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Tesla is particularly vulnerable to a boycott and anti-fascists should make every effort to make the brand as toxic as possible www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/boyc...
Boycotting President Elon - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Protests. have been gathering around Tesla dealerships: Protesters gathered outside Tesla dealerships across the US on Saturday in response to Elon Musk’s efforts to shred government spending under th...
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February 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Tesla is particularly vulnerable to a boycott and anti-fascists should make every effort to make the brand as toxic as possible www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/boyc...
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This is the way…
“The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.”
With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.
“The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.”
With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.
February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is the way…
“The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.”
With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.
“The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.”
With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.
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The entire CDC should walk out over this
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The entire CDC should walk out over this
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Former Tesla owner here 🤚🏽
Loved it—until the last few months. I had another on order but customer service tanked. That was enough. Switched EV brands—no regrets.
IDGAF what folks think of my car choices unless they’re paying my car note. But I’m never buying a car from a Nazi. Clearly not alone.
Loved it—until the last few months. I had another on order but customer service tanked. That was enough. Switched EV brands—no regrets.
IDGAF what folks think of my car choices unless they’re paying my car note. But I’m never buying a car from a Nazi. Clearly not alone.
February 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Former Tesla owner here 🤚🏽
Loved it—until the last few months. I had another on order but customer service tanked. That was enough. Switched EV brands—no regrets.
IDGAF what folks think of my car choices unless they’re paying my car note. But I’m never buying a car from a Nazi. Clearly not alone.
Loved it—until the last few months. I had another on order but customer service tanked. That was enough. Switched EV brands—no regrets.
IDGAF what folks think of my car choices unless they’re paying my car note. But I’m never buying a car from a Nazi. Clearly not alone.
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Wow. Looks like Elon Musk is on-track to win a $400,000,000 State Department contract for “Armored Tesla” in 2025.
The contract is from the “Office of Small and Disadvantaged Utilization.”
The contract is from the “Office of Small and Disadvantaged Utilization.”
February 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Wow. Looks like Elon Musk is on-track to win a $400,000,000 State Department contract for “Armored Tesla” in 2025.
The contract is from the “Office of Small and Disadvantaged Utilization.”
The contract is from the “Office of Small and Disadvantaged Utilization.”
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Who is the one fighting to keep the fraud and waste? Lemme check….
The state dept is paying $400,000,000 for TESLA armored vehicles which is filed under NAICS code:
311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
Concerning! 🇺🇸
Source: www.state.gov/procurement-...
The state dept is paying $400,000,000 for TESLA armored vehicles which is filed under NAICS code:
311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
Concerning! 🇺🇸
Source: www.state.gov/procurement-...
February 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Who is the one fighting to keep the fraud and waste? Lemme check….
The state dept is paying $400,000,000 for TESLA armored vehicles which is filed under NAICS code:
311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
Concerning! 🇺🇸
Source: www.state.gov/procurement-...
The state dept is paying $400,000,000 for TESLA armored vehicles which is filed under NAICS code:
311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
Concerning! 🇺🇸
Source: www.state.gov/procurement-...
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Amid Musk’s DOGE ‘cost cutting spree’ BS, the State Department may buy $400M worth of armored Teslas.
The procurement data includes one line item for “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” for fiscal year 2025 with a contract length of five years.
The procurement data includes one line item for “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” for fiscal year 2025 with a contract length of five years.
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Amid Musk’s DOGE ‘cost cutting spree’ BS, the State Department may buy $400M worth of armored Teslas.
The procurement data includes one line item for “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” for fiscal year 2025 with a contract length of five years.
The procurement data includes one line item for “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” for fiscal year 2025 with a contract length of five years.
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📌I was gobsmacked Monday when one of my white “friends” on Facebook started an openly racist thread complaining about the Super Bowl’s halftime show.
📌At one point she raged, “THERE WERE NO WHITE PEOPLE IN THE SHOW!”
📌To which I responded: “So inclusion really does matter to you.”
-My latest ...
📌At one point she raged, “THERE WERE NO WHITE PEOPLE IN THE SHOW!”
📌To which I responded: “So inclusion really does matter to you.”
-My latest ...
WHITE FRIGHT
We cannot back down to the America-attacking bigot, who only seeks to divide us ...
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February 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
📌I was gobsmacked Monday when one of my white “friends” on Facebook started an openly racist thread complaining about the Super Bowl’s halftime show.
📌At one point she raged, “THERE WERE NO WHITE PEOPLE IN THE SHOW!”
📌To which I responded: “So inclusion really does matter to you.”
-My latest ...
📌At one point she raged, “THERE WERE NO WHITE PEOPLE IN THE SHOW!”
📌To which I responded: “So inclusion really does matter to you.”
-My latest ...
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Nearly all the career officials who attended the Justice Department’s daily session for years — including during the first Trump administration — have been removed from their positions, gutting much of the expertise usually there to brief the attorney general, FBI director and top deputies.
