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"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role”—in other words, that the “National Nuclear Security Agency” was an agency having something to do with national nuclear security

There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk. He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals),

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As the law has become a mere suggestion, for a despot president our courts are next to fall. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

1/Last August, there was reporting on a conversation Russell Vought, co-author of Project 2025 who was confirmed just by the Senate over the objection of every Dem & Independent to head OMB (sort of like the HR office for the feds), had with people he thought were donors. But they were journalists.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

"The Administration would be allowed to rescind the agreement, or the government could stop paying, and employees who took the resignation package would waive all legal claims... 'It sounded like a commercial for a used car dealership, like, ‘Act now, 1 day only’...” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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👋 legal profession! "With the Trump administration warning career lawyers to follow orders even if they have ethical qualms, pressure is building on professional legal associations to take a stance against efforts to upend long-standing norms of public service..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Requiring teachers to force-feed patriotism to their students won’t make America greater; it will make us angrier and stupider.

Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters

Family members of people deported or forced to leave during the Mexican repatriation of the 1930s have for decades urged the country to pay attention to this little known episode of history.

The Trump war on the news media takes an even stupider turn

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"It seems like virtually every sector of the American economy" -- Fox News has put together a scrolling list of the "goods affected by Trump tariffs" 😬

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.