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The New Republic: 3 new national polls show Trump’s job approval is underwater…the new polls show that the majority disapproves of his authoritarian tactics. Plus, Elon Musk, who’s been carrying out Trump’s most autocratic acts, fares even worse than Trump does in the polling. Now what will he do?

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1/2 Washington D.C. is bracing for a recession. With more than 300,000 federal government employees, the city and the surrounding area have one of the most highly educated and well-compensated work forces in the country…

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1/2 Facts about Elon Musk—the guy MAGA weirdos worship: •Four baby mamas. •Thirteen kids. •Multiple lawsuits from exes demanding he stop neglecting his children. •Texts from Grimes begging Musk to be a father to their child, saying he won’t even respond to calls or emails…

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“A pox on both your houses.” -Romeo & Juliet

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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1/2 Important new Trump stats: 83% of Americans oppose Trump’s pardon of the violent offenders convicted for their behavior during the Jan 6 Insurrection. Even those who identify as Republican oppose those pardons 70 to 27%. Americans also dislike Trump/Musk attempts to end USAID…

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In case you missed it…THIS IS BAD⚠️On Weds. Trump endorsed the House Republican budget plan, which would decimate Medicaid, the federal health insurance program that covers 72 million disabled and low-income Americans‼️What do Republicans get in return? Tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the rich.

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Bernie Sanders exposes the sad FACTS…

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1/2 Robert Reich’s warning: Elon Musk & Donald Trump are engaged in the wholesale demolition of the federal government…while utterly ignoring the courts, law & Constitution. The term for what [they’re] doing is coup d’etat. But the mainstream media is refusing to say it—and that’s a huge problem…

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Chaos, chaos and more chaos…BREAKING⚠️Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil.

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THIS IS BAD⚠️On Wednesday Trump endorsed the House Republican budget plan, which would decimate Medicaid, the federal health insurance program that covers 72 million disabled and low-income Americans‼️What do Republicans get in return? Tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the rich.

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1/3 Steve Schmidt speaks the truth about Fox “News:” •The brazen misconduct at Fox News is incredible. •The network is a grotesquerie that has managed to destabilize American society to satisfy the rapacious greed of Rupert Murdoch. •Fox News is synonymous with insanity and lying.

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1/2 Just 3 days after Trump posted that laws do not apply to him, he congratulated himself on his administration’s move to end NYCity’s congestion pricing plan— implemented last month to reduce traffic & raise money for the city’s crumbling public transit system—with a Truth Social post declaring…

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1/2 Meidas+: Trump woke up today and did what he does best—parrot Russian propaganda while embarrassing himself on social media. He took aim at Ukrainian President Zelensky, calling him a “dictator” and threatening that he “better move fast or he is not going to have a country left.” That’s not …

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Today I finally deactivated my Twitter account!! I waited til now because I kept telling myself I needed to know “what the other side is saying.” But Elon Musk has turned it into nothing more than a cesspool of propaganda & misinformation built on deranged as hatred, rendering it completely useless.

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Today I finally deactivated my Twitter account!! I waited til now because I kept telling myself I needed to know “what the other side is saying.” But Elon Musk has turned it into nothing more than a cesspool of propaganda & misinformation built on deranged hatred, rendering it completely useless.

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1/2 Every time I go on Twitter, the 1st thing I see is a barrage of E.Musk tweets, even tho I don’t even follow him. Plus, his Twitter algorithm, or whatever he uses to determine who speaks out against him, as I do, has apparently identified me as one of his onsite detractors. So, I’m no longer…

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Mexico said it may bring legal action against Google depending on the tech company's response to the country's request that it restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service. [AP]

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1/2 Today’s Elon Report from Ron Filipkowski at Meidas+: •Musk reposted a random account that showed a picture purporting to show migrants storming a hospital with axes and knives. The photo turned out to a screen shot from the movie “The Dark Knight Rises.”…

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1/2 The Washington Post has backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions and as a full page ad inside the paper, according to the advocacy group Common Cause...

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1/2 Nick Sones: “The AfD, a party that has faced legal action in Germany for posing a threat to democracy, is now being granted unwarranted legitimacy by none other than the VP of the U.S. This is a slap in the face to the countless individuals who’ve fought tirelessly against the resurgence of…

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Now that Trump is head of the Kennedy Center board 🙄😆😆, how likely is it that we’ll ever see anything like this again?😢😢😢 Jon Stewart honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. www.facebook.com/share/v/15zn...

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Steve Schmidt: “…what JD Vance did in Munich [is] obscene. JD Vance is a fool on a ship of fools. Let us pray that they do not light the world on fire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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⚠️DANGER⚠️ Vance’s decision to meet with the head of AfD—the German political party so extreme, with such a long and noxious history of sanitizing and embracing symbols and slogans of the Third Reich—is so shocking that even other radical right-wing parties in Europe have ostracized it.

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Americans don't do history. That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.

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⚠️After a Newsweek headline said Elon Musk is “bemoaning” that too much federal information is being classified, top intelligence officials were outraged as the DOGE website posted federal personnel data incl. head counts, salary details & other classified data for military & intelligence agencies⚠️

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1/2 THIS👇 When the USAID inspector general released a report finding that, due to the Trump-Musk pause of funding, nearly $500 million in food assistance was at risk of spoiling, it revealed an extraordinarily cruel & wanton attitude toward the global poor. Then…

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Why cure diseases when you can cut taxes for billionaires and cut Medicaid for the average person??? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Wait. Donald Trump fired 300 people who oversee our nuclear weapons program then had to bring them back because he didn’t know what they did? Can you imagine the screeching from MAGA if Biden did that? 25th that incompetent man already.

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DANGER⚠️⚠️⚠️ 80 years after American soldiers liberated Dachau, top German officials are all but accusing JDVance—and by extension, DJTrump—of boosting a political party that many Germans consider to be dangerously descended from Nazism. Is this what you voted for⁉️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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