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Elon Musk instructed federal workers to respond to an email summarizing their weekly accomplishments, a tactic he previously used to downsize staff at X. “Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished this week and CC your manager,” the message stated.

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Trump's lowly Treasury servant, some odd billionaire Bessent, has published a piece in FT: 1. Offering Ukraine NOTHING. 2. Insisting on US colonial extortion. What a slime! A normal person would be ashamed. He should not dare to show his face in Ukraine! www.ft.com/content/91a7...

submitted 22 minutes ago • 7 comments

They do nothing that does not have corruption at its core. Follow the money.

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Trump says he won’t touch Medicaid—then turns around and endorses a budget that guts it to fund tax cuts for the rich. Guess "America First" actually means "Billionaires First."

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Trump loves Putin & Russia, but why? 3 alternative explanations: 1. The Kremlin pays him directly. 2. He was recruited by the KGB as Krasnov in Moscow in 1987. 3. He loves Putin & his repression, while hating democracy & the West. All of it is awful.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 12 comments

MAGA is aggressively turning their own base against them. Only been a month. This is an addition to the thousands of jobs they've cut.

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“The more Trump’s presidency progresses, the more support he will lose,” @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes. “Many voters who thought they knew the rules to the game and would turn out the winners are now discovering that they didn’t and won’t.” theatln.tc/hWpkLIVF

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.

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In 2020, the military was adamant about refusing to get involved in the election. That's why Trump hates General Mark Milley so much. Now, Trump is transforming the military into one that will back him up in 2029. We need to figure out how to prepare for that eventuality.

submitted 2 hours ago • 237 comments

1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

submitted 3 hours ago • 53 comments

The world is watching Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and our European allies to curry favor with the Kremlin. All of us — Democrats, Republicans, elected officials and ordinary citizens — must push back with every tool we have if we are to save our own democracy and others.

submitted 4 hours ago • 134 comments

Don't Americans understand what is going on? Musk & Trump are destroying the essence of federal regulations against real dangers in order to make further tax cuts for billionaires possible. Next, they are going after Medicaid, because they hate the poor.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Democrats held the Senate floor for ten hours on Thursday night, attempting to block the most damaging budget cuts and fight for the American people. What did we see? Senate Republicans voted down every single amendment to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

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Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” is slashing jobs to fund tax cuts for billionaires—but oddly, they haven’t touched Trump’s $11.4M (so far) in taxpayer-funded joyrides.

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Don't Americans believe what they see? Trump supports Putin rather than the US. Time to face up top reality!

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

submitted 5 hours ago • 221 comments

This is why JD Vance was in Europe claiming that the US values free speech. It is part of the imperial project to force Europe to allow Nazi incitement like the US allows.

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The House GOP budget resolution target of $880 billion in #Medicaid cuts is a floor not a ceiling. It is AT LEAST $880b in cuts. The Energy & Commerce Committee could report even deeper cuts and there would be pressures to do that because of the priority of making the tax cuts as large as possible.

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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News Analysis: Even as President Trump embraces the cryptocurrency industry, it remains the wild West of the financial world, prone to scams, thefts and sudden market meltdowns.

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Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

submitted 5 hours ago • 130 comments

Stories like this distort important issues affecting the lives of all Americans.

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Donald Trump’s petty threats are beneath the Office of the President. Governor Janet Mills embodies servant leadership. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 hours ago • 206 comments

Trump’s Reverse Robin Hood tax scheme. The GOP is destroying our democracy for this. h/t r/coolguides

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This is just the beginning. Keep up the pressure.

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

A poll of swing-district voters is already showing heaps of warning signs for Republicans bent on helping billionaires. That was fast.

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 hours ago • 256 comments

Every day, they're testing how far they can take this. If they think they can take it all the way, they absolutely will. But we don't have to let them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

This military purge really came out of left field it's not like Trump was musing about needing generals loyal to him like a certain someone from the 1930s and 1940s. If only this had received the attention at the time that Joe Biden's orthopedic shoes received 🙃

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

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 8 hours ago • 1094 comments

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 8 hours ago • 682 comments

I have a friend who works for the Dept of Ag. Dipshit Musk and his Broligarch minions froze the Ag payment system and now farmers can't access funds. They also can't pay their loans so they are getting late fees and interest tacked on. Most voted for Trump. #FAFO

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Trump pollster’s finds that 59% of voters in 18 swing districts are “worried about their personal financial situation,” and that Democrats are leading in the House generic ballot matchup by five points. @gregsargent.bsky.social: vulnerable GOPers will pay a price for walking lockstep with Trump.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

A full-on purge of the military leadership, targeting women and people of color. This perfectly captures where we are: An escalating authoritarian takeover of the state, combined with an aggressive program to re-segregate the spheres of influence and power and restore complete white male dominance.

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All politics is economics. If the Supreme Court Citizens United decision grants more political power to those with more money, then to defeat them, it is essential that we target the sources of their wealth. Yes, that means you should sell your Tesla and get off X. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

What do voters think about Elon Musk and his rampage through the US Government? A banger episode of The Focus Group pod with @karaswisher.bsky.social ‬⁩ who blows my mind with a couple of insight about Elon’s endgame.

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Polls are already demonstrating public dissatisfaction with Trump-Musk’s autocratic overreach and top agenda items, yet they have only intensified their assault, and GOP lawmakers who have dared to air their concerns have done so in only the meekest of terms.

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

The rate of descent into lawlessness in the United States continues to accelerate. Until that descent is arrested, and we can assess what institutions still hold, the country and its citizens are fundmantally unsafe.

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‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals

submitted 10 hours ago • 55 comments

Authoritarian leader cult alert

submitted 10 hours ago • 71 comments

say it with me: voters hate this

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What a fucked-up framing from the #BrokenPost. Trump is surrendering Ukraine and the West to Putin but here the burden is on Zelensky to "salvage his relationship." Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine? wapo.st/4it7ZS3

submitted 10 hours ago • 55 comments

Boom! 17,000 letters sent to Congress. Help us get to 20,000 letters here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 10 hours ago • 58 comments