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Edward Z

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🔵 in Ohio.. Senior Gen Xer.. Grumpa.. Picker & grinner.. El Duderino..✌🏻❤️🎸 Alumnus of THE Ohio State University ❤️ The Allman Brothers Band 🍑🍄 Tedeschi Trucks Band, Gov’t Mule 🫏, Warren Haynes Band & music in general 🚫 MAGA, trolls, Bozos, crypto or porn

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In 2021, 5.5% of US adults, or 14.1 million people, experienced a serious mental illness, according to NAMI. This represents 1 in 20 adults. In 2024, 5.86% of US adults experienced a severe mental illness. www.nami.org/about-mental....
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Mental Health By the Numbers
Millions of people in the U.S. are affected by mental illness each year. It’s important to measure how common mental illness is, so we can understand its physical, social and financial impact — and so...
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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sounds eerily familiar… Nazi Euthanasia Program targeted for-murder Germans with mental and physical disabilities—claiming 250,000 lives Many Germans did not want to be reminded of individuals who did not measure up to their concept of a "master race" and were considered "unfit" or "handicapped."
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It only takes four words to sum up the rise of authoritarian fascism, the fall of American democracy, and how a criminal conman got elected: Ignorance, apathy, misogyny and racism. 😳
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 15/02/2025
For all the whiz-bang cutting-edge-technology rhetoric, Musk’s DOGE reflects an ancient right-wing knuckle-dragger belief that even good government is wasteful and its beneficiaries are parasites.
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DOGE Is About Ideology and Mindless Budget-Cutting, Not Efficiency
For all the whiz-bang cutting-edge-technology rhetoric, Musk’s DOGE reflects an ancient right-wing knuckle-dragger belief that even good government is wasteful and its beneficiaries are parasites.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/02/2025
House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
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House GOP Reveals Plan to Devastate Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs
House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of Americans.
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Edward Z @edwardz65.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Because we need more guns in the wild, right? JFC..
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/02/2025
Yesterday was a victory for Moscow and for Putin. And it was a defeat for the United States and Ukraine, and for the international order and the cause of freedom. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @martynwendell.bsky.social, and Ben Parker:
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A Valentine for Vladimir
Plus: How did the federal government take $80 million out of a private bank account?
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/02/2025
A thing I have been saying for the past couple years is that AI is labor devaluation scheme. There are very few areas in which capitalists are so perturbed by costs as in labor. The goal is to reduce labor cost to nothing. There are only a few ways to achieve this. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.
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Edward Z @edwardz65.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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LIVE: What the Oligarchs Really Want
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
On every single major issue that divides us, Christian Nationalists, MAGA and GOP are against the actual teachings of Jesus. This is a book about how deeply they reject the words of that Nazarene they wave around as a prop.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Can’t wait to hear Musk and JD Vance offer passionate pleas to forgive THIS guy
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Thoughtthingy @thoughtthingy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
PLEASE share this! youtu.be/O4CRk0J7ZPo?...
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From One Farmer to Another
YouTube video by The Back Forty
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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 11/02/2025
Trumps going to cost us Trillions.. Trump’s SuperBowl Shitshow $15M Trumps 3 trips to Mar Lago for Golf $3M DOGE $7M 1 week Cutting programs is smoke and mirrors to run amok and spend on tax cuts for the rich and frivolous bullshit #SheShed #DeportElon #AbuseOfPower
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𝕃𝕦𝕜𝕚𝕦𝕞 @americanmanifesto.news · 11/02/2025
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy Birthday, Sheryl Crow! 🎶 What's a favorite Sheryl Crow tune of yours? 🎶 Born in Kennett, Missouri, on February 11, 1962, Crow was a music teacher before joining the Michael Jackson Bad World Tour in 1987 as a backing vocalist. She has released 12 studio albums, her debut album, 👇
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Edward Z @edwardz65.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This guy is an absolute tool. Trump seems to think his attempts to re-write history and erase culture will be a winning play. This is authoritarian behavior and there will be a massive backlash. #KennedyCenter www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump says Ric Grenell will be Kennedy Center’s interim executive director
President Donald Trump said Monday he is naming Ric Grenell, a longtime confidant already serving in multiple administration positions, to lead the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a temporar...
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American Bar Association @americanbar.org · 10/02/2025
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law.”
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
💥 Jamie Raskin says he’s contemplating a class action suit against Musk and Trump, on behalf of all Americans! Yes, please and thank you Senator Raskin!
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Edward Z @edwardz65.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East (Official)
YouTube video by Allman Brothers on MV
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/02/2025
The richest man in the world—who has now installed unqualified loyalists throughout the US government—is getting much of his information from far-right sources who present a world in which “Western Civilization” is in an existential struggle against Black and brown invaders.
