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Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’ | Musa Okwonga

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Much of the Black middle class was built by federal jobs. That may change. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/... via @nbcnews

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

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so uhhhh did Elon shut down the National Sex Offender Registry too? www.nsopw.gov

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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I feel like this is my moment, as an American, to step up, because I have a lot of experience at ignoring emails

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The Justice Department is investigating a New York sheriff for declining to detain someone on behalf of ICE. It's not clear what the DOJ could charge him with. “There is no such crime as failing to help ICE do its job," one legal expert said. nysfocus.com/2025/02/21/t...

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In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

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a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

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Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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Trump's crusade against "wokeness" is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy.

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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I’m struck by how much the most vehement theocrats behave like they don’t fear the judgment of an angry God

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I fear that this is just a prelude to further purges, the installation of yes men (pun intended), and the introduction of loyalty oaths. These are the steps that destroy professionalism and make the use of violence to restore "domestic order" thinkable --- and more likely.

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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The Homeland Security secretary said tonight that Trump told her to film ads that “thank me for closing the border.” DHS has budgeted up to $200 million for its anti-immigration ad campaign. w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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If you are asking are these people doing Nazi Salutes, Nazis? Consider that Nazism revolved around keeping everyone angry and persecuting minorities so they could steal everything you have. Which is exactly what they are doing.

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There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

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Man stabbed at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial days before crucial election

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How it started. How it’s going

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What parent could object to letting this upstanding looking man inspect their children's genitals?

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A story as old as time: Republicans inherit a strong economy from Democrats then totally tank it by being utterly reckless, power-hungry and greedy.

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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Farmers express concerns about chaos from Trump tariffs and budget cuts; GOP electeds fail to show up via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

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If you have a Republican representative — you have a right to know if they’re a Nazi. #fucknazis #3E #ResistFascism

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Trump removes Ice chief amid apparent frustration over rate of deportations

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Seen at CPAC

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Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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US stocks dip amid concerns over tariffs and consumer belt-tightening

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This is how dictators talk.

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I've always been low key obsessed w/ vintage octopus political cartoons like the ones found in Puck magazine and elsewhere. Quite apt for our Gilded Age v2 moment. Ex: Elon promoting his stupid commission as him w/ the axe in the first cartoon, but he's really Standard Oil in the second cartoon.

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The American right was always at real risk of turning into a personality cult, but you'd think they could've mustered the pride and self-respect to pick a less stupid personality.

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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find an uglier cybertruck than the one I just peeped challenge

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The one month anniversary of the Trump dictatorship and Musk junta is a dark day for America. With targeted investigations & potential prosecutions of elected Democrats by Ed Martin, the DC "attorney"; the confirmation of Kash Patel; and the intended power grab at USPS, this day couldn't be worse.

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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Trump’s re-election to boost UK universities as fewer students choose US

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“This is a guy who came in talking about being a champion for labor and he’s gone pretty quiet on it.” https://interc.pt/434nCKU

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