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In light of the news that Dan Bongino will be the Kash Patel's Deputy FBI Director, I am reposting what I wrote a few weeks ago. "Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

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USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

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“White man sad” war movies is why the Rambo series was created lmao. America got their asses handed to them by a nation of rice farmers and all we had to show for it was debt and PTSD so we had to hurry up and rehabilitate that image worldwide 😂

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Q: “Do you think Elon is a good dad?” MUSK’S DAD: “No.”

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Just posting more warnings to stop this. Dem leaders? Repub leaders even? Anyone? Should we just go ahead & die even though we obviously don't have to.. or what? We know ahead of time. So we can stop them from ramping up all the killing. Sound good? Just askin' #genocide www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2562C1u/

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Try to boycott these companies completely if possible, but make no exceptions on the dates below. Hit them in their wallets.

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🎤Yep! Not 100 yrs ago, 80 or even 60. This happened during some of our lifetimes.

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#SouthCarolina has now passed #Bill3537 so they will officially begin taking women who've had miscarriages & executing some of them as punishment for murder. Other women will be imprisoned as punishment for murder & some set free determined in court. You read correctly. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT252r9ge/

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Himes: "It just looks like an episode of The Sopranos. 'Give us your minerals or we're not gonna help you fight a bloody butcher.' I mean, is this really we want the greatest country in history to be known for -- some mafia thing? ... this president is standing with the bad guy"

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“We cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller

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For most folks, democracy is local. So get out and run for office. The people are demanding change. Don’t just wonder when that change will happen. Be that change.

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Right up the road from me. This hospital has historically been plagued with staff shortages. And the local health care system is already overburdened. This could create a crisis. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

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“Millions of us are used by the wealthiest elites to perpetuate and do the dirty work of keeping systemic racism alive and thriving in the USA. It’s not our place to decide and tell Black and brown people that their reality does not exist.” www.linkedin.com/posts/synerg...

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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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This guy now has inside access to our cybersecurity office www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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Not only is this fraud, waste and abuse … it’s also what people like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin do

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🤷🏻

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I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

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#EatTheRich

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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Hold the fuck on — members of Elon Musk's private security detail have been deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service? What the actual fuck?!?!?

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Kristi Noem’s week: • Sent 400 ICE agents to Colorado and made ONE arrest. • Got the Acting Director fired. • Played dress-up cosplay. • Cheated with Corey Lewandowski. • Wacked more puppies and goats.

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Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

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There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

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This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

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DOGE staffer Gavin Kliger has amplified Nick Fuentes & called for a pardon of Derek Chauvin. As of 2/7/25, Kliger was still employed by Databricks—backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen’s VC firm, which has hired Daniel Penny (recently acquitted of manslaughter re: a Black man’s death) 2/7/25 1/

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another Nazi salute at CPAC

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This will go down as the Friday Night Massacre of the Military. First the Chairman of the JCS and now Adm. Franchetti, the first woman to become a member of the JCS. Next up the Air Force’s No. 2 officer & the top JAGs for each service. Martial law is coming. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

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While FOTUS was Golfing This 👇 👇 👇 👇 From- Meidastouch

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See how the world works fortune.com/2025/02/21/m...

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Washington evangelical pastor & chaplain, David Franklin, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recording himself sexually abusing a 4 year old girl & possessing child sexual abuse material. www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/c...

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Victoria DeLano is one of thousands of federal probationary employees fired in recent days by the new Department of Government Efficiency team. At the time of her firing, she said she was the only Office of Civil Rights investigator based in Alabama. www.al.com/educationlab...

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The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

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“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Everything they do is to enrich themselves and their friends. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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So glad I took the time to read this piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: "The people wreaking all this destruction are betting on us being self-interested, not idealistic, fearful not rebellious, and I hope we'll prove it was a bad bet." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-is-real...

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