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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

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Trump just fired the country's senior military officer: Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot who became only the second African American to hold the chairman's job.

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This is really something

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I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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“If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and forty minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic." #JBPritzker #PrayForAmerica

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Steve Bannon last night with a Nazi salute followed by the smug nod which says, ‘Yeah, we can do this in the open now.’

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Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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"As a civics teacher, I want to use this teachable moment to describe what the Education Department does (and doesn’t do)—and what’s at risk if Trump and Musk succeed." - @rweingarten.bsky.social www.aft.org/column/prote...

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So much of this mess stems from the incredible ignorance of voters, especially MAGA idiots who are now finding out how various Federal programs actually work. Maybe they’ll realize Shitler is a conman, and always has been.

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Insane.

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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“An unelected billionaire is now bulldozing the research arm of the Department of Education,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said. “Cutting off these investments after the contract has already been inked is the definition of wasteful.” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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“He reinforced a whole political trajectory that is antithetical to what the U.S. is trying to do,” one U.S. official told @propublica.org about Marocco’s 2018 secret meeting with Bosnian Serb separatists, “which is supporting a peace agreement.”

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Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

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We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com

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Remember when they mocked us for saying that democracy is on the ballot?

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This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on. That is part of the crisis we face.

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After a decade of right-wing fools yelling about “cancel culture,” “free-speech,” and an (imaginary) threat of left-wing censorship, the first thing they do when the get power is ban talking about anything that hurts their little feelings. Ok, back to writing about these neo-segregationists.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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The Musk-rats are now inside EPA. The fossil fuel dark money machine that put Trump in office wants to destroy, the better to pollute.

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Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

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Trump and Elon Musk plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and strip transitioning military veterans and their families overseas of the generous federal hiring incentives they rely on. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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Dear media, No, Trump isn’t “signaling” that he “might” ignore the courts. He. Is. Ignoring. The. Fucking. Courts. The end. Do your damn job.

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Yes the Trump Administration is now literally stealing money from the states that simply isn’t theirs.

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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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Donald Trump illegally fired 19 inspectors general. The law requires notice to Congress and a case-by-case justification. It is not optional. Congress must convene a bipartisan hearing to examine these unlawful acts and how they can be remedied. Immediately.

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Cost of extending the expiring Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion Both Trump proposals will explode the deficit and be used as an excuse to gut programs that millions rely on. It's reverse Robin Hood.

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“Pro-life” “Christians”. Fucking hypocrites.

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If we're being serious, I think it means two things: First, that there's now a non-zero chance that the US government is going to willfully default on some of its debt obligations because Elon Musk decides it should. Second, that Trump isn't in control and his cognitive abilities are degrading.

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When will taxpayers & farmers get wise to this scheme? If Trump really wanted to end government waste, he'd stop fucking farmers and then using taxpayer funds to bail them out

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Here is one reason Musk-Trump want to cut funding to the NIH "Project 2025 — a policy blueprint written by Trump’s allies — tied indirect costs to DEI work, saying that a cap would “help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.”" www.chronicle.com/article/rese...

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Need more $ for tax cuts for billionaires? Cut funding for cancer research. Need a few extra bucks for a corporate cash grab? Cut Special Education. Donald Trump and Elon Musk's last few weeks aren't hard to understand. Just follow the money.

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“.. a pause in enforcement to better understand how to streamline the [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act] to make sure it’s in line with economic interests ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...

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