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If you’re a federal worker looking for a good accomplishment to share with Elon, tell him you responded to texts from the mother of your children.

I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

Let’s make him FAMOUS, shall we?! 👇 You know what to do.

DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

Eugenics & fascism go hand in hand. White supremacists don’t want disabled people around. We remind them of their fragility. We question their supremacy. Stand up for disabled people. Fight mask bans, Medicaid & Medicare cuts. Wear a mask. It’s one of the most powerful things you can do.

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

The same people who refused to acknowledge that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute, are I presume going to come up with some similar narrative to refuse to acknowledge that Trump is calling himself a king.

Idk feels like the president declaring himself King ought to be A1 headline stuff

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

why it's almost as if there's a well-funded authoritarian cabal working in global unison to dismantle democratic norms for their collective benefit by waging war on journalism, education, legal accountability, and informed consensus

These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

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The White House is posting literal fascist video of the deportations with gleeful comments from the official account. You are not going crazy they are Nazis and they are dancing at the the opportunity to murder anyone they want with impunity they are posting the cattle cars for clicks.

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

huh.

The basic fraud of Elon Musk is the fiction that he’s smart. It’s how he got so wealthy - every company he touched blew up in value because “Elon Musk is a genius” and now it’s why no one will point out that the emperor has no clothes as he spectacularly beclowns himself in government.

Ding ding ding! Watch this. He’s laying it out. My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us. When Elon bought X, it became even sharper. The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.

For all the "no one is paying attention and no one cares" people, it seems significant to note that Tuesday's telephone Town Hall held by Democrat Pat Ryan (NY-18) had over 22,000 people on it.

This is probably the most accurate take.

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

The corrupt deal between Adams and Trump is becoming an acid test of public integrity. And multiple Republicans are passing that test while top Dems in New York State are failing it miserably. But then they are part of the corrupt Andrew Cuomo machine so unsurprising.

The National Park Service has erased trans people from the Stonewall uprising: AN UPRISING TRANS PEOPLE HELPED LEAD. There’s a reserved spot in hell for the shit stains pursuing this vile campaign to erase trans people. Trans people aren’t going anywhere. And we have their backs.

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

ok! www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

"Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI, a bombshell letter obtained by The Post reveals." nypost.com/2025/02/13/u...

Every single conversation about Linda McMahon needs to start with the fact that Republicans want to put someone who is credibly accused of sex trafficking minors and covering up child rape in charge of the US Department of Education.

Holy Shit. They're burning through people pretty fast now. After Sassoon refused/resigned, the next two people - heads of Public Integrity Section (DC) and the Criminal Division also refused/resigned. This all JUST happened. And these are all 'actings', so they're people the Trump crew chose.

I just keep going back to anyone during the election who predicted even half of what’s happening now was dismissed as a wild alarmist.

The State Department has suddenly awoken to the incredible opportunity that is $400 million of expensive and impractical armored Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Crockett: "This is nothing more than another payday for Elon Musk bc we know that if there is any govt welfare to be handed out, it is consistently being handed out to Elon Musk, who stopped all the money to USAID while at the same time deciding that he would get another contract for over $300m."

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson