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1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world. If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Brave, important piece here from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social. If he's sending a warning like this, it means the light is flashing red.

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Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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I spoke with Andrew Lennox, a former Marine infantryman who deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria about how he and more than 1,000 others were fired from the VA. His message was clear: "I want my job back. I want to help vets." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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So not only do Erik Prince & Co. want to run mass deportation, but they also want to be the ones to determine who gets thrown into mass deportation hearings? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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You really have no idea where this corporate press release will end up, I encourage you to read the whole thing www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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Treasury employees today got an email from a dude they never heard of named John W. York stating: "You are directed to respond" to the OPM email by tonight. Per this, www.404media.co/former-herit...) top comments on a Reddit post on the email include “Who the fuck is John W. York?" He's this guy:

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"…there are a number of senior officials who believe Musk is far too big for his egomaniacal britches, and wish Trump would stop protecting him so much, two of these officials say." Check out the latest from @swin24.bsky.social and @nikkimcr.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Always feel smarter after reading @monikab.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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/ logs on, sees people skeeting about their SAT scores whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"It is not clear how many immigrants could be held at the various military facilities given that the Trump administration will likely develop new tent encampments on the space surrounding them." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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“The thing I kept getting is: ‘What if I go home today and my parents are already gone? I don’t want to come to school because I don’t want them to be taken while I’m not home.’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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DOGE is not about waste and fraud. This is about gutting government services without any evaluation of their need. Americans have decided to have and fund an effective National Park Service. Trump and Musk are trampling on democracy to do whatever the hell they want.

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No one should be treated this way, but it's the government who is the biggest villain here.

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The corruption that has happened in this month alone could take all of the nation's remaining journalists years to fully document.

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How do you link a government official to an anonymous social media account that asserts, among other things, that "America is a White nation?" Like this. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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This was just 233 days ago:

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In search of someone to pull some court records from Bexar County, Texas (San Antonio)—hit me up if you're nearby and available

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Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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It is very instructive and revealing that the US went from preaching good governance and capacity-building in the Global South, often at gunpoint, to gutting its administrative bureaucracy in the space of a decade.

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If you are a scientist at NIH/CDC/EPA etc. and you've been impacted by layoffs and are open to chatting about your experience (on or off the record), please reach out to me at [email protected] or on Signal @jackiefmogensen.01

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Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

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Like college? Like baseball? Aaron's your man

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Hey! We at @motherjones.com/ @revealnews.org (aka, the Center for Investigative Reporting) are nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards: General Excellence Profile Podcast (with CPI) Reporting (with @themarshallproject.org & USAToday) + illustration awards too! www.asme.media/asme-announc...

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Four National Magazine Award nominations for @motherjones.com, for • General excellence • Podcasting • Profile • Reporting And, on top of that, two design nominations for • Best still illustration Couldn't be prouder of our crew! www.asme.media/asme-announc...

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The Trump administration is disappearing people to a prison in a foreign country and lying to their family and lawyers about their location.

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our warfighters are going to park these babies on sidewalks so the enemy has to go around them

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“Worn down by harassment and threats, Trump’s critics will be tempted to retreat to the sidelines. Such a retreat would be perilous. When fear, exhaustion, or resignation crowds out commitment to democracy, emergent authoritarianism begins to take root.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

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Trump promised retribution. Here's who is on the hit list—and how they're fighting back Read our cover story from the March+April 2025 issue of @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“Together, we’re going to unlock America’s glorious destiny,” Trump promised in his campaign victory speech. That promise comes at a cost—for you, your neighbors, and our country. Read @motherjones.com's latest cover package here: bit.ly/3EvYnHv

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New nickname: The Ballboy

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I'm still interested in hearing from federal workers about physical changes to your office spaces/signage taken down/areas you now can't go. My Signal is annamerlan.30; please contact me on a non-work device.

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This shit again?

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ICYMI: In not-really-persecuted Afrikaners, Trump finally found his kind of refugee www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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You might say he has a type. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Some good news for a change, via @samanthamichaels.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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While we were sleeping: A federal judge in New York issued an aggressive order against the DOGE goon squad at the Treasury Department barring them from any and all access to the Bureau of Fiscal Services and ordering them “to immediately destroy” anything they may have downloaded from the systems.

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Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in: 1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments 2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal 3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team 4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system

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Really enjoyed working with @stahlidarity.bsky.social on this fascinating piece, on the drug user activists, doctors, and legislators pushing for a new future for methadone—the only prescription drug that is solely available through segregated clinics: bit.ly/4hPebmM

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