Joy Cusick

To the people that voted for him …

I blame you.

My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.

www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

This is a great piece.

Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don’t Criticize Trump, Don’t Interfere with Immigration Enforcement After weeks of confusing messaging on ICE raids, the mayor ordered his staff to stifle criticism of the feds and that he alone will make sure NYC doesn’t lose funding.

Let’s not re-elect this one, ‘kay?

We are not sheep. Get louder. Take action. Create a shadow cabinet. February 10, 2025

@rbhubbell.bsky.social says it’s time for the Dem MOC to implement a Shadow Cabinet. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been sounding the alarm to do this. Robert’s suggestions who should be on it are in his article. We can add to it. @repjasmine.bsky.social comes to mind. Let’s do this! 202-224-3121.

How to Channel Your Anger at Trump into Meaningful Action There are ways you can fight back right now

Read what Dan has to say. There are lots of ways to take action, find a way that works for you & tell 3 friends.

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Beautifully said and the perfect antidote to Trump's “flood the zone” strategy while Democrats are locked out of power in Washington. We can’t fix everything immediately. But that does not mean we should do nothing. The opposite is true: Let’s save what we can.”

From @rbhubbell.bsky.social this morning:

“Rebecca Solnit’s words were prophetic: “The fact that we can’t save everything doesn’t mean we can’t save anything” and “Everything we can save is worth saving.”

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL):

“We were denied access to the Treasury Bldg. We will enter because we need to provide oversight to Elon Musk and his team. We don't know what they are doing behind these closed doors.”

No one elected Elon, and our Congress Democrats are denied entry? Seriously?

Fight Against Elon Musk’s Government Takeover ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/02/25): Musk and his DOGE team of personal allies have also now gained access to classified material including high-security intelligence …

Love this app. Makes it so easy to call your reps. It dials for you & provides a script.

If you don’t know what to do but have to do something.

Do this.

It takes less than 3 minutes and it matters.

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This is from HCR @hcrichardson.bsky.social

It’s a #coup.

And it doesn’t help it we’re out here shouting into the void.

Mainstream media, newspapers & elected officials need to start calling it that.

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“The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.”

From @pkrugman.bsky.social

“Join MoveOn and Indivisible at a protest in front of the Treasury Building in DC TODAY, Feb 4 at 5pm EST. The protest is called “We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! If you live within driving distance of D.C. and can make it to the protest, every attendee matters!“

Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.

Feels like “we the people” need to hit the streets. The elected D’s seem frozen, our courts move too slow and history shows Hitler dismantled the German economy in 2 months-time isn’t on our side. With so much happening fast what/ where should we protest? Experts please offer actionable suggestions.

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.

Some felons flee the country. This one will run it: Trump Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

As usual, @hcrichardson.bsky.social put the power grab by Republicans in N.C. in historical perspective. Right now, it’s about Republicans trying to nullify the votes of 60,000 people.

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d

Leave it to the business reporters to understand exactly what is going on. Framed perfectly.

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

Here are the 6 MAGA extremists (and their public phone numbers) who have intro'd a bill to allow South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion.

If you haven't heard about SC H3537, it's because corporate media has ignored it. Here's how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

I ❤️ @simonwdc.bsky.social because we lol in the same places:“Goaded by Elon’s corrosive, lie-infused opposition to the bi-partisan House package… Trump undermined & weakened his own Speaker; had 38 R’s vote against him & kill his first must pass bill even before becoming President (LOLOLOL!!!!!!)”

Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk's Meddling Republicans removed funding for child cancer research from a new version of a bill to fund the government after Elon Musk torpedoed the previous deal.

'REPUBLICANS CUT CHILD CANCER RESEARCH FROM FUNDING BILL AFTER MUSK’S MEDDLING'

If there's just one headline to share far-and-wide today, it's this one.

Make sure everybody knows.
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It’s too bad we don’t have trending topics here yet (or do we?) because I’d gleefully put #PresidentMusk on full blast.

It is GLORIOUS that the #Felon has been demoted.

The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the Zoo The peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply

This bit from @pkrugman.bsky.social

The Musk Administration has canned the CR “Except none of the items Musk is complaining about are actually in the bill. No, Congress isn’t giving itself a 40 percent raise. No, the bill doesn’t fund a $3 billion stadium in DC.”

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