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Trump 8:04 am: Musk should "get more aggressive" Musk 2:46 pm: Plan of questionable legality & feasibility to (1) catch some govt workers unawares and oust them; (2) get others to quit b/c they dislike nannyish management; and (3) create a new pool of data DOGE can sift to fire people "for cause."

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Good thing we are not in a race against any adversarial countries over science and technology www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

Trump tried a seizure of power in 2021. It didn't work, because he relied only on a violent mob. The military and FBI stayed loyal to the Constitution. This time, with approval of the Republican Senate, Trump has installed anti-constitutional putschists at FBI, DoD, and Pentagon

submitted 11 hours ago • 66 comments

Several loud explosions in Kryvyi Rih. Turn the sound on!

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

I'd guess this "offer" came with some serious, undisclosed threats too. Probably personally to Ze and broadly to Ukraine's future. This is not a negotiation, but extortion.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

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We need to think like an authoritarian if the pro-democracy opposition is going to win. Here's how to look ahead and run the authoritarian playbook in reverse. Read our latest briefing on reverse-engineering autocracy. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/reverse-engineering-autocracy

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Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

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NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Trump reneges on $475,000 the government owes. Sound familiar? chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/202...

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Good thread. Don't ignore aspirational king comments/memes.

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Hearing multiple reports that members of the current ACIP were fired. I hate it when my predictions come true. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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How many more MAGA-ites will go on TV to defend this? Note that even open neo-Nazis, such as avowed antisemite and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, said Bannon’s salute was “getting a little uncomfortable" and "a little excessive" even for them apnews.com/article/stev...

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This is absurd. We built this database to stop officers who commit misconduct at one police agency from being rehired at another. It's about transparency and safety -- it helps the hiring agencies and the public. With due process protections. Trump shut it down

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DTEK energy workers restoring power to people in Nikopol came under russian artillery fire today. Sadly, one of the workers was killed.

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Judge Ali does not hold Trump Adm in contempt but does order it to "immediately cease" its "blanket suspension" of USAID's funding contracts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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If he really wants to rename the gulf to something that reflects him: gulfof.mapquest.com?name=Unresol...

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Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...

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Timothy Snyder on where the US is heading under Trump and whether we can stop before getting there: Crossing a line (audio and text) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments

It’s crucial in this utterly lawless and corrupt administration that we recognize the people who acted with integrity and remember, forever, those who did not.

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

Good question that should be asked nonstop. The answer is ominous but hardly surprising. Trump seems ready to give Putin whatever he wants and thinks Ukraine would have no choice but to roll over. This is where he’s wrong.

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The American Right has made substantial progress on its attitude towards sexuality; it will now embrace and promote men who assault either women OR other men.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

This is bad. But not as bad as Hegseth saying that America is no longer the guarantor of European security.

submitted 10 days ago • 164 comments

Either Musk was lying, or confessing to a crime. www.thebulwark.com/p/when-presi...

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Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

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A transgender prisoner was taken from a low-security women's prison and moved to a men's facility where she was put in solitary confinement because of President Trump's order ending recognition of trans status, she says in a new lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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