Natasha

Hillary Clinton says "you gotta be kidding me" about Trump officials texting war plans

we live in a simulation

As an alum of the Justice Department unit that reviews EOs for form & legality--the Office of Legal Counsel--I've been watching the EOs & memoranda as they came out. What struck me most is the centralization of control and access. Things are happening so quickly that many haven't realized it yet.1/x

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

This story is fucking bonkers

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.

Meanwhile:

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Find all the things NOAA does in your neck of the woods by visiting this page: www.noaa.gov/legislative-...

In Oklahoma, the list is quite long! www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Not as long in West Virginia, but there’s probably more than you think! www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

There Are No Faces The White House releases bondage porn.

I wrote about the White House's bondage porn video. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/tingles

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

Free speech baby

Just saying—we will always call it Denali.

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

Because, of course they are 😑

I don’t have enough words to fully describe the level of hatred I feel for Nancy Mace.

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Tina Smith: "I'm sitting here and I'm thinking about what's happening at the US Treasury tonight, and it seems to be entirely possible that he's trying to distract us all from the ransacking of the Treasury Department's federal payment system that is going on right now under the thumb of Elon Musk."

Too many people didn't appreciate just how wonderful, how glorious, it was that the daily news cycle during Biden's presidency was boring as fuck.

Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...

Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Has "Read-Write" Access to Fedaral Payment System

Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

For people asking for non-meta options I’ll be posting clips tomorrow

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

Today I’m feeling… frustrated with every historian and political scientist who spent years pooh-poohing the possibility of American authoritarianism, & all the hack editors & journos who regurgitated their “center will always hold” baloney.

I like PBS, I just think no one knows what to do besides act like everything is normal and it's a problem

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️