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Retired journalist; Seattle author; Supports democracy, rule of law, free press. Follows news in Europe. Baseball fan. www.mavisamundson.com
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Present day – in our galaxy.

This is what a leader looks like 🔥🔥 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Geroyam Slava 🇺🇦 #SheShed

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

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

This is a joke and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Irvine has the first (and hopefully last) police Cybertruck in the U.S. Saw a guy on a video, I think TikTok, ripping parts off a Cybertruck with his bare hands and destroying the doors by slamming them. That car has no business in a police fleet.

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

Looking forward to the Trump Justice Department explaining how birth right citizenship is unconstitutional but a South Africa born oligarch has the legal authority to fire every single federal employee by tweet.

1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

Germany’s general election is Sunday. Elon Musk, Trump’s Nazi-saluting billionaire bro, is continuing to amplify enthusiastic support for Germany’s AfD — a political party rife with neo-Nazis. Chapters of the AfD are considered right-wing "extremist" groups by Germany's…

A Trump supporter who was fired from the IRS, told NBC10 he didn’t see this coming from Trump: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason"

1/2 D Trump, P Hegseth, E Musk among them, have: -Around nine marriages (count varies) -Multiple out-of-wedlock children; -Multiple sexual-misconduct accusations, cash settlements, at least one jury verdict; -Zero time in uniform (Trump, Musk). Iraq/Afgh for Hegseth. Yesterday they fired ....

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old? Are you for real right now?” That teen is "Big Balls" Corisitine, the recording is from 2022, and the voice is from a CEO worried about him as a security risk. Now Musk has him snooping in your personal data www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

'Really outraged': Over 200 gather outside Fort Lauderdale Tesla dealership to protest Elon Musk www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/02/22/r... We made the news! Thank you @sun-s

Homan threatening Boston. I guess this is slightly less stupid than threatening Philly but...

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up) DAY 22 FEBRUARY 2025 I think of my MOM who came from Europe as a young girl, an immigrant All of you know WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS What Donald Trump and Elon Musk and DOGE have done to our Country is beyond despicable IT IS NOT AMERICA SHAMEFUL

US Senator Bernie Sanders draws crowds protesting oligarchy. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said he would be traveling to Washington DC later on Sunday as the US ally presses its case to be excluded from tariffs.

‘Snot my favorite desk, said nobody. . . www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/20/t...

"We are in a severe constitutional crisis." @tribelaw.bsky.social talks about Trump administration's actions against the rule of law.

About 100 gathered in Missoula, Montana, to protest concerns to Rep. Ryan Zinke, a Republican. nbcmontana.com/news/local/c...

Tesla protesters in Seattle today surrounded University Village shopping mall, near the University of Washington. www.threads.net/@devinher/po...

The Trump administration's push for financial and environmental deregulation is "dangerous," the head of France's central bank Francois Villeroy de Galhau said.

Thousands of supporters of Bulgaria’s far-right Revival party tried to break into the headquarters of the European Union mission in Sofia during a protest against the country’s plans to adopt the euro in 2026.

If this doesn’t offend and piss you off, what will?? Musk is an over-the-top arrogant POS!! Why does Congress not DO SOMETHING about him!!

This is going to sound mean & elitist & the meritocracy is bullshit but whatever: so many of the people they want to traumatize busted their asses & sacrificed & succeeded against big odds to carve out careers in government that don't pay well but help keep this place up & running...

This AM I have re-posted stories from WaPo, the NYT and NPR. The NYT story has multiple bylines and is a thorough factual debunking of an official government communication. You can argue about headlines and stay mad about past errors or you can realize institutional journalists are doing the work.

Which part of Germany was under Soviet control, ask yourself

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.”

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

I can’t explain it but after seeing Musk tweaked out and dorked up at CPAC, I keep thinking of this ATHF character m.youtube.com/watch?v=PupB...

Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

If I were treating the federal workforce like worthless peons whose fates I hold in my hand, pretty sure I wouldn’t be using the word “bullets” in my communications with them at all.

“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up.” Some federal employees, both in public and behind closed doors, are resisting Elon Musk’s orders using whatever means they have. nyti.ms/3D4V7T2

Brilliant front page

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.

“While in this moment of emergency we must fight to preserve the democracy we have, reform & rethinking will be needed to achieve the democracy we want for the future. The chaos, corruption & misery will be hard but every day more eyes will be opened to the truth” open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

Rally on Wednesday at state capitol rotunda in Helena, Montana. National parks job cuts criticized. www.ktvh.com/news/advocat...

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

Scenes from the Ukraine rally at the Lincoln memorial

It’s also logistically impossible. It’s wrong. It’s unconstitutional. And every single federal employee should send @elonmusk & Trump an email and tell them both to go fuck themselves.

"We [the Executive Branch] *are* the federal law" is a dark horse candidate for most Hitlerian Trump quote from 2025. Surprised this did not get even more media coverage and provoke even more outrage. The literal, actual truth, of course, is that the federal government has three co-equal branches.

and they certainly are not in any way legally bound or directed by tweets

Social Security is far too important to be raided by the Musk-rats 🐀😡

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.