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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...

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 372 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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Grimes tweeting at Musk

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Columbus Dispatch: Rep. Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) says Trump executive orders 'getting out of control' "Congress has to decide whether or not the Department of Education goes away," Balderson asserted. "Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress decides." www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

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I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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Jasmine Crockett is shredding this solo. But it’s past time for the rhythm section to enter this song already.

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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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REMINDER: Kash Patel wrote this childrens' book

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A chilling warning from Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to every Republican Senator who voted to confirm Kash Patel as Director of the FBI.

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We now have a government staffed completely by a 4 Chan message board.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 1 day ago • 2408 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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We found the fraud! www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

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More of the /actual/ best and brightest leaving the government www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

submitted 2 days ago • 208 comments

President Trump said he would have had a “very nasty life” if he lost the presidential election, a surprisingly public acknowledgment that his legal challenges could have consumed his life and brought jail time.

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New from me + @aarianmarshall.bsky.social: SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the FAA on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.” www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

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So Elon and Duffy lied about DOGE just getting a tour of FAA. By the time Duffy lied about doge they were already being on boarded as staffers. They’re there to “fix” air traffic control. www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

From my recent experience, the police took me to the local city jail (credit to HBPD, they were polite and professional the entire time), where they searched me and put me in a cell. Then I had to wait while they figured out what I was getting charged with (disrupting an assembly)

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

Fox News and Newsmax are among dozens of outlets backing the AP in a letter I obtained and calling on the White House to restore the wire service’s access. More in Status: www.status.news/p/associated...

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🚨 We are mobilizing for a NEW national day of protest— March 4th Against Monarchy! Find organizing resources and more at linktr.ee/fiftyfiftyon.... @polrev.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social #NoKings #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne

submitted 2 days ago • 234 comments

This will be deeply, deeply destructive and destabilizing.

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What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

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Reminder that CISA also protects US elections from threats—work the agency was ordered to stop last Friday www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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“Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

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

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Musk confirms my reporting:

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He should be our messenger.

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It’s funny how much people will pay for eggs now, when it was untenable for so many to pay more for the chickens to be treated humanely. Just wait until the cheap labor that farmed them are deported.

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AGAIN: If they actually cared about the deficit they wouldn’t also be cutting trillions in taxes for the rich. They think we are all very dumb.

submitted 2 days ago • 418 comments

This opposition tells you a lot about how often airlines destroy wheelchairs.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 3 days ago • 642 comments

Wow, this is beyond useless. Tears for @benwikler.bsky.social .

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