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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner. apple.news/A3As6y_soTOy...

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Idiocracy was a documentary

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Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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How much of this is because Zelensky would not lie for Trump? www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/t...

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‘On the backs of veterans’: Democratic Senators rail against federal workforce purge as vets hit hard by cuts www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

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NEW: A blockbuster ruling in Wisconsin hands vote suppressors a big loss. A victory for voting rights! Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXur...

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Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

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Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

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Trump 2.0: Last Week Tonight youtu.be/cw0F8G4-dMw?...

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This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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These are the ads about Elon Musk that the Washington Post refused to run. The paper offered NO EXPLANATION. This is the problem with outlets that are CONTROLLED BY BILLIONAIRES focused on ingratiating themselves with Trump. Support independent media: muskwatch.com/subscribe

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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

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that sinking feeling when the Austrians are more wary of fascism than the US administration....

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Austrian editorial cartoonist Marian Kamensky weighs in on Vance’s bizarre and confrontational speech that assailed U.S. allies attending the Munich Security Conference.

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Many of the passengers (if not all) got out ok.

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We agree.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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“The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.” apnews.com/article/meas...

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“After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday, we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore.” www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

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"We have to fear our common value base is not that common anymore." Christoph Heusgen chairman of the Munich Security Conference shed a tear as he closed the event, moments after thanking European leaders for speaking out on US Vice President JD Vance's comments criticising European democracy. RTE📹

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“After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday, we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore.” nos.nl/l/2556152

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“After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday, we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore," said a tearful Christoph Heugsen, chairperson of the Munich Security Conference.” www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

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Protests are set to take place on Monday, Presidents Day. Here is why: www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

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Consumers are boycotting major retailers. Here's what they plan for 'blackout' on Feb. 28: www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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Within the administration, one strain wants a sleek state that narrowly seeks to maximize investment returns; one, a shackled state unable to promote social justice; and one, a shattered state that cedes authority to competing projects of decentralized private rule. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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NEW VIDEO: While the country is riveted by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing in Washington, DC, the Republican Party continues to attack voting rights in the states and in the United States Supreme Court. Watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuW...

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Trump official dismantling USAID had secret foreign meetings with Christian nationalists: ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Before Peter Marocco was selected to dismantle America’s…

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“West Virginia Representative Riley Moore confirmed that Republicans have been "discussing" cutting mandatory spending—that is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans benefits—in order to pass Trump's tax cut agenda.” www.newsweek.com/social-secur...

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NM Rep Melanie Stansbury: Musk has installed the CEO of Citrix as the DOGE person at the Treasury Department while he’s actively head of a company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts. How is that even legal? Is it legal? I don’t think it’s legal! @repstansbury.bsky.social

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Undermining checks & balances is a key strategy of autocrats around the globe But other countries have successfully pushed back against illiberal forces—& Americans can learn from their examples Read more in our Democracy Playbook👇 www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

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Marco Rubio: From Fun Sized Florida Boy to Trump Crony youtu.be/LrQkZSJ31AI?...

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Trump has outsourced the presidency to Elon Musk — no wonder Trump has time to serve as the Chair of the Kennedy Center. What could be more important than overseeing road companies of Broadway shows?

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What a horrible message to send to Ukrainians...

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