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The New York Times closes the barn door long after it let the horse escape.

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Musk says DOGE has saved $55 billion. Nope Washington Post analysis found that hundreds of the canceled contracts DOGE listed represent savings of $0 each. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Note, it's true that Vought has gotten the trauma he wants. But bureaucrats are NOT being perceived as the villain here.

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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THIS is The Truth! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy. That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…

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US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 22 hours ago • 279 comments

There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

submitted 22 hours ago • 305 comments

Call me old fashioned, but being Russia’s KGB agent “Krasnov” since 1987 should disqualify Trump from being President of the United States. Retroactively, immediately, and forever.

submitted 21 hours ago • 132 comments

One reason Trump is doing this is bc Trump has failed to come close to meeting his deportation promises. If that were to become a bigger narrative--if the mob learned that he was diverting NatSec resources yet is falling behind Sleepy Joe Biden's deportation numbers--Trump'd be in trouble.

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“Musk team is laying off workers at auto safety agency investigating Tesla crashes” 2/22/25 www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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“Federal regulators have cited Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant.” 2/20/25 1/ www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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Officials say a “Tesla battery fire prevented first responders from saving a driver involved in what became a fatal crash” on Jan 28 in Torrance, CA. “[E]fforts to extinguish the fire were complicated by the vehicle’s lithium-ion battery, which caused flames to shoot up 5 to 10 feet..” 1/

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"President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”

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“Widow of designer who died in fiery Tesla crash sues automaker claiming car had ‘defective design’” 2/18/25 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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📉📉📉

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Remember this press conference Trump did promising to bring prices down? www.c-span.org/program/camp...

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Kinda weird that SecDef is announcing to the world that he has tax problems. Totally normal to blame Biden for your failure to pay taxes

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To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it. Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.

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The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

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When Trump names unqualified loyalist Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and purges our top military leaders, it raises rational fears that he wants a military willing to train its guns on American citizens upon his orders.

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They’re not going to do this because Trump and Republicans are also threatening universities’ nonprofit status. It’s bad folks. They should still show some courage and speak out. It’s the only thing that will save them.

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Found some waste, fraud and abuse: "We’re going to run a marketing campaign" "The ad campaign amounts to an extremely expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda blitz to scare off migrants and to flatter Trump on television." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Know thy enemy

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This.

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The chart below was released by Musk to show recipients of Social Security who are over 100 yo. But I did the math! The people over 100 only equal 5% of the total. Of those, 99K are legitimate SS recipients. At least 1% are likely due to clerical errors. Does that seem like rampant fraud?

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This Fourth Estate--what is this Fourth Estate that you speak of? Other than a few indepedent media outlets here and there, I am amazed at the eunuch brigade we have in newsrooms. They are just allowing their power to be run over roughshod while their billionaire owners laugh and sneer at democracy.

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A great clip about what Hochul would have to do to remove Adams. It’s a long road. To be clear, I think it’s a road she should travel. I personally think doing nothing is the wrong thing to do.

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Russia isn’t our friend. Bush tried. Obama tried. Trump tried during his first term. It’s an admirable goal, but it doesn’t work. No matter how much Trump capitulates to Putin, Russia won’t be our friend.

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This is a coup.

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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This is real folks and it's happening right now in plain sight.⬇️

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Republicans want to cripple the IRS so their super-rich donors can cheat on their taxes. Then the rich tax cheats throw a few pennies at the Republicans as a thank you. The rest of us fund the government that Republicans and the super-rich have rigged.

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Time for a serious talk. We are at the crossroads. Vote Democrat or it's over. Not being hyperbolic. Today I make the case. Be there for Coffee With Texas Paul!

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Prosecutors have found valid charges against Mayor Adams. Therefore charges against him should NOT be dismissed. Orders by convicted felon totally corrupt, Donald Trump should not be followed. That precedent would set us on a disastrous course. Stand strong for the rule of law prosecutors!!

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This is probably a good time to point out that one big group of IGs Trump fired were busy finding $100s of billions in COVID fraud, enabled by Trump's own incompetence. Another big group fired were in charge of tracking spending in Ukraine. He literally fired people tracking problems with this $$.

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A new GOP-MAGA bill introduced in Utah would allow Nazi/confederate flags to be displayed in schools and government buildings whilst banning LGBTQ+ Pride flags. And this is why we will continue to refer to them as Nazis, white supremacists, bigots, racists and fascists.

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Last week, I introduced my We the People amendment to finally get big money out of politics. The Citizens United decision was a disaster and has handed our government over to the highest bidder. It’s time to reverse it and give power back to the people. www.commondreams.org/news/citizen...

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I'd bet cash money that he cut a deal to get a private mail delivery contract, and to hand over his project to electrify the USPS truck fleet to Tesla in exchange for his resignation. Just a hunch.

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Yes, the employee at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, groceries, bills, health care and retirement plans with their paycheck alone. That’s what jobs are for.

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JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

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-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

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There is No Guessing: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are Actively Destroying Our Institutions…and Democracy. apple.news/AKRvs4k0yRl-...

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The Trump White House is fascist and authoritarian. Say it, media. Because it’s true, and it’s important for people to understand. If news outlets haven’t figured out yet that we're under a fascist assault, what kind of journalists are they? My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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Sad milestone. The once great Washington Post, now reflects its new leadership, canceling ad from groups calling for Trump to fire Musk. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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