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@peterm120.bsky.social

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Asked my smart economist friend about how #TrumpTariffs help Americans or even the rich, because I couldn't see it, and he said, "It doesn't. He's destroying stuff. It doesn't benefit anyone...except our enemies."

02.04.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8999    πŸ” 2232    πŸ’¬ 329    πŸ“Œ 90
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Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

Make like the South Koreans. And the Israelis.

Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.

April 5, everywhere:

handsoff2025.com

30.03.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6013    πŸ” 1766    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 92

Hegseth says women are a liability in combat. Gabbard says DEI puts lives at risk. Waltz warns DEI will destroy military readiness.

Then they all turn around and share classified war strategy in a Signal thread.

They don’t fear β€œlow standards.” They fear accountability.

26.03.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1059    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 9

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

07.03.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 32058    πŸ” 8393    πŸ’¬ 796    πŸ“Œ 508

Yea, when you put the show behind a paywall, no wonder you are loosing audience.

03.03.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

18.02.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 42480    πŸ” 11792    πŸ’¬ 1978    πŸ“Œ 921

In America, we don’t pledge loyalty under threat of consequence.

06.02.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4380    πŸ” 401    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 10

President Trump is considering declaring a national β€œeconomic emergency” to justify implementing a series of universal tariffs and establishing the Department of Government Efficiency.

04.02.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4251    πŸ” 847    πŸ’¬ 256    πŸ“Œ 74
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If Trump wants to curb Medicare fraud, why did he free this fraudster from prison? Philip Esformes cost the federal government more than $1.3 billion.

I find it a tad ironic that Trump may let Elon Musk's dweeby minions root through Medicare payment systems, supposedly to root out fraud, when Trump himself granted clemency to perhaps the biggest Medicare crook in US history.

04.02.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism β€” ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

FDR 1938

01.02.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2270    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 30

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

01.02.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 28939    πŸ” 13158    πŸ’¬ 5955    πŸ“Œ 2743
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Absolute insanity. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

31.01.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3321    πŸ” 992    πŸ’¬ 398    πŸ“Œ 131

just start saying this plainly to more people

i'm serious.

31.01.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 14319    πŸ” 2298    πŸ’¬ 322    πŸ“Œ 50
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Only a Handful of Republicans in Congress Object to Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move o...

On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

21.01.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4805    πŸ” 2547    πŸ’¬ 219    πŸ“Œ 261
Trump: If you break the law for me, I will protect you
YouTube video by Mother Jones Trump: If you break the law for me, I will protect you

Our first "It Can Happen Here" video of the new era. Maybe we should rename it "I Told You So." Please give it a look and repost to share with others.

youtube.com/shorts/T4CCV...

22.01.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 423    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 10
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Sunday’s Zoom with @hcrichardson.bsky.social was full of wisdom on how to navigate 2025β€”focus on what you can control, find your people, and never stop learning. So, what’s your game plan to make it through the year?

22.01.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 781    πŸ” 247    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 20
Meet The American Oligarchy: Trump's Ultra-Rich Cabinet and Advisors
YouTube video by Mother Jones Meet The American Oligarchy: Trump's Ultra-Rich Cabinet and Advisors

@peter-berger.bsky.social just made the most important video you can watch today? this week? this year?

🚨STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH IT🚨

s/o to the rest of the production/reporting team too: @timothypmurphy.bsky.social @samveep.bsky.social @jamespwest.bsky.social

22.01.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
RepMikeCoLlins β€’ 54m
The Person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.

RepMikeCoLlins β€’ 54m The Person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.

Sitting Congressman calls for *deportation* of clergy member for daring to include in her sermon a plea for Trump to show mercy to immigrants.

Totally normal, well-adjusted human being stuff here. Truly.

21.01.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4632    πŸ” 1214    πŸ’¬ 281    πŸ“Œ 236

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