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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

Friendly reminder if Biden did half of this shit, the Secret Service would've been enthusiastically cosplaying Praetorian Guards.

Today is the feast of Frederick Douglass. His words still ring true and call us to a better Christianity. ⚓

I am saying this with one hundred percent sincerity: "Dolly Parton is upset with you" is a strong enough mark of shame to completely kneecap this entire movement and if the dems actually had a finger on the pulse of the country they'd be booking this beautiful person for speaking tours

Today is the Day of Remembrance, the 83rd anniversary of the forced removal of 120,000 people of Japanese descent to American concentration camps. American soldiers physically tortured and murdered Japanese Americans in these camps. Their money, homes, businesses, and wealth were stolen.

The six factions dismantling democracy—but they don’t share the same endgame. Some are pawns. Some hold real power. If we don’t recognize this now, we won’t be able to stop it. #Democracy #NRx #Project2025 #Resistance

Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

I think some of you motherfuckers owe Kyle Gass an apology.

Looking forward to the day he gets a solid education about unions.

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

Show this to the next bot demanding to know "wHy iSNt anYBoDy prOTesTInG?!"

thehill.com/media/514849... Oops, finger slipped. So clumsy.

You see the same misunderstanding around the phrase “banality of evil” when they assume it means Nazis were boring when it actually means everyone was a Nazi. No one wanted to be anything else. To not be a Nazi was deviant behaviour

If you live in NYC, TODAY is the last possible day to register as a Democrat so you can vote in the primary elections in June against Adams. You can NO LONGER update your registration online and MUST physically hand-deliver to your Board of Elections by close today. vote.nyc/page/party-a...

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

Just threw $40 their way. Trans folks need our love and support now more than ever, and I'm happy to contribute to this cause. And if I win some Magic stuff? Icing on the cake. But even cake without icing is nice - it's cake! Who doesn't like cake?!

REGISTER AS A DEMOCRAT IF YOU LIVE IN NYC SO YOU CAN HELP US PRIMARY ERIC ADAMS OUT OF OFFICE.

We will leave this place in droves if you push your AI nonsense. Hire workers and pay them. This is not hard.

Because what they actually hated was Black and poor people being free, and they know Trump isn't gonna do that, so they're happy to let him cook

There is something that can compel employers to recognize unions in the absence of a functioning NLRB: worker power. Striking for recognition forces employers to the table and ensures that they take you seriously when you get there.

A navigator on large merchant ships told me this morning that the NOAA solar position calendar he regularly uses to compare against his compass is now down. Musk is putting shipping at risk. gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc...

a key piece of all this as we try to push back and survive: make them make you. MAKE. THEM. MAKE. YOU. Make their lives hard and annoying. Refuse to comply with vague and unconstitutional and obviously hateful orders. Make them expend energy and resources on making you. Make them make you.

Since Trump is about ready to wipe out the DoE with an executive order: Remember Biden could’ve forgiven all federal loans. Congress couldn't have stopped him. He could have done it without hurting anyone. Trump is just closing it down anyways.

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it

Ayanna Pressley: "I want to say to our Republican colleagues -- pay attention. We're here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!"

Dear DNC: You’ve been bringing a knife to a gunfight for 25 years. I’m not giving you another dime until you wake TF up, change your tactics radically, and elevate new leaders. @democrats.org

At what point does violence become the ethical choice? "Would you kill Hitler?" Think of all those would-be heroes who stood by, filled with inner conflict, who could've ended the Reich with a well-placed round or two. Cottage industries have built on "what if" scenarios.

🧵Someone from the /r/fednews subreddit put together a list of all the Elon folks working for DOGE. They are: Amanda Scales Brian Bjelde Riccardo Biasini Anthony Armstrong Steve Davis Baris Akis Thomas Shedd Edward Coristine Russell Vought Michael Peters Josh Gruenbaum Russell “Rusty” McGranahan

Biden kept DeJoy and let the parliamentarian kill the $15 minimum wage. Like, don’t tell me he couldn’t have done more as we watch this shit show unfolding. Trump and his unelected oligarch benefactor are shuttering entire agencies and laying off scores of workers. This is the imbalance today.

It's good actually that the Manhattan Institute people are beating this drum. It creates a space for enough GOP Senators (4) and House reps (2) to move on this issue, and you don't need big numbers here.