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JB Pritzger kinda has Bruce Wayne/Batman energy right now. It’s jarring. I’ve gotten so used to billionaires being Bond villains.

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PEOPLE WITH A “DON’T TREAD ON ME” FLAG: “Actually, an all-powerful king is great.”

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I decided to watch Indiana Jones tonight. Because Indy made punching Nazis so damn cool and somehow we lost that.

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New York is named after King James II of England, formerly the Duke of York. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 for ignoring parliamentary democracy.

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The suppression begins. You can say what you want so long as it doesn't violate the MAGA ideal.

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Claim of the moment: "Donald Trump... managed to rebrand the Republican Party from the 'party of ideas' to the party of whatever dumb thing he just posted." thehill.com/opinion/camp...

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Claim of the moment: "Turns out we need the nuclear guys and the bird flu people and the folks who help planes land." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Can we stop pretending we are on the edge of a constitutional crisis and begin acting like the Constitution has been torn up and burned now?

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Dark Pence is back.

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Section 7 of Trump's Executive Order directs federal employees to ignore Supreme Court rulings; the President alone determines how the Constitution applies to the Executive. The German term for this is "Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enablin...

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Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷‍♂️

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She’s so great.

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🚨Elon Musk FIRED staff at FDA who were reviewing HIS Neuralink products—the corruption is blatant and outright. Trump & Musk’s arbitrary mass firings across FDA will severely undermine its work to keep Americans & our food supply safe & combat new threats, including bird flu.

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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

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Just an absolutely unacceptable and frankly dangerous level of incompetence from this administration. First, they "accidentally" fired the people who managed our nuclear weapons stockpile, and NOW they've fired the people responding to the rapidly evolving bird flu threat.

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I just voted NO to advance Senate Republican's pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. They want to let Elon cut $1 trillion this year alone—those cuts are coming out of SNAP, Medicaid, VA benefits, & more. Money out of YOUR pocket so BILLIONAIRES get more tax breaks.

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I hope the leaks on the iPhone 17 designs aren't accurate. Because not only is Apple late to the party on the visor style camera module. But the purported designs are incredibly ugly vs. what Google did with Pixel.

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Right now our country is facing serious outbreaks of bird flu, tuberculosis, and measles, and a surge in flu cases—and how do Trump & Musk respond? By firing hundreds of CDC employees—the very people researching the spread of these diseases & how to keep people safe.

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I never want to hear these bastards talk about supporting the troops again. (They will talk about it again.)

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Happening now: it's 1°F outside in Chicago—a literal frozen hellscape. Furious EPA workers with AFGE Local 704 are rallying against the Trump/Musk evisceration of the federal workforce targeting new hires. Recently fired employees include those responsible for monitoring air & water quality.

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“The American team has almost no experience in high-level international negotiation, no regional expertise on Ukraine and Russia, and no relevant foreign language knowledge."

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After 49 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, today Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier is finally going home to the Turtle Mountain Reservation. He never lost hope and kept his spirits high. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #portrait #LeonardPeltier

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You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

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Maybe an unpopular opinion but I’m totally cool with Trumpy voters permeating on Trumpy media to tell other Trumpy voters that Trump is bad.

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I was laid off this morning from USFWS as part of the sweeping DOGE cuts to probationary employees across the Dept. of Interior. To say I'm devastated doesn't even scratch the surface-I'm losing my dream job working with pallid sturgeon on the Missouri River. Solidarity with all my fed workers. 💔🐟

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The number of privacy laws being broken here is staggering. Maybe we can get 1/2 the country to be plaintiffs against DOGE to yeet them out. I have to think a number of state AG's can sue over this not having to rely on the DOJ.

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Wrote something quick about the "Gulf of America," and why even empty words mean things: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

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This Wall Street Journal video about the cost of military deportation flights is one of the wildest things I've seen in a while. It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4. $27,000 per deported person. www.wsj.com/video/analys...

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Thanks to @fastcompany.com for the article on #TeslaTakedown, I enjoyed the chat! It's happening today! Join or register an event at TeslaTakedown.com. See you out there!

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