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“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”

love this @rokhanna.bsky.social We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos Please share off line as well !!!

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

@stealthygeek.bsky.social: “Democrats should be running daily press briefings from a shadow White House pool of the legitimate news agencies which have been locked out by the Trump coup. Their audiences will get real news, Dems will regain some messaging control. Why is this not already happening?”

Tonight in her newsletter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting Maine Senator Angus King telling the Senate to wake up. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

A little substance about what the FBI does & historical context to help you articulate just how dangerous the confirmation of Kash Patel is. joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

Brilliant.

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

My normie liberal takes are as follows 1) Summary execution/cold blooded murder is bad, and cheering it is toxic to the soul. 2) The US healthcare system is a moral abomination and single payer would be much much better 3)Charging this woman with this crime is an insane miscarriage of justice

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is determined to turn up the volume and EXPOSE all of the brutal, deadly consequences of abortion bans in America. They're not "pro-life." They're pro controlling women's bodies.

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

1. Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 MILLION Sun made the payment by purchasing tokens from a Trump-backed crypto company THIS IS A MAJOR SCANDAL Follow this thread for details

Exactly this www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Lee Seung yoon Anyone else listening to his latest?Yeok Seong.