speedracer1970
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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By illegally neutering the National Labor Relations Board, Trump has enabled Jeff Bezos to ignore the union victory at Whole Foods in Philadelphia.
Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Whole Foods says Trump’s actions make union win moot
Amazon’s Whole Foods says Trump’s firings that paralyzed a federal labor regulator invalidate a union vote at a Philadelphia store.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
By illegally neutering the National Labor Relations Board, Trump has enabled Jeff Bezos to ignore the union victory at Whole Foods in Philadelphia.
Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
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The Blue Report
The top links on Bluesky over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly.
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February 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The cruelty is the point.
Convicted felon Donald Trump's administration “evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The cruelty is the point.
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Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are working with Trump for one very simple reason:
They understand that Trump's policies are designed to make the wealthiest Americans even richer.
These three men have become $232 billion richer since November.
Not bad in a couple of months time!
They understand that Trump's policies are designed to make the wealthiest Americans even richer.
These three men have become $232 billion richer since November.
Not bad in a couple of months time!
February 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are working with Trump for one very simple reason:
They understand that Trump's policies are designed to make the wealthiest Americans even richer.
These three men have become $232 billion richer since November.
Not bad in a couple of months time!
They understand that Trump's policies are designed to make the wealthiest Americans even richer.
These three men have become $232 billion richer since November.
Not bad in a couple of months time!
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Our global adversaries like the CCP & the Russians dream of days like these.
I wish I could say President Trump and the guy really pulling the strings, Elon Musk, were kidding.
Our national security is in deep trouble.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
I wish I could say President Trump and the guy really pulling the strings, Elon Musk, were kidding.
Our national security is in deep trouble.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees
The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Our global adversaries like the CCP & the Russians dream of days like these.
I wish I could say President Trump and the guy really pulling the strings, Elon Musk, were kidding.
Our national security is in deep trouble.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
I wish I could say President Trump and the guy really pulling the strings, Elon Musk, were kidding.
Our national security is in deep trouble.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest
The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...
www.bloomberg.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
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Trump's promise to dismantle the Education Department will likely be more costly for red states than blue.
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled
States that voted for Trump receive more federal education funds than those that voted for Harris.
www.axios.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Trump's promise to dismantle the Education Department will likely be more costly for red states than blue.
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
Trump states, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for Vice President Harris. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
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"No Democrat should be voting to advance Trump's nominees while all of this stuff is going on," AOC said. “There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they're setting a literal mash to the federal government."
'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress
Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies is "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like," expressed outrage at being barred from entering th...
www.rawstory.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"No Democrat should be voting to advance Trump's nominees while all of this stuff is going on," AOC said. “There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they're setting a literal mash to the federal government."
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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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1/ ❗Really chilling.
Thanks to Sen. Mark Warner, for releasing Memo from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to FBI leadership ordering the purge.
-Memo is a clear abuse of power and weaponization of DOJ
-Memo bolsters FBI lawsuits filed today. VERY clear the list is for retaliatory purposes
Thanks to Sen. Mark Warner, for releasing Memo from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to FBI leadership ordering the purge.
-Memo is a clear abuse of power and weaponization of DOJ
-Memo bolsters FBI lawsuits filed today. VERY clear the list is for retaliatory purposes
February 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
1/ ❗Really chilling.
Thanks to Sen. Mark Warner, for releasing Memo from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to FBI leadership ordering the purge.
-Memo is a clear abuse of power and weaponization of DOJ
-Memo bolsters FBI lawsuits filed today. VERY clear the list is for retaliatory purposes
Thanks to Sen. Mark Warner, for releasing Memo from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to FBI leadership ordering the purge.
-Memo is a clear abuse of power and weaponization of DOJ
-Memo bolsters FBI lawsuits filed today. VERY clear the list is for retaliatory purposes
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Reveals What GOP Lawmakers Secretly Say About POS Elon Musk
The Texas representative urged Republicans to say publicly what they’ve said behind the scenes.
The Texas representative urged Republicans to say publicly what they’ve said behind the scenes.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Reveals What GOP Lawmakers Secretly Say About Elon Musk — HuffPost
The Texas representative urged Republicans to say publicly what they’ve said behind the scenes.
apple.news
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Reveals What GOP Lawmakers Secretly Say About POS Elon Musk
The Texas representative urged Republicans to say publicly what they’ve said behind the scenes.
The Texas representative urged Republicans to say publicly what they’ve said behind the scenes.
Obsessed with this band at the moment…
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English Teacher - The World’s Biggest Paving Slab
YouTube video by EnglishTeacherVEVO
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January 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Obsessed with this band at the moment…
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This is what we mean when we talk about corporate greed: Starbucks gave its CEO $96 million for just 4 months of work. Meanwhile, Starbucks is refusing to offer a raise of more than 50 cents an hour to 12,000 union workers.
That's unacceptable. Starbucks must end their greed.
That's unacceptable. Starbucks must end their greed.
January 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is what we mean when we talk about corporate greed: Starbucks gave its CEO $96 million for just 4 months of work. Meanwhile, Starbucks is refusing to offer a raise of more than 50 cents an hour to 12,000 union workers.
That's unacceptable. Starbucks must end their greed.
That's unacceptable. Starbucks must end their greed.
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Trump II has begun. Many people are asking: “What can I do now?”
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
What you can do
Ten ways to resist Trump II
robertreich.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trump II has begun. Many people are asking: “What can I do now?”
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
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Food for thought.
January 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Food for thought.
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What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?
In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently
In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?
In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently
In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently
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The precedent set today should upset every American who believes in our democratic form of government.
It appears that from now on no major legislation can be passed without the approval of the wealthiest person in this country.
That’s not democracy, that’s oligarchy.
It appears that from now on no major legislation can be passed without the approval of the wealthiest person in this country.
That’s not democracy, that’s oligarchy.
December 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM
The precedent set today should upset every American who believes in our democratic form of government.
It appears that from now on no major legislation can be passed without the approval of the wealthiest person in this country.
That’s not democracy, that’s oligarchy.
It appears that from now on no major legislation can be passed without the approval of the wealthiest person in this country.
That’s not democracy, that’s oligarchy.
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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
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December 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
Help us gain our following back
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Masochist Dog Enjoys Being Walked Around On Leash While Naked
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December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Masochist Dog Enjoys Being Walked Around On Leash While Naked
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This is unacceptable. Elon Musk recently shared posts on X that publicized the names and titles of government employees in climate-related positions, sparking widespread controversy and concern. 1/6
December 5, 2024 at 7:40 PM
This is unacceptable. Elon Musk recently shared posts on X that publicized the names and titles of government employees in climate-related positions, sparking widespread controversy and concern. 1/6