Justice, FBI ousters remove longtime experts from daily threats meeting
Trump administration shake-ups at the Justice Department and FBI have eroded continuity on national security matters, people familiar with the situation said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nearly all the career officials who attended the Justice Department’s daily session for years — including during the first Trump administration — have been removed from their positions, gutting much of the expertise usually there to brief the attorney general, FBI director and top deputies.
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Courts Start to Impede Momentum of Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Government
A mounting wave of lawsuits and court orders is slowing a dizzying effort to tear apart basic structures of the administrative state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
A mounting wave of lawsuits and court orders is slowing a dizzying effort to tear apart basic structures of the administrative state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
Courts Start to Impede Momentum of Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Government
A mounting wave of lawsuits and court orders is slowing a dizzying effort to tear apart basic structures of the administrative state.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Courts Start to Impede Momentum of Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Government
A mounting wave of lawsuits and court orders is slowing a dizzying effort to tear apart basic structures of the administrative state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
A mounting wave of lawsuits and court orders is slowing a dizzying effort to tear apart basic structures of the administrative state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
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NEW: The loophole allows buyers of tax-subsidized low-income housing to raise rents on new and existing tenants far sooner than the law typically requires.
Some 115,000 apartments in the U.S. have lost rent restrictions as a result, per one estimate.
Some 115,000 apartments in the U.S. have lost rent restrictions as a result, per one estimate.
The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents on 115,000 apartments. Congress has repeatedly failed to act.
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February 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: The loophole allows buyers of tax-subsidized low-income housing to raise rents on new and existing tenants far sooner than the law typically requires.
Some 115,000 apartments in the U.S. have lost rent restrictions as a result, per one estimate.
Some 115,000 apartments in the U.S. have lost rent restrictions as a result, per one estimate.
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“To sort of sit back and say “Well, the Republicans are gonna burn it all down. So we’ll count on, two years from now, getting the House back and picking up seats, and maybe then we can put forward an alternative plan.” We don’t have two years.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...
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Stephanie Kelton on the Disastrous Republican Economic Agenda
"We don't have two years. You won't be able to pick up the pieces."
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February 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“To sort of sit back and say “Well, the Republicans are gonna burn it all down. So we’ll count on, two years from now, getting the House back and picking up seats, and maybe then we can put forward an alternative plan.” We don’t have two years.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...
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This episode is sooooo smart. Thank you @volts.wtf and @chrishayes1.bsky.social for this really deeply insightful discussion about the attention economy and the way it intersects with our selves, politics, & search for recognition. Love the idea of our need for friction & focus.
Chris Hayes on the attention economy
Podcast Episode · Volts · 01/29/2025 · 1h 10m
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February 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This episode is sooooo smart. Thank you @volts.wtf and @chrishayes1.bsky.social for this really deeply insightful discussion about the attention economy and the way it intersects with our selves, politics, & search for recognition. Love the idea of our need for friction & focus.
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📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.
📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad
The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.
www.msnbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.
📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
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🧵 THREAD
So a number of America’s 93 U.S. Attorneys — top federal prosecutors in districts around the country — have been notified they are being terminated.
In Trump 1.0, then-AG Jeff Sessions asked Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys to resign.
In Trump 2.0, terminations are coming from White House.
So a number of America’s 93 U.S. Attorneys — top federal prosecutors in districts around the country — have been notified they are being terminated.
In Trump 1.0, then-AG Jeff Sessions asked Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys to resign.
In Trump 2.0, terminations are coming from White House.
February 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🧵 THREAD
So a number of America’s 93 U.S. Attorneys — top federal prosecutors in districts around the country — have been notified they are being terminated.
In Trump 1.0, then-AG Jeff Sessions asked Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys to resign.
In Trump 2.0, terminations are coming from White House.
So a number of America’s 93 U.S. Attorneys — top federal prosecutors in districts around the country — have been notified they are being terminated.
In Trump 1.0, then-AG Jeff Sessions asked Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys to resign.
In Trump 2.0, terminations are coming from White House.
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This is a comprehensive (and very bleak) summary of the current state of US science
Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...
US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World
US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences
physicsworld.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is a comprehensive (and very bleak) summary of the current state of US science
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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings
Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.
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February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
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This could have been an opportunity for Democrats to show they’re willing to gun up the works in retaliation for… everything… but that’s not how things are going to go
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This could have been an opportunity for Democrats to show they’re willing to gun up the works in retaliation for… everything… but that’s not how things are going to go
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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New: Mention of Tesla removed from $400 million State Dept. contract amid scrutiny of Musk, changed to “Armored Electric Vehicles”
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Tesla Removed From $400M Federal Contract Amid Musk Scrutiny
The State Department updated its 2025 procurement forecast after the line item was publicly questioned about potential conflict of interest.
time.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New: Mention of Tesla removed from $400 million State Dept. contract amid scrutiny of Musk, changed to “Armored Electric Vehicles”
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