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A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?
February 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?
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“A threat anywhere impacts all states. It’s important that information is not confined to state lines.” Derek Tisler talked with Stateline about the federal government’s important role in protecting election security and the risks of gutting agencies that help in that work.
Election officials blast Trump's ‘retreat’ from protecting voting against foreign threats • Stateline
The Trump administration has begun dismantling the nation’s defenses against foreign interference in voting, a sweeping retreat that has alarmed state and local election officials.
stateline.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“A threat anywhere impacts all states. It’s important that information is not confined to state lines.” Derek Tisler talked with Stateline about the federal government’s important role in protecting election security and the risks of gutting agencies that help in that work.
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Investing in economic growth.
Funding our schools.
Improving the services working families and the vulnerable need.
We cannot compromise on them, especially when we face the uncertainty of the federal government’s haphazard “ready, fire, aim” tactics toward everyday Americans.
Funding our schools.
Improving the services working families and the vulnerable need.
We cannot compromise on them, especially when we face the uncertainty of the federal government’s haphazard “ready, fire, aim” tactics toward everyday Americans.
February 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Investing in economic growth.
Funding our schools.
Improving the services working families and the vulnerable need.
We cannot compromise on them, especially when we face the uncertainty of the federal government’s haphazard “ready, fire, aim” tactics toward everyday Americans.
Funding our schools.
Improving the services working families and the vulnerable need.
We cannot compromise on them, especially when we face the uncertainty of the federal government’s haphazard “ready, fire, aim” tactics toward everyday Americans.
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Trump has given some of his biggest donors key positions with extraordinary potential to influence decisions impacting their own bottom lines. Our latest analysis follows the money:
Uncovering Conflicts of Interest and Self-Dealing in the Executive Branch
The new administration could use federal contracts, tariffs, regulations, taxes, and other levers of government to benefit campaign donors, high-level officials, and the president himself.
www.brennancenter.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump has given some of his biggest donors key positions with extraordinary potential to influence decisions impacting their own bottom lines. Our latest analysis follows the money:
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Good words here. When Rs break with Trump on an issue like this let’s encourage it.
A must watch moment:
Republican Sen Tom Tillis shows he may have a spine after all. I know it’s hard to believe, but he actually calls out Putin 👀
Thanks to
@reallyamerican.bsky.social
Republican Sen Tom Tillis shows he may have a spine after all. I know it’s hard to believe, but he actually calls out Putin 👀
Thanks to
@reallyamerican.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Good words here. When Rs break with Trump on an issue like this let’s encourage it.
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Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump Issued Perhaps His Most Terrifying Executive Order on Tuesday
Having already subdued Congress, Trump has now openly announced that the Führerprinzip governs the executive branch.
slate.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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And here's the start of the retribution.
In the wake of last night’s exchange between Trump and Gov Mills on transgender athletics, US Dept of Ed announces a civil rights investigation into Maine.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Office for Civil Rights Launches Title IX Violation Investigations into Maine Department of Education and Maine School District
The Office for Civil Rights announced that it is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Department of Education amid allegations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’...
www.ed.gov
February 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
And here's the start of the retribution.
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The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.
February 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.
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The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.
February 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.
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Good. Keep making noise. www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...
US Rep. Glenn Grothman faces hostile crowd at Oshkosh town hall meeting
People booed and jeered at U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman as he walked into the Algoma Town Hall just outside Oshkosh Friday morning.
www.wpr.org
February 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Good. Keep making noise. www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...
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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
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This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.
So.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
February 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.
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Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.
February 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.
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The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.
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Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington, DC has issued an order setting a path for the first round of discovery to be served in a lawsuit involving Trump and Musk’s efforts to restructure the government.
Paige and I explain.
youtu.be/QHzyeOXUWgM?...
Paige and I explain.
youtu.be/QHzyeOXUWgM?...
BREAKING: Judge Says Discovery Into DOGE's Labor Department Probe Likely
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington, DC has issued an order setting a path for the first round of discovery to be served in a lawsuit involving Trump and Musk’s efforts to restructure the government.
Paige and I explain.
youtu.be/QHzyeOXUWgM?...
Paige and I explain.
youtu.be/QHzyeOXUWgM?...
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"The hard reality is that we are not going to get a quick fix. We will not wake up one morning this month and find that Trumpism is over. And we can’t throw our hands up in the air in disgust and walk away in the absence of instant success. The fight for democracy is going to be long and hard and
February 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
"The hard reality is that we are not going to get a quick fix. We will not wake up one morning this month and find that Trumpism is over. And we can’t throw our hands up in the air in disgust and walk away in the absence of instant success. The fight for democracy is going to be long and hard and
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Hell. Fucking. No.
Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program.
I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment.
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program.
I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment.
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
9/11 community advocates warn of staffing cuts at federal health program
The staffing reductions come as the Trump White House continues to slash the federal government.
ny1.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hell. Fucking. No.
Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program.
I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment.
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Trump and Musk are coming for the World Trade Center Health Program.
I’m one of thousands of 9/11 First Responders that are enrolled in the program. They actually called me last week to schedule my annual appointment.
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
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American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.
February 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases.
Visit Democracy Docket for more info.
www.democracydocket.com
Visit Democracy Docket for more info.
www.democracydocket.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases.
Visit Democracy Docket for more info.
www.democracydocket.com
Visit Democracy Docket for more info.
www.democracydocket.com
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A USAID contracting officer (who for obvious reasons is not disclosing her identity) says a company named after its founder Philip Green almost got its federal contract cancelled because the fools at DOGE thought it had something to do with "green" energy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A USAID contracting officer (who for obvious reasons is not disclosing her identity) says a company named after its founder Philip Green almost got its federal contract cancelled because the fools at DOGE thought it had something to do with "green" energy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Trump’s Golden Era risks the tarnish of corruption. My thoughts on the pause on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in The Contrarian.
The Trump administration is giving the black market the green light
Now, profits are power, regardless of how they are obtained.
buff.ly
February 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump’s Golden Era risks the tarnish of corruption. My thoughts on the pause on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in The Contrarian.
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Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.
February 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.