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NEW: One of Trump’s most damaging strikes against U.S. climate policy is buried in an executive order that would obliterate a critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change imposes on the economy. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social... I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine. @beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.

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substack.com/@robertreich...

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substack.com/@johncleese/...

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No Basis for Corruption Accusations About USAID Administrator (1/2) www.factcheck.org/2025/02/no-b... #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #DOGE #USAID #factcheck

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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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The U.S. has been the strongest supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia. Yet with a series of blunt comments, President Trump now sounds more aligned with Russia than Ukraine.

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Pete Buttigieg, the 43-year-old former U.S. transportation secretary, is discussing his future with party officials, labor leaders and top strategists.

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Call for Proposals for GovInfo Day(s) Spring (April 24 (online) and April 25 (in-person, Vancouver). Our theme this year is long-term and persistent access to government information. Please visit forms.gle/4MLm2ZzerDAJ... to submit your proposal. We will be accepting proposals until March 14.

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"The strategy they're using against immigrant communities, against veterans, Black folk, people of color, women, through the DEIA attacks ... is to create fear so that folks change their behavior, the way they exist in the world," Campbell told WBUR.

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New Yorkers want Eric Adams held accountable—but Donald Trump has ordered prosecutors to dismiss the charges against the mayor. “It is yet another example of the president imposing his own agenda over the law and public consensus,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes.

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Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

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“If the country is serious about improving government efficiency, the emphasis should be on curtailing contracting and making the civil service more accountable,” writes Stephen Macekura:

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Government reports show that fraudulent spending is a measurable problem for the federal government. But the evidence that DOGE has uncovered new examples has not yet been proved. (via @politifact.bsky.social)

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NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

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Quinn Slobidian on the DOGE dynamo

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Courtesy of the PBS Newshour @pbsnews.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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“In his first term Trump had the worst won-lost ratio in the Supreme Court since FDR,” writes David Cole. “His even more blatantly lawless conduct this time around should be grounds for him to eclipse that record.”

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For the uninitiated, please familiarize yourselves with WNYC’s On The Media Breaking News Handbooks. They are a good grounding resource in these days of overwhelming “Breaking News” tidal waves. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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A must listen for your morning. #otm @onthemedia.bsky.social

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Hear Jason Stanley this week on @onthemedia.bsky.social 🔥

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I have a piece on this week's show about the current campaign to rewrite the past, make the old new again, and bully those who document history online. Featuring @darakerr.bsky.social & @molly.wiki

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“America’s foes are surely observing the chaos in Washington and looking for espionage opportunities. They will find them,” writes Kori Schake:

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When SpaceX’s Starship blew up in January, Musk called it “barely a bump in the road,” brushing off the FAA’s concerns. Yet during the accident, dozens of airplanes scrambled to avoid debris. Pieces of the craft were later found on beaches and roads.

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Is Blazing Saddles racist? Not at all – it shines a torch on a nation undergoing a serious identity crisis | Stephen K Amos

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“The US still hasn’t given protected asylum status to Uyghurs who have already reached its soil. The issue had already been absent from the UN, and now Trump has taken the US out of the Human Rights Council. It’s complete hypocrisy.” —Abduweli Ayup

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‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear

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DOGE reportedly plans to integrate AI with federal-government systems while purging civil servants—potentially granting the president a level of power that hasn't previously been known, Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write.

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February 9, 2025

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Oh how completely accurate… youtu.be/8QXQWHdSMcM

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If anyone’s interested in a bit of relevant history, I draw your attention to this tidbit: The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through a complex voting process. Gee, I wondered where the Orange Baboon came up with that?

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substack.com/@mgolden7/no...

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We know what’s going on here.

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“Lawmakers from Republican-dominated states are now acknowledging what those of us who study the federal budget have pointed out for decades: the same Republican-dominated states that complain bitterly about the government’s tax policies are also the same states that take most federal tax money. “

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What you mean is they are fucking lies. Hundreds of them. — Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts apnews.com/article/usai...

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Last night Elon Musk moved to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His team is now inside, and he posted “CFPB RIP 🪦” on X. This agency has saved Americans billions. DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about dismantling the government so Musk and his billionaire friends can take control.

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ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

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This taxonomy of Trump statements from @george-lakoff.com, who first laid it out in a 2017 @onthemedia.bsky.social segment, still feels pretty relevant. Listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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New from us @propublica.org The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks Meet the lawyers working for DOGE: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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In light of tonight’s news abt indirect rates, I’m thinking about this ep of @onthemedia.bsky.social. Billionaire techbro’s apocalyptic escape preparations look more and more like they planned to destroy everything and ride out economic collapse. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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“So you’re a world leader and you’ve been threatened by the American president. What now?” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

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Elon Musk believes any delays to his plans could be costly www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work?

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Crazy idea but could some US senator call the Sec of the Treasury and ask him what the fuck is going on? @corybooker.com, you voted for him. You and the 14 other Dems who also did need to get answers @wyden.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov must also given their key roles

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