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The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

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so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

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I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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i keep joking about the GOP being in league with the chaos gods from the warhammer universe but there are so few movements in human history that thought of themselves explicitly as evil that i have to reach a bit. i am not even sure if historical fascism is a good analogue bc of this

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How it started. How it’s going

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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Egg prices have now surpassed $8 per dozen.

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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“Make them outlaw you. We will stand behind you. We will be there with you. I will get arrested with you.” 50 years past Howard Beale’s “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore” and we’re suddenly there again.

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Do we think some constitutional law scholar has already sent a pitch to the NYT op-ed on why it’s fine and good even for Trump to run again?

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need to invent a worse word for nazi bc ppl are not ashamed enough of being a nazi

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US military personnel killed in the Europe/Atlantic theatre of war 1942-1945, that is, fighting the Nazis so they wouldn't salute a dictator like this anymore: About 250,000 (US Department of Defense, January 2025)

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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This sort of gives away the "liberal deep state" nonsense. There has never been a Director of the FBI who was a Democrat. The Republican Directors were not targeting conservatives, if the word "conservative" has any meaning.

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Colleges are under pressure from White House over diversity (DEI) but no big school has bent the shameful knee of obeying in advance harder or faster than Trump and Musk's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania My new column on the strangling of academic freedom www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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The Congress shall have Power… to establish Post Offices. (Article 1, Section 8). Biden never fired DeJoy for fear of taking irregular actions; Trump just assumes direct control of the entire postal service.

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Us: hey if a man raped someone maybe don’t put him in charge of the pentagon JD Vance: wow boys, don’t be afraid to have a beer

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"Our culture tells young men they shouldn't write 'Normalize Indian hate' on Twitter. That they shouldn't follow Neo-Nazi accounts that promote eugenics. That they shouldn't go into the Social Security servers with their good friends Big Balls and Boner and just start wrecking things."

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Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

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Conservatives: “masculinity is under attack!” Also Conservatives: “the subway is scary!”

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I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

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“.. I think it is by design,” New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin .. “They don’t want to say what his real role is because they don’t want to admit that an unelected billionaire is running the federal government right now.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

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Michael Scott "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY" energy

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You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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