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A Must Read👇 "Once our justice system is destroyed and replaced with one in which power and cronyism make adherence to laws optional, who will want to spend large amounts of money on highly credentialed and knowledgeable lawyers trained to counsel clients in how to comply with them?"

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Trump is dismantling America's defenses against Russian intelligence and political-warfare operations as he allies himself with Putin against Ukraine and our NATO allies. He is openly inviting a Russian attack on Europe -- and the subversion of American democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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Our look at how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling the government teams that have stopped Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and others from meddling in US elections: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b... With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @stevenleemyers.bsky.social

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Elon Musk is swinging around a chainsaw at CPAC

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On The Daily Blast, @gregsargent.bsky.social talked to @brianbeutler.bsky.social who explains how Democrats can drive a wedge into the GOP—and why the Russia-Ukraine war will get much more brutal politically for Trump and Republicans going forward. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Looks like lots of families won't be able to enjoy the national parks this spring and summer because of Elon Musk and DOGE www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... It's very MAGA!

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Judge John Bates characterized the government’s position as “we’re not an agency where we don’t want to be an agency, but we are an agency this one instance where we want to be.”

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The richest man in the world is drugged out of his mind and in charge of the United States government. What could go wrong?

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

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we truly live in the golden age of resignation letters

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20+ actions classified as "appear[ing] to conflict with specific statutes or to violate the Constitution" Trump took office one month ago

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This power grab is a major threat to the reliability of voting by mail, which is disproportionately used by Democratic voters

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The slide toward authoritarianism could not be more overt. And yet so many remain silent.

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To the shock of all our allies, “Vance told a series of misleading stories designed to demonstrate that European democracies aren’t democratic.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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BREAKING: DOJ announces that administrative law judge removal protections are unconstitutional, although DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle's wording leaves unclear whether all such protections are unconstitutional or just certain ones. It also leaves unclear what DOJ is actually doing as a result.

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What could go wrong? (I can think of like a dozen things, without giving it much thought) www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Someone better tell DOGE there’s this guy working from home

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Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

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Panama’s security minister "told reporters the migrants were not 'detained' by the Panamanian government but rather 'are under our protection'"... ... one of the detained people "sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: 'Please try to help us.'"

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Over 900 (and counting) Political Scientists have signed on to express their alarm at Trump’s blatant disregard for existing laws, regulations, and democratic norms. Please share widely. Statement and full list of signers (so far) can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

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@jeremystahl.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

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My readers are awesome 😍 In Oct'74, Wings had a photo shoot for their new single "Junior's Farm", held in a London casino. One of the managers of the casino at the time shared his memories with me (and you now) www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/1974/10/phot...

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More of this please. Say it like it is.

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Hell. Fucking. No. Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program. I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

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The disturbing part of Trump declaring himself THE KING isn't that he did it, it's that his followers want him to be a king. They've completely abandoned the fundamental precepts of democracy in favor of total centralized control by a new American royal, because they both hate the same people.

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Perhaps our greatest contemporary thinker on democracy.

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I'm normally cynical about politicians but this is statesmanship. It is affirming republican civic virtue. Not irony-poisoned snark, not focus-grouped talking points. The oath to the Constitution matters, and it's time to speak plainly and earnestly about how our fundamental principles are at stake.

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oh my god Hochul has been activated

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Murphy: "Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law is unprecedented. What we are all watching right now is Donald Trump throw away the idea that laws apply to everyone equally. And it is astonishing to watch so many of my Republican colleagues fall in line."

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Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

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