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The Trump administration is making cuts and changes at breakneck speed, including threatening to shut down the agency that oversees big banks and credit card companies on behalf of consumers. 60 Minutes reports, tonight.

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My review of photographer Geoffrey James' new book from @figure1publishing.bsky.social , "Canadian Photographs," is now up on the @photoeditorial.bsky.social blog. Have a read and let me know what you think! #canada #canadian #photography

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I posted this longer version on X #Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected]

submitted 1 day ago • 1114 comments

C-PAC is a cult gathering, not a convention! This “Third Term Project” poster at CPAC is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. The same people who were screaming about “the deep state” are now openly fantasizing about a dictator-for-life.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Pathocracy: A system of government “wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people.” www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1572 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Disgusting.

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“The UK didn’t have a general election for 10 years because of WW2 - that doesn’t make Winston Churchill a dictator. Zelensky has not banned opposition parties - just the ones openly pro-Russian, just like we banned the fascist party when Hitler was bombing the shit out of us on the nightly basis.”

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Well done Maine Governor Janet Mills, slapping Trump down with “See you in court!” This is how you do it, stand up to the bully. Trump threatens all her state’s federal funding if she doesn’t comply with his EO on trans people playing sports. He ends with personal insults. Of course.

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“U.S. allies that regularly share intelligence with the U.S. are looking at ways to safeguard top-secret information from what they expect to be a very leaky Trump administration…” (“Leaky” is an understatement when some of the principals are foreign assets.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism. wapo.st/3X8d75G

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"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 990 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

🚨 JUST IN: Canada DEFEATS the USA 3-2 to take home the #4Nations Championship

submitted 3 days ago • 1371 comments

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 3 days ago • 793 comments

Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

submitted 3 days ago • 267 comments

Some good news to end your day.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

has anyone pointed out that Donald Trump said Obama was from Africa so couldn't be president, only to years later basically make an African president

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 581 comments

This is the most cowardly administration in history.

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Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

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Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 4 days ago • 562 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 4 days ago • 3314 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 4 days ago • 1933 comments

We are entering a new era—Government by Gimmick. Policies won’t be serious efforts to solve real problems but mere attention-grabbing stunts.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

submitted 4 days ago • 333 comments

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

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Trump signed a new executive order that would allow the White House to control independent agencies that have long operated outside its influence, like the FEC, FCC, FTC and SEC. It’s designed to test a once-fringe legal theory which says the president solely controls the entire executive branch.

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally charged with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

This is a permanent stain on America: dragging our allies through the mud while allying with our enemies.

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Nearly 1,000 former federal prosecutors ⬇️⚖️⬇️

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Canada subsidizes oil sold to the USA, selling it at a 25% discount. That costs Canadians billions every year that could go towards building our infrastructure and social programs. No more free ride for Trump's America. End the subsidy. Sell at fair market value. How’s all that winning MAGA 😎

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One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 200 comments

Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

📌On August 18, 2020, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump get elected. The committee chair? Marco Rubio. The very Rubio who was surrendering to Putin today. Just what in the hell is going on here????

submitted 5 days ago • 164 comments

US Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for halt in funding for refugee settlement (this is a big deal as many have been questioning why it hadn't happened yet) apnews.com/article/cath...

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“Who the hell voted for Mr. Musk?” Paul Begala raged on CNN. “Who the hell voted for — excuse the phrase — a guy who calls himself Big Balls? A 19-year-old kid going in there and trying to fire cancer researchers and scientists and teachers and agricultural specialists. It’s, it’s appalling.”

submitted 10 days ago • 224 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 6 days ago • 1251 comments

NEW: 2nd emergency European security summit likely TOMORROW in Paris. Invites extended to CANADA & others. Leaders invited from Fr🇫🇷, UK🇬🇧, Ger🇩🇪, Italy🇮🇹, Spain🇪🇸, Pol🇵🇱, Den🇩🇰, Lithuania🇱🇹, Estonia🇪🇪, Latvia🇱🇻, Czech Rep🇨🇿, Greece🇬🇷, Fin🇫🇮, Romania🇷🇴, Swe🇸🇪, Bel🇧🇪, Can🇨🇦, Nor🇳🇴. America First = America alone.