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MAGA’s Born Losers Shameful joy is still joy, right?

MAGA’s Born Losers
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I asked for a translation and I was not disappointed

Donald Trump Is Delusional His latest interview puts to rest the longstanding question of whether he's knowingly lying or detached from reality.

Donald Trump Is Delusional
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/2 So Elon’s claim of treason necessarily means that (1) levying war against Russia (by being invaded) is the same as levying war against the United States, or (2) Ukraine is America’s enemy.

Or it could be that he’s a persistently ignorant amoral shit-talker.

So, Twitter was down while Tesla stock is in a freefall.

My guess: Musk stripping the servers for copper to sell.

Fucking shameful United States. Shameful. You too Israel. Shameful.👇

Just a reminder that what he's talking about is the private information about every American and business, and there are laws against this access. "Transform the way the government works" by doing what? Targeting opponents? Microtargeting political ads so Republicans never lose?

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

The measles outbreak in Texas is the worst in thirty years, and it’s a DIRECT result of declining vaccine rates thanks to RFK Jr.

Disinformation is eroding public health.

In 2023, measles cases were 20% higher than in 2022. In 2022 they were 18% higher than in 2021.

See the pattern?

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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

Trump’s slam of Zelensky is a remarkable moment in US foreign policy | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has now fully adopted Russia’s false propaganda on Ukraine, turning against a sovereign democracy that was invaded in favor of the invader.

“President Donald Trump has now fully adopted Russia’s false propaganda on Ukraine, turning against a sovereign democracy that was invaded in favor of the invader.” By Stephen Collinson @cnn.com

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Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...

"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"

Tom Homan asks “where is that line,” as if it is mysterious or unknowable. It’s not. Tom’s saying it that way because he’s too much of a coward just to say “she should be arrested for telling people their rights.” Also, to be fair, he may be too dim to understand the line.

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights.

Happening right now. Right in front of us.

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are *trying* to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

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...

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Here we go: The Acting Solicitor General has asked #SCOTUS to immediately freeze (and vacate) the district court order that had temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel:

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I’ll have *much* more on this in tomorrow’s “One First.”

Again, "We're going to take 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱" really should have ended it. But then, "we're going to blow up the transatlantic alliance" really should have ended it. But then, "we're going to unplug large chunks of the government" really should have ended it." Etc. Etc. What exactly are folks waiting for?

Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

The headline doesn't do the article justice.

Trump's admin is arguing that anything like Black Student Associations, Black History Month events, programs to retain minorities, etc are illegal and worthy of defunding the school.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

DOGE Mismanagement Principles Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing

DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

Kliger has reposted comments from white supremacist Fuentes, who has at times been banned from social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for hate speech. Kliger shared a December 4 post from Fuentes' X account. Kliger has since unshared the post, but Reuters examined a copy of the original repost via the Internet Archive. In the post on X, Fuentes mocks a post praising a photo of an apparently white couple pictured with two light-skinned children and a dark-skinned baby. In his post Fuentes referred to "adopted Black kids", denigrating the apparent interracial adoption. He also used the word "huzz", a pejorative term for women. Reuters could not immediately establish the identity or ethnicity of the people depicted. Fuentes did not respond to a request for comment on the post by email.

Important to note that the DOGE employee seeking access to your banking data is not the one that resigned, and then returned, because of his racist messaging. It's another one. www.reuters.com/world/us/sta...

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong.

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The National Park Service's Loss is Our Loss Late yesterday afternoon my social media feeds lit up with announcements from friends and others that they had been laid off by the federal government.

"The National Park Service's Loss is Our Loss" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-nation...

The Mad King: Trump, the Tech Barons, and the Murder of Liberal Democracy We're standing in the crossroads of something very large and very dangerous.

Trump is a clown. A figurehead puppet controlled by oligarchs as they attempt to seize power and finalize a new society in which they transcend liberal democracy and claim total control.

It’s time we understood that reality and fought back accordingly.

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JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

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Kansas' Moran, Davids sound alarm on delay of USAID food aid to starving people worldwide • Kansas Reflector Kansas' congressional delegation — Moran, Davids, Marshall — share diverse views on potential demolition of U.S. Agency for International Development.

It's a start. We need more of them to stand up.

Call his office. Thank him. Tell him to do the same for other agencies illegally and unconstitutionally targeted by Musk.

Kansas’ Moran, Davids sound alarm on delay of USAID food aid to starving people worldwide kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/k...