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Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

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Be there or Be square!!! #HoosierSky

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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

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The explosive Oval Office meeting between Trump, Vance & Zelensky revealed the fracturing U.S.-Ukraine relationship. Trump issued an ultimatum: “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out.” A bad day for U.S. foreign policy. Brian O’Neill explains.

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Yesterday, five former defense secretaries released an open letter calling the dismissals of senior military leaders as “reckless” and urged Congress not to confirm their successors. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Jen Rubin discuss the future of the U.S. military, appropriations, and more.

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Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

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"Trump doesn’t want the National Archives to be 'nonpartisan.' He wants them to be his." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-story-...

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

submitted 21 days ago • 1605 comments

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... We are in it. Are we up to it?

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At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

submitted 26 days ago • 405 comments

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

submitted 26 days ago • 215 comments

"Trump is the master of grievance and animus precisely because he himself is an exposed nerve of status anxiety. No one articulates this sense of injury quite like him because perhaps no one is as covetous, spiteful, and achingly needy as he is."

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

submitted 26 days ago • 489 comments

Elon Musk’s crude intervention in German politics is very unfortunate. But if it can help awaken us to what is at stake at this moment, perhaps it will have inadvertently served a useful purpose. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and Ben Parker:

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How does a political party get comfortable with the use of violence? How does a constitutional democracy drift toward authoritarianism? The answers are right in front of us. @saletan.bsky.social breaks down how Republicans got comfortable with the January 6 pardons:

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"Trump’s executive order is meant to defund research on disinformation and intimidate anyone looking to protect the truth.” Read more on Trump's latest censorship decree from American Sunlight CEO, @ninajankowicz.com. contrarian.substack.com/p/making-cen...

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January 22, 2025

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“During Donald Trump’s first term, it took a while for me to get fired.” Allison Gill, host of @muellershewrote.bsky.social shares her firsthand experience at the VA—and warns how the new administration's plans could put veterans' benefits at risk. contrarian.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...

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In light of Trump's decree to “end federal censorship”, Nina Jankowicz, CEO of @americansunlight.org shares her personal experience with false accusations of censorship as the leader of the Disinformation Governance Board—which was dismantled amid threats.

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Don't worry, this will be updated again when necessary

submitted 36 days ago • 37 comments

"Our Constitution assigns political checks to the other branches of government. In the case of Trump, they both failed miserably." And now we’re left to face the consequences of their inaction. @barbmcquade.bsky.social explains what went wrong. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 37 days ago • 41 comments

"The bros’ and theobros’ eerily similar views of women and sex bind them together under the MAGA banner. And in Pete Hegseth, this misogynistic marriage from hell is embodied in one deeply flawed and unqualified person." NEW from @hollybfletcher.bsky.social:

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As 2025 begins, so does the year’s first full moon, which also marks the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA. Known as the “wolf moon,” it gets its name from the idea that wolves howl during January’s long, cold nights.

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