Alt National Park Service on FB: ‘Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.’

What it says, what it means, and why it matters are in the thread. 1/4

REPUBLICANS: “But her emails!”

ALSO REPUBLICANS: “Let’s move on.”

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ICYMI: In the way only Rachel Maddow can, she absolutely shreds Trump’s finance guy Howard Lutnick—who outrageously claimed anyone complaining about missing Social Security checks is a fraudster. Vile doesn’t even begin to cover it. Cont’d
@maddow.msnbc.com
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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

The GOP talking point today is:

"It's going to take unconventional methods to get us out of the mess we've been in the past 4 years"

"The mess"
- booming stock markets
- unprecedented job growth
- strong GDP
- wage growth
- plateauing inflation
- strong allies & trading partners
- a sane POTUS

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
Trump said "Social Security would not be touched."
Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees.
This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Watch the full interview with @raskin.house.gov here and subscribe to support independent media:

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

NEW VIDEO: While the country is riveted by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing in Washington, DC, the Republican Party continues to attack voting rights in the states and in the United States Supreme Court.

Watch and share.
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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Musk and Trump are lying about USAID because they can't find anything wrong with it.

Medicaid currently insures and protects nearly 80 million Americans.

Trump and Musk are pushing a terrifying agenda to gut Medicaid — to feed the insatiable greed of the most privileged in America. Trump’s tax cuts will deliver the greatest benefit to the wealthiest 5 percent of…

Wow‼️ ICE is gaming Google by changing timestamps on deportation press releases, making months-or even years-old deportations look like breaking news.

REALITY: At this pace, they’ll barely hit half the deportations from Biden’s last full fiscal year, 2024.

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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Right-wing operatives are plotting a convention to rewrite the Constitution. This reckless scheme is gaining ground, especially as it threatens to erase the 14th Amendment, which now secures birthright citizenship for offspring of undocumented immigrants.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.