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AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.

White House Down #Krasnov

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

Major events in human history are often driven by incredible assholes, just monstrous douchebags with ego problems that cause them to float through the world committing atrocities and cheering themselves onwards. Nate Silver should both read better books and go to therapy.

I googled. He's real. In certain special cases, I feel a new pope should forgo taking a new papal name and stick with his own, most excellent, one.

This shit is so fucking insufferable. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. And yes actually we should call out Nazi symbolism performed on a national stage, whether or not they think they're being cute about it

Please read my latest reflection. There are lies we tell to comfort ourselves. Like Democrats who say we just have to wait two year and Trump will lose control of the House. Like those in Germany who promoted Hitler while believing they could control him. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-reichs...

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...

"The tragedy isn't just that we're losing our democracy—it's that we're losing it to people who understand exactly what they're destroying and why. They're not misguided idealists or bumbling authoritarians; they're clear-eyed architects of a new feudalism,...

and they certainly are not in any way legally bound or directed by tweets

Harmeet Dhillon will lead Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division. Michael Gates will be her lieutenant Both are super partisan election deniers from California who have made names for themselves among MAGA attacking civil rights rather than defending & expanding civil rights Both are unqualified

„Sometimes you have to reverse the the flow of shit and flood the other side“. Resistance lessons to start with.

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

“It’s as if we lost the war to US..” He wants to take resources from a country in war. How are we supposed to live? We have children. It’s as if US seeks to deprive us of our economic potential. It would finish us off, the same as America did with Red Indians” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Dear German friends — we’re hearing in Canada how the far-right extremist AfD party is polling well in part because they’re “strong on social media”, Elon Musk’s interference, & their attempts to appear mainstream. Please look closely at the chaos Musk & extremists are creating in the United States.

A Houston TV station used historical footage to compare book banning and textbook revisions in a local school district to Nazi book burnings. Republican backlash swiftly followed, and the station removed the video. www.chron.com/news/houston...

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

Beware Trump especially on Friday evenings, notorious slow news time to undertake mischief with minimal scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Extortion, pure and simple.

The last failsafe of any republican form of government is that the military is loyal to the constitution and rule of law over a particular leader. Cross that line, and you get Venezuela today and every dictatorship in history.

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

Elon has intervened in two legal requests in the US: one for Trump, and another for likely suspect leakers. A description of his efforts to stall the Trump warrant is in the Jack Smith report that Aileen Cannon is refusing to release.

Here’s the hard truth: this country’s people are tired of subsidizing billionaires. Want your cars to sell? Do it without subsidies. Want to shoot rockets into space? Get by without govt contracts. Want to build a website? Build your own internet first. We are DONE with you.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Americans .. when your president deliberately weakens your Armed Forces you should ask why ..

Grimes told Azealia His implant’s a failure

Holy shit pt 2 “Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io. “ cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...

The Trump administration is DEI in reverse—except with nepotism and loyalty tests instead of diversity. Unqualified Trump supporters, friends, and family members take all the positions

A Tesla story in two parts: 1) Tesla recalls 375k cars after probe by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration apnews.com/article/tesl... 2) DOGE employee cuts fall heavily on agency that regulates Musk’s Tesla (NHTSA) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

Hail to the thief. Stealing money from blue states, plundering our own country like it's conquered territory

Ukraine war briefing: Trump turnaround as he acknowledges Russia invaded Ukraine

The Art of the Deal - a big fat MAGA wank. youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

In the UNGA the US and European countries now support competing draft resolutions on Ukraine - the US one receives warm words from Russia, the European one is supported by Ukraine. apnews.com/article/russ...

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A reminder… www.politico.com/magazine/sto...