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YouTube video by Inequality Media Civic Action Robert Reich Responds to RFK Jr

RFK Jr. criticized @rbreich.bsky.social at a press conference yesterday for saying that Trump is on the side of the oligarchs.

Maybe he needs a refresher on what oligarchy actually means.

Reminder: when Sean Duffy was a congressman, he and other Republicans voted against upgrading air traffic control systems.

Now, he’s trying to blame those systems for Newark airport’s outages – while claiming DOGE’s cuts of critical support staff at the FAA had nothing to do with it.

Hello?

Attorney General Pam Bondi says it's legal for Trump to accept a luxury jumbo jet from Qatar.

Here's the kicker: Just five years ago, Bondi earned $115,000 a month as a registered lobbyist for the government of Qatar.

Nothing to see here, folks!

I'm proud to support @BuffyWicks and the Fast Track Housing package!

If you're ready to reduce project timelines, cut costs, and get shovels in the ground faster, then add your name today as a community co-sponsor!

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📌 Russel Vought has a daughter with cystic fibrosis.

He is trying to destroy science and research 🔬

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

DOGE is a trojan horse for Elon Musk to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If he actually wanted to cut waste, he'd look at the massive tax loopholes, government contracts, and subsidies that benefit the wealthy and large corporations. The REAL Waste That Elon's DOGE Should Cut

Once again: The fundamental issue that DOGE is failing to address isn’t the size of the government or how “efficient” it is — but who our government is for.

Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952, the corporate share of federal tax revenue was 32%. In 2020, it was down to 7%. Here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people. Watch More: What's the Real American Story? ►► https://youtu.be/vvCtwDAQta0 For more videos like these, be sure to subscribe. If you'd like to support our work, you can do so here: www.inequalitymedia.org/donate Follow Robert Reich: Facebook: facebook.com/RBReich Twitter: twitter.com/RBReich Instagram: instagram.com/rbreich/ The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich

Never forget that Trump was the culmination of 40 years of stagnant wages, widening inequality, corruption, dog-whistle politics, and economic gains for the rich.

If we fail to address this, we should expect future Trumps as far as the eye can see.

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts.

NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms.

This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH

Here’s what we did today

NEWS: A federal judge issued a sweeping overnight block on Musk's DOGE team from accessing Treasury's payment system, warning of possible hacks or compromises. His order limits access only to officials w security clearances/training/need-to-know.
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Whole Foods says Trump’s actions make union win moot Amazon’s Whole Foods says Trump’s firings that paralyzed a federal labor regulator invalidate a union vote at a Philadelphia store.

By illegally neutering the National Labor Relations Board, Trump has enabled Jeff Bezos to ignore the union victory at Whole Foods in Philadelphia.

Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

LWVSF members book club When you buy from our Bookshop, part of your purchase will support LWVSF's voter engagement and democracy work. Thank you! Members are the heart of the League of Women Voters of San Francisco, and our...

If the League of Women Voters of San Francisco has my book at the top of their book club list, then obviously you have to read it too!

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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project President Musk

Your real president wasn’t even on the ballot last November. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXQ...

More Dangerous than Watergate It’s like every past constitutional crisis rolled into one.

"As it was fifty years ago, so it is today: The fact that the Constitution’s enemies now include the president of the United States does not relieve members of Congress of their responsibility to that oath."

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

What you can do Revised and expanded

In light of Trump II’s first 18 days of mayhem — including his and Musk’s coup against our system of government — many are asking: “What can I do now?”

Here’s a revised and expanded list, in rough order of importance.

YouTube video by Robert Reich Fighting Back Against Trump II | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Replacing civil servants with loyalists.

Upending the lives of millions who rely on federal programs.

Grotesquely blaming "DEI" for disaster.

Trump wants to consolidate power through divide-and-conquer tactics. We must stand together and fight back. youtu.be/wSYbNcjGjhA?...

USAid website offline as Trump moves to put agency under state department Move would threaten life-saving global humanitarian aid programs, from HIV/Aids treatments to clean water access

🚨TheUS Agency for International Development (USAID) website, has gone offline, as the Trump administration moves to put the free-standing agency, and its current $42.8 billion budget for global humanitarian operations, under the control of the State Department. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump’s expected purge of the FBI is far larger than many anticipated, Shane Harris reports—and it comes after Kash Patel assured senators that politically motivated firings would not take place at the agency Trump has tapped him to lead.

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Republicans want to sabotage America’s most important tax credit for workers | Opinion Katie Porter: “Single working parents ought to get the same tax credits. Yet, Republicans propose to remove even this modest boost.”

Republicans have proposed cutting the EITC. The result could be that a single parent earning $25,000 annually would have $2,000 less in the bank per year.

We need Congress to lower costs, rather than giving tax breaks to billionaires at the expense of families. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

While China is stealing our technology and actively undermining American industry, Trump is cracking down more than twice as hard on maple syrup and avocados from Canada and Mexico.

How does that make sense?

Trump signs order imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China American importers will pay a new 25-percent tax on goods from Canada and Mexico and a 10-percent levy on products from China.

Tariffs are an important strategic economic tool, but Trump’s desire for a trade war with Canada and Mexico won’t protect jobs, keep Americans safe, or bring down costs for families.

Trump makes his first moves on education, but no McMahon hearing in sight President Trump made his first major moves on education Wednesday, signing a series of executive orders that come even before his nominee to lead the Education Department, Linda McMahon, has had he…

President Trump is using his Project 2025 playbook to privatize education because he knows vouchers have repeatedly been a failure in Congress.

Trump calls for 'ending radical indoctrination in K-12' education and prioritizing school choice--what does it mean for Black students? Trump's order allocating funding for expanding school choice would diverting crucial funding away from already underfunded public schools.

Voucher programs leave out wide swaths of students, especially Black and brown students as well as those living in rural areas with no or limited access to private schools. https://thegrio.com/2025/01/29/trump-calls-for-ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-education-and-prioritizing-school-choice-…

Instead of stealing taxpayer money to fund private schools, we should focus on public schools—where 90% of children, and 95% of children with disabilities, in America, attend—not take desperately needed funds away from them.

We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...

Indivisible is holding an organizing call Sunday night from 8-9pm ET. I’ll be joining.

You can register here:

Wow — @timwalz backing @davidhogg.bsky.social for DNC chair, showing how you support generational change. www.mediaite.com/politics/tim...