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NEW: The Trump/Musk blitzkrieg aims to destroy government to advance oligarchy & autocracy—and to crush the Democrats & the progressive agenda. It's an existential crisis. Yet so many Dems are missing in action. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I ask, WTF? Pls share. link.motherjones.com/public/38721...

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Republican voters: all that Federal budget money saved will go straight to tax cuts for hard-working billionaires and corporations! Are you tired of winning yet?

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Elon Musk’s South African fantasy | William Shoki 'Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.' africasacountry.com/2025/02/elon...

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As a 10th generation American, I am super disturbed at the number of foreign-born immigrant billionaires pulling strings at the White House right now People like: • Elon Musk • Peter Thiel • Miriam Adelson • Rupert Murdoch • Patrick Soon-Shiong These Oligarchs don't give a damn about democracy

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Note: this was a 4-3 decision. Wisconsin votes on the swing seat on their Supreme Court on April 1st. Elon Musk is dumping money into buying that seat. If you are asking what you can do to help combat Trump and MAGA right NOW, donate and make calls in that race.

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NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

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Through the first month of his administration, President Trump and his allies have carried out a campaign of revenge and retribution that has little analogue in U.S. history.

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“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.” “Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)

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Really is it so hard to see the political value of "Trump just wrecked your local schools and universities by illegally withholding payment" or "Trump just fired thousands of veterans for no apparent reason" or "Trump just released your SSN and financial data to a bunch of 20-something Nazis"?

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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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Agree

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You know what's good practice for acquiescing to fascism, tho? Acquiescing to your government's active support for genocide.

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literally no other journalist should be going to these in basic solidarity with the AP at this point.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Scientists have been warning us for years: the next pandemic could come from factory farms. The spread of highly pathogenic avian and swine flu is not a hypothetical threat—it is happening right now.

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Barclays CEO pay up from £4.3m to £10.5m. Real average pay of UK workers unchanged since 2008. Govts tell workers pay rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, exec pay, share buybacks. Their profiteering is our inflation and poverty. It is class war.

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Hannah from 24 days ago would not have believed they’d go so far as to straight up “pause” the FCPA. I thought it’d be an unofficial endorsement by their actions, or just turning a blind eye We’re green lighting foreign corruption, or as the EO puts it, “routine business practices in other nations”

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I really wish the New York Times would do their job. The president cannot “pause enforcement.” It’s illegal, unconstitutional, and impeachable. Gift link:

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"Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. "

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

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Project 2025 co-author shuts down operations at consumer protection agency | “If you have a bank account, or a credit card, or a mortgage, or a student loan, this is a code red," Elizabeth Warren said.

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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

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"We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore."

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None of this is legal:

submitted 19 days ago • 170 comments

There is a coup happening. If you’re a Democratic senator and voting to confirm ANY of Trump’s nominees, you are complicit.

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The IRS Direct File program is very popular with the American people. It is not, however, popular with companies that file your taxes for a fee. So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Marsha Blackburn sided with H&R Block over the American people after taking money from H&R Block's PAC.

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if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 20 days ago • 745 comments

Let’s go FBI agents. You know what to do. They can’t fire all of you!

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A massive intrusion of this scale taken against a system of secure government computer networks is unprecedented. /🧵

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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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“If CBS settles, it will be the third media company to do so since the election. ABC agreed to pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential library after he sued for defamation. Meta is giving $22 MM to the library to settle a suit Trump brought after his social media accounts were suspended for cause.”

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