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"I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath." @marcelias.bsky.social responds to Elon Musk's recent criticism of him. Read Marc's full letter to Musk below.

Do not throw 🏳️‍⚧️ under the bus, Democrats. If not for basic human decency, then because there’s a fleet of busses just waiting to roll over the rest of us.

The DOJ, under Trump's direction is moving all incarcerated trans women into men's prisons. NPR says the DOJ is "well aware of concerns about risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides." This is what happens to trans women in men's prisons. Please share so it's well known. It's fucking cruel.

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Democratic women are the ones who are stepping up and confronting Musk and Trump.

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Seems like this email could severely backfire, in that it demonstrates the utter toothlessness of DOGE’s absurd directives. The question that kills DOGE has always been “Wait, are you the boss of me? Says what law?” and now Elon is forcing a lot of people to ask it.

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DOGE missed $200 million of government waste!

Ooh, I know: the Black guy and the woman. Not qwhite sure why, though.

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Kaine: "Yesterday the DOGE guys post classified information on their website, and they had to realize, 'Oh, we didn't realize that agency was a classified agency.' You shouldn't let people rampage through offices that have classified information."

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

"Canada has the longest total coastline in the world, therefore we are well within our rights to rename our major oceans. Henceforth, the Pacific Ocean will be known as Poutine Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean as Hockey Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean as the Gulf of Brian Adams." - PM Trudeau

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

And I repeat, Pam Bondi isn’t an Attorney General, she’s a criminal who the orange felon paid with bribes to help keep him out of prison when she was the corrupt Florida AG. She does not work for the law, she is hired to create lawlessness.

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

Did you know? American taxpayers would be saved $8 MILLION PER DAY if we simply canceled Elon Musk’s defense contracts.

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

I don't know who needs to hear this, but President Biden is NOT in the White House any more... the three-ring shit show America is witnessing now is 100 percent the result of putting a fucking convicted felon CLOWN and his cowardly cohorts in the White House. trumpflation is UP!

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

Congress will soon vote on a MAGA bill that could prevent millions of eligible American citizens from voting It includes a marriage penalty that prevents married women who changed their names from using their birth certificate or driver’s license as documents to register blavity.com/what-is-the-...

With the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbord, the Republicans have proven their worthlessness. They have forfeited their power in a show of allegiance to a compromised buffoon. Shame will follow them for all time.

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Correct. They are refusing to enforce duly enacted laws. And then they will refuse to comply with duly entered court orders.

Trump fires National Archives chief The president has dismissed the top U.S. archivist after fuming about the agency’s role in the criminal classified-documents case against him. Another woman gets the axe. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Elon Musk will dispatch a DOGE team to Parkersburg, West Virginia, next week, where it will gain read-only access to the US government’s central accounting system.

The most qualified Supreme Court justice nominee in history gets dismissed as a “DEI hire”—because she’s Black. Mediocre White men don’t get this disrespect!

It’s not just that the buy-out won’t be honored; it can’t be honored. They have neither authority nor appropriations to honor the promise. “Fraud in the inducement.”

1/ Musk has been telling everyone that he, and Pres. Trump, want to slash federal spending. It's strange they zeroed in on one of the smallest agencies, budget-wise, USAID. Here's how Musk went from getting paid by USAID to wanting to kill the humanitarian agency...🧵 www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

It’s worse than we thought! A 25-year-old Musk crony, Marko Elez, with zero government experience, had direct access to trillions in federal spending—while the White House and Treasury lied about it. The truth: Elez could write code on 2 of the most sensitive systems in the US government. 1 of 3

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Musk and his rats have nothing whatever to do with rooting out “waste and fraud.” Their real purpose is to usurp Congress’s authority over spending, under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution. Some thoughts...

Yet another incident where Members of Congress have been barred from entering a federal agency.

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

“Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

It’s corruption. He’s using the presidency, a public office, to increase the value of his business partnership with LIV (and, by extension, the Saudi government)

"And then we'll have a white guy with a shaved head wearing a brown shirt block the way..." "Come on, Bob, no one will believe that part of the script. Dial it down."

Do you Understand why The Whole World is Laughing? Yes, by all means, the oceans and rivers are not full of enough plastic AND THIS IMBECILE HAS THE NUCLEAR CODES

You are the company you keep.

"They are all weak, feckless cowards who have thrown away everything they claimed to have believed in in order to stave off a primary and keep their jobs, even if those jobs mean absolutely nothing anymore. Shame the fuck on them…" andyostroy.substack.com/p/shame-on-s...

He. Is. An. Adjudicated. Rapist.