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Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA. PHB history: https://is.gd/vdqpej
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fElon's incel tech squad is making sure his faulty, dangerous Teslas continue to harm consumers. Considering sales are dropping like a stone, removing regulations and enforcement still can't make people buy his PanzerCar/Swastikar trash.

Hearing from VA doctors who got Elon's threat email. I guess he thinks they're worthless too. At least he's showing his true colors.

💣 BOOM! Kash Patel opened fire quickly to flex, only the target is Elon Musk. 🤣🤣🤣 Kash just told fElon to GFY on tonight's mandatory fed employee "send week's activity bullet points reply or resign" email.

Name 5 BS tasks for fElon. @thebulwark.bsky.social's @samsteindc.bsky.social talks about the ridiculous Sat evening request from DOGE to fed employees to send bullet points of work accomplished in the past week in order to keep their jobs. youtu.be/JDuJT6r1GRI?... Tip Line: thebulwark.com/tips

Thanks, I needed that, @normeisen.bsky.social. 🤣🤣🤣 FElon just had to rehire critical people that his team of incels deemed fireable. So are these recently rehired critical people going to need to respond to his email? What if they don't? Is he going to fire them all over again?!

And not just DC... "Older office space is experiencing record vacancy levels, with owners struggling to refinance the buildings. Putting large amounts of it on the market could have dramatic consequences, including damaging the economy in cities like Washington, D.C." prospect.org/economy/2025...

🚨🚨🚨 Closing Social Security offices! Dammit, it's all hands on deck and where are the Dems? fElon's team works weekends, folks. This is just the beginning... @propublica.org comes through again.

“There are frightening moments when our 236-year-old institutions don’t look up to the challenge. With flaccid Democrats and craven Republicans, King Donald can pretty much do whatever he wants to whomever he wants.”

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

fElon's missive (he did this before at Twitter). The message from OPM says: "Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pm EST."

“We need really strong voices of moral outrage, and I would like to see that. I am not seeing that...Any top elected, any top Democrat. They don’t have to be elected, necessarily. You know, anybody. Any national leader would be really great.” 📣 We need a #ShadowCabinet: DemocraticShadowCabinet.com

Think of this other problem... What if ATF tries to keep guns out of _our hands_? "The ATF, which is tasked with regulating sales and registrations of firearms across the US, has long been a target of Repubs over what they argue is government encroachment on Second Amendment rights."

As I said earlier, fElon and his crack team of incels already had to roll back & rehire people in critical positions. So what if those folks don't respond to his absurd email? Going to F up again and fire them? This is a freaking clown show -- but it's still a nightmare playing w/people's lives.

That's why anyone who says "he's in his last term" or "he's a lame duck" (many in the legacy media spew that nonsense) are not paying attention. Now that he controls the military, anything is possible. What will rank and file do? The last hurdle is judiciary & he may lose - but he won't care.

This is what we have in terms of leadership in the Republican party. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6th) needs to be bounced. For God's sake, we're on our own. The Republican party is now a cult and the remaining Rs are in denial (or paralyzed, afraid of Felon47/fElon/MAGA brown shirts).

Thinking about my last post on reaction to the two-term presidency of "the black guy" setting off the chain of events on this God-forsaken timeline. Just think how we've fallen in this country - to go so far as to elect this demented, ignorant, narcissistic psychopath TWICE in response. 🤯😭

The media won't touch this. It's been very clear that this is retribution for the presidency of Barack Obama. The audacity of America to allow a black man (& his family) to occupy the WH, & in the exec seat of power of the U.S. The forces leading the country today will ensure it cannot occur again.

Yes, we definitely need a #ShadowCabinet to put an official face of resistance to the COUP. People in govt willing to stand up & use their experience to save democracy. An outline of the concept via @afowles.bsky.social (Gdoc): democraticshadowcabinet.com Submit nominees: is.gd/Wun17V

Donald Trump’s petty threats are beneath the Office of the President. Governor Janet Mills embodies servant leadership. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

And Kris Mayes also had no trouble saying that #itsACoup in her announcement of the lawsuit. Say it, electeds!…

It's easy for him to be a bully among the freaks at CPAC. Tell him to bring his azz to Boston and speak to The People.

A MUST-SEE‼️ The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election. • Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule. 🧵

Yet our lawmakers cannot seem to say #ItsACoup yet. NAME IT. Create a shadow cabinet to get in the game of organized public resistance before he declares martial law. Not calling this a coup or Constitutional crisis doesn't make them go away. He WILL eventually declare martial law.

He did this at Twitter. Scaling up this lunacy to fed workers means fElon would likely have reports fed into his faulty AI for analysis to find the "bottom 10%" to fire, along w/the non-responders. They just had to re-hire tons of fed staff that were essential. So what if they don't respond?

He needs to stay away from windows & aircraft. Alnur Mussayev, 71, a former Kazakh intelligence chief says the Trump/'Krasnov’ file is "being privately managed by one of Putin’s close associates.” “I hope I’ll survive a third assassination attempt,” he said in a comment below his [Facebook] post.

📣 Pls read, share, discuss...a realistic, detailed look at a range of options on the table to take on the COUP. Covers: 🎯 What House & Senate Dems, in the minority, can/can't do; 🎯 What the above electeds can do to lead in events & on media; 🎯 What the courts can/can't do; 🎯 What WE can do.

📣 More town hall news, this time in Wisconsin, about the Felon47/fElon presidency and the #CoupUnderWay On the receiving end of "constituent expression" 😀: Rep Glenn Grothman (R-6). He represents rural, suburban and exurban communities between Madison, Milwaukee, and Green Bay.

🇺🇸 RE-UP SAT! 📣 Your electeds need to hear from you, esp Blue voters in Red states! 📣 Tell your Dems to admit #ItsACoup & we need a shadow cabinet NOW! ☎️ Phone: 5Calls has scripts: 5calls.org 📩 Hit 'em w/email: democracy.io 🔍 Locate your officials, fed, state, local.: tinyurl.com/USelecteds

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

📣 🇺🇸 More resistance! In a red district in my birth state of NC! Rep. Tim Moore (R-14) arrived at the Cornelius Town Hall (THROUGH THE BACK DOOR!) for a ribbon cutting for his Congressional office. He didn't speak to the democracy defenders outside. 1/3 is.gd/sJhF9V h/t: @jrobin.bsky.social

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com looks at Repub lawmakers taking 🔥 at town halls from constituents with zero patience for Felon47/fElon defense talking points & excuses for govt destruction. Dems also take heat for feeble responses to the "house on fire" COUP. youtu.be/Pu1nW1pygts?...

Has anyone been keeping track of how many of the J6 felons that were pardoned have been rearrested, committed crimes, or ended up dead from confrontations with law enforcement? Felon47 is on a roll. I guess the list of J6 felons that will get to sing at the Kennedy Center is getting shorter...

Yeah but the replacement INAPPROPRIATELY wore a MAGA hat...

Hegseth’s biography is on the left, General Brown’s on the right. Go read these to someone without telling them who they are and then ask them to choose who is better qualified to hold the positions of SECDEF and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...