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Love you, Mom gordoncemerickfuneralhome.com/tribute/deta...

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According to a NASA official, DOGE workers already have access to contracts, partnerships, classified national-security information, and satellite data, among other materials. They said, in the wrong hands, such knowledge could erase generations of advantage in aerospace and defense capabilities.

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The IRS will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s push to downsize the federal work force, three people familiar with the agency’s plans said.

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They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

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Scoop: 40 news orgs have signed on to a letter circulated by the WHCA supporting the AP and denouncing Trump's move to block them from official events. The WHCA has gone through great pains to keep the letter from leaking, but I obtained a copy. Read it in Status: www.status.news/p/associated...

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One of the things I think Democrats really deserve to be slammed for is abandoning trans people. They could have fought to protect them, and instead they handed them over gladly to a government that now actively wants them dead. It’s horrifying.

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U.S. tariffs could cause the prices of steel and aluminum cans to rise, an increase that may ultimately be passed on to consumers.

submitted 8 days ago • 126 comments

this is a lie. the federal government can literally print money. we are not going to run out of money. Musk wants to gut the federal government because he doesn't want people to have democratic means of reigning in billionaires.

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This is insane.

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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“57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds: “57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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"Reshape" = make it suck.

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Clearly, Musk's grasp of economics and monetary policy is as firm as his grasp of running a successful social media platform. But his actual message here is about continued profitability for billionaires at the expense of everyone else.

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Cue the “stagflation” coverage. “It's not a zero-possibility scenario any more, by a long shot." 🇺🇸 @reuters.com www.reuters.com/markets/us/s...

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Wall Street and traders are very slowly waking up to the realization that Trump's agenda isn't "pro-growth," not even under the fake GOP claim of tax cuts for billionaires = growth, but under any analysis. It's anti-growth, it's ripping out the foundations of the US economy.

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There is a school that says morality shouldn’t play a role in how we critique academic agendas. I think that’s true in most cases—we should be unafraid to explore people, places, and things. But when folks want to operationalize their historical work, the conversations are necessarily different.

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"Here's a clever way to do the bad thing" is a disease throughout the legal profession, including much of academia and the judiciary. Much, not all, but too many.

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It's an opinion shared by right-wing authoritarians and left-wing authoritarians — pretty simple. For years Ukrainians, Syrians, HKers, Taiwanese et al have had to deal with Western leftists taking the sides of their oppressors/aggressors or failing to call out and cut out fellow "leftists" who do.

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You would think Trumpers and Tankies being on the same side with their foreign policy would cause some reflective critical thinking but alas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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“What’s efficient about firing people you have to scramble to hire back? What are the cost savings of a few thousand federal employees compared to the F-35 program? What are we even doing here, actually?” www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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Gary the Canadian Adventure Cat would like to remind America that if it invades Canada, its children will die, scared, alone and frozen.

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For the record this is also what russia thought about Ukraine

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Today in US History: On Feb. 20, 1939, the white supremacists held a rally at Madison Square Gardens, months before Hitler invaded Poland. The rally was a celebration of the rise of Nazism in Germany. That was the worst kind of history. Donald Trump reprised the spectacle with his 2024 rally at MSG

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Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for using a name he doesn't like. It's that simple. So why aren't more reporters and media outlets speaking out more vehemently to help The AP? In part, I'm told, it's because the WH Correspondents' Association is trying to work out a solution behind the scenes.

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This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.

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It’s funny—Members of Congress and Senators have the very same attitude. They want the prestige but they don’t want to do the work.

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The irony of what we are seeing in the US is that the US has endlessly pontificated to the world about the robustness of its democracy and institutions. Yet, in one month, Trump and his billionaire attack dog are ripping those institutions apart as people just stand by and watch.

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The lesson to Europe from what is happening in the US? Democracy does not "take care of itself." It needs to be actively and aggressively protected. Standing by as it is attacked and weakened is not a strategy...it's a surrender.

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Yup. The GOP was bad long before 2016. It was bad in 2009 when I started blogging about it. It was bad in 2006 when Tom Mann and @normornstein.bsky.social wrote The Broken Branch. It was bad at least from the 1990s on, when it was the party of Newt and Rush. And it just got worse, worse, and worse.

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In today's Quinnipiac poll, 40% of Democrats approve of the way congressional Democrats are handling their job. 49% disapprove. In 2017, those splits were 64-28 (+36) among Democrats. That's really bad approval among your own voters. Lot of time to turn it around, but there's a risk here.

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Fascinating bc my memory of the time was that the DC pundit class thought Pelosi was a disaster, too unpopular to lead them back to power, etc. Base was very happy w how their leaders squared up v Trump at the time!

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