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Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 18 hours ago • 76 comments

Be clear about what you are seeing. The firing of these senior officers has nothing to do with competence. This is creating an oath of loyal by the Armed Forces to the Leader. We face an uncertain future.

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From Turkey to Hungary to Venezuela to Benin, firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power. Scholars share lessons learned from around the globe: #CivilService #autocrats #DOGE

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A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers wants his state to become the first state to audit insurance companies over denying coverage. More of this, Democrats.

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ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. 💯

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NEW: Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to DOJ employees: “For those who do not support our critical mission, I understand there are templates for resignation letters available on the websites of the New York Times and CNN.”

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

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Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...

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Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.

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Interesting priorities.

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Trump calls himself “THE KING”

submitted 3 days ago • 1604 comments

Essential observation from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.

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This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

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At last, the Association of American Law Schools speaks up: www.aals.org/app/uploads/... The statement should have gone further, but given the need for consensus from all sorts of law schools, it is an ok start.

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I had the crazy idea to keep a running timeline of all the insane things happening in Trump 2025. Guys. I’m so tired. I wonder if I’m physically capable of doing it. I will carry on for now, but good god almighty.

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🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 6 days ago • 2692 comments

The President is literally holding private business negotiations in the Oval Office.

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Understanding what the courts can do helps us understand what we must do. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...

submitted 5 days ago • 225 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 919 comments

In a world with a well-functioning government, the declaration on the right would have the declarant disbarred and jailed

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“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

That’s certainly convenient.

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Lawyers: What's the statute of limitations on impersonating a federal official, specifically 18 U.S. Code Ch. 43 - §912/§913. It's a federal crime to impersonate an official for the purpose of obtaining anything of value (like data) or searching people's property. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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Have the @DOGE folks made it to the part of the system yet that shows private Medicare Advantage plans get paid by the government 22% more than costs would be in traditional Medicare?

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The unconfirmed bureaucrat running the deportation force threatening to prosecute a congresswoman for telling people what their legal rights are falls smack in the middle of the sweet spot between "utterly terrifying" and "hilarious beyond satirizing."

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

It is impossible to overstate the contempt they have for normal people

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 6 days ago • 2403 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

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A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

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The single biggest mistake anti-Trumpers are making in resisting DOGE is the desperation to accede to the need for reform of government. MUSK'S OWN COMPANIES are hellholes ridden with corruption and waste and violations of the law. People should be on the ATTACK against private sector misconduct.

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Read this thread to the end 🧵 ⬇️

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BREAKING: The war in Ukraine is "the frontline for all of us" in Europe, a minister has said after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he is prepared to put British troops on the ground news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

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Area free speech absolutist says journalists he doesnt like should face a “long prison sentence”

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Right?

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new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

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"Across Europe, the far right is gaining ground. Centre-right parties face a stark choice: reclaim their democratic identity, or risk being supplanted by the forces they once sought to contain." www.socialeurope.eu/austrias-con...

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Reposting my @theguardian.com piece here. The rise of not just the far-right, but the pro-Putin far-right, is a security risk to Europe. Eight months after publication, the discussion around Georgescu in Romania shows this holds and is an increasing threat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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