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Most people imagine that democracy ends with a military coup. But they are wrong
With @nprfreshair.bsky.social
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With @nprfreshair.bsky.social
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How Regime Change Happens In America
Podcast Episode · Fresh Air · 02/19/2025 · 45m
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February 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Most people imagine that democracy ends with a military coup. But they are wrong
With @nprfreshair.bsky.social
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With @nprfreshair.bsky.social
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Y’all, this tool from @housebudgetdems.bsky.social is 🔥, and I want to hear how the #RepublicanRipOff would hit YOUR community.
I’ll go first. 🧵
I’ll go first. 🧵
The Republican Rip Off
democrats-budget.house.gov
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Y’all, this tool from @housebudgetdems.bsky.social is 🔥, and I want to hear how the #RepublicanRipOff would hit YOUR community.
I’ll go first. 🧵
I’ll go first. 🧵
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So, they are
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So, they are
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
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I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
wired.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
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Like watergate on angel dust
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Like watergate on angel dust
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The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big Twitter Ad
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
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With RFK Jr being bootlicked by the GOP into HHS, I would like to reiterate that Trump promising him that position was a criminal offense. @lincolnproject.us called it out.
AG Merrick Garland did nothing.
The rule of law dies when people do nothing to protect it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1hgn1...
AG Merrick Garland did nothing.
The rule of law dies when people do nothing to protect it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1hgn1...
February 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
With RFK Jr being bootlicked by the GOP into HHS, I would like to reiterate that Trump promising him that position was a criminal offense. @lincolnproject.us called it out.
AG Merrick Garland did nothing.
The rule of law dies when people do nothing to protect it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1hgn1...
AG Merrick Garland did nothing.
The rule of law dies when people do nothing to protect it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1hgn1...
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.
February 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.
If this is an administrative coup’ at what point does it become a ‘military coup’?
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is an administrative coup’ at what point does it become a ‘military coup’?
February 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say.
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say.
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
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Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”
Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority
executivefunctions.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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You may wonder why altCDC is so political. Public health is as much about the disease as it is about the society in which that disease occurs. We are battling an admin that wants to dismantle US public health, sow misinformation, devalue science, and cripple our ability to respond to health threats.
February 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
You may wonder why altCDC is so political. Public health is as much about the disease as it is about the society in which that disease occurs. We are battling an admin that wants to dismantle US public health, sow misinformation, devalue science, and cripple our ability to respond to health threats.
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"Social media companies have poisoned our politics with their addictive hate algorithms, done unforgivable harm to our kids’ mental health, and fueled a war against our democratic institutions." Big Tech is not our friend. That and more advice for Dems from Tom Malinowski:
Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now
The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some effective tools at their disposal.
www.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Social media companies have poisoned our politics with their addictive hate algorithms, done unforgivable harm to our kids’ mental health, and fueled a war against our democratic institutions." Big Tech is not our friend. That and more advice for Dems from Tom Malinowski:
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Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
February 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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SCHIFF: “Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this effort by Trump, Musk & their enablers? Because if they're going to raid the treasury, take people's private data, illegally shut down agencies... They don't want an FBI to examine anything they're doing.”
February 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
SCHIFF: “Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this effort by Trump, Musk & their enablers? Because if they're going to raid the treasury, take people's private data, illegally shut down agencies... They don't want an FBI to examine anything they're doing.”
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Take the time to read this important analysis. We are in exactly the situation that laws, Constitutin and basic common sense should prevent. And yet.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
www.techdirt.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Take the time to read this important analysis. We are in exactly the situation that laws, Constitutin and basic common sense should prevent. And yet.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
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New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
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YES. Being in the minority means Dems can’t block Trump’s noms. But they can DELAY & use every extra moment to tell the public why noms like Patel are so dangerous to our democracy.
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Committee punts on Kash Patel vote as Democrats keep up the pressure
It's not unusual for the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay votes a week, but Democrats made a show of it in opposition to President Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
YES. Being in the minority means Dems can’t block Trump’s noms. But they can DELAY & use every extra moment to tell the public why noms like Patel are so dangerous to our democracy.
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Bravo, Rep. Marc Pocan !
February 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Bravo, Rep. Marc Pocan !