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It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/

Elon’s Downfall

Pam Bondi: "We are gonna fight to protect all of the Tesla owners throughout this country" So, Pam, what about those schoolchildren again??

to me the most disturbing fact about DOGE’s raid on the US Institute of Peace is that the local cops helped them.

The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific. This is 21st century Nazism. Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised. Where is the global outrage? The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

Rep John Larson - Connecticut:

2018: Trump’s USAID hatchet man, Peter Marocco, secretly met w/Christian nationalists—defying US policy & undermining a fragile peace deal. Now, he’s echoing Kremlin sentiment, in front of Congress. US foreign policy under Trump: empowering extremists & gutting efforts to promote global stability.

Former Social Security official describes hostile takeover by Musk team DOGE officials also put millions of taxpayers’ private data at risk and refused to say why they needed access to it, the official says. wapo.st/3DsqvLj

JD Vance claimed on X that “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed him & shouted at his daughter. Guess he didn’t realize it was caught on camera. No one yelled at his kid, and they didn’t follow them. Vance & Musk need to quit using children as shields. The public isn’t backing down—we want answers.

If Democrats don’t protect norms and intuitions, no one else will. You can’t count on Senator Ted Cruz to defend free and fair elections, or Speaker Mike Johnson to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights. And it’s unlikely Senator Susan Collins, despite her… www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

Every reporter today should be asking every Congressional Republican why they're OK siding with Putin and walking away from NATO and democracy.

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

Dems, if you don’t shove this down his throat (metaphorically) you are worthless.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

Accurate.

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.

Today in @democrats-judiciary.house.gov I played a little game with Donald Trump's lies on immigration: Rhetoric or Reality? Let's all play along!

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Shout out to the media who participated in the most obvious misdirection ever

You could write this in a movie but people would say it was too dark and unrealistic

Watch this space. (h/t @brianvan.bsky.social)

If Pete Hegseth is confirmed, the United States will have a Secretary of Defense willing to comply with orders from the President to use military force—including live ammunition—against citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

NEVER FORGET

"In Iraq, I had the expectation that at any moment I could be killed by the enemy. But on January 6th, that feeling was constant. It was the longest day of my life, with more than forty people assaulting me." U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell tells his January 6 story:

Roger Stone and Alex Jones—two hate demons who have been trying to start a race war since either of them were old enough to jerk off to a picture of Ronald Reagan cutting funding for housing and urban development—deserve far more credit for stoking the mass psychosis that made this possible

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Our tax dollars folks.

Rest in peace, President Carter. I’m old enough to remember your administration, (and old enough to see how dirty you were done by legacy media and the Reagan admin). You were an incredible force for good. God Bless You, sir