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Elon Musk keeps boosting white nationalists on X
One user Musk amplified frequently attacks Black people and has said he is "impressed" by the Holocaust.
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Edward Z @edwardz65.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
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George Conway: J.D. Vance is telling us something we should've already known
Conservative attorney George Conway joins Morning Joe to discuss the vice president's social media posts saying federal judges aren't allowed to control a president and why he says the White House won...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10/02/2025
NEW: In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” of staff at the National Archives who he should purge, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Trump Has a 'List' of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal
President Donald Trump, still bitter about the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago, has asked for a "list" of National Archives staffers to fire.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory The January 6 database has been quietly deleted in an attempt to erase history. But too many of us saw it unfold in real time. Too many of us know what happened. It is our duty to keep this history alive. truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump DOJ Deleted January 6 Database in Latest Attempt to Make History Vanish
This push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
He’s “so into it” because he has so much to gain, you witless fool.
The post from "Republicans against Trump" highlights a statement attributed to Donald Trump regarding Elon Musk's involvement with Dogecoin (DOGE). According to the post, Trump claims that despite Elon Musk's companies receiving over $15 billion from the U.S. government, Musk does not personally "gain" anything from his involvement with DOGE. Trump expresses curiosity about how Musk can dedicate so much time to it, suggesting Musk's deep interest in the cryptocurrency.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 10/02/2025
🚨Sen. Elissa Slotkin: “There is no king in this country.” Trump’s billionaire pals are accessing sensitive info without checks or disclosures. It’s illegal—and a threat to our democracy. “History will watch what we do.” Congress must stand up and defend the country we love.
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🚨Sen. Elissa Slotkin: There Is No King in This Country—Congress Must Stand Up!
YouTube video by VoteVets
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
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The NSA's "Big Delete"
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The authoritarians & oligarchs benefit from us blaming eachother for the massive wealthy inequality in this country. Blame the corrupt billionaires, mega corporations, and big money in politics. Not your neighbor.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I’m a Trump biographer and a Musk biographer. And I’m telling you...the latter is harder. Elon does more abominable things daily than Trump. By a lot. He’s a firehose of horror, and I’m finding it extremely hard to keep up with his malevolence. He’s truly the worst person I’ve ever written about.
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Elon Musk Faces Fury Over Support for Jailed Fascist Leader
The billionaire urged British authorities to free the anti-immigration activist.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/02/2025
A statement from the Kennedy Center
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Why is the GOP shielding Elon Musk from Oversight!?  Maybe…because while we’re sitting here he’s dismantling agencies, threatening national security, stealing our data, and breaking the law.  Dems are not clutching our pearls.  Dems are fighting back.  And we won't stop!
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for a dude who accepted 25K to participate in a Kremlin produced anti-FBI propaganda film to lead that very same FBI. I’d wager wecould probably find a better candidate, no? But hey, that’s just me… www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show
Patel, Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company that has promoted anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, documents show.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 07/02/2025
NEW: President Trump is attempting to fire FEC Commissioner Weintraub. That contradicts both the law and the spirit of the bipartisan FEC. If he succeeds, that would unilaterally hobble an independent agency and invite more illegal influence in American elections.
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Axios @axios.com · 06/02/2025
The Trump administration's gutting of USAID is just a start: Elon Musk and President Trump's Cabinet and advisers are combing through agencies to purge those deemed to be anti-Trump, anti-American or too "woke," top officials tell Axios.
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Trump's gut-it-all plan for D.C.'s "Deep State"
But the speed and tactics of Trump's vengeance-fueled cost-cutting efforts have been surprising.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Warehousing migrants in dirty ‘ole shipping containers. What could possibly go wrong? #MassDeportation #Fail #RESIST www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
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Trump team considers container company for migrant housing
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in discussions with Phoenix-based Willscot about a lease, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
America, we have a HUGE problem….
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Paige ExGOP 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @itwasacoup.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Elon Musk's associates sought to use a critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending just days after Trump's inauguration, emails show www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Oh dear
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Edward Z @edwardz65.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Three Little Birds
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It basically just means that Trump wants to do even more criminal acts and absolutely does not want to be held accountable by anyone…. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump to sign an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court
The order will include financial sanctions and visa restrictions against ICC officials found to have assisted in ICC investigations of U.S. citizens or allies.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
We put them all in one place.
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🩵JoJo📎 @thejojoyouknow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just sayin’
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Rep. Moskowitz: In November, polls showed that 47% of Republicans wanted Elon Musk very involved with the government. Today that number is 26%
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