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“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old? Are you for real right now?” That teen is "Big Balls" Corisitine, the recording is from 2022, and the voice is from a CEO worried about him as a security risk. Now Musk has him snooping in your personal data www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

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If you haven't noticed the King of Lies also never takes any responsibility, you haven't been paying attention… paulfellcartoons.com/paulsfelltoo...

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ICYMI…

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Friday Night Purge: Trump fires 6 Pentagon officials, including Gen. Charles Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy So many thoughts about this, most of them unprintable

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So, the House Republicans published their official budget resolution today, which, as expected, calls for gutting Medicaid/CHIP. As a reminder, nearly 80 million Americans rely on Medicaid/CHIP for their healthcare coverage...nearly half of whom are children. acasignups.net/25/01/30/psy...

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So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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How many government jobs are gonna be lost this month and do these morons realize that number goes into the jobs report

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Okay listen I see a bunch of people posting something like “maybe today is the day I give doomerism some consideration” and while I understand the sinisterness of a purge of the military, let me remind you it is Friday, every single week they drop something terrible on Friday

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The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service is bracing for an attempted takeover by the Trump administration and has retained outside counsel to fight any executive order to that effect, according to two sources with knowledge of the board’s plans.

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holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

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“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” –Howard Zinn. I hate seeing my fellow Americans afraid. Remember your birthright my friends. This is our country, our government, the people’s, not theirs. Don’t be afraid. Speak your minds! Don’t ever give up your power.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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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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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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Agree. In some ways that's even more chilling than firing the four stars. 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

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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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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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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Live now, via YouTube - It's The Randi Rhodes Show! Today's Show: 02/21/25 ~ WTFRIDAY? www.youtube.com/live/m8xrHYb...

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Steve Bannon giving a Nazi salute at one of the biggest conservative events in our country should be career ending. Instead, conservatives are defending and even praising him. Do not ignore this. This is how fascism takes hold. Do not let them gaslight you into ignoring the signs.

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Looks like the stock market has finally given up on Trump. The Dow is currently down over 800 points

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The farmers who voted for Trump in '24 clearly forgot how badly he screwed them the first time around - but they're starting to find out all over again… paulfellcartoons.com/paulsfelltoo...

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I haven't seen a cross-party amicus appointment like this since (checks notes) Paul Clement was appointed to argue for the constitutionality of the CFPB's structure.

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The NYT, has finally added the clause "who is the communications director for Houston Young Republicans" to describe the ringer among the ostensibly representative Black people it interviewed for a Trump story. Utterly shameless. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

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Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

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If only she’d finished with, “I’m term-limited. So are you.”

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When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.

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America’s Nazis are too Nazi for Europe’s Nazis. (Quote from the awesome @melissaryan.bsky.social’s CtrlAltRightDelete substack)

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Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

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Wrote about not letting The Atlantic tell you what fights to pick. www.findinggravity.net/p/go-ahead-p...

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Arizona state lawmakers passed new legislation aiming to restrict the use of artificial intelligence in reviewing medical claims.

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“What the world knows, and will not unlearn, is that the United States cannot be trusted. Faith in America, and in basic American decency and goodwill, has kept the peace for generations, but that is over.” @monacharen.bsky.social

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Today's Top News For Friday, February 21, 2025, via The Randi Rhodes Show: The Trump/Musk War On The Govt. Rolls On; Good Americans Have Had Enough Of The DOGE Bags; Choosing Sides On Ukraine; & More open.substack.com/pub/randirho...

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The 2026 election probably can't come fast enough for these voters in suburban Atlanta.

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Give a damn! Commit to strike on 3/15 generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

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One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users. Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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So we did a podcast with such a great guest that I had to write the story up. It's about an obscure clique of consultants who make you pay more for power without your knowing it. Let me explain: prospect.org/environment/...

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