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[The resistance continues] As Trump pursues his policies, Democratic states block his path- Attorneys general have worked for months to craft legal opposition to the president’s agenda. Now they’re putting it into practice. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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[Evidence mounts] Trump 'recruited by KGB in 80s and even has codename', claims former Soviet spy- Alnur Mussayev, 72, who headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleges Donald Trump was recruited when he was a 40-year-old New York real estate developer www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

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[Trump's war on public health: He doesn't seem to care if we all die] They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them- Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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How Trump Twisted DEI to Only Benefit White Christians “a winning strategy, which is to portray white people as victims and portray their movement as a civil rights movement.... And they’ve completely co-opted the strategies of the Black civil rights movement” theintercept.com/2025/02/22/t...

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[Trump's war on science update] Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling- Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Hoped to tune out Trump? You "don’t have that luxury. It’s far more dangerous now....our 236-year-old institutions don’t look up to the challenge. With flaccid Democrats and craven Republicans, King Donald can...do whatever he wants to whomever he wants" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

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[Trump's be nice to con men week- or month?- continues] Officials Are Fired at Traffic Safety Agency Investigating Musk’s Company-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised questions about crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving technology www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/b...

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IL Gov Pritzker “We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee....When the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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[The resistance continues] How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk- Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals “It’s as if we lost the war to America. This looks to me like reparations” Trump, likely a Russian asset, doing just what Putin wants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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"Trump’s efforts to exert control over art typify the strategy of a dictator....administration’s cultural decrees are very much a part of the authoritarian playbook to suppress dissent, scapegoat select groups and seize power" www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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[Are they all conflicted, or corrupt?] DoJ investigation into cases against Trump marked by vested interests- From Pam Bondi to Ed Martin, the tangle of possible conflicts of the investigators is acute www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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[In states led by the far-right, making infectious diseases great, and dangerous again] Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years- Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state’s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school year www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump loses in court again "A federal judge in Maryland has temporarily blocked some enforcement of a series of executive orders by President Trump targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Hosts are fleeing Airbnb in protest over cofounder’s DOGE work- Billionaire Joe Gebbia, a former Democratic donor, has reportedly switched allegiances to work with Elon Musk and Donald Trump sfstandard.com/2025/02/20/a...

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DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy "a former KGB agent’s grandkid who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check has unprecedented access to sensitive State Department data" How many more Russian angles can there be? gizmodo.com/doge-staffer...

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Yuri Shvets, KGB major posted to DC, said "Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow "his vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

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It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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[Are they all thugs?] "detectives have asked the U.S. attorney’s office for D.C., which prosecutes local crime in the city, to review a warrant that would charge Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) with misdemeanor simple assault" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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[Once a thug, always a thug] "One month after being pardoned by President Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol...Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was arrested again on charges of assaulting a protester at a bizarre news conference" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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"'If you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs'" So "Don’t obey in advance....do something. Take a risk. Offer help to people who are under attack....Speak up. When...[asked] for...cooperation...in doing distasteful or illegal things, withhold it" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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"There is clear evidence that mass protests against the far right can have an effect. True, rallies might be met with repression; but refraining from mass assemblies will not make authoritarianism go away, it will solidify it" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump punished AP for calling it the Gulf of Mexico. But the 1st amendment says "the government doesn’t get to dictate the language journalists use in their stories "The great renaming has begun, and George Orwell would understand exactly what’s going on" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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[Trump's DOJ gives Musk impunity] Justice department drops discrimination case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX- accused space company of refusing, unlawfully, to hire certain immigrants www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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[They're telling you they're Nazis] French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech over [former Trump WH adviser] Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ salute www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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[Block that metaphor] Republican TX state legislators outraged TV station aired report on "Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District’s removal of chapters from textbooks about vaccines, climate change and diversity" which included video of Nazi book burning www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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"La loi, c'est moi" King Trump threatens to stop all of Maine's federal funding for noncompliance with his executive order on trans people "We are federal law....You better do it. You better do it, because you’re not going to get federal funding" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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[Illegitimate (per 14th amendment) president's political police investigates Congressman for a bad metaphor] Trump appointed US prosecutor goes after Rep Garcia (D-GA) for saying “What the American public want is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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If "Immigrants didn't steal my job - the President did" is not the centerpiece of the Dems messaging from now on, this party cannot be helped.

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1. Grateful to @willbunch.bsky.social for mentioning my work in his column. Covering tech extremism has, at times, been a very lonely experience. As someone who always wanted to be a journalist, I’m not sure it’s still an honorable path. My faith is shaken, but… www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Trump's rapid obliteration of the First Amendment is fit for a king- Government attacks on press freedom from Mississippi to the Oval Office have our First Amendment rights on the brink of collapse www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Reactionary nihilism uses "language of democracy while practicing the authoritarian politics of coercion and exclusion.... denounce tolerance and pluralism.... presume a world... “devoid of value, impervious to reason and governable only through brutal acts of will” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...

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Trump Elevates Kremlin Talking Points, a Familiar Pattern From His First Term [Right, which is why some of us have been warning for a long time that he is a Russian asset, either useful idiot or more likely willing collaborator] www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

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Trump regime "targeting government officials who had been flagging foreign interference in U.S. elections, which was "stoking political and social divisions...spreading propaganda and disinformation" Of course, since Trump won with the help of such interference www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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Trump loses in court again "9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court judge's order halting the president’s executive order" denying the birthright citizenship promised in the 14th Amendment www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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[When health care is dictated by religious zealotry] Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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[Not the best or the brightest] ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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Why won't Republicans oppose Trump? Maybe they fear they, or their family members falling out of windows, like what happens in Russia (ie, they fear targeted assassination by Russian intelligence) Russian anti-war singer dies ‘after falling from window’ www.yahoo.com/news/russian...

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"authoritarians ask us not just to betray each other...getting people to see their compatriots as enemies, but to betray ourselves as well. Trump...targets stepped onto that stage voluntarily and accepted their self-abasement as the price of remaining in power" lucid.substack.com/p/wrecking-a...

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American researcher: "You have not heard from us because we are terrified of the response...having our research cancelled and being summarily dismissed...set upon by the 250M followers of Elon Musk on X. Our homes, salaries, families, and even our lives are at risk" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Appeasement at Munich "the first American move under Musk-Trump has been to endorse appeasement. Knowingly or not, and I do not presume to say which, that choice pushes us one step towards 1939" snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

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States of Emergency-Favorite Autocratic Tool "action is always taken in the name of 'saving the nation' from whatever invented threat is most compelling.... Strongmen excel at creating crises and declaring emergencies and then stepping in to provide a 'solution'" lucid.substack.com/p/states-of-...

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"Today, our enemy is...Russia, led by its dictator, Vladimir Putin....look at the destruction Putin's military has wreaked on its much smaller neighbor....'the enemy has declared itself.... is the battle for which we have always been preparing ourselves'" luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-americ...

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"we’ve had a hard time coming to terms with what seems to be the real-life plot of a fantastical political thriller: an American president coming under the sway of a foreign power....a knowing, willing asset of the former Soviet KGB agent?" and thus a traitor? umm www.spytalk.co/p/nightmare

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