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Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

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As the Atlantic's @radiofreetom.bsky.social explains, Trump is capturing all the key ministries one needs to hold power in a dictatorship www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump supporters are so dumb. I posted the Trump quote about eggs and how obviously Trump doesn't care about solving things to help the American people broadly.

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So dumb

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.

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If your adversary can't believe their luck, either you're very, very bad at negotiating, or you don't think they're your adversary.

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

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The word they’re looking for is Nazi. It was a Nazi salute, not a “controversial salute.”

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"The great illusion that Musk, Donald Trump, Miller and others are trying to push—that they’re rooting out immense amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government—is collapsing all around them."

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Musk/Trump/NYT is going to call firing IRS agents savings, but the lost revenue will be many times their salaries: this all about making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes.

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Experts: We have to tell the story of how closely the sequence of events we're seeing fits the modern authoritarian playbook People in public life: The president has literally declared he's above the law. It's time to start acting like this is a crisis before it's too late.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

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Hey #mitchmcconnell you did this. You are why America is in freefall.

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"what's fake happening there"

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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 4 days ago • 2652 comments

How a dictator and fascist speaks.

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 4 days ago • 1196 comments

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

submitted 4 days ago • 2066 comments

Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

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Republicans: "the free market will handle things." Also Republicans: "we don't want you to know if the apartment you're renting is full of neurotoxins."

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Happy Presidents' Day to the 44 presidents who never tried to become a fascist dictator.

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

An important point to keep in mind.

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“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

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Sitting at the Mammogram office waiting for my wife's "additional tests" after her very first mammogram at 40 is terrifying.

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FYI, all the Trumpers are like, "name a single law he violated" and it's infuriating.

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This is fascism.

submitted 8 days ago • 3193 comments

Every business Trump ran went bankrupt and/or was sued, convicted of fraud or shuttered. Now he’s running the USA like a business. How does that make you feel?

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

Our parks are in chaos. We’ve seen firsthand how Trump’s hiring freeze, the rescinding of hundreds of job offers, and the layoff of 5% of NPS staff have left us overwhelmed and short-handed.

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Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim. Me, 20 years later: fuck

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B of A: “.. US inflation trending toward 4% next 6 months .. means Trump must go ‘small’ not ‘big’ on tariffs & immigration in coming months to avoid fanning 2nd wave ..” #CPI 🇺🇸

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This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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Like watergate on angel dust

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submitted 11 days ago • 245 comments

Ah yeah, I call bullsh*t

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If you want to know why Trump is able to rule like an autocrat, compare the Washington Post' coverage of the Saturday Night Massacre with Trump doing exactly the same thing

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

Just sick.

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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts. We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

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Unless the power levers work and save us, this country is going to be drastically different in four years.

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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

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@cnn.com is all like "how can we make Elon and Trump sound totally harmless like they are following laws and norms"

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