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There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.

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This GOP’s agenda is a moral abomination .. If there is anything worth taking to the streets for peaceful protest, it is this sort of massive, regressive redistribution from the already-struggling to the no-amount-is-ever-enough billionaire class. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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The Treasury will no longer enforce an anti-money laundering law that Trump said was an "absolute disaster" for small businesses.

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DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest “savings” it once celebrated — but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGE’s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

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Sound familiar??

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

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THIS ‼️

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A federal judge said President Donald Trump exceeded his authority last month by firing the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a key federal whistleblower agency. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 97 comments

Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 544 comments

87% of jobs at Amazon pay less than $20 an hour while half of its warehouse workers struggle to cover food and housing costs. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos saw his net worth increase by $7.9 million an hour in 2023. Is this the "free market" Bezos is so desperate to defend?

submitted 3 days ago • 283 comments

BREAKING: judge just announced he is ruling in our favor! He’s reading his legal findings from the bench now, OPM did not have authority to direct firings. Says agencies LIED! Organizational plaintiffs have standing. Now awaiting rest of findings & relief statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...

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REPOST if you stand with AOC!

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Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!

submitted 8 days ago • 558 comments

I wonder if Vance shares his anti-immigrant views at the dinner table…

submitted 3 days ago • 238 comments

“Nature finds a way”…

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6,700 IRS employees fired during tax season, rescinded terminations, bungled buyouts, and cuts that increase costs rather than save money. DOGE is ignoring the basic realities of government & the damage is piling up. Max Stier sounds the alarm.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Had the pleasure of speaking with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social ‬about how Trump's policies will be the undoing of both his popularity and our economy. I hope you'll tune in. youtu.be/yVwFohC6IpA?...

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Under Trump's leadership, the US took Russia's side at the UN, opposing a resolution acknowledging Russia’s responsibility for the war. @gallego.senate.gov and I rushed to the floor to force the Senate to condemn this betrayal of our ally. Republicans blocked us. youtu.be/Wtazkuq1JhU?...

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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Elon Musk spending more than $4 million to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court race NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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BREAKING: Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers @garygrumbach.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

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No surprise that this opinion piece apparently met the new Bezos imposed guidelines at WaPo. If you are looking for fearlessly pro-democracy news, analysis and opinion, consider supporting @democracydocket.com. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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Myra Solano Garcia, who has Alzheimer's, says the drug Kisunla may be one reason she can still drive, cook, and sing.

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NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ. Reporting from NBC News:

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"Given how prominently disinformation played in Virginia’s federal elections last year, election officials, voting rights advocates and grassroots pro-democracy organizers are bracing for another election rife with right-wing disinformation — and an avalanche of money spent to promote it."

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A federal judge in San Francisco hears arguments in a case challenging the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees — those in their first year or so on the job.

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As Trump looks to fund tax cuts for the wealthy by gutting health care, we’re going to save Minnesotans money by making the insurance industry pay their fair share.

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Great piece by @clarajeffery.bsky.social comparing the burgeoning anti-Tesla/Musk movement with the anti-apartheid movement of the 70s/80s. And not just because of Musk's South African roots. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Elon Musk's claim that federal workers who ignore a mass email will lose their job isn't supported by the email's request — or OPM guidance that says responses to its mass emails are "voluntary."

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

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...

submitted 8 days ago • 2643 comments

When incompetence and mastery of bull-shitting conjoin the results are breathtaking.

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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-...

submitted 8 days ago • 2971 comments

@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the gripping and impactful DOGE reporting by local news outlets: "It would be both ironic and so very American if the rich and powerful oligarchs were finally stopped by the underfunded newsrooms and working-class reporters." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/local-news...

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If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

submitted 10 days ago • 162 comments

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

submitted 8 days ago • 287 comments