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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"This shift [to inheritocracy] has alarming economic and social consequences, because it imperils not just the meritocratic ideal, but capitalism itself. ... It creates a rentier class that faces a series of bad incentives." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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"The White House summary says the goal with the order is national unity." Hello, 1939. Also, are we sure anyone knows how to speak proper English anymore? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.

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The bill, expected to be signed by the governor, strips gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, which provides protection from discrimination in housing, education, employment, wages and more. (via @iowapublicradio.org)

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always read @mirinfader.bsky.social

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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just devastating. the human toll of this is and will be devastating. the wanton destruction of true psychopaths. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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That fact even Ron DeSantis and Dave Portnoy are repulsed by the Trump administration’s effort to free the Tate brothers means this is a useful thing we can exploit to get normal people to turn on the regime. “Trump and Musk are importing rapists to rape your American daughters” is true.

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BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

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Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

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Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.

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Here's the memo that went out short time ago from SSA HR announcing "organizational restructuring" of Social Security admin. essentially one last chance to quit before you're all fired. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memo-...

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the military side is also pissed

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From a few years ago, before the Staals and Reimer ruined everything

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The Tate brothers have been allowed to leave Romania, where they were charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal group to sexually exploit women. They arrived in Florida on Thursday.

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Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

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So that we're clear about this, the Trump administration is not only doing nothing to deport human traffickers, it has literally gone of out its way to IMPORT human traffickers.

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Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

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So on the latest @pablo.show @davidpsamson.bsky.social called the Korean Baseball League "crap." So that happened.

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They grow up so fast

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This happens a lot, this kind of gutting. And now every time I see a story or post like this, I'm gonna use it to remind folks about the @greenwell.bsky.social book coming out June 10 on the destruction caused by private equity. Find out more/preorder Bad Company here: www.megangreenwell.com/book

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This is so good. Elon Musk is throwing a bunch of money into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, and his PAC launched an attack ad... against an person unrelated to the race with the same name as one of the candidates. wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/musk-...

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Ally Sentnor gets the equalizer #USWNT

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Something that President Trump hasn’t been clear about with his supporters: “Prices don't decrease when inflation slows— they just rise at a slower rate.” BTW this is from my favorite free weekly newsletter. Subscribe Here: bit.ly/41cfrtL

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Huge mistake because just giving an interview to Outkick is considered misdemeanor sexual assault in like 14 states. awfulannouncing.com/nfl/justin-t...

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House Republican leadership has advised caucus members to avoid in-person town halls, fearing that voter backlash may become viral if circulated online. 🐔 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"ESPN owns most of them anyway, and just wrote massive checks to a playoff system blocking G5 teams from meaningful competition. Don’t ask G5 teams to give a blessed thing when the other side is giving them nothing in return." A-F'N-MEN @edsbs.bsky.social channel-6.ghost.io/major-colleg...

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@lebatardshow.bsky.social bitching about the overuse of a phrase today was funny. Can you explain it to me, Dan, or can you explain it to the audience, Dan, why you were annoyed someone overused a phrase? Because you need to explain to the audience why you don't like people overusing phrases.

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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE

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Michelle Trachtenberg, the star of 'Harriet the Spy' who went on to have memorable roles in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Gossip Girl,' has died at age 39. Obit: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Rereading that last sentence several times in a row and it’s not helping

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Five weeks in, there's an emerging pattern in how the Trump administration moves to target federal employees. And it begins with Elon Musk bringing in tactics he's employed at his various businesses.

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Quite a day for the University of New Orleans. This morning it was reported the four of the team's top players have been suspended for a month b/c of suspected ties to sports betting. Then the school announced Master P is its new President of Basketball Operations. unoprivateers.com/news/2025/2/...

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You know what they want to support? Local independent media! Every alt-weekly that does news reporting should have its hand out right now with a specific ask for a specific deliverable, i.e. "help us fund a full-time metro reporter"

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So now Fox Business is preparing their viewers for "a bit of temporary pain" amid Trump-Musk's DOGE cuts, saying that "people forget that when [Ronald Reagan] came into office in 1981, he slashed federal head count and put the economy back into the double dip recession of 1980 and 1981."

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The difference was Reagan inheriting a grim mood, weak economy, and years of inflation much higher than anything we got after COVID. Trump's premise was Make America 2019 Again - if you were voting for $2 gas and you don't get it you might eventually notice.

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EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Washington Post Chief Marty Baron blasts Jeff Bezos amid his censorious takeover of the Opinion section. "It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…” @johnjharwood.bsky.social reports: zeteo.com/p/jeff-bezos...

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My go-to metaphor has been cancer but I think this by @ositanwanevu.bsky.social is even better

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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