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Yeah, imagine having a direct democracy.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

The SAVE Act is a basically unprecedented assault on the right to vote. Republicans are pushing it because they want to make Trump's conspiracy theories about "stolen" elections the law of the land and potentially disenfranchise millions in the process. Supporting it is utterly disqualifying.

A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings

The agreement also includes a section titled “scope of work” that details how DOGE will operate with the DOL. Together, these aspects of the agreement give the clearest look yet at how DOGE's relationships with government agencies may be structured.

🔥WATCH: “Stop acting like you don’t know what this is all about.” Rep. Hakeem unleashes on @AronMaberry for 1 of 2 his anti-DEI bills (he claims are actually fighting discrimination🤔) McKenzie, Glynn, @votegloriaj.bsky.social also made some Maberry juice. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIP_cUj...

Rep. Horford calls it “grifting at its finest… designed to make billionaires richer”

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.” This is how it’s done.

"Normally, we treat each bullet point as a separate story. But they are all connected. We are witnessing an extraordinarily broad chilling effect in American society." Look at the length of these lists - this effort to intimidate and silence opposition is a key part of Trump II's authoritarianism.

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

It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.

It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.

The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.

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Because those people were right all along.

Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.

Thank you Commissioner Gomez.

“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.” www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

CQ Brown is a decorated officer who excelled at every level of command and was appointed to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Before Trump fired him and replaced him with an unqualified white guy, Pete Hegseth said “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt"

Reminder that when he had the same delusion about Twitter and wasted everyone’s time and resources on it, zero “ghost employees” were found Everything is fucking stupid now, huh

NEWS: Elon Musk has caused a rift to emerge within the federal government as agencies instruct their employees to ignore him, Yosemite National Park workers raise distress flag in protest of DOGE, and more. Please consider subscribing if you don't! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

The Trump regime is making it easy on the media by translating its talking points from the original Russian.

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀

So, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has gotten the text of the letter sent by 40 news orgs to the White House re its ban on the AP. Signatories range from NBC, Washpost and The Guardian to Fox and Newsmax. www.status.news/p/associated...

Breaking: The Federalist Society quickly reboots as the Royalist Society.

“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.” ~ Sheryl Crow, on selling her Tesla and donating the proceeds to NPR www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

People are waking up to just how bad things are with co-presidents Trump & Musk and Republicans running Congress. We don’t have to wait for midterms—we can win special elections now. We’ve been here before and won. @repjasmine.bsky.social lays out the path 🔥

There’s more…

Co-presidents Trump & Musk are gaming us—pretending to cut “government waste” while plotting to rob us blind and push a permanent billionaire tax cut that will add trillions to the debt they care about only during elections. The thing is—the con is so g damn obvious! (Video 🧵)

It’s amazing to me that when Donnie calls himself a king, everyone listens. But when the Supreme Court crowned him king last year, crickets.

Most predictable headline of the day: "Trump acknowledges ‘inflation is back’ but blames Biden" Of course he does. www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/e...

So the way they'll do this isn't the way you'd want them to. Should: massively cut ridiculous defense contracts. Shouldn't: massively reduce US troops and pull back from bases all over the world. They'll do the opposite. It'll be a giant disaster.

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

WATCH: House AG committee chair Rep. Chris Todd still silent about Trump’s policies hurting farmers, especially in West Tennessee where he’s from👇🏽 🧑‍🌾 “Farmers in precarious economic positions as Trump executive orders put programs in limbo”: tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/19/b...

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

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The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

Reup: Less than two weeks after the criminal investigation of Project Veritas was closed, Emil Bove is trying to force prosecutors to rely on a Project Veritas video to predicate a criminal investigation. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/e...