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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Alt National Park Service on FB: ‘Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.’ What it says, what it means, and why it matters are in the thread. 1/4

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/03/2025

REPUBLICANS: “But her emails!” ALSO REPUBLICANS: “Let’s move on.”

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 22/03/2025

🧵1/2 ICYMI: In the way only Rachel Maddow can, she absolutely shreds Trump’s finance guy Howard Lutnick—who outrageously claimed anyone complaining about missing Social Security checks is a fraudster. Vile doesn’t even begin to cover it. Cont’d @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The GOP talking point today is: "It's going to take unconventional methods to get us out of the mess we've been in the past 4 years" "The mess" - booming stock markets - unprecedented job growth - strong GDP - wage growth - plateauing inflation - strong allies & trading partners - a sane POTUS

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Trump's Assault on Social Security

The plan to cut America's most successful safety net program in half

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/02/2025

Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in America

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Medicaid currently insures and protects nearly 80 million Americans. Trump and Musk are pushing a terrifying agenda to gut Medicaid — to feed the insatiable greed of the most privileged in America. Trump’s tax cuts will deliver the greatest benefit to the wealthiest 5 percent of…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/02/2025

Wow‼️ ICE is gaming Google by changing timestamps on deportation press releases, making months-or even years-old deportations look like breaking news. REALITY: At this pace, they’ll barely hit half the deportations from Biden’s last full fiscal year, 2024.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system.
They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government.
They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.

Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes.
The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

✅ DEI Action of the Day™ Join Costco $65 a year Yesterday, 19 Republican attorneys sent a letter to Costco: "Within 30 days, please either notify us that Costco has repealed its DEI policies or explain why Costco has failed to do so." Join Costco here: www.costco.com/join-costco....

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

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