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“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.” It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother. Megalomaniacs end badly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

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The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

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The scale and scope of Trump and Elon’s purge of federal workers will set our country back decades. You can't just fire everyone, gut critical agencies, halt funding to organizations across the country and think there won’t be massive consequences.

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This is an excellent legal analysis by Katherine Yon Ebright and @lizagoitein.bsky.social of Trump's unlawful border "invasion" declaration. Turns out Abraham Lincoln once led a campaign to censure James Polk for falsely invoking the Invasion Clause, which sparked the Mexican-American War.

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I fully blame the Republicans in Congress as their inaction enables the downfall of our government. I don't care how afraid they are of death threats. They need to either be brave enough to do their jobs, or they should resign. Staying in long enough for a really nice payoff is not an option.

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Stranger than fiction department:

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Katie Couric "...spoke with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul about the conflict’s global stakes. ...McFaul analyzes the geopolitical fallout, NATO’s future, and the shifting role of the U.S. on the world stage." youtu.be/UOyy571-p-k?...

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DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations. nyti.ms/4i1ril4

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SOUND UP! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWg4...

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Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear "Negotiating With Terroists" www.youtube.com/live/Zhxm-Jn...

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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Draft Kings has Trump being used as a human footstool at some point during the proceedings at 15-to-1 and I'm locking those odds in while I can.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Upset to learn that Judge Vargas’s clerks don’t follow me on here bc if they did she would’ve added one more thing to this order….

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Democrats should go to all these ruby red and vulnerable GOP districts where voters are upset at Trump and Musk and court them. Full court press.

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BREAKING - The Dow just had its worst drop since March 2020 — at the beginning of Covid Back then it was a pandemic mismanaged by Trump Now it’s tariffs and inflation mismanaged by Trump Watch out — Trump is giving America economic Covid

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New tonight 1. AP sues on press pool band 2. NYC sues for $80m FEMA funds 3. Judge issues preliminary injunction against anti-DEI policies 4. Judge blocks DOGE from Treasury 5. Judge denies plaintiffs prelim injunction in USAID case 6. SCOTUS rejects Gov on Special Counsel firing TRO appeal

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Y'all @principlesfirst.bsky.social want me to talk in front of all those people?!?!?!?! Bring it on!!! Truly honored to be joining in on this fantastic conference.

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When the butt assed ignorant New York Post is pleading with Mango Mussolini you know it has gone off the rails.

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‘Terrified’ Federal Workers Are Clamming Up Sources within the government reveal the true extent of the Trump www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Instead of focusing on America’s national security, this man is treating America like a reality show. Firing QUALIFIED military leaders! Playing with our national security! This isn’t a game. crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

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New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, and full explanations of their chains of command.

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So, if you want to read complete articles, see the podcast, or ask questions. I have a new one stop shop: brianjkarem.substack.com

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How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Trump is nominating a retired Air National Guard 3-star to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Highest major command was Deputy Commander, CENTSOC www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

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Ruh roh

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Trump says he wants AI facilities to build their own natural gas, natural gas, or nuclear power power plants right on site so they are impervious to "bombs or war or anything else"

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In other words: Judge Ho did not dismiss Adams’ case at this time. Instead, he appointed Clement to act as a friend of the court to present his own briefing on the issues Judge Ho set forth in his Order. Both sides and Clement will file briefs for the court to consider to reach his decision.

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!!!! "Judge Dale Ho, instead, is appointing conservative attorney Paul Clement to present arguments challenging the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against Adams and as he explores what his options are and if a dismissal is in the public interest." www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Beto O'Rourke has a Substack now. "Here are the challenges and the responses that allow us to do what we can with what we have where we are: ..." open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...

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Make Nazis afraid to salute in public again

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