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I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Despite our shortcomings, a critical mass of people here and abroad have always believed in the ideals of America. We have no right to give up on them now. Sam B. Girgus:

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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Susan Collins believes what the White House and Musk are up to is illegal, and she expects lawsuits. But she doesn't have to wait for the courts: She's the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which gives her real power that she could be using right now. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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We aren't "approaching" autocracy. We're not "on the road" to dictatorship. We're not "sliding" toward a Constitutional crisis. We are here. We have been here. The moment already came and went. And the road back out narrows by the hour.

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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Attention should paid to what these young men are saying & feeling if Democrats ever hope to win another election. We ignore them at our own peril. Seriously, read what they have to say - it just might help you better understand part of what went wrong. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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Look who now has their own language police 🤔 Doesn't like people deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico. Or using certain words or phrases. The new "Woke Right" is hilariously on the rise. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

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If the Democrats want to get media spotlight there’s only one way to do it: Declare a run for the Presidency in 2028. Doesn’t matter who or how many or if they eventually drop out. Media will have to cover them. They can raise funds and buy ads. And Trump will talk about them.

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"Of note is a suggestion in the documents that there is some doubt within DOGE whether what they are doing is legal." www.rawstory.com/doge-musk-go...

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“This is indiscriminate, cruel, and is taking a wrecking ball to both the deep institutional knowledge of the agency and its future,” says one senior CDC scientist. #health #healthinformation www.science.org/content/arti...

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Just in case: @statnews.com has backed up and is monitoring #CDC 's data. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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When you really think about it, life is quite simple. Just be the best person you can be until you die.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Still trying to understand something: They ran on deporting illegal immigrants yet are allowing one to run/ruin the country? Oh yeah, he's white, that's it... silly me

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Eerily similar playbook. "There are two main lessons that my Hungarian contacts wanted Americans to learn from their experiences. First, what is happening right now in the United States is exactly what a dying democracy looks like." www.vox.com/politics/398...

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Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.

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"In just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk's DOGE commission has seized control of Treasury payment systems and gained unauthorized access to classified USAID materials, while security officials who followed protocols were removed." #coup www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-...

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What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

submitted 19 days ago • 694 comments

Leaked documents obtained by Wired show Musk’s staff have taken over the General Services Administration, a government agency that manages federal offices and technology. techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/e...

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

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cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says

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Companies would wind up with many “potentially angry employees if they have to pay taxes on pretend income on the couple of StairMasters in the basement of their building,” Stamper said. #WeToldYou www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/t...

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"This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting," Gleick wrote. "It is now lost." www.alternet.org/trump-califo...

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