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So the world's richest man spends a fortune backing Trump and is given the go-ahead to...

-Run an "efficiency" agency despite having billions in govt contracts

-Replace civil servants with his own cronies

-Gain access to sensitive Treasury payment systems

See the problem?
February 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Hey everyone. It’s Feb 3rd, and the Democrats have been at home since Jan 24th because the house is out of session.

They should have come back, the place is on fire.

Get suing, messaging, demonstrating, speaking, everything and ANYTHING
February 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy."

James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office
Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency
James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said the F.B.I. was in a “battle of our own.”
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Way back in 2016,
@GOP
believed the truth: the economy is just a complex set of interactions between people, and govt should facilitate that. Tariffs are the opposite. It’s big govt.

And they say I changed. LOL
February 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship.

#BlackHistoryMonth
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"Nobody voted for Elon Musk. And nobody wants airplanes to fall out of the sky. But after Musk pushed out the head of the FAA and Donald Trump gutted the agency’s safety board, and Musk attempted to push air traffic controllers to quit, the worst domestic airline disaster since 2001 occurred."
Nobody voted for Elon Musk
A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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OMG it gets worse…

“yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see.…
February 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Trump has given Musk and his crew security clearances and the ability to get access to government buildings and computer systems (note plural)!
DOGE, this is where Musk told us there would be "pain".

The term 'constitutional crisis' comes to mind.
February 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Musk Assists Trump's Coup by Capturing Critical Government Personnel Data!
February 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM