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These militarist ICE raids are the actual government oppression that right wingers dreamed was happening during Covid. They are not up in arms like they were about masking, go figure.
June 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Be aware that government records belong to the government—& the American people.

And that those records can hold people w/political power ACCOUNTABLE for what they do.

The accountability of politicians to the people who gave them power is the ESSENCE of democracy.

Signal prevents accountability.
March 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.
National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet.
As the administration fires rangers and other workers, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Make it stop
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Musk makes sweeping claims about federal corruption, without providing evidence.
The billionaire, whose federal cost-cutting team has been operating in secrecy, asserted that he had uncovered waste and fraud across the bureaucracy, without providing evidence.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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"We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. "There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this."
Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say
Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM