Finland just seems to get it right - education, housing. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

Endemic black faced sheathbill looking down on penguin masses on Heard Island

Sen. Peter Squelch (Black Faced Shealthbill party) addressing congress today. He is attempting to champion a resolution to sell penguin eggs in return for tariff renegotiation. So far, he’s received cold shoulders and some Senators who’ve even flipped the bird, in a typically polite Ice House.

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

Millions of people and so many amazing signs. #Handsoff2025

Former USAID employees are still stuck with their work devices Uncollected work phones and laptops leave sensitive information vulnerable.

New: Former USAID workers are stuck with their govt-issued laptops, phones + iPads, just waiting for return instructions. Those in DC who dropped their stuff off in person say laptops were placed in giant trash bins to be “destroyed.”

w/ @justcalma.bsky.social

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Amid mass NOAA firings, U.S. Sen. Murray delivers grim forecast: ‘Dark clouds coming’ - The Daily Chronicle Mark Baltzell had seen the writing on the wall, but that didn’t make losing his dream job easy. Baltzell knew that he might get swept up in the flurry of federal firings executed by the &hell...

From weather forecasts to disaster response, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does work that is absolutely foundational to our safety, economy, & everyday lives.

Trump & Elon's mass firings at NOAA are putting this work—and all of our lives and livelihoods—at risk.

How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his tariffs will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should welcome the pain.

Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his policies will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should welcome the pain, Scott Lincicome writes.

Telling the federal judiciary to “f*ck off” Will Trump defy the Supreme Court?

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Massive die-in in front of the New York Stock Exchange to protest the illegal cuts by DOGE and the Trump administration.

The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA.

Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people.

This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become.
It's targeted harassment.

USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.

When your mail is delayed, your medications arrive late, or your packages get lost—remember it’s because two billionaires decided to fire thousands of mail carriers and cut billions in essential funding for USPS for NO reason except to break government & enrich themselves.

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

We’ve got to keep our fight and our focus on Trump and Elon’s illegal and dangerous power grab.

For the sake of our country, we cannot stand down.

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Shawn works to support our veterans & their families in WA state.

Trump & Musk's funding freeze put his work on pause—cutting veterans off from lifesaving mental health resources. Now, the mass firings at VA are making it even harder for vets to get the care they were promised.

Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts

Black Lives Matter Plaza demolished in DC "You can dig up concrete but you cannot erase history," said one resident of the capital.

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Anonymous has entered the fight against fascism. They already took X down three times today. This should be fun to watch play out…

More of this! We all know this won’t pass but this is a line in the sand and a great talking point.

/cc @shasti.bsky.social

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” But WIRED has learned that some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure salaries from the agencies they’re dismantling.
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Trump and Elon are decimating the Social Security Administration, and without adequate staff, there will be people who can’t get their benefits—period.

An unaccountable billionaire is going after Social Security. Senate Democrats are fighting back.

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Trump and Musk are taking a wrecking ball to the U.S. government.

Their illegal, arbitrary, and mass federal worker cuts undermine essential services for the American people—right down to the most basic functions of government, to break it beyond repair.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.

Are you a current or former employee of the Social Security Administration with insight into what's going on there under DOGE?

I want to hear from you.

Using a non-work phone or computer, contact me securely using a personal device on Signal at DavidGilbert.01.

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February 16, 2025 The sixty-first Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy, took place from February 14 to February 16 this year.

Encouraging everyone with every fiber of my being to read this entire substack by @hcrichardson.bsky.social — it is, written in fact without doubt to be read in horror by those of us who believe in the principles and values of the United States of America. 1 of 2

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