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beyer.house.gov
Hegseth must resign or be fired. This is not a close call.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
CNN: Details shared by Hegseth in Signal chat were classified
March 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
the signal chat stuff is depraved in substance. but the bizarre novelty of the *chat* is helpfully deflating, stripping away the ceremony of state, power, and secrecy. this is how a lot of stuff works now! nymag.com/intelligence...
What's somewhat newer is the arrival of the group chat as a site of elite coordination. Once you start looking for it, though, you see it everywhere. Last year, in the New York Times, Sophie Haigney noted their frequent appearances in major news stories, including the Dominion lawsuits in which Fox News hosts talked election denial, the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. More recently, they've been implicated in Tulsi Gabbard's trans purge at the NSA (Gabbard was also a member of "Houthi PC small group"), the successful campaign to punish Columbia student protesters organized in part by influential group-chatting alums, and, more recently, Elon Musk's government-dismantling task force. According to The Wall Street Journal, an early staffer claimed, "Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, [I was asked] if I wanted to join. I said 'yes. Then he said 'cool' and I was in multiple Signal groups." Salesforce CEO Mare Benioff bragged in January that the "DOGE team is using Slack, which is very exciting." And there are faces craned over phones, gently illuminated, while thumbs tap away, hashing out the cases for and against a life-and-death bombing campaign, a situation room reduced to the size of a chat window. J.D. Vance making a J.D. Vance face at his screen as he types, tagging Pete Hegseth, "if you think we should do it let's go. I just hate bailing Europe out again." Pete Hegseth in phone-mantis posture considering how to respond before settling on "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC," then spamming everyone with official-sounding logs about OPSEC. Maybe between messages they yank their X feeds for a fresh batch of notifications, start crafting their next tweets, or Google their own names. At some point, their phones go back into their pockets. In a narrow but undeniable way, the government is a bunch of people in a group chat now, just like everything else.
March 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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bloomberg.com
Exclusive: House Republicans are moving to block Democrats from forcing a politically painful vote on Donald Trump’s tariffs as he ramps up the US trade war with Canada
House GOP Moves to Block Potential Challenges to Trump Tariffs
House Republicans will move Tuesday to block Democrats from forcing a painful vote on Donald Trump’s tariffs as the president amps up the US trade war with Canada.
www.bloomberg.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"The layoffs come in the middle of tax filing season. Former IRS officials warned that losing such a large number of employees could disrupt Americans’ ability to easily file taxes this year, even if the layoffs are not supposed to affect those deemed 'critical'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
I.R.S. to Begin Laying Off Roughly 6,000 Employees on Thursday
The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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waleedshahid.bsky.social
"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices
February 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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thefarce.org
Reminder: Anyone who enabled Trump's lies about his ties to Putin should take that shame to their grave
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
MUST WATCH: Fans at Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl gave Trump the warmest welcome… straight from the pits of hell. The boos were louder than the halftime show.
February 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem isn’t something I ever thought I’d see, but this is what happens when you let a psychopath criminal with isolationist and protectionist policies back into the White House.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
What a genius.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21
REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers?

TRUMP: Sure

REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon?

TRUMP: Well, I don't know
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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profgalloway.com
Likely conversation (speculation).

Putin (to Trump):

“We’re thinking about (aggressively) purchasing $10b of TrumpCoin this week.

Also, please cease arm shipments to Ukraine.”

Congress has been for sale a while. Now the world is for sale.
January 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Welcome to idiocracy.
January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
I'm sure all those rural and working-class Trump voters supported him because they crave cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, right?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Dec 5
FOX: “Nothing is sacrosanct. Everything is on the table, and that includes (cutting) Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security…”

As we have warned about over and over — And as they cut those programs, they will cut taxes for the rich (again). they don’t care about the debt.
December 6, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Oligarchy. Swamp. Legal corruption. Elite power. Rigged.
December 6, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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magatrigger.bsky.social
Religion does NOT belong in our schools!

Agreed? ✋
An illustration showing a metaphorical “large high wall” separating “Church” and “State.” On the side labeled “Church,” buildings resembling places of worship are captioned “Religion goes here.” On the side labeled “State,” there are government buildings and a public school labeled “Science goes here.” The top of the image displays the text “BUILD THIS WALL.”
December 1, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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docworldexplore.bsky.social
not a landslide
November 20, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.
November 15, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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nytimes.com
Plenty of presidents have been called dictators by their political opponents. But Donald Trump is the only one who has been publicly accused of being a fascist by his own former advisers.
Amid Talk of Fascism, Trump’s Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past
Plenty of presidents have been called dictators by their political opponents, but none until now has been publicly accused of being a “fascist” by his own handpicked advisers.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2024 at 10:55 PM