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elon musk, the world's richest man, unilaterally deciding that lifesaving relief for children on the verge of starvation is "wasteful" while he personally reaps hundreds of millions from the us government, makes me feel things i cannot write on the internet.

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Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

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This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.

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How long before bezos starts spiking articles like this one www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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I found that place to start cutting government spending...

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💰 While superbillionaires get richer, Congressional Republicans are working overtime to hand them even bigger tax cuts—while everyday families struggle with housing, health care and rising costs. House Republicans’ Billionaire Budget puts billionaires first & working Americans last.

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aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 23 hours ago • 2547 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Leadership is doubling down, but GOP members are getting nervous about the budget’s extreme unpopularity. You can call your Representative now at 202-224-3121.

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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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Bernie Sanders on Musk and DOGE: "What Trump and his friends have in mind is moving toward the privatization of every public service in America." "For Elon, I think $400 billion is not enough. I suspect he would like to become the first trillionaire in the history of the world."

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If you have not won an election in a year that starts with a 2, I beg of you: Shut the fuck up.

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Dear Oligarchs, The American people are coming:

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Let me remind you that our government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people. Musk is supposed to be working for you and me and every other American. He’s not. He should be fired. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fire-the-muskrat-now

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This is great. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

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Dox them. And their parents. And their parents’ companies’ shareholders. Their parents’ companies’ shareholders’ bankers. Every desperate hanger-on who didn’t say no. Every VC who ever said yes. It is because the privileged are allowed to act with impunity that they act with impunity. Ruin them.

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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"The opposition is the majority."

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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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The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

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They want 1939 Germany, Let’s give them 1789 France.

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 6 days ago • 579 comments

Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 7 days ago • 2874 comments

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

submitted 6 days ago • 209 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 8 days ago • 572 comments

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.

submitted 7 days ago • 1220 comments

Everything about Trump, Musk, Zuck and many super wealthy CEOs who have been front-and-center over the past turbulent decade has shredded the myth that we should trust the uber-wealthy more b/c “they don’t need the money” and are bribe proof. They want more. Because more money brings more power.

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And there it is

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Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

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Bernie Sanders: "The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk ... that's not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill. It's gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, 'we fought and died for democracy.'"

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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

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theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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The employee is Gavin Kliger. He’s been named by multiple large news orgs. Not sure why NBC won’t.

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent. SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.

submitted 9 days ago • 270 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 9 days ago • 2639 comments

Air travel has traditionally been the safest way to travel, but the number of crashes and incidents in the last weeks needs serious investigation and oversight. What we should not be doing is firing skilled FAA technicians and staff – we need to hire MORE of them.

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