Lots of smiley half-eaten faces out there, pretending to be comfortable as they are dragged around by the leopards