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NEW: Sources tell me that US Attorney for DC Ed Martin just demoted multiple senior attorneys who oversaw the January 6th prosecutions. The lawyers were told they would now handle low-level crime cases usually given to junior AUSAs. Martin sent the demotion email himself, per a msg I saw. 1/

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Jake Chapman, Exquisite Corpse, 2000 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1122342

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The new DOGE administrator, who the White House only named after media pressure, told associates she did not know she would be named publicly to the position. She’s currently scheduled to be on vacation in Mexico. Meet Amy Gleason. We’ve been tracking her for a bit. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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NEW: One of Trump’s most damaging strikes against U.S. climate policy is buried in an executive order that would obliterate a critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change imposes on the economy. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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As always: Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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Semafor is doing a “Restoring trust in news” event w Brendan Carr, who is single handedly trying to dismantle free speech and censor news organizations, and who is currently threatening a news radio station for reporting the news too specifically www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/n...

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Residents in greater Cincinnati expressed dismay after armed, masked neo-Nazis were allowed to gather on a freeway bridge without arrest.

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President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration told probationary staff members it had mistakenly sent them termination notices, and then informed some of them the next day that they were fired after all

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Elon Musk and other allies of Donald Trump lashed out at federal judges who have blocked the president's biggest initiatives, including ending birthright citizenship, in some cases challenging the independence of the judiciary reut.rs/4jRJO0Z

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Marlene Dietrich lights it up in the 1931 preCode film DISHONORED, directed by Josef von Sternberg. I recently bought #DISHONORED on BluRay as part of Criterion’s DIETRICH & VON STERNBERG IN HOLLYWOOD box set—the only way it’s available, afaik—which I’ll write about later. #marlenedietrich #precode

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Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday in Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism.

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And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media

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There is no bottom

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“As soon as the question-and-answer portion of the event began, the Pentagon cut the video feed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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"Silicon Valley billionaires like Marc Andreessen talk about 'high agency' people as if they’re some superior class and the traits they carry are innate, which reads a bit weird to me considering how fond those people are of eugenics."

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Let me say @wired.com is killing on coverage.

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Not so brilliant.

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Mentions of trans kids scrubbed from national child safety clearinghouse website

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NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇

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The Trump administration sues the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago, alleging that their sanctuary city policies are blocking federal authorities from enforcing immigration laws.

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Even if Los Angeles were low on water, Trump’s executive orders wouldn’t help with that, because the federal government’s canal system doesn’t actually deliver any water to the Los Angeles area. From @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org:

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President Donald Trump said the US would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere, moves that would shatter decades of US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reut.rs/4gJbdQ5

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Trump told reporters that he wants to expel “all” Palestinians from Gaza — not just during a period of reconstruction, but permanently.

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Breaking News: Nearly all of the 10,000 workers at U.S.A.I.D., the U.S. global aid agency, will be put on leave by the week’s end, an official memo said.

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UPDATE: Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. ownership.

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The U.S. Senate Tuesday night confirmed Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi as the attorney general of the United States under President Donald Trump. By @ashleymurray.bsky.social

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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Trump has, almost overnight, “tarnished our relationships with our allies, whose help we need to rein in China,” all while destabilizing the economy and making it an unattractive landscape for future investment.

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Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit

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This is a pattern www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

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Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples

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Just because it is in plain sight does not mean it is not what it is: A hostile takeover of the U.S. government by an unelected and unfettered power monger. Believe what you see, do not see what you believe.

submitted 26 days ago • 129 comments

Even before you raise the blinds, the silence give it away. Year’s first.

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It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

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There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

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Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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Despite the risks and volatility, some families are investing in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children.

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“For years, a masculinist current in American culture and politics has been rising, largely in digital spaces outside traditional media and entertainment,” Joseph Bernstein writes. “Now, it has flooded the banks of the mainstream.”

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DOGE has already put the screws to federal employees in a takeover of the Office of Personnel Management, installing some of his own people at the agency that manages the entire civil service. The same is taking place at the GSA. https://newrepublic.com/post/190970/elon-musk-gsa-government-buildin…

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Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

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Sorry Mark, they leaked the messages to us. 🔗 www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

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among the many crazy things about this statement is that “the diversity of america’s fighting force is how it has triumphed over its enemies” has been a part of american military propaganda since at least the civil war

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only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Shameful and not even slightly surprising

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