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Michael Waltz’s Venmo Is Public, and It’s Full of Journalists The figure who tagged a journalist into a Signal chat about the attack on Yemen also failed to set his Venmo to private, revealing his willingness to engage with reporters of all political stripes.

Writers at SNL super sad because this was going to be their skit. prospect.org/politics/202...

It gets worse.

This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

love this @rokhanna.bsky.social

We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos

Please share off line as well !!!

Please do something… anything to stop or at least slow down this fascist takeover. The shame of their actions is a stain on us all.

@raskin.house.gov: "In that network of rightwing billionaire libertarian-turned-authoritarians, they are very open about the fact that they think democracy is obsolete, we're living in a post-Constitutional America, and they are trying to get everyone ready for a technostate monarchy."

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman We're Having A Coup: How Are You?

Hey folks:

For those who've asked -- I've posted the conversation that Heather Cox Richardson and I had yesterday on Instagram on my YouTube channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQ7...

Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada?

Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?

Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.

A Wannabe Authoritarian Hard At Work We are living through the playbook

The things Trump is doing make perfect sense if you ignore the traditions of the American presidency and understand that Trump is a wannabe authoritarian.

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

🤷‍♀️ I have no other idea on how to break the spell of this cult

Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us.

I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."

Trump Wants to ‘End’ Sanctuary Cities. This Mayor Has a Different Idea. Denver’s Mike Johnston believes his approach to immigration, not Trump’s, is working. And he’s not planning to give in.

Making people afraid to get medical treatment or send their kids to school doesn't make society better or safer.

Extorting With Disaster: Why Stop At California? Nice hurricanes you got there, be a shame if you had to expand Medicaid to get help.

How about conditioning disaster aid for the next hurricane in Louisiana on repealing a law that requires all classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments?

Or, how about being responsible and not conditioning any disaster aid on anything?

FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday | CNN Politics The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who investigated January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as...

This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...

January 31, 2025 On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

The ones complaining about the “deep state” going deeper into fascist territory…color me surprised

Happening right in front of us

YouTube video by ABC News Sen. Michael Bennet grills RFK Jr. about past comments: "This is a job where it is life and death"

Senator. Michael. Bennet.

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The stupid…it is painful to view

Quite right. It’s not a he-gseth / she-gseth situation.

You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers

screenshot of "Executive Branch Deep State" list from Kash Patel Michael Atkinson Lloyd Austin Brian Auten James Baker Bill Barr John bolton Stephen Boyd Joe Biden John Brennan John Carlin Eric Ciaramella

Pat Cipollone James Clapper HIllary Clinton James Comey Elizabeth Dibble Mark Esper Alyssa Farah Evelyn Farkas Sarah Isgur Flores Merrick Garland Stephanie Grisham Kamala Karris Gina Haspel Fiona HIll Curtis Heide Robert Hur Cassidy Hutchinson Nina Jankowicz Lois Lerner Loretta Lynch Charles Kupperman Kenneth Mackenzie

Andrew McCbe Ryan McCarthy Mary McCord Denis McDonough Mark Milley Lisa Monaco Sally Moyer Robert Mueller Bruce and Nellie Ohr Lisa Page Pat Philbin John Podesta Samantha Power Bill Priestap Susan Rice Rod Rosenstein Peter Strzok Jake Sullivan

Michael Sussman Miles Taylor Timothy Thibault Andrew Weidssman Alexander Vindman Christopher Wray Sally Yates

@timmiller.bsky.social published Kash Patel's "Executive Branch Deep State" list, originally an appendix to his "Government Gangsters" book, and posted it on xitter.

50+ current and former officials who Patel intends to target.

I'm on it, for my 3 months of government service.

The hypocrisy is hilarious and sickening at the exact same time

A welcome development-- but what matters isn't what they say, it's what they do. And no one ever lost money betting on the cowardice of today's Republican Party.

You’ll Miss the Pax Americana When It’s Gone The post-Cold War international system has its flaws, but the alternative is worse.

"The United States is 'leader of the free world,' the linchpin of a network of voluntary alliances of democracies, whose combined military might dwarfs the rest."

You're gonna miss it when it's gone.

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on Pax Americana:

Today seems a good time to remember that Founding Father George Mason argued against giving the president sweeping pardon power.
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The lack of self-awareness is almost impressive.