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We need to start highlighting individual human stories more. The human mind doesn't respond to abstractions and concepts and intellectual arguments in the same way it does to real stories of individual people. Federal workers and their families, refugees dying painful slow deaths, suicides, etc.

I encourage everyone to follow Trent Evans. Great posts?

If there’s a silver lining right now, it’s that this coup is being conducted by two of the most ridiculous men imaginable. One, a half-literate conman who spray-tans himself the color of late-stage cirrhosis, the other a socially-maladjusted billionaire who thinks posting memes is statesmanship. 1/x

Musk chooses which agencies live or die, and the media covers it like it’s a political story instead of the textbook definition of state capture. This fascist tech feudalism is happening in full view. Thank God there is @meidastouch.com and other independent journalism outlets. Patronize them.

The Democrats are like the chess team that had to sub in for the football team. The opponent is evil. You must play the same game. This is football, not chess. Our country is at stake. Schumer and Jeffries are chess players. Sens. Murphy and Schatz and Reps. Crockett and AOC play football.

If you long ago had enough of this shit, if you require catharsis and unvarnished reality with a sprinkling of hope at the end, I can’t recommend this enough. www.the-reframe.com/the/

You can sort by 1) completed; 2) in progress; and 3) not started. You can see what they've done, what they're doing, and what they are going to do. We are living Project 2025 and it is a coup. Read up and you'll see how much of this is for the rich. It hurts Trump voters too. Perhaps most of all.

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

Probably not the best person to be overseeing.