimir Putin." Democrats have "got to be very radical in stopping this from happening before it's too late." ~Ed Luce, FT

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Donald Trump seems to have no clue that proposing to steal property from Palestinians and ship them off to another country to be permanent refugees is immoral.

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The DC US Attorney, who works for the Justice Department, is threatening to prosecute anyone who "impedes" Elon Musk's attempt to seize control of the US government.

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