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MAGA is aggressively turning their own base against them. Only been a month. This is an addition to the thousands of jobs they've cut.

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I regret to report that seminal New York Doll David Johansen is battling cancer in Cali. I owe him so much that of course I mailed a tax-deductible check to David Johansen Fund, Sweet Relief Musician Fund, 2650 East Imperial Highway Suite 208, Brea CA 92821-6135 while the P.O. is still operative.

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They continue to tell this debunked lie 🤥 for a reason: so when they cut social security to pave the way for their tax cuts for the rich you think they had an actual reason to do it.

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on top of this being unenforceable bullshit, many federal employees cannot even access their email on the weekend without a work VPN. others can, but (unlike in musk’s world) it’s actually frowned upon to access off duty.

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Thought your Social Security was safe?

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

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Pretty sure it means “We’re breaking contracts, illegally freezing payments. If anyone complains, we’ll point to this, and when we get sued, we’ll show it to a judge, who should laugh it out of court, but by then you’ll be out of work and burdened by legal fees, and we’ll ignore rulings anyway.”

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Social Security is far too important to be raided by the Musk-rats 🐀😡

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US refuses to label Russia as aggressor in G7 statement Washington’s shift in policy threatens to undermine the G7’s traditional display of unity, the report adds. www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/ft-us-refuse...

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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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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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

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From @goangelo.bsky.social in 2020

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

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Elon Bannnon And now this 🤡 We’ve got a hat trick of Nazi salutes. ht @atrupar.com

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Why isn't the Democratic party running with a supercut of this called They're Nazis?

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“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

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How many child cancer researchers did they fire to pay for this?

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Democrats should all start making the jerk off motion when asked about anything Trump-related, just to see how it gets described. “Controversial gesture that suggests self-pleasuring”

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I completely agree with this, and with the thread. If you don't discuss racism as a giant motivating factor (not the only one, but a huge one), you can't cover this administration, these people, or their party accurately.

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

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The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

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Finally got out to InLiquid @inliquid.bsky.social at Crane Arts with @samueldurso.bsky.social to see "anamnesis." It's a great show that ends tomorrow, so see it fast if you're in Philly

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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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Credit to @cnn.com for putting a face on the federal worker purges. It's one thing to read about numbers, it's another thing to meet the actual people impacted by this sloppy, misguided effort. www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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the DOGE Nazi teens apparently had no idea that the biggest beneficiary of DEI-type programs is veterans www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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prisons are overflowing with people with his business acumen

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Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers

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King Trump and the Arab Gulf Monarchies - he says he’s a king so let’s look at what scholarship on actual monarchies tells us, or at least use it as a hook to talk about my podcast and a great new book by @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social abuaardvark.substack.com/p/king-trump...

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Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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JD Vance: "We cannot rebuild western civilization, we cannot rebuild the United States or Europe, by letting millions and millions of unvetted migrants come into our country. It has to stop ... you have to allow European peoples, and of course the American people too, to raise issues about it."

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Connolly: "The fallacy of Musk's argument is they never look at revenue. They only look at expenditures. If you want to save social security, it's a fairly easy fix. Raise income threshold subject to withholding tax & you can extend social security by 40 to 50yrs. He doesn't want to talk about that"

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What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

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