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Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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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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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thanks, Bernie. We need some words of encouragement right about now. We can defeat these monsters if we refuse to compromise, refuse to surrender.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral “Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.” www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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URGENT: The folks at Americans for Financial Reform are looking for stories from people who’ve been helped by CFPB. Please read this call to action and share far and wide! 🚨 Let’s save CFPB 🚨 Pass it on.

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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I read the article and Moore’s instagram response, and the book is literally about having red hair and freckles and being self-conscious?? Are they just digging around for more things to be bigots about??

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cis.org/Lundgren/Pro...

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the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

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In a "truly dystopian" Dear Colleague Letter sent out late Friday night, ED has threatened OCR investigations and revocation of college's federal funding for any race-based financial aid, hiring programming or other resources. @liamknox.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Three of the most powerful words in journalism: "Help us investigate." From @joshtpm.bsky.social, who says: "I hope you will keep inundating me." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

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When the leader of your party is a convicted felon who was found by a court to be a sexual assaulter, whose company was found guilty of fraud, who incited a violent insurrection, and whose mismanagement of a pandemic caused 10Ks of avoidable deaths, there’s not much that’s going to shame you.

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SHOULD WE CUT BACK FOREIGN AID? "Yes... our country faces a fiscal crisis" "No... We are spending less than one-half of 1%" -American Legion Magazine (1968) Same battles until the end of time.

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Go read a book.

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our friends to the north have a good read on the situation and how best to affect it

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this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

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This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

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The most sober, respected, you could fairly say establishment normie academic experts are saying it as loudly and plainly as they can: the Constitution is collapsing right now unlike anything in American history.

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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This is how bad it is in the US. The American Bar Association had to put out a statement in support of the Rule of Law. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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After the International Student Gold Rush thelocal.to/internationa...

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RHODES: “.. the history of the first half of the 20th century reminds us what happens when a strain of nationalism emerges, unbridled by rules, .. Large nations led by nationalist strongmen inevitably clash; people inevitably suffer.” @rhodesben.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

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District Judge John C. Coughenour shows all other judges, the Correct and Only way to interprete Don the Con's Lawlessness and utter disregard for the Constitution. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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B of A: “.. US defense spend >$900bn in ’24 .. tempting source of savings ..” [Hartnett]

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This week, @wired.com has gotten a lot of love on this here app. (Thank you!!) But I don’t think I can overstate what a force @bsky.app has become in influencing the entire media ecosystem. So refreshing to have a platform that isn’t actively hostile to hard news.

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NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Not surprising. There's Elon fan world, which is quite large. Then there's everyone else and among the everyone else it's hard to overstate the degree of brand damage for Tesla and Musk especially since there's such an overlap btw people who'd be inclined to buy an EV and those who despise Musk.

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"Trump is to real politics as professional wrestling is to genuine sports"

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now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

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