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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

When Rupert Murdoch’s rags turn on you …

Steve Bannon announced: he spoke with Ric Grenell, and the J6 Choir will perform at the Kennedy Center. Yes, this is real. Don’t wish that it were satire?

The nature of “shock and awe” is that it makes it hard to see or think clearly. What’s playing out through a veneer of chaos is a deliberate tactical program to create a system in which the President has sole authority over the entire executive branch: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The latest Democracy Index from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social tracks the escalating threats to democracy This week's top-lines: ‣ Trump declares himself “king” ‣ DOJ's threats of retribution ‣ Mass firings at FAA, FDA, & CDC threatens lives ‣ WH threatens press access

Raskin: "So who is leading DOGE? Is it the young man who calls himself Big Balls? Is it the racist on the night crew who's proud of the fact he was a racist before all of his friends were racist, and says we should legitimize Indian hate?"

U.S. stocks took a massive nosedive after reports showed worries about how Donald Trump’s policies will likely affect the economy

"Trump said he wouldn’t touch Medicaid. He lied. (Shocking, I know.)" @sarajacobs.house.gov joins @katiephang.bsky.social to discuss what the House GOP plans to gut to make way for more tax cuts, while -another- government shutdown looms. Tune in this Saturday 12 pm ET!

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.. 😊

Raskin: "It's becoming obvious to the American people that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are not opponents of corruption, they are agents of corruption."

It’s pathetic MAGA thinks hurting kids is a flex. Vile.

Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

Look surprised. 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, a scholar on fascism and dictators, joins us to talk about the unique threat Trump and MAGA represent to US democracy. Take him literally and seriously, folks. Give Ruth a listen—sobering, scary times. zeteo.com/p/king-trump...

BREAKING: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested TODAY near the U.S. Capitol by Capitol Police. As Tarrio was walking away from a rally, he knocked the phone out of the hands of a heckler. Police immediately took Tarrio into custody. GOOD!

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the *offer* of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for DC, without holding the Trump administration in contempt for continuing to freeze aid, wrote that theTRO doesn’t “permit it to continue suspending duly appropriated foreign aid “ with new, post-hoc rationalizations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

Trump and Musk want to rob Americans blind. Rep. Joe Neguse and Jen Rubin discuss the proposed $800 billion budget cut—targeting nearly all social safety new programs.

Have you noticed an uptick in threats coming out of the Trump administration this week? We did! Check out this week’s issue of The Democracy Index by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for @contrariannews.org. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

NEW: DOGE has operated in relative darkness even as it appears to be behind an explosive — and legally disputed — overhaul of the government. But details about the Musk-led agency teams have emerged in court. We review (and link to docs) here: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Lutnick: "I'd like to thank you President Trump. It is the greatest honor to work for you, to be with you, to carry your name, your leadership, and your flag throughout the world ... I know him as the smartest, most thoughtful, and most intuitive person I've ever met."

A batch of new polls show Trump’s approval rate falling. My best friend @jvl.bsky.social and I discuss whether or not the honeymoon is over.

Trump looks weak and erratic—selling out to Russia, attacking Zelenskyy, and throwing workers under the bus. Markets are rattled, his approval is crashing, and his MAGA cronies are overstepping. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT!

WAPO: “.. an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to six people familiar ..” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service” www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

"One shouldn’t be surprised to see Trump bend over for Putin. But surely all those hawkish Republicans on the Hill, many of whom criticized the Biden administration for not doing enough to help Ukraine, would be moved to speak out in protest? Surely you jest." www.thebulwark.com/p/to-russia-...

Judge Ali does *not* hold Trump Adm in contempt but *does* order it to "immediately cease" its "blanket suspension" of USAID's funding contracts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking WaPo: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

time to sober things up at CPAC ...

$39M+ has been earmarked to DOGE in Trump admin’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50M a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted. Unclear what time frame DOGE's $39M is meant to cover www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now