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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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Per @adamschiff.com: “Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. “The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.”

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Been saying we need to look at this thru a DV lens. The most dangerous time of an abusive relationship is when victims try to leave Obama was a departure from standard whiteness, and white supremacists will never forgive us for that or let us leave, even if that means they die with us

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Is this really the "path forward" our new CEO thinks will save Starbucks? Maybe listening to the baristas running the stores and finalizing union contracts is a better first step...

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THANK YOU, WORCESTER! First time I’ve ever needed an overflow room for “Coffee with your Congressman.” Something is happening in this country—people have had enough of Trump’s cruelty and lies. Thank you to all 700 of you for showing up. Thank you for caring 🇺🇸

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My mom (white) grew up in Jim Crow. When I said to her the other day that the administration wanted a new Jim Crow, she immediately concurred.

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Donald Trump is making sure his friends, from Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, are getting massive tax cuts. Instead of lowering prices for working families, his taxes will make life harder than ever. Here in Illinois, we're finding a way forward together to fight the challenges.

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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And yet-- today, we can't get Dems to meet Trump with that same energy.

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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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Glad I got the chance to swing by Ben's Chili Bowl a few weeks ago to meet Virginia and her family, and reflect on the history of this incredibly important local landmark (and, of course, enjoy a half-smoke).

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good www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

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One of the most clarifying moments for me regarding how utterly, hopelessly divorced this country was from its own true nature and history came in 2008 when I listened in disbelief to educated adults argue aloud that the election of one (1) Black president meant we were in a post-racial America.

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This is your regular reminder that if unions didn't work, giant corporations wouldn’t spend millions and millions of dollars trying to stop workers from making them. Unions give workers power, and billionaire CEOs don't like that.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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After mass layoffs, some federal agencies are trying to bring employees back www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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"Trump and Musk now demand federal workers, who have dedicated their lives to helping people, explain what they did last week to justify keeping their jobs. Let’s take a look at what Republicans did this week." - @mcclellan.house.gov (D-VA04) bluevirginia.us/2025/02/satu...

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If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

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Over 1,000 people showed up in Framingham to make clear that we’re fired up and ready to fight back against every terrible policy Donald Trump and Elon Musk throw at us. 📸 John Walker

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It’s racism. It’s the racism so many places used to do de facto what Trump is doing by writ And it’s really scary that while this is happening very few discussions also include the observations and reflections of Black people This is how people talk about us ALL THE TIME

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You always share some interesting & thought provoking content @yagirl.bsky.social 👍🏾💯🌻

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it's wild how "might get raped in prison" is culturally understood to be on the same baseline of humor as an unexpected fart.

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Ice is not welcome here. #photography #coffee #activism #streetphotography #ice #resist #photographersofbluesky

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Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

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Eggs section at the Washington DC Costco despite a 3 container per person limit. Not a single egg. Still no Trump Administration plan to address the egg shortage as far as I know.

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Exactly right by Rep. @bobbyscott.house.gov (D-VA03): "By firing [Gen. CQ Brown] with no justification, President Trump has weakened our national security" bluevirginia.us/2025/02/satu...

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stupid for so many reasons but chief among them is that GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES DON'T WORK FOR HIM.

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"Make no mistake—our Commonwealth is at a crisis point...Trump’s federal job cuts are devastating Virginia families...Yet Governor Glenn Youngkin refuses to stand up to Trump, allowing these cuts to go unchallenged." - VA Senate Majority Leader @ssurovell.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/02/toda...

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Many of them, but our congressman is a coward and won't hold Town Halls.

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Call it the Musk-Trump Veteran Firing Program. Nearly a third of the federal workers are veterans, and the figure is much higher at DoD. Musk and Trump are going to fire tens of thousands of American veterans, on top of the thousands they already fired. “Thank you for your service, you’re fired.”

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Keep up the visible association of #TSLA with Nazi Musk. No one of good conscience should go near a Tesla product. #TeslaTakedown

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Donald Trump was a candidate for President in three Presidential elections from 2016 to 2024. He won two of them and lost one. In the two times he won, the President or the Vice President of the United States was a person of color. May be coincidental. Or may show how the backlash helped him win.

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“I want you to thank me.” 💰Kristi Noem says Trump told her to spend $200 MILLION (taxpayer dollars) running ads thanking him for his immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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This has been on my brain for nearly a decade. Nearly everything has felt like a direct reaction to Obama winning the presidency and a Black family living in the White House for 8 years. Thankful that @karenattiah.bsky.social addresses what’s been stuck in my head.

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

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He nails it.

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the only thing Canadians like more than beating Russia in hockey is beating the US in hockey. the general sentiment this morning is that last night we got to do both.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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This is how it’s done.

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