toetug.bsky.social

toetug.bsky.social

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Harvard has done more for the public interest than the petty maniac temporarily entrusted with our country could ever dream of doing. FTG. If draining an endowment was ever called for, now is the time.

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Protection racket

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Can’t get over how great this is. People who say they don’t understand what we want Dems to do: do this. Make them sound as dumb as they are, attack, don’t use caveats or hedge, stand up for the people you say you protect, act fucking mad.

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

chronicle.comOpinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: ServilityIn 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

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Leavitt: "He feels strongly that it would be very beneficial for the Canadian people to be the 51st state of the United States."

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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

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“Stansbury said she anticipates “there will be likely millions of dollars in damages.” Her bill seeks to ensure “the American taxpayers are not left on the hook for that liability,” she said, and instead “that the liability squarely falls on Elon Musk and those responsible for it.”

sourcenm.comU.S. Rep. Stansbury (D-N.M.) introduces 'Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act' • Source New MexicoU.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury says she's introducing a bill to hold Elon Musk liable for any damage he inflicts on the United States government.

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I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS. I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.