I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Lehigh County's $500 Million Pension Fund Halts Tesla Investments Today, Lehigh County took a step that no other U.S.

The first domino falls! Today Lehigh County, Pennsylvania became the first US pension fund to suspend new Tesla purchases in its actively managed funds 👏🍸🎉 #teslatakedown
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Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years.

Birdbrain of Alcatraz

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in Berkeley for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. Fuze claimed they were paid protesters and he went there to show his support for Musk and DOGE.

Aimonetti Justin Aimonetti, Justin W. Justin.W.Aimonetti@doge.eop.gov Altik Jacob Altik, Jacob R. Jacob.R.Altik@doge.eop.gov Armstrong Anthony Armstrong, Anthony J. Anthony.J.Armstrong@doge.eop.gov Balajadia Jennifer Balajadia, Jennifer Jennifer.Balajadia@doge.eop.gov Beynon Alexandra Beynon, Alexandra T. Alexandra.T.Beynon@doge.eop.govBiasini Riccardo Biasini, Riccardo N. Riccardo.N.Biasini@doge.eop.gov Bobba Akash Bobba, Akash N. Akash.N.Bobba@doge.eop.gov Boizelle Ashley Boizelle, Ashley S. Ashley.S.Boizelle@doge.eop.gov Bryant Emily Bryant, Emily L. Emily.L.Bryant@doge.eop.gov Burnham James Burnham, James James.Burnham@doge.eop.gov Coristine Edward Coristine, Edward H. Edward.H.Coristine@doge.eop.gov Davis Steven Davis, Steven M. Steven.M.Davis@doge.eop.gov Elez Marko Elez, Marko Marko.Elez@doge.eop.gov Farritor Luke Farritor, Luke E. Luke.E.Farritor@doge.eop.gov Fox Joshua Fox, Joshua Joshua.Fox@doge.eop.gov Hanley Joshua Hanley, Joshua A. Joshua.A.Hanley@doge.eop.gov Holmes Stephanie Holmes, Stephanie M. Stephanie.M.Holmes@doge.eop.gov Killian Gautier Killian, Gautier C. Gautier.C.Killian@doge.eop.gov Kmiec Keenan Kmiec, Keenan D. Keenan.D.Kmiec@doge.eop.gov Lahera Nicholas Lahera, Nicholas Nicholas.Lahera@doge.eop.gov Lindemann Kendall Lindemann, Kendall M. Kendall.M.Lindemann@doge.eop.gov Musk Elon Musk, Elon R. erm71@who.eop.gov Peters Noah Peters, Noah Noah.Peters@doge.eop.gov Rajpal Nikhil Rajpal, Nikhil Nikhil.Rajpal@doge.eop.gov Ramada Adam Ramada, Adam Adam.Ramada@doge.eop.gov Raynor Austin Raynor, Austin L. Austin.L.Raynor@doge.eop.gov Schutt Kyle Schutt, Kyle L. Kyle.L.Schutt@doge.eop.gov Shaotran Ethan Shaotran, Ethan Ethan.Shaotran@doge.eop.gov Smith Brad Smith, Brad M. Brad.M.Smith@doge.eop.gov Stanley Christopher Stanley, Christopher A. Christopher.Stanley@doge.eop.gov Wick Jordan Wick, Jordan K. Jordan.K.Wick@doge.eop.gov Wiles Susan Wiles, Susan S. Susan.S.Wiles@doge.eop.gov

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Emerging Outlines of an Executive Power Grab One month into the new administration, the typhoon of news stories about radical, often unprecedented, executive actions is dizzying. Daily, sometimes even hourly, we hear of new, aggressive actions posing fundamental challenges to our constitutional order each rivaling President Truman’s seizure of the steel industry or President Nixon’s sweeping impoundments of appropriated funds. Everyone can see that something dramatic is happening, but for many a clear picture of the new Administration’s plans may be elusive. This is an attempt to synthesize the Administration’s actions into six principles. The Administration will no doubt continue to elaborate on each of these, but the basic structure guiding this attempted revolution now seems fairly clear.

Very dark stuff from David Super. “Revolution” is, I think, the right word for what the reactionaries are trying to achieve. But I would name the target more directly: Reconstruction. Both the first and the second. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/02/emer...

If mercy offends you, you’re an a$shole.

People are helping animals in need as well

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare — Rolling Stone The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare.

The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations. apple.news/AovzGgCzhThS...

Dems & Media Can't Allow MAGA to Rewrite the History of J6 They are using the new DOJ report to mischaracterize what happened.

MAGA Republicans have been busy creating a false narrative around the new DOJ report on J6 in their never-ending quest to rewrite the history of what happened, while some in legacy media are busy enabling it. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

To much fanfare, Trump announced today that SoftBank was going to invest $50 billion in the US because they had confidence in Trump.

Except the two of them made the same announcement after Trump won in 2016.

And it never happened.

Playbook PM: A Jan. 6 insider on the transition team?

Pete Marocco, an ex-Trump official who was reportedly caught on camera inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, is now working with Trump's transition on national security personnel.

Marocco has been seen at the Florida HQ working on hiring — including for the State Dept. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

New York Times: Kennedy tenure at HHS would jeopardize public health, Nobel laureates say in letter to Senate | CNN Dozens of Nobel Prize winners are urging the US Senate to oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to a letter dated Monday and publi...

NEW: 75 Nobel Prize winners have urged the Senate to reject RFK Jr.’s nomination as HHS Secretry, warning it would jeopardize public health

The letter notes Kennedy’s “lack of credentials or relevant experience in medicine, science, public health or administration”
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Rep. Mark Alford: "It's gonna mean cuts to the 24 percent of the discretionary spending that we have. And it's also going to mean looking long term at the front end of some programs like Social Security and Medicare ... we can move the retirement age back a little bit."

Resistance HQ Bulletin 21, Weekend Edition … Trump said he will fire FBI Director Chris Wray because “when I was shot in the ear he said, ‘oh, maybe it was shrapnel.’” Wray still has 3 years left on his 10 year term.

Resistance HQ Bulletin 21, Weekend Edition 12/7-12/8/24. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Threatened With Jail, Liz Cheney Condemns Trump’s ‘Assault on the Rule of Law’ Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative, said President-elect Donald J. Trump “lied about” the bipartisan House committee that investigated his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

Threatened With Jail, Cheney Condemns Trump’s ‘Assault on the Rule of Law’

Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative, said President-elect Donald J. Trump “lied about” the bipartisan House committee that investigated his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

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This burn is epic. 🔥

Hi, I listened to this on my flight home this morning and I am not feeling great

Wired for the GOP This column, by Alexander Burns, the head of news at Politico, is a rich example of the DC logic that only Democrats have agency and it’s only to Democrats that standards, norms…

"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."

@elizjchurch.bsky.social 😘