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Good morning. The House voted yesterday to kick millions of off their health care, close rural hospitals, and shut down addiction clinics. All in order to afford a giant tax cut for Elon Musk, Donald Trump and their billionaire and corporate friends.

Horrifying.

17 days till the government shuts down

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

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quiet part out loud.

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

#Emails2DOGE

He’s really picking the wrong city to fuck with this time. bsky.app/profile/atru...

#Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected] 1. Mocked Trump & his boss Elon on TV and online 2. Got my kid’s Corgi fixed so she won’t have babies (Elon you should get fixed 2) 3. Looked up why ketamine abusers need 😎 indoors 4. Read court decisions saying Trump & his boss Elon violated laws 5. Made this list

This is actually very important to protecting democracy.

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

This is extortion of an ally: “The terms of the new proposal … call for Ukraine to relinquish half of its revenues from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

Finally! 🔥

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

Just gonna leave this here. 😒

Anecdotal European stuff: I have spoken to a few Italians about the US “situation” lately and all are pretty much asking themselves the same question: where are the American opposition leaders? Where are Obama, Harris, Biden? Their absence is as horrifying as the acts of the current administration.

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.

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

This made me smile.

Jack Posobiec, a prominent influencer, has a long history of promoting antisemitic and white supremacist content. He traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week.

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate: - Emergency response in natural disasters - Education and healthcare for disabled children - Clean air and water programs - Gang crime investigations - Monitoring of nursing home abuse - Nuclear reactor regulation - Cancer research

This is correct.

US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.

Now this, I can co-sign.

Tonight, the Center for Taxpayer Rights, Main Street Alliance, @cwaunion.bsky.social & the National Federation of Federal Employees, rep'd by Democracy Forward, filed an emergency suit challenging Musk’s so-called DOGE from unlawfully accessing sensitive taxpayer & business data from the IRS. (1/2)

💯 agree.

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

Those who uphold the rule of law save their country.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

New York Times headlines are so sanitized of value judgments. This one says, basically: Is Ethnic Cleansing Practical?

A week after the supposedly withdrawn OMB funding freeze, Head Start programs in Washington State still can't get paid. Some may be forced to shut down if their access to federal funds isn't restored soon. www.kuow.org/stories/some...

In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank. Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.

Natasha Sarin: Elon Musk has your Social Security number. It’s as scary as it sounds. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

1. Yesterday, the Trump admin released a contract laying out more details of the "deferred resignation" offer they are using to encourage federal employees to resign. The deal is MUCH WORSE than it seemed Anyone who signs this contract agrees to resign and gets NOTHING guaranteed in return

Every day is Christmas for Putin now.

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

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"We have a responsibility as a party to block absolutely everything when they are putting a match to the federal government." — @aoc.bsky.social on IG live just now

I encourage you to expand your newspaper reading then :) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

EMERGENCY PIECE: It’s not true that DOGE only has “read only” access to the most top secret systems at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. They have “read AND write” access with a current employee of BFS calling “apocalyptic”