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I spent hours last night wading through X threads about DOGE, Musk, and the elimination of USAID. Here are ELEVEN THINGS that jumped out at me about Musk and his interlocutors.🧵 (1) Musk et al. talk as if they truly believe USAID has been a hotbed of corruption and "evil." But this conviction...

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Meanwhile, in LA today

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Guess what? We’re still here. 😂 People are asking what they can do: 1) Keep calling your electeds! 2) If you’re local to DC, come protest at OPM & the Old Executive Bldg, where word has it Musk works out of. (haven’t confirmed that) Just stay on public sidewalks and be kind to federal employees.

submitted 20 days ago • 98 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 20 days ago • 745 comments

Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz: "If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers." BOOM!

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Rubio's state dept appointee is a white supremacist and a misogynist. I remember not too long ago when a Republican who said this would be disqualified from high profile federal jobs forever.

submitted 19 days ago • 143 comments

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

submitted 19 days ago • 1567 comments

Among the USAID reports now taken offline by Elon Musk's "Doge" is the one I used on Tuesday to prove the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million — false information the White House press secretary said she got from Elon Musk's "Doge" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Murphy: "Let's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our govt right now is doing it based on self-interest."

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 19 days ago • 2172 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 84 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 20 days ago • 730 comments

I'm so old, I remember when Obama signing ONE executive order was tyranny

submitted 21 days ago • 536 comments

DNC Chair Nominee Ken Martin goes off on being on the side of civil rights. Yaaaaaaassssss!

submitted 21 days ago • 30 comments

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

submitted 22 days ago • 816 comments

This is advice every dem politician should take to heart. Don’t sell against the competition. Sell what you are doing to reduce people’s stress and make their life better It’s not about what’s wrong with the competition. It’s about what is right with you

submitted 22 days ago • 1246 comments

📌Three soldiers are dead tonight. Their Commander in Chief took no responsibility for it, and didn’t show a shred of empathy. He is a tiny man, a coward, completely unfit for duty, and an embarrassment to all of us who served. I spit on him.

submitted 23 days ago • 740 comments

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

submitted 22 days ago • 3405 comments

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

submitted 22 days ago • 2005 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 22 days ago • 4419 comments

Hex away, witches!

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

submitted 23 days ago • 3445 comments

Trump supporters are going to get swept up in his disastrous and cruel policies, too. Like this guy and his wife:

submitted 23 days ago • 84 comments

Wow. Malcolm Kenyatta is running for DNC Vice Chair and … DAMN. Just watch. 🔥🔥🔥 Pass this on. Follow: @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 151 comments

The thing about having control of The White House The House & The Senate….. You Can’t Blame Anyone Else For Your Incompetence & Historical Failures. Every Tragedy. Every Stock Market Crash. Every Horrifically Planned Disaster Response. Inflation. The Cost Of Groceries…. IS ON YOU, TRUMP!

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

For fucks sake, he gutted aviation safety ONE WEEK before the midair collision of a Blackhawk helicopter and commercial flight in Washington, DC last night. No wonder orange fuckface is already trying to blame DEI for this catastrophic plane crash. DON’T GET IT TWISTED ASSHOLE THIS ON YOU.

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Trump’s DC air crash press conference is an embarrassing disaster. Offensive and abusive. Full of lies about DEI at the FAA. Hateful and shameful political rhetoric at this most painful of times. He is completely insane. This is not normal. #25thAmendmentNow

submitted 23 days ago • 145 comments

This press conference on the DC crash is an embarrassment. Just a lot of rambling.

submitted 23 days ago • 6008 comments

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67 people died. Anguish for 67 families . Grotesque, cruel & utterly irresponsible to hear convicted felon in the WH using full word for BS, while blaming democrats & DEI for the plane crash - equating diversity with ‘low IQ etc. We must wait until they find out why the crash occurred.

submitted 23 days ago • 91 comments

Trump is out here trying to blame Black people and women for a plane crash that happened after he announced a DEI purge of the FAA

submitted 23 days ago • 234 comments

Let’s sort this out now: Anyone who attacks DEI as a bad thing is a racist who just won’t say it out loud. Period.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

After 20-minute remarks blaming DEI efforts at the FAA for last night's D.C. crash, President Trump is asked whether he has any proof that this crash was caused by DEI efforts. "It just could have been," he replies.

submitted 23 days ago • 136 comments

😂 what a humiliating disaster

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I don’t remember military helicopters crashing into planes during the Biden admin….Trump’s fault

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This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

submitted 24 days ago • 26 comments

A contradiction and a necessary feature of fascism. A proud people with a glorious past in the greatest country on earth, now somehow suffering under the unbearable yoke of liberal overreach and malfeasance, making it a shadow of its former self. This can only be remedied by a personalist leader.

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Robert F. Kenney got into Harvard by submitting an application that was a single page long and consisted entirely of his name. Here's why it's time to end DEI.

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