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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."
February 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."
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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
February 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
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Emergency Video: will Congress do to itself what they are demanding of other departments?
Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!
Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!
February 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Emergency Video: will Congress do to itself what they are demanding of other departments?
Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!
Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!
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If the Trump Administration dismantles the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “it’s open season on everyone who has a credit card, a mortgage, a car loan, a payday loan, a student loan, or uses an online financial app,” Elizabeth Warren said.
Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create
Elon Musk’s campaign to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will end up hurting the very people Donald Trump promised to safeguard.
www.newyorker.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If the Trump Administration dismantles the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “it’s open season on everyone who has a credit card, a mortgage, a car loan, a payday loan, a student loan, or uses an online financial app,” Elizabeth Warren said.
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There is simply no legal architecture that would allow Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws.
There's no way Elon Musk’s job is legal
"Checks and balances, at the moment, seem to be neutralized.”
www.motherjones.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There is simply no legal architecture that would allow Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws.
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What Trump has done for US farmers so far:
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
February 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What Trump has done for US farmers so far:
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
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A quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and low-income areas against Donald Trump’s legislative agenda has picked up some powerful new allies: US hospitals and conservative agitator Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon, US Hospitals Join GOP Rebellion Over Medicaid Cuts
A quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and low-income areas against President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda has picked up some powerful new allies: US hospitals and conserv...
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
A quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and low-income areas against Donald Trump’s legislative agenda has picked up some powerful new allies: US hospitals and conservative agitator Steve Bannon.
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President Donald Trump wants the Supreme Court to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader
President Donald Trump wants the justices to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
President Donald Trump wants the Supreme Court to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
February 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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This is what oligarchy looks like.
February 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is what oligarchy looks like.