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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Think it’s time for a national day of protest so we can take this country back.
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
His goal is 2 create a blockchain in the system w X, making it a requirement 2 hav an X acct 2 access the Dept of Treasury for people to get their checks. A PayPal type of App. Complete control over the US govt & its citizens monies. Modeled after a similar Chinese App for the Govt & its citizens.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
BREAKING: Elon Musk and a network of his associates are exerting sweeping control over the inner workings of the U.S. government. This takeover of multiple government agencies includes the Treasury Department. There appears to be an attempt to use the federal payments system to enact…
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's claims about tariffs and exchange rates don't make sense, even on their own terms. Look deeply into my baby blues, and let me 'splain.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Trump Playbook: 1. Manufacture a crisis. 2. Hype it up. 3. Pretend you solved it. 4. Declare yourself the victor. 5. Repeat. Basically has our allies asking, “what bone do we throw this crazy idiot so he can parade around beating his chest saying he won?” It’s all a farce. (via Ana Navarro)
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Truth here.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Musk has rejected Congress's powers and appointed himself illegally as the sole arbiter of federal spending. What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following. www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...
salon.com
"Hitler actually had some good ideas": Musk's covert coup is guided by the nastiest Twitter trolls
Musk's illegal government takeover is scary on its own, but the people he's bringing along are even worse
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ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A bill was presented today to protect themselves from ‘foreign threats’ including a limit on contributions from private parties at £22,000 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Greenland plans to ban foreign political funding over Trump-led election fears
Bill to rule out interference from abroad expected to pass this week as country prepares for polls before 6 April
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is going to hurt peoples lives. What is the point of Republicans having the power of the purse in Congress if they just let Elon Musk dismantle whole Government agencies without so much as a single Congressional hearing? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department
An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I would just leave it at, "This is a guy who blows up rockets"
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm not buying this whole fentanyl thing as an excuse for the tariffs. Nice try, but Americans citizens smuggle more fentanyl into the US than migrants. www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
kpbs.org
American citizens smuggle more fentanyl into the US than migrants, data show
The idea that tougher enforcement on illegal immigration will stop illegal drugs from flowing into the U.S. has long been a political talking point.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
WHO ELSE AGREES?! 🤚 Elon Musk needs to have his assets frozen, his American citizenship revoked, and he should be deported back to South Africa… He is a traitor and menace to this country. Simple as that.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's suggestive that a first achievement of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was to ax a program that made life more efficient for most taxpayers - but that has long been detested by the crassest GOP pressure groups. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 04/02/2025
Sources: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Elon Musk-linked engineer, has admin privileges over Treasury Department code that controls Social Security payments and more (Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
For folks who say, "Why should I even bother calling my Democratic Senator? They'll vote the right way..." I need you to understand that when Dem electeds try to justify why they're cowering in terror from Trump right now, the VERY FIRST THING THEY CITE is: "no one's calling my office"
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
here's today's post: "let’s mock all the stupid shit Republicans said on the Sunday shows" — pass the popcorn and settle in. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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let’s mock all the stupid shit Republicans said on the Sunday shows
pass the popcorn and settle in
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
from today's post — link is here, thanks for reading: bit.ly/3EwzeMu
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 03/02/2025
A bureaucrat is an official in a government department. STOP CALLING ELON MUSK AN “UNELECTED BUREAUCRAT”. He’s not a bureaucrat. DOGE is not a real government department. The President has not constitutional authority to create an Executive Branch department. The creation of DOGE required an
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
👇🏽 🎯 as we’ve been saying
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Former senior #USAID, @agawande.bsky.social tells FOX News on purge: "It’s insane" “A gift to our enemies" "Ebola outbreak...Bird flu has broken out in 49 countries. Our efforts to contain them have all been shut down.” "USAID was funding the treatment for 20 million people with HIV worldwide"
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
❗️🇨🇦Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau: "Now is the time to choose products made right here in Canada.Check the labels. Let's do our part. Wherever we can, choose Canada.".
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.” Alexander Vindman open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
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Hostile Takeover
“Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
3) Falsely promise your public that the fight will be easy and that costs will be low. 4) When things go wrong, attack even more trading partners to ensure the widest possible fight against the maximum number of enemies unsupported by any allies. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Breaking some significant Musk news in about 3.5 hours
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
BREAKING—Musk has convinced Trump to officially shut down USAID and terminate all USAID-foreign aid to charities. Many legal experts say shuttering USAID violates a law adopted by Congress establishing the agency, and violates laws against impounding Congressionally approved funds.
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gen x rants @genxrants.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
THIS IS THEM.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Wow, that was fast. Irving Energy, company that provides propane/fuel oil customers in New England, says it will pass on the full 10% tariff cost to all their customers immediately (reposting with fixed figure - meant to say 10%, not 30%)
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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 02/02/2025
Huge anti Trump protests in Los Angeles today. ❤
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Working on it bsky.app/profile/rayo...
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Witnessing the destruction of our government at the hands of unadulterated capitalism isn’t the kind of “you are witnessing history in the making” I wanted to experience ever let alone in my lifetime.
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Canadians aren’t the only ones perplexed
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
only the best lap dancers
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Very accurate…our country has been made so vulnerable by people who know how to rearrange things but don’t know how to run things. Those of you who voted for this probably had no idea how you were being manipulated but great shame on you.
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
must read
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
it get worse minute by minute
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Wants to take us back to ancient times www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
irishstar.com
Karoline Leavitt tells press 'Jesus didn't have electricity either'
When answering a question about the tariff war going on between the United States and Canada, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to Jesus Christ.
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Trump Announced That He Is Putting A Tax On Prescription Drugs
Trump announced that his new tax on the American people is going to include prescription drugs.
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CCBass @ccbassin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
what does he care about the price of eggs or gas or orange juice…none of the billionaires do obviously, well obviously to all of us who didn’t vote for him
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a retroactive line item veto
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
At morning meeting, Trump officials tell staff at the Office of Personnel Management to draw up plans to cut the agencies staff and programs by 70%, expected to disable federal retirement services programs, federal employee health benefits and more. federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
federalnewsnetwork.com
Trump administration directs OPM career leaders to prepare for 70% cut to staffing, programs
By Monday, all OPM offices are expected to give political leaders staffing charts with plans for an initial 30% reduction for both feds and contractors.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I hope people see how truly alarming this is: 1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees 2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
stone text inlay: HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG
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Athena Z @athenasrx.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Bad Leadership≠ Safe Travels TRUMP= Disaster #DemVoice1 #BlueCrew
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The full collection of the words of wisdom Sean Duffy, former star of MTV's The Real World: Boston, and Road Rules: All Stars. He also appeared on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons!
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Athena Z @athenasrx.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
#DemVoice1 #BlueCrew
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