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Do not give into despair I know it looks bleak and it’s scary AF for a host of reasons But they win in advance if we give up We fight until our last breath

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It's so sad that they went with "Third Term" when "Third Reich" was right there waiting for them.

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Apparently, Grok is the only reliable thing Elon Musk has paid people far smarter than him to create.

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The order to email Elon Musk five things you did last week or else you’re fired appears to be illegal. More here.

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If we liquidated Elon, every American could get a check for $1 million dollars

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Kennedy Center ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Trump’s executive order shutting down DEI claims that recruiting diverse applicants “diminishes the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination.” Donald Trump’s war on DEI isn’t about merit.

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza was mourned Wednesday in Gainesville, Texas. The 11-year-old girl died by suicide after classmates bullied her and threatened to call ICE to deport her parents. Jocelynn was in the sixth grade. She loved playing the French horn, making TikTok videos and swimming.

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The Trump administration has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities to end all DEI programs or risk losing federal funding. Educators are warning that the “autocratic” directive is part of a larger attempt to privatize education.

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"Will Universities Surrender or Resist?" Scholar Slams Trump's Threat to Defund Universities over DEI

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📢 Federal workers serve every community across the country—keeping our air & water clean, caring for our veterans, and making sure our food & medicine are safe. Cutting them isn’t “efficiency”—it’s sabotage. ✊ Take action: go.savepublicservices.com #SaveOurServices

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Federal workers are doctors, nurses & public health experts. DOGE isn’t making “efficient cuts”—they’re gutting public services to sell them off so billionaires can charge 10x more for profit. ✊ Take action: go.savepublicservices.com #SaveOurServices

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Public opinion is swinging strongly against Musk's wrecking ball operation The latest WaPo poll shows that only 37% of Americans think it should be easier to fire longtime federal workers

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📢 Federal agencies that keep our food & medicine safe, our air & water clean, and corporations in check are already understaffed. Cutting more workers lets billionaires rake in profits while Americans pay the price. ✊ Take action: go.savepublicservices.com #SaveOurServices

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

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NEW: Get ready for delayed tax refunds, long hold times + dropped calls with the IRS, thanks to Trump illegally firing more than 6,000 employees there today. *Except if you're a wealthy tax evader. You will now "feast" as the IRS strains to function. www.huffpost.com/entry/irs-ma...

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FWIW: Here's the most recent "Supreme Court precedent" that included a constitutional challenge to "two layers of for-cause removal protections" for an ALJ. "We do not reach the remaining constitutional issues ...." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 266 comments

Read this & follow @bbkogan.bsky.social

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Huge unanswered questions and risks remain around DOGE accessing sensitive taxpayer data. @taxlawcenter.org has new resources to help with understanding those risks. They also explain when it's a crime for political appointees to access, disclose, & misuse taxpayer data: medium.com/@taxlawcente...

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Two starter packs from me! First, for the very few of you who care about it, a budget and tax starter pack! Please let me know if you should be on this and I missed you! go.bsky.app/N6Nukd7

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The new acting head of Social Security got the job because he'd been feeding our social security information to Musk all along as well as sending harassing emails to employees in the agency’s personnel and security divisions who were trying to protect our info. www.joemygod.com/2025/02/new-...

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🧵Shock Doctrine is a social control strategy that uses recurrent shocks to make people feel overwhelmed & easier to conquer. To inflict suffering, push us into submission, or prompt us to rise up against our oppression in a way the fascist regime can use as an excuse to institute martial law.

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🚨🚨🚨 Closing Social Security offices! Dammit, it's all hands on deck and where are the Dems? fElon's team works weekends, folks. This is just the beginning... @propublica.org comes through again.

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House Republicans want to slash $2 TRILLION from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Not the military. Not tax cuts for billionaires. YOUR benefits. Time to raise hell.

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MEGA Trump fucking MANIPULATED YOU, robbed you, fired you, cut your Social Security, gave Elon Musk your personal data, cut your healthcare, took food assistance, put grandma out the nursing home and spit on your family’s futures. Join the resistance and STAND TF UP.

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I would rather have air traffic controllers, Park Rangers, Cancer Research and Social Security than a $5000 check from DOGE

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The FDR Administration...overcame the Great Depression, Defeated Fascism, Became World Leader, Established Social Security and the GI Bill...when America was Truly Great...and was nothing like Trumpanzee Fascism.

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This...is why we have regulations...this is why we need a Corporate Free Media.

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Everyone, please read this thread and share. Musk is closing down Social Security offices and it is not being reported. You have to go to the DOGE website to find it. Here are all the details: www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

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The U.S. system keeps people misinformed and voting against their own interests. Decades of underfunded education, right-wing propaganda, and corporate influence allow billionaires like Musk to exploit Social Security while the GOP slashes benefits used by those voters. It’s systemic corruption.

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So is everyone just screaming "They better keep their hands off my Social Security!" gonna stop it from happening or nah?

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House Republicans are preparing a budget package that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That’s TRILLION. With a T.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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www.cbc.ca/news/world/m... Okay. Are American HR rules different than Canada's? Federal workers don't work for him, he does not pay their salary, this is not a private business and they have collective agreements and employment laws in place. Can someone just tell him he is full of shit? #uspoli

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This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

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Not all heroes wear capes 🤣🔥

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The D.C. United game started with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” in honor of Black History Month, so perhaps the administration isn’t paying close attention to pro soccer (then also “O Canada” because Toronto FC is the opponent, to scattered boos, and the “Star Spangled Banner”)

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUES THE WHITE HOUSE to stop punishing the news agency, its clients and readers for not calling the Gulf of Mexico by the name President Trump wants // Jeremy Barr reports www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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Canada & Mexico get phone calls, but Putin gets a summit. 🥴 GOP representatives you’re a bunch of dried up, crazy ass sewer dwellers but surely this can’t be acceptable to you.

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We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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Let's have some Saturday night fun 🦋💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 I'll start Fuck Trump from Canada 🇨🇦

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