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So I'm assuming all the money Elon is "saving" by firing everyone will just go to pay the lawsuits when shit stops working right, and people start getting killed? (Not to mention all the unemployment)

she is right

They call themselves "PRINCIPLES First Summit." But they include Chris Christie and Chris Cillizza? Is this some kind of joke?

Why did you get DOGEd? Because I knew basic anti-phishing guidelines.

So the Nazi says the Jews are the problem.

From Kit Yates at the University of Bath. UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues: Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape. kityates.substack.com/p/uk-and-oth...

This criminal Administration is loathed by Americans. -GIFT LINK- www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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

How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

As our LEAST competent & accomplished Secretary of Defense fires our MOST qualified and accomplished military leader, let’s talk “DEI”. youtube.com/shorts/y-PWr...

"This is a vast project of enforced re-education by a colonial power that wants to wipe away history as though clearing a computer disk, and reprogram a population through barrages of propaganda at the barrel of a gun" From @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, on occupied Ukraine econ.st/41CVD4d

Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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What wrong with Bezos being in charge of WaPo? THIS is an acutal headline in today's Post. "Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine?"

One reason Trump is doing this is bc Trump has failed to come close to meeting his deportation promises. If that were to become a bigger narrative--if the mob learned that he was diverting NatSec resources yet is falling behind Sleepy Joe Biden's deportation numbers--Trump'd be in trouble.

It's funny, I've never seen or heard of anyone being accused of being a Nazi who didn't say fascist shit or do Nazi salutes. It's almost like people need a reason to think you're a Nazi. 🤔

A former Soviet intelligence officer alleges Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev served in the 6th Directorate, responsible for counter-intelligence support in the economy. One key objective was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.”

Comment of the day at Charles P. Pierce's shebeen at Esquire.

abcnews.go.com/Health/texas... Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, largest in over 30 years.

Cowards.

"you're overreacting," they said, "you're hysterical. you're losing your credibility," they said. Well, "they" can go eff themselves. WE were right all along. they were wrong.

Criminal. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This is the stuff of crime bosses, not elected officials. "We are the federal law..." Oh, really? www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

I am a failure at visual communication but every day I think of things I want to communication visually, like the bodies of knowledge Trump 2.0 is memory holing.

Now that the Postal Service has broken even again the GOP are going to kill Ben Franklin one more time.

They are de facto defying a court order. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

Zombie Ronald Reagan doesn't like this

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@froomkin.bsky.social is absolutely correct. And Trump gets away with it while Wapo and NYT dither about how to "frame" it.

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Amen. We want fighters, not namby-pamby, mealy-mouthed "institutionalist." The MAGA GOP want us powerless and groveling. Dem leadership nees to wake the fuck up.

Just superb reporting from @theguardian.com . Read, subscribe. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/eric-adams-doj-prosecutors-hochul

In Trump world, cruelty against children is the norm

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

8 Republicans are calling on Speaker Johnson not to target Medicaid. One short of the number it would take to oust Johnson.

NEW from Heads Up News: Elon Musk’s lead role in destroying government sparks protests www.headsupnews.org/p/elon-musks...

DOGE Is Xitter Files for Government (repeating the wisdom of @mmasnick.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social). www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/d...

My spot on CSPAN is up. If you want to be entertained, just fast forward to the callers from the MAGA line. :) www.c-span.org/program/wash...

Where can you most satisfyingly direct your anger about the Trump-Musk coup? Increasingly, the answer seems to be: at Elon Musk. www.headsupnews.org/p/elon-musks...

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It would also be great to crowdsource the jobs lost. Every one is a story.