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MEXICO ANNOUNCES RETALIATORY TARIFFS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.

Here is a translation of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's statement:
February 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Two USAID officials placed on leave because they refused Musk access to classified info (his request was illegal) apnews.com/article/doge...
USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk's DOGE from classified info, officials say
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material to Elon Musk’s government-insp...
apnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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ATTN FEDS: I'm working away today, looking into "Fork" memo implementation and any funding/disbursement changes being made (DOGE-related or not).

If you have information about what's going on, please reach out. Contact me using a non-work phone or computer — my email and Signal are in my bio.
February 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🚨 BREAKING

We are getting reports of a run on eggs at Costco locations throughout the country.

Sources describe scenes of pandemonium with people running around the store to stock up on supplies, similar to the beginning of COVID.
February 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."
February 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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the point is not that it's fast -- the point it that it's systematic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
February 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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BREAKING: KRISTI NOEM REFUSES TO RULE OUT DETAINING WOMEN, CHILDREN AT GUANTANAMO BAY AS PART OF DEPORTATION SWEEP — MEET THE PRESS
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This appears to be a mad conspiracy like the one against FEMA in natural disasters.⬇️

If Musk-Trump follow through on this, countless people around the world will needlessly die. It is that simple.

First they came for the ... [you know the rest.]
February 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Americans are about to learn some economics.
February 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Trump is not going to leave in 4 years. People should accept this. He's telling you again and again.
February 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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This is like watching the Russian bureaucrats fall into line. Except this one is especially stupid.
February 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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NPR has identified dozens of Jan. 6 defendants that Trump pardoned with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.
www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence
Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.
www.npr.org
February 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Boom!! That’s how it’s done!! 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
February 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM