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Trump and Musk are purging federal workers by email silence now—and as always their own supporters are getting burned. One of them took to X to is beg Elon for his job back.

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Focus on the positive: this has overall been a very bad week for Trump! * he is falling in the polls - both his favorability and his policies * he lost his first Supreme Court case on firing an watchdog, setting the way for others fired to fight back 1/

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"First: the political faction carrying out the Trump-Musk agenda right now does not have the support of the majority of the public. Far from it. And second: the fraction of the public that is happy with the agenda currently being enacted is going to get smaller for the foreseeable future."

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It’s been a long first 30 days. And there’s been a lot of bad news lately. So how about some good news for a change? There’s a shift in public opinion over Trump’s aggressive moves. Check out the evidence in my piece today: https://buff.ly/4beyVCE

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"Conservative friends from Ohio, who have seen him on Instagram and TV, have reached out and said, “This is not what I voted for, this is ... insane,” Chmura said."

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Jessica: There was a huge drop in support for President Trump and for Elon Musk. Trump’s approval rating is down 5-7 points across four of these big polls. He’s underwater on managing the economy by 8 points. Did you see those town halls? Rich McCormick were booing him.

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Some good news for Indiana. These terrible bills are dead (for now).

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I can't believe this is happening in the United States. In the open. In a major political party.

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Some of the things they're doing will have long-lasting effects. "The NSF went beyond the Trump admin's demanded cuts, firing about 10% of its workforce — including most probationary employees and all of its experts — and warned of more layoffs to come."

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TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can. #fedstrong #holdtheline www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; they crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they kicked the Nazis’ asses throughout Europe.” “No entitled reality-TV has-been backed by an addle-brained billionaire who cheats at video games is going to roll over us now.”

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CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library. Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

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"The hard reality is that we are not going to get a quick fix. We will not wake up one morning this month and find that Trumpism is over. And we can’t throw our hands up in the air in disgust and walk away in the absence of instant success. The fight for democracy is going to be long and hard and

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Ok that made me laugh

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And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

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We deserve to know what they are doing.

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Let me get this straight - now that people see what’s really going on - Elon Musk is suddenly not part of DOGE. 🤔 This is the problem with unchecked power and billionaires in charge.

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Some good news

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For everyone who stood in the cold, who drove hours, who stepped out of the comfort zone, who made a sign, who stood quietly off to the side, who reached out to others, who believes we can be better on this #FiftyFiftyOne day of protests I send my respect, my admiration, and above all, my thanks!

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After years of cheering on Trump’s war against “government workers,” his own diehard supporters are now realizing that means them too.

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ICYMI youtu.be/ijvrvp8Z17M?...

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“They’ve got your data, dumbass.”

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If you don't live in a republican-dominated state you're lucky. It's the state equivalent to the federal sh*t show, one damn thing after another.

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#Indiana people These are terrible bills. There is a letter you can send and add a message if you want.

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AMID. BACKLASH. We have power. Our calls, our stories, our spending, our conversations, our votes matter. A democracy is about the power of the collective: shannonwatts.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

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Musk gets $8 million a day from almost 100 government contracts.

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Trump, Elon, and their allies are calling all spending they don't like "fraud." Spending on things like consumer protection, Social Security, and medicine for sick kids. But just calling something "fraud" doesn't make it so. Here are the actual facts 🧵⤵️

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REPEAT AFTER ME: NOBODY VOTED FOR ELON MUSK PASS IT ON.

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🔥“My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.” - Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social

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John Lewis is proud of Jasmine Crockett... we all need to get in "good trouble" now!

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Has anyone checked on these clowns?

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"I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate. They also control the White House and the Supreme Court. If they wanted to get rid of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),

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A VA psychologist friend reached out today. Her job is at a VA in the heartland. Her job, in my view, is helping veterans with post traumatic stress stay alive. She is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who has been encouraged to resign… open.substack.com/pub/jaketapp...

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