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Musk’s latest baby momma is releasing the text messages.

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

Hi Blue Sky! I’ve worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist for about 20 years — and have just written my first (free) substack because I just can’t stop thinking about this . . . open.substack.com/pub/karidequ...

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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...

french far-right leader jordan bardella canceled his remarks at cpac today reason given: “one of the speakers allowed himself, out of provocation, a gesture referring to nazi ideology.”

Here we go. Certain generals must be removed before any martial law plan is put into action—as Trump and Hegseth are worried there may still be some generals out there who support the Constitution rather than his proposed dictatorship. This is a political purge intended as a precursor to far more.

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance #DemocracyWarriors If this doesn’t reek of Hitler shit, I don’t know what does. If we don’t start hitting the streets daily to fight back against this, there is no saving our country. We have to wake others up somehow.

NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

The tax evasion is the point

Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

📢 “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

"MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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

Right in front of our eyes, we’re seeing the destruction of the US, and the beginning of a dictatorship run by a career criminal & his enablers, drawn from the worst among us. Nobody seems to be taking effective action against this, while many calmly accept this fate like lambs led to the slaughter.

Never forget. #USDemocracy

If you’re not angry, a bit terrified & utterly disgusted, you should be, need to be. What #convictedFELONtrump & his deranged minions are doing is reprehensible. #CallURreps #OurVoicesMatter #DemVoice1 hartmannreport.com/p/see-no-naz...

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

sometimes you locate your dream: all the news in one tight graphic. please copy/repost

🚨🚨🚨 “Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Mr. Vance of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could repeat the horrors of the Holocaust. ‘A commitment to “never again” is not reconcilable with support for the AfD.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

124+ journalists were killed last year. The deadliest year for reporters on record. A free press is at the core of democracy. It is necessary to safeguard human rights. We must keep up the work to protect journalists from coercion and even murder, and safeguard their critical work.

JD Vance siding with a soft-on-Holocaust far-right political party is very on-brand.

Spoken like a true dictator.

Under the new Trump-Putin Regime our allies are leaders who use force, fear, and even poison to hold on to power. We have abandoned the allies of good. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social on the LP Podcast: bit.ly/3EDHoCV

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...