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The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b.... Gifted.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

I hear the nagging question you ask inside your head a few hundred times a day: "Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?" It isn't you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

“Shoot, aim, ready.” Reckless Trump administration officials fired over 300 National Nuclear Security Administration employees, including those overseeing our nuclear arsenal. Now they’re trying to get them to come back. We have 1435 days left of this shitshow!

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is definitely one of the good ones. Today he HAMMERED Trump with a detailed list of all the prices that are going up because of Trump's trade wars. Make sure everyone sees this.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Nailed it 🏆

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

PLEASE SHARE.

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

Neo-Nazis chased out of Greater Cincinnati, local residents set swastika flag ablaze local12.com/news/local/p...

#resist #poliart Please stand up for political cartoonists around the country as they are starting to be pushed out for their content and/or due to "needed cuts". Art has spoken truth to power throughout history and is one of the first things crushed in regimes.

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

Trump may have pardoned the rioter who viciously attacked officer Michael Fanone on January, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson made a few things clear when she dismissed the case, as she had to:

Thank you!

What I’m reading on the plane. We all need to do what we can, when we can. If all you can do today to contribute is learn something about authoritarianism that you didn’t know before, that’s good enough. A little is better than none. Keep going.

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

Help Wanted. 👇

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Dear Leaders of the Free World, Fight him at every turn. Make his life miserable. Expose his ignorance and sociopathy. Oppose and condemn and marginalize him. The decent people of this nation are not with him. We stand with you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

The Pentagon is setting the stage for state run propaganda… 🚨 NYT, NBC, NPR, and Politico evicted from Pentagon press offices in favor of Trump-friendly outlets like Breitbart, One America News & NY Post.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This photo hits hard.

The White House has suddenly removed this page. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

More of this please

BREAKING NEWS: A passenger jet collided midair with a black hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in a mass casualty event in Washington DC. Just last week, Trump FIRED the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

Massive rally in Berlin against against far-right fascism. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

Senator Raphael Warnock destroys RFK Jr. who said he supports the work of the CDC: "You have compared to the CDC's work to Nazi death camps. You've compared it to sexual abusers in the Catholic church. You also said that many of them belong 'in jail.' For me, those are disturbing characterizations"

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.