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The Washington Post pulled an ad that was set to run in some editions on Tuesday calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government, a group that ordered the ad said. It would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

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Absolutely correct.

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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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Across the US government, workers failed to get clear guidance on whether or how to respond to an email asking what they did this week, despite Elon Musk’s claim that their jobs are at risk.

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The SAVE Act is specifically designed to disenfranchise a ton of American women. Let us recall how many of the techbros now infiltrating the American government, like Peter Thiel, believe that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

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Next up, they will attempt to destroy the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make accurate reporting of employment numbers impossible. They will re-mix the covid-era "if we stop testing for covid, we'ed have very few cases" but for the economy.

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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“The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.”

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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lol

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Blown away by this remarkable resource on the far right prepared by @janetbufton.ca and @tomgpalmer.bsky.social and published in @theunpopulist.net. We published Part I last fall. Today, we give you Part II. Read the whole thing. It's incredible.

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Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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The Georgia Republican who recently told CNN that school kids should be sent to work to earn school lunches was met with outrage and fury from residents at a local town hall meeting on Thursday night.

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This whole thing from @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/world/2025-0...

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At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Zelensky is negotiating with a very big card: 3 years of thwarting Putin's attempted conquest, at an immense cost to Russia which they cannot sustain. We can be confident Trump gets, at some level, how big that card is, because he keeps trying to weaken it.

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Horrifying. Nazis.

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The slide toward authoritarianism could not be more overt. And yet so many remain silent.

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Apparently Trump has directed the SecState to review all treaties that the US is party to and make recommendations for withdrawal.

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The Wall Street Journal is defending birthright citizenship. The New York Times says Trump has a point that birthright citizenship is a scam. Just think about that.

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Quite literally, word for word, a total failure of Article I of the Constitution

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"We believe that a full investigation will demonstrate that Mr. Bove likely violated multipleprovisions of Rule 8.4 of New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct" 1/

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Seconds ago, the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of this guy to be FBI director. www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

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Trump's approval ratings are now -8 with the WaPo/Ipsos. This is before most of the impacts of the slashing of federal government and its economic consequences start to be felt.

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I wrote about the upcoming elections in Germany for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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DOGE is a criminal enterprise to destroy the government to empower and enrich oligarchs. Any news org that uses the term "cost cutting" to describe DOGE is complicit and should be shunned.

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Not just #Mpox but other infectious pathogens will likely see a rise and thrive in this climate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The US is refusing to co-sponsor a draft UN resolution marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that backs Kyiv's territorial integrity and condemns Russian aggression, three diplomatic sources said, in a potential stark shift by Ukraine's most powerful Western ally reut.rs/435NMNI

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When your art historian spouse makes a protest sign

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Putin wants the restoration of a divided Europe www.ft.com/content/ac1d...

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Well if you’d like you and your friends to be able to evade taxes, it’s a pretty suitable option, isn’t it?

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New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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An administration serious about fixing the deficit would not fire the people who collect the money needed to fix the deficit. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds: “57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Zelensky was still very, very gentle with Trump by merely stating that the Dummy Don lives in a disinformation bubble.

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With American foreign policy evolving before our very eyes, why not check out the newest #NeonLiberalism #podcast episode presented by @liberalcurrents.com? Surely the learning will help to ease the omnipresent existential dread, no?

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All Democratic governors should use their State of the State addresses in this way. Nicely done, @govpritzker.illinois.gov . www.c-span.org/clip/state-l...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.

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NYP is an embarrassment every single day

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NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

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Real bad stuff

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Elon, I found you some wasteful spending idiot www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer nyti.ms/4hVfn8w

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