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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

Amen to that.

"Authoritarian movements seek to dominate every aspect of life. They ask citizens to subsume themselves, for the movement to become their full identity. As such, they need visible tribal signifiers." Now Elon Musk is introducing his own.

COLLINS: You are a coequal branch of government BERNIE SANDERS: Are we?! I kinda thought so, but you'll have to explain that to the president

What is the SAVE ACT regarding the banning of voting by women who have their married last names? i am divorced?

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

Compliments of 🟠. Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

Zelenskyy calls for the creation of a #EuropeanArmy: “We must build the armed forces of Europe, so that Europe’s future depends only on Europeans,” the creation of a unified European force outside of NATO comes after the US elected a Russian asset making it no longer reliable or to be counted on.

Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.

I repeat…

If you follow politics closely, when you read the last sentence of this you thought of just one name: Jack Posobiec.

Qualifications are not the point in Trump‘s “government“ which is in fact less a government than an armed, psychotic, mob. #Fascists www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

And if you call for an Uber or Lyft and get a Tesla, cancel it and tell them why.

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

"Under no circumstances should any sane person take his health advice. Nor should any senator consent to give him authority over government agencies that regulate our food and medicines."

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

I'm old enough to remember when Google's motto was "Don't be Evil". How times have changed.

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages