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In a country as large, diverse, and divided as America, there is 0 chance we end up a relatively stable, authoritarian kleptocracy. The circumstances that gave us Putin are nothing like those giving us this Trump coup d’etat. Same applies to Orban in Hungary and Erdogan in Turkey. We will be chaos.

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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Again: tech journalism is meeting this moment in a way the mainstream establishment newspapers and cable channels just aren’t. I can’t emphasize enough what a big deal this is.

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We finally found imperial overlords who are more stupid than Tsar Nicholas II: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. From @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/world/2025-0...

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

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On the Left(s), we constantly have to beg and borrow. You spend countless hours to raise a fraction of what rightwing organizers raise in a quarter of the time. It really hinders what can be done. Hardly anyone wants to have honest conversations about money and organizing.

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Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

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They call themselves the "Law and Order" party, while they attempt to impose order by ignoring the law. They say they want "Religious Freedom" while implying that THEIR religion is necessary for freedom.

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New — All Department of Defense agencies were sent a video of an agitated Pete Hegseth debunking supposedly fake media stories. Today at least one agency called an “emergency” town hall and forced employees to watch the propaganda. www.dvidshub.net/video/953069...

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For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

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They're shedding their skin. It's normal. The truck under there is way stronger anwyay

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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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Historians will have the simple clarity of referring to Trump's second term as "the Resegregation," since that's the single through-line of it all.

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Something to note. The Proud Boys are at the Capitol today and Trump wore a yellow tie. Black and yellow are proud boy colors. It's very clear that he views them as his personal militia that will mete out political violence. "stand back and stand by."

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Trump take egg Trump take 401(k) Trump take Cool Ranch Doritos Trump take national pride & dignity

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FOTUS Targets HBCUs youtu.be/33ztaRi7uDY?...

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The Silicon Valley bros want to take over defense, too. What a nightmare.

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Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"

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This is how it’s done.

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Listening to a committed cultist ramble on about how things are going well, then voice his concerns that HIS guy is being affected, with NO sense of self-awareness. Icing on the cake - Hannity’s cognitive dissonance in accusing USAID of stealing money from our children etc. Fuck all of these people.

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Take me down to Republican Recession City where our pockets are picked clean and our lives are shitty! Oh won't you please imprison Trump n DOGE!

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Another day filled with rage and disappointment as garbage men continue to make everything worse, dangerous, untenable, unjust, fearful, hateful, and willfully stupid.

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I did not have see MAGA cutting the elderly off from their benefits, leaving huge numbers of seniors already on the brink completely destitute. How many MAGA monsters will lose their homes, meals, medication and lives because of these degenerates?

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Somehow missed this: Musk posted the name, picture and financial disclosure information of the daughter of a Judge who blocked his funding cuts b/c she used to work at the Dept of Education. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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The internet is overrun with bad faith arguments from pro-fascist MAGAs and their allies, but anyone with eyes can see what this degenerate is doing here. youtu.be/Wor9XWati6w?...

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Try to imagine Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer doing a Red State, Red District tour to speak directly to the Republicans being impacted by the Trump-Musk Presidency's hard push toward authoritarianism. Try to imagine either of these empty suits doing real politicking. You can't, because they don't.

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Blue State libs and lefties would be well-served to remember that it takes much more courage to stand up against white supremacy and Christofascism in a Red State. It's easy to oppose Nazis when you outnumber them 100:1. Standing for what's right when that ratio is inverted takes real bravery.

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AI as it exists today is a ginat pile of overhyped horseshit. So thankful for science channels like Angela’s out there doing the good work. Her outrage at Google’s collaboration with/capitulation to MAGA fascism and the danger posed to science should be universal. youtube.com/watch?v=rFGc...

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🧵 As always centrists are trying construct a narrative to blame the left for the predictable outcomes of their own policy. They are arguing that the left is to blame for the rise of the far right. The argument goes that because the left oppose bigotry that bigotry is on the rise.

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