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Republican civil war!

YouTube video by Robert Reich From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon. - @aaronparnas.bsky.social

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

People who read: dressy, classy, cultured. People who write (aka, me): frazzled, jammies, pens everywhere...

I own that.

Obviously not.

Big time. Tear each other apart and go away - both.

"That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy." - Robert Reich

#TaxBillionaires

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren We're in a housing crisis — and Donald Trump is making it worse.

We're in a housing crisis — and Donald Trump is making it worse by slashing housing programs and driving up costs with his reckless tariffs.

I’ve got a plan to build more homes, bring down rent, and cut unnecessary red tape because everyone deserves a place to call home.
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

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Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth is equally responsible and owns this. Your confirmation served as a stamp of approval and your judgment shouldn't be trusted. This goes for every failure of any official confirmed by the Senate.

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ “The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.

Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.

Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.

But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.

None of this is about waste and fraud.

Murray: "It is unlawful for a president to say 'I am going to decide where the money goes that Congress appropriated' ... you can't pass a law and then say, 'it doesn't apply to me.' That's what they are doing here."

Another day were terrible things happen and Democrats are not fighting.

CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon Musk wants to “delete” it.

The CFPB is the financial watchdog for the American people.

The agency has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.

Trump fired its director and put his treasury secretary, a Wall Street hedge fund manager, in charge.

Guess what happened next...

A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

Firing thousands of federal employees opens up the opportunity to create a workforce where the only criterion for being hired is your loyalty to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It's not about efficiency.

A photo of just words that say if you are national guard or active duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens and this is the number to the G.I. rights hotline. There is support and you don’t have to go through with it. TEL: 1– 877–4 47–44.

Back up support

front page of NYT today

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

Musk just got access to the entire payout database without proper security clearance. That includes SS numbers and includes Social Security files, his competitors, and the endless list of who the govt pays. He says he is looking for corrupt payments. I'd say he's looking for blackmail data.