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New, from me: Unpacking the Friday night news: The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers? A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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NEWS: Elon Musk has caused a rift to emerge within the federal government as agencies instruct their employees to ignore him, Yosemite National Park workers raise distress flag in protest of DOGE, and more. Please consider subscribing if you don't! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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"When it comes down to it, Mitch McConnell has always been a man of his principles, even when those principles are garbage. Because at his core, McConnell has been committed to no higher cause than the acquisition of power for his party."

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It’s worth noting that America was also the wealthiest in the post-WW2 period because the US had abandoned tariffs, beginning with the RTAA of 1934 and continuing through the GATT of 1947.

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Nothing says "do your own research" like dismantling the institutions that make research possible. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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The real reason people say Musk is stupid is that every time he talks about any area that a particular person knows about, he reveals that he doesn’t understand the most basic things about it. Apparently this has never come up for Noah Smith.

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1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

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This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

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There's the plan: Throwing millions off Medicaid and then saying "no we didn't!"/"they deserved it."

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Our job to make sure they do! (tough job, unpaid, really hard)

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Same with sober coaches tbh

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Robert McWhirter, an expert in constitutional and immigration law, is not aware of any past instance in which a local law enforcement official has faced federal charges for not complying with an ICE directive. And yet the DOJ is threatening prosecutions. boltsmag.org/new-yor...

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Loyalty Over Merit Trump fired Gen Brown because he pushed back on Trump’s war on “woke” making him a target. His replacement—Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, is less qualified, but a Trump loyalist. This isn’t about military strength—it’s about purging leaders who won’t bend the knee!

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This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

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#Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected]

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CQ Brown is a decorated officer who excelled at every level of command and was appointed to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Before Trump fired him and replaced him with an unqualified white guy, Pete Hegseth said “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt"

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Say it loud and often.

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"I never could have imagined, none of us could, that the government of the United States of America would openly ally itself with a fascist political party. In the heart of Europe. In Germany, for God’s sake."

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From 2023: Trump's second term plan for governing hinges on getting lawyers who will ok every action than an ethical lawyer would block. By also removing Inspectors General and neutralizing career employees, you remove most internal checks against illegality. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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“I’m not going to tell you I will never touch Social Security:” Rep. Pete Sessions, a longtime GOP member of Congress from Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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“The Governor has his lane and I’ve got mine” Colorado Attorney General @philweiser.bsky.social responds to Colorado’s Governor showing some support for Trump’s actions.

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Among those who pushed back on an Elon Musk-ordered Office of Personnel Management demand that federal employees justify their jobs was newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel.

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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

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The president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Everett Kelley, threatens to sue over Elon Musk's email to federal employees: "AFGE will challenge any unlawful terminations of our members and federal employees across the country."

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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

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Very sorry to see @joyannreid.bsky.social’s show go. She is a brilliant and insightful woman who also manages to maintain her sense of humor in tough times. I’m sure the new sched will be great, but she’ll be missed.

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Trump’s executive order shutting down DEI claims that recruiting diverse applicants “diminishes the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination.” Donald Trump’s war on DEI isn’t about merit.

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Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republican members on the Jan. 6 Committee, isn't afraid of Trump—and neither are we.

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Tapper: “What concessions will Russia have to make?” Witkoff: 🤷🏻

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Not the white man for the moment. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Listen to the clip just to hear the deeply unqualified Pete Hegseth sneeringly dismiss a woman who’s a Georgetown law professor, rudely calling her by her first name and saying he’s never heard of her.

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Janet Mills was elected the first woman DA in ME history. Elected 1st woman AG in ME. Won election to state House, reelected 3x. Then 1st woman Gov - won by 20 points. Then reelected in 2022 by 13 points. In other words, far more popular in ME than Trump will ever be.

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They say “it’s complicated” — but Russia’s own tv hosts say their goal is to erase Ukraine. They don’t hide it.

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This, from my colleague @pamherd.bsky.social , is a great piece about Trump’s attack on disabled people, and the real harm it is causing, including to one of UM’s outstanding students. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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@joyannreid.bsky.social is one of the few MSNBC hosts who invited me and let me say what had to be said. She doesn't mince words about the threat of Trump. She speaks up for Palestinians killed in Gaza. She's a blunt Black woman, so of course her show is cancelled. Not lost on any of us.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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These guys make Chamberlin look like Churchill

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Putin's puppet.

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Glad the Affirmativr Action hire said the supervising plot out loud.

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Is having federal employees respond to Elon Musk's emails instead of working for the American people government efficiency?

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He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them. They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.

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Elon Musk's decision to create chaos within the federal government overnight because of his 5-bullet point email is exactly why he has no business being near our government. Our federal workers deserve better. Know that we stand with you.

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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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The GOP's total withdrawal from governing is nearly complete, and they’re increasingly determined to push the entire legislative branch into functional irrelevance. newrepublic.com/post/191772/...

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An encouraging sign of resistance among orthodox Trumpists to Musk's Stalinism. Comrades in the Democratic Opposition--accentuate the internal contradictions of authoritarianism, in order to accelerate the coming decline of authoritarianism. h/t Rosa Luxemburg

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