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Elon Musk’s DOGE team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into the deadly crashes with his company’s cars. Yet another reason I’d never buy a Tesla.

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Back in 2021, @jbf1755.bsky.social & @hcrichardson.bsky.social did an episode about the postal service on their much-missed podcast “Now & Then.” I suggest you have a listen to understand the USPS and the implications of privatization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

BRAVO to Maine Governor Janet Mills for slapping petty tyrant trump in the face with her calmly defiant "see you in court." THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. 🔥🔥🔥

It’s a full fledged government takeover folks. There’s no other way to look at it. There will be no more mail-in ballots. Because they have no intention of ever leaving. #Resist www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Politico reports that Trump may have been an alleged Russian asset for decades 👇🏾

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move upends trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. By Wednesday morning, DOGE had updated its list to show $8 million in savings, though it did not acknowledge the error or explain how it might affect its calculation of total money saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

How Trump’s Justice Department has gutted the government’s ability to chase public corruption www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

Republican Senators just voted to confirm RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a man that believes Black Americans should receive a different vaccine schedule than White Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Christian aid groups receive millions in USAID funds. Now their humanitarian work is collapsing. Four metric tons of seeds cannot be distributed. Soon the planting season will be gone and with it, the best chance for those seeds to produce emergency food. apnews.com/article/usai...

When unrestrained billionaires & corps break things (their employees, the environment, communities, economies) they just move somewhere else. Mars for example. They steal from us! #democracyNotDictatorship #usDemocracy #DemVoice1 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/b...

www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n... #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 Y’all do understand that FOTUS has isolated these migrants without the ability to have a lawyer or talk to family on Guantanamo. The opposite of my birth America. RED fucking flags flying! We are not free or brave anymore. We are Russia.

‘A fight for our lives’: Trump’s USAid freeze is harming millions of women and girls. A 90-day stop-work order means many clinics around the world will shut and vital care will be withheld. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Yet so far what these two billionaires have achieved is to crush the world’s poorest children in a cauldron of confusion and cruelty.” Arrogant bastards. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

Who negotiatied carving up #Ukraine for mineral wealth? Trump will go down as the Neville Chamberlain of America - he is attempting to carve up and give away parts of a sovereign nation he has NO right to give away. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-u...

JFC! We’ve got a teenager with full access to the State Department’s data—one who joked about wiping servers after getting fired for leaking a security firm’s info to a competitor. What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.

NEW: The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

Ending DEI means the US government is now recruiting for whiteness, not merit. PROOF:

"No puppet, you're the puppet."

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts, and most are being spread from from trump’s administration and Elon Musk. apnews.com/article/usai...

Mother jones actually broke this story. The Washington Post failed to mention that, and in fact, took credit for the scoop.

Donald Trump and the Republicans have learned nothing.

F**k That’: Federal Workers Say They’re Scared But ‘Digging In’ Amid Trump’s Chaos “Whoever wrote that email really underestimated who they were sending it to” Bravo to our union brothers & sisters in the USG for holding the line for all of us! www.huffpost.com/entry/federa... #solidarity

#ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory In a move that will undoubtedly terrify immigrant children, ICE has detained a Miami-Dade science teacher. The teacher is protected by DACA and has proper authorization and documentation to work for the school district. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/m...

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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a teenage DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

We want the government to do its damn job and look out for us, not suck up to big-money insiders. Musk & the Lost Boys ❌ Elected ❌ Confirmed ❌ Constitutional Oath ❌ Security Clearances These weaklings are dismantling services our communities rely on to protect our shared values.

Elon acolytes targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it.”

After caving to the felon and his benefactor on RFK Jr, Dr. Bill Cassidy, who discounted Black women dying in childbirth, may now be qualified, like Dr. Josef Mengele, to oversee the medical program at the GOP concentration--err... "incarceration" camp at Guantanamo Bay.

Honestly, I think one reason why Governor DeSantis is so focused on attacking immigrants for this upcoming Special Session is so that we are too distracted to notice that he’s also upending the ENTIRE citizen ballot initiative process. 1/2

If you’re at all interested in media and the ATROCIOUS job too many corporate media outlets are doing in covering the Musk coup, Jennifer is a MUST FOLLOW on Substack, and in social media.

When we lift our poverty stricken friends around the world, we face fewer threats from violent extremism, disease, narcotics & climate change. #ForeignAid isn’t just from the American people- It’s FOR the American people. #SaveForeignAid #StandwithUSAID

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