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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Important context on Ukraine

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23 February 1905 | A Pole, Władysław Bentkowski, was born in New York. In #Auschwitz from 28 May 1942. No. 35692 In 1944 he was transferred to the Ravensbrück camp. He survived the war.

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Is it safe to assume that Russia itself now has access to computers inside the US Treasury, IRS, FAA, FBI, CIA, etc.?

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23 February 1941 | A Pole, Edmund Wojciechowski, perished in Auschwitz. A lawyer, a son of the President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski. He was arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar. In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940. No. 2297

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Ooh, I know: the Black guy and the woman. Not qwhite sure why, though.

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Germany votes today after JD Vance called for an end to the brandmauer, the firewall that holds off the far right. Reupping this piece explaining Elon Musk’s claim far right AfP is Germany’s future. Apparently, interfering in our election wasn’t enough for him joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

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No. This is the problem with the bothsides, polarization framing: Awful extremists attack people for no reason but hate, but in the #MurdochJournal the town is "tearing itself apart". It's not the town; it's the bigots. Don't normalize hate.

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Republicans are coming after Medicaid in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires. www.wvxu.org/politics/202...

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It’s all a scam for its ignorant voters that will be most affected

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Applebaum knows what she is speaking of.

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Last Friday a new 50 page House Budget Committee list of policy options for inclusion in budget reconciliation was leaked. My new blog on all of the draconian #Medicaid cuts on the list (including new cuts beyond those in an earlier 1 page list). #healthpolicy ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...

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The purge of senior officers who have served with distinction on the battlefield and off should send a shiver down the spine of any American who cares about an apolitical military.

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Elon Musk's private security detail has been deputized as Federal Marshalls and can carry firearms on Federal property. What could possibly go wrong? www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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DOGE has spent $40 million in one month

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Context that Corporate Media won’t say: Musk/Trump are firing anyone in a leadership position who is not a white male.

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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

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Per @phildstewart.bsky.social: “U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.”

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Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Regime47 are all racist misogynists

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“Trump’s order to place the Commerce Department in charge of the Postal Service likely violates federal law, according to postal experts.”

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not flipping the script or rewriting -- he is LYING. Do better www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

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So why did the NYT publish it in the first place? BOTH SIDES!

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Imagine having power over the most militarily and economically powerful nation of the world and using it to force ad agencies to buy ads on Twitter. So low it bounced off the Earth's core. It turns out that no, no media publication has covered ad tech enough. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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You can tell Trump is lying when his lips are moving. "[B]ill Trump endorsed would make over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food stamps. [E]ndorsement came hours after Trump said [on] Fox News he wouldn’t allow cuts to social welfare programs, including Medicaid." truthout.org/articles/tru...

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Donald Trump’s administration has begun indiscriminately culling scores of people who keep air travel safe, despite four deadly plane crashes during his first two months as president.

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Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

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Can’t believe how we are totally selling out democracy to enrich the Trump oligarchy

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Of course they lie about women and minorities!

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Here we go.

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BREAKING: Denise Cheung, head of the criminal division in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, resigned after refusing a Justice Department order to freeze $20 billion in climate funds. In her resignation letter, she revealed that Trump officials had pressured her to launch a baseless criminal probe

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SHAMEFUL 🤬🤬🤬

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No way this ends well!

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Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:

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Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

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@raskin.house.gov: "The most glaring conflict of interest of all is that Elon is a government contractor himself, who collects billions of dollars from the US government... And like all authoritarian and fascist movements around the world in history, corruption is at the heart of it."

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Caricature on recent events

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Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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This is who Donald Trump has nominated to head the U.S Attorney's Office in Washington DC. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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