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Bravo Rep Brittany Pettersen!

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Batshit lunacy is a fitting description

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open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — 21 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, refusing to “dismantle critical public services.”

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💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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Quite a collection of photos here. George Washington is rolling over in his grave.

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Wouldn't it just be a damn shame if EVERYONE emailed their five accomplishments, or 5 thoughts, or insults for Elon, to OPM as they requested of federal employees, thereby crashing the site? Sounds like good trouble to me. PASS IT ON.

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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. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular.” — Timothy Snyder

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There is already a perfectly good Air Force One in place. So why is Trump intent on wasting taxpayer money? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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There is nothing cooler than preventing a democracy from turning into a dictatorship

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🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

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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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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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provocative gesture that resembled a different provocative gesture is about as cowardly a construction you could cough up to avoid sounding . . . provocative

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“If FBI agents who are just doing their jobs aren’t free of the risk of political prosecution, then who is? In a country run by a president who has accumulated all power into his own hands, you never know who might run afoul of the leader’s good graces.” joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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February 19, 2025

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Next year we will be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation, when we declared our independence from a king. “The Royal Brute of Great Britain” Never forget that.

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Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Trump 45’s VP Pence posted: “Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.”

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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news.gallup.com/poll/656891/...

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The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

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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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So what’s next? Are we gonna light a bonfire of VHS tapes of “Roots” in a paved-over Rose Garden?

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“For those looking to join dots, there is fodder from Musk’s early life with a neo-Nazi grandfather who moved from Canada to South Africa because he liked the idea of apartheid through his high school education in a system infused with white supremacy ideology.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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when I was a kid in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, instead of snow days we had smog days where we weren't allowed to go to school.

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1000 probationary Department of Veterans Affairs employees fired. OIT, Procurement, and Veterans Benefits Administration. They are lying and saying it won’t affect support for veterans. news.va.gov/press-room/v...

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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

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In just over 25 years, inventions from universities + nonprofits drove $1.9 trillion in gross output for US industries, contributed up to $1 trillion to the US GDP, and supported about 6.5 million jobs. This isn’t just research for research’s sake-it’s real economic impact on a national scale.

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“At no time has Emil Bove offered evidence those he targeted had done anything improper, illegal or unethical. Instead he has cited the president’s authority under the Constitution.” It’s in the little-known Dictator Clause. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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Calling the costs of running scientific research labs “administrative overhead” might fool the lab rats and guinea pigs. It won’t fool the people dying of cancer or heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Elon Musk was not elected to hold Office DOGE is not a Federal Task Force Trump is not a King Keep reposting this

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Trump is revoking Pres. Biden’s security clearance, plans to fire the Kennedy Center leadership and make himself the chair, and demands WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson be fired for criticizing weak Republicans who don’t stand up to Trump. This miserable mam is a blot against America.

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As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

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'Cataclysmic': Experts say 'drastic change' by Trump's NIH will have 'devastating effect': A "drastic change" announced Friday by the primary federal agency responsible for biomedical and public health research shocked internet critics, with some calling it "cataclysmic." The National Institutes…

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Mother jones actually broke this story. The Washington Post failed to mention that, and in fact, took credit for the scoop.

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