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Writers at SNL super sad because this was going to be their skit. prospect.org/politics/202...
Michael Waltz’s Venmo Is Public, and It’s Full of Journalists
The figure who tagged a journalist into a Signal chat about the attack on Yemen also failed to set his Venmo to private, revealing his willingness to engage with reporters of all political stripes.
prospect.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Writers at SNL super sad because this was going to be their skit. prospect.org/politics/202...
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It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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love this @rokhanna.bsky.social
We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos
Please share off line as well !!!
We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos
Please share off line as well !!!
March 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
love this @rokhanna.bsky.social
We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos
Please share off line as well !!!
We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos
Please share off line as well !!!
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@raskin.house.gov: "In that network of rightwing billionaire libertarian-turned-authoritarians, they are very open about the fact that they think democracy is obsolete, we're living in a post-Constitutional America, and they are trying to get everyone ready for a technostate monarchy."
February 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@raskin.house.gov: "In that network of rightwing billionaire libertarian-turned-authoritarians, they are very open about the fact that they think democracy is obsolete, we're living in a post-Constitutional America, and they are trying to get everyone ready for a technostate monarchy."
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Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?
February 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?
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Hey folks:
For those who've asked -- I've posted the conversation that Heather Cox Richardson and I had yesterday on Instagram on my YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQ7...
For those who've asked -- I've posted the conversation that Heather Cox Richardson and I had yesterday on Instagram on my YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQ7...
We're Having A Coup: How Are You?
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hey folks:
For those who've asked -- I've posted the conversation that Heather Cox Richardson and I had yesterday on Instagram on my YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQ7...
For those who've asked -- I've posted the conversation that Heather Cox Richardson and I had yesterday on Instagram on my YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQ7...
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Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada?
Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?
Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.
Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?
Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.
February 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada?
Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?
Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.
Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?
Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.
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The things Trump is doing make perfect sense if you ignore the traditions of the American presidency and understand that Trump is a wannabe authoritarian.
A Wannabe Authoritarian Hard At Work
We are living through the playbook
www.thebulwark.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The things Trump is doing make perfect sense if you ignore the traditions of the American presidency and understand that Trump is a wannabe authoritarian.
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The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
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Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us.
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
February 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us.
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
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Making people afraid to get medical treatment or send their kids to school doesn't make society better or safer.
Trump Wants to ‘End’ Sanctuary Cities. This Mayor Has a Different Idea.
Denver’s Mike Johnston believes his approach to immigration, not Trump’s, is working. And he’s not planning to give in.
www.thebulwark.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Making people afraid to get medical treatment or send their kids to school doesn't make society better or safer.
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How about conditioning disaster aid for the next hurricane in Louisiana on repealing a law that requires all classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments?
Or, how about being responsible and not conditioning any disaster aid on anything?
Or, how about being responsible and not conditioning any disaster aid on anything?
Extorting With Disaster: Why Stop At California?
Nice hurricanes you got there, be a shame if you had to expand Medicaid to get help.
www.thebulwark.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
How about conditioning disaster aid for the next hurricane in Louisiana on repealing a law that requires all classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments?
Or, how about being responsible and not conditioning any disaster aid on anything?
Or, how about being responsible and not conditioning any disaster aid on anything?
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This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who investigated January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as...
www.cnn.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
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January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
January 31, 2025
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
The ones complaining about the “deep state” going deeper into fascist territory…color me surprised
NEW: Elon Musk's team has hijacked massive datasets of government worker DOBs, home addresses, social security numbers, length of service, and performance evals - revoking the access of OPM career officials. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The ones complaining about the “deep state” going deeper into fascist territory…color me surprised
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Happening right in front of us
January 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Happening right in front of us
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Quite right. It’s not a he-gseth / she-gseth situation.
No mother “accidentally” tells her son he’s a piece of shit when it comes to women.
December 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Quite right. It’s not a he-gseth / she-gseth situation.
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You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers
Multiple Burger King and Popeyes franchises across Massachusetts has been hit with over $2 million in fines for violating child labor law.
Nearly 2,000 workers under age 18 were being paid late, paid less than minimum wage, or were not paid at all.
www.businessinsider.com/popeyes-burg...
Nearly 2,000 workers under age 18 were being paid late, paid less than minimum wage, or were not paid at all.
www.businessinsider.com/popeyes-burg...
Burger King and Popeyes franchises fined for child labor law violations
The citations at the Massachusetts franchises follow an increase in child labor violations in recent years, according to government data.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:43 PM
You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers
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@timmiller.bsky.social published Kash Patel's "Executive Branch Deep State" list, originally an appendix to his "Government Gangsters" book, and posted it on xitter.
50+ current and former officials who Patel intends to target.
I'm on it, for my 3 months of government service.
50+ current and former officials who Patel intends to target.
I'm on it, for my 3 months of government service.
December 2, 2024 at 8:29 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social published Kash Patel's "Executive Branch Deep State" list, originally an appendix to his "Government Gangsters" book, and posted it on xitter.
50+ current and former officials who Patel intends to target.
I'm on it, for my 3 months of government service.
50+ current and former officials who Patel intends to target.
I'm on it, for my 3 months of government service.
The hypocrisy is hilarious and sickening at the exact same time
A "nepo baby" complaint from Meghan McCain has to be a joke, right?
December 2, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The hypocrisy is hilarious and sickening at the exact same time
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A welcome development-- but what matters isn't what they say, it's what they do. And no one ever lost money betting on the cowardice of today's Republican Party.
Bad development for Kash: “Republican Sen. Mike Rounds emphasized his support for current FBI Director Christopher Wray after President-elect Donald Trump announced he intended to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the department's top job.”
GOP senator praises current FBI Director Christopher Wray, calls Putin a 'tyrant'
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds emphasized his support for current FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump intends to fire and replace with controversial Kash Patel.
abcnews.go.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 AM
A welcome development-- but what matters isn't what they say, it's what they do. And no one ever lost money betting on the cowardice of today's Republican Party.
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"The United States is 'leader of the free world,' the linchpin of a network of voluntary alliances of democracies, whose combined military might dwarfs the rest."
You're gonna miss it when it's gone.
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on Pax Americana:
You're gonna miss it when it's gone.
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on Pax Americana:
You’ll Miss the Pax Americana When It’s Gone
The post-Cold War international system has its flaws, but the alternative is worse.
www.thebulwark.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
"The United States is 'leader of the free world,' the linchpin of a network of voluntary alliances of democracies, whose combined military might dwarfs the rest."
You're gonna miss it when it's gone.
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on Pax Americana:
You're gonna miss it when it's gone.
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on Pax Americana: