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We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think what we're going to see is the conservative numbers in Canada drop because people are looking at the destruction that Trump is unleashing and Canadians are thinking, 'If this is what MAGA looks like, there's no damn way we're going to vote for it in Canada.'

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"‘The last backstop’: New resistance movement formed to hamper the Trump-Musk chaos" l.smartnews.com/p-jc0zs48/kK...

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"How 7 states could thwart GOP plans to overhaul Medicaid" l.smartnews.com/p-jcX9R0Z/IB...

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"Federal judge orders Trump administration to rescind ‘illegal’ layoff memo" l.smartnews.com/p-jcWZK1b/c2...

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"‘Deeply alarmed’: Ex-Pentagon heads beg Congress to hold Trump accountable" l.smartnews.com/p-jcWDS8o/IS...

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“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees within another agency." - US District Judge William Alsup says in ruling from the bench that the mass firing of probationary employees ordered by OPM was likely unlawful.

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Trump claims the “trillion-dollar deal” he’s close to signing with Ukrainian President Zelensky would offer the US easy access to a bonanza of rare earth minerals. That’s at odds with the assessment of US officials who say there’s little actual evidence of vast rare earth mineral wealth in Ukraine.

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It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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@bmeiselas.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social Sooooo proud of you guys! Keep on rockn in the free world! 👊

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Trump freed 1,500 criminals on his first day in office. Now he just helped Andrew Tate, who is charged with rape and human trafficking. What happened to “law and order”?

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NYS is looking to hire former federal workers: youtu.be/yP6-_6m0ZCY?...

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Brett Meiselas: Right now, we have a president and his billionaire oligarch buddy, who are essentially leading a coup against the United States from within. And I think people are looking right now for people to call this out for what it is every single day, unapologetically,

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Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

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Duckworth: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history. This has to stop, because these are hard-working people."

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Congrats @meidastouch.com !!! www.newsweek.com/meidas-touch...

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Read "The most shocking Pentagon firing wasn’t the top general, legal experts say. It was the lawyers." on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-ja6EpeN/y3...

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Read "Supreme Court rules against drivers in a case advocates say could make civil-rights claims harder" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-ja4SpNn/RU...

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THREAD: House GOP wants to ram through a budget package tomorrow, gutting Medicaid to cut taxes for billionaires. Seniors in hospice, disabled children, and workers without employee insurance all get screwed. These 15 RED districts will suffer the most:

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URGENT: The House is set to vote tomorrow on whether to advance $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid — eviscerating essential programs that provide lifesaving services for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Tell your representative now: Don't cut Medicaid.

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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"Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-j3l9mlA/42...

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Steve Bannon: "The people of Israel got to understand something. The number one enemy to the people in Israel are American Jews that do not support Israel and do not support MAGA. Okay, MAGA and the evangelical Christians and the traditional Catholics in this country have Israel's back..."

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AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

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Elon now also a firehose of Kremlin lies. Not by accident.

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Read "Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders’ First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-j4M4vDr/rP...

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Trump is a goddamn traitor to America. Any congressional Republican who supports him — or is afraid to stand up to him — is just as much of a traitor as Trump.

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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"The best tool we have is public pressure..." @sarajacobs.house.gov on the GOP's majority in Congress. "The more Republicans start to feel this pressure, the more they'll be willing to work with us to stand up to what Elon Musk, and DOGE and Donald Trump are doing."

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Read "Trump fires CQ Brown as Joint Chiefs Chairman" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-j3BsKls/0V...

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Tearing apart, the military, the Postal Service, the IRS, the FBI, and every institution in the United States. It’s like watching a loaded Jumbo jet crash into a busy mall in slow motion and you just can’t turn away.

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Read "Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a “Deep, Deep Recession”" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-j1pEP5o/Mf...

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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💰PRO PUBLICA: “While Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for DOGE has soared to nearly $40 million…” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Helpful tracker on Project 2025's destruction. www.project2025.observer?utm_source=s...

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Read "Trump Hands the World to China" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-j0499Rn/cB...

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Two DOGE workers are now at CISA (DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) I've confirmed. Edward Coristine, the 19-yr-old known as Big Balls, and Kyle Schutt, a 37-yr-old software engineer. Marisa Kabas (bsky.app/profile/mari...) was first to report about Coristine. My piece for Wired

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Read "‘On the backs of veterans’: Senators rail against federal workforce purge as vets hit hard by cuts" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-j0CttX3/mn...

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