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Could we PLEASE stop acting like signing an executive order is the same as signing legislation passed through Congress?
May 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Could we PLEASE stop acting like signing an executive order is the same as signing legislation passed through Congress?
An important story from NYT and a companion podcast. pca.st/episode/7723.... Check comments for the NYT article
"Project 2025 is just the beginning" with Dave Troy - That Trippi Show
If you're looking for someone who actually knows how presidential and national politics works to explain what's going on in 30 minutes or less, this is the show for you. Joe Trippi is a longtime Democ...
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March 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
An important story from NYT and a companion podcast. pca.st/episode/7723.... Check comments for the NYT article
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If you feel unsafe doing this, fly a Star Wars Rebellion Alliance flag instead—just tell people you’re a fan of Star Wars. ;)
February 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If you feel unsafe doing this, fly a Star Wars Rebellion Alliance flag instead—just tell people you’re a fan of Star Wars. ;)
Does Trump want this to be early 1800’s Tammany Hall or Orwell’s 1984, I can’t tell.
February 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Does Trump want this to be early 1800’s Tammany Hall or Orwell’s 1984, I can’t tell.
Welcome back to Tammany Hall and welcome back to the 1800’s.
February 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Welcome back to Tammany Hall and welcome back to the 1800’s.
Shit is getting real
Vance and Vermeule beg the question when they say federal judges can’t block legitimate acts of state : the point of having unelected judges is so that *whether* acts of state are ‘legitimate’ “can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them.”
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
JD Vance Suggests Judges ‘Aren't Allowed’ To Control Trump After Courts Block His Policies
A slew of court rulings in recent weeks have hampered the Trump administration’s moves on issues like birthright citizenship and shutting down USAID.
www.forbes.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Shit is getting real
Musk and his minions don’t give a damn about truth. If they something they expect it to be true because they said it. Just because the government pays for some service does mean the government is conspiring with it. See, e.g. SpaceX.
“POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false.”
Subject of debate =relentless lying by MAGA.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Subject of debate =relentless lying by MAGA.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Note to Our Readers
POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight.
www.politico.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Musk and his minions don’t give a damn about truth. If they something they expect it to be true because they said it. Just because the government pays for some service does mean the government is conspiring with it. See, e.g. SpaceX.
Fighting the Putsch
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open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Fighting the Putsch
Democrats need to throw every possible wrench into the plans of Trump, Musk, and their GOP cultists in Congress
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Fighting the Putsch
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Apparently I’m not the only one then. What scares me is that Anne Applebaum is raising an alarm!
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
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Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
nymag.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Apparently I’m not the only one then. What scares me is that Anne Applebaum is raising an alarm!
Sums it up. And the media needs to stop acting like DOGE is a federal agency and Musk is the head of it. Musk is a private citizen. He does not work for the government.
We can’t let a mega rich dude shut down the main foreign aid program created and funded by Congress just because he doesn’t like it and has our president by the balls
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov
February 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sums it up. And the media needs to stop acting like DOGE is a federal agency and Musk is the head of it. Musk is a private citizen. He does not work for the government.
…and this was all over the news last night after they shared the clip of his remarks…just kidding. Maybe they’ll mention it tonight. Just kidding again!
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Analysis | Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries
At a news conference, Trump read a list of conditions he called disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019.
wapo.st
January 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
…and this was all over the news last night after they shared the clip of his remarks…just kidding. Maybe they’ll mention it tonight. Just kidding again!
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wapo.st/3Cy3Pc6
January 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is rich. They need to mind their own house before lecturing other institutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
Opinion | Courage and Resilience in Trump’s America
There is a real risk that the nation’s institutions will succumb to Trump’s campaign of intimidation and not do their jobs.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is rich. They need to mind their own house before lecturing other institutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
Why couldn’t I open the NYT app this morning and read about the Hegseth hearing yesterday? I’m traveling for work and couldn’t follow any of it yesterday. Only Rubio is covered today…
January 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Why couldn’t I open the NYT app this morning and read about the Hegseth hearing yesterday? I’m traveling for work and couldn’t follow any of it yesterday. Only Rubio is covered today…
Amazing statement by Jennifer Rubin
Too many in mainstream & new media aren’t standing up to Trump’s assault on democracy—we will
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Join us in the fight 👇 contrarian.substack.com
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Join us in the fight 👇 contrarian.substack.com
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January 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Amazing statement by Jennifer Rubin
Definitely check it out!
January 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Definitely check it out!
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Pay attention to the end of her letter. Republicans are moving forward with Project 2025 under the media cover of the fires raging in LA.
January 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Pay attention to the end of her letter. Republicans are moving forward with Project 2025 under the media cover of the fires raging in LA.
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As the Jack Smith report gets tied up in court with stall tactics, it would seem prudent for some investigative reporter to file a FOIA request so that it can be produced if and when the cases are killed after Jan 20. Pending cases are excepted from FOIA. Closed investigations are not.
January 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
As the Jack Smith report gets tied up in court with stall tactics, it would seem prudent for some investigative reporter to file a FOIA request so that it can be produced if and when the cases are killed after Jan 20. Pending cases are excepted from FOIA. Closed investigations are not.
Coincidence? Why is truth always a victim nowadays?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/t...
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Dana White, U.F.C. Head, Joins Meta’s Board
Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant’s connections with the incoming administration.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Coincidence? Why is truth always a victim nowadays?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/t...
Two movies sum up the current times. Idiocracy and the remake of the Stepford Wives.
November 30, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Two movies sum up the current times. Idiocracy and the remake of the Stepford Wives.