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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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There is no better analyst of what is happening in politics, in the GOP, in the pro-democracy movement, and in the media than @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. Please watch, consider and share. youtu.be/GyleOTPeEHs

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Look up what’s on the ballot near you at runforwhat.net - then join our intro call on Tuesday to talk thru it!

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ICYMI… IDAHO… “A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos… men who dragged Teresa Borrenpohl from the meeting worked for private security firm LEAR Asset Management…“ Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGcAW0e...

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I thought the drama was going to between Trump and Elon. But I guess it’s not surprising that the agency heads Trump appointed - who ostensibly want to have some amount of power - will be the ones pushing back on Elon’s shit — essentially saying “I should be the one to destroy it, not that asshole!”

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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

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I am proud that my law firm is currently litigation 48 voting and election cases in 18 states.

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New — I wrote about how the 5 bullets email is nothing but an escalation of Musk and the Trump administration’s psychological war on federal workers. Read here:

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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“I’m not going to tell you I will never touch Social Security:” Rep. Pete Sessions, a longtime GOP member of Congress from Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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Public Notice: “ @aoc.bsky.social is showing members of Congress can provide real help to constituents while enraging Trump’s dunderheaded hench-thugs and making them look so bad even Jonathan Turley is forced to pile on… Schumer & Jeffries should take notes.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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How many Park Ranger salaries could this have paid for? lhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/

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Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

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In case anyone still had illusion that ADL was a good faith anti-racism or pro-democracy organization. Unfortunately, most of liberal establishment, including Democratic Party, relies heavily on ADL for its information on antisemitism, the far right, and racism (notably in Congressional hearings).

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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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NEW Here is the full email that Musk/OPM is sending to 2 million federal employees. Subject line: What did you do last week? Musk claimed on X that failure to reply would be considered a resignation, but that is not mentioned in the email.

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Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

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This is such condescending BS.

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"It makes me sick to think of him profiting from such vile hate.”

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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

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They continue to tell this debunked lie 🤥 for a reason: so when they cut social security to pave the way for their tax cuts for the rich you think they had an actual reason to do it.

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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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Want to give up Amazon? Here are three alternatives to Kindle youtu.be/04kz9lgW7Kg

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gm

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It’s like the conservative version of blowing up pipelines

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“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

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ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

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Trump cut travel funding for our scientists to work on the next global climate change report (IPCC). I don't think it's legal for him to tell scientists they can't work with the IPCC. Either way, do not comply. Why keep your job if you can't actually do the job? www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/c...

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I'm glad that this story has been picked up by national and international outlets. One local outlet, D Magazine, has also highlighted the report. The rest of the mainstream news outlets in Dallas have not. Perhaps I'm being impatient but I must admit I'm confused as to why they've yet to pick it up.

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NYT has the inside story on part of Donald Trump's war on breakfast (high coffee prices) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/b...

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“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

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The head of PGMOL was on Sky Sports five days ago. Five days. He said Lewis-Skelly’s wrongful red card at Wolves COULD NOT be overturned because VAR ‘does not want to re referee the game.’ So why has this policy been totally 180d within five days?

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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CFPB was created to stop big banks & lenders from ripping us off in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. Rent & home prices are unaffordable and skyrocketing. College costs are an all-time high. Junk fees are out of control. The worst possible moment to gut the watchdog protecting our pocketbooks.

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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The language that mainstream media use to refer to anti-democratic and imperialist behavior and policies of Trump 2.0 shows most clearly that they are mainly an instrument of power rather than a check on it.

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A deep dive into DOGE data discovers a disturbing directory of discrepancies, distortions, delusions, and deception. Dismal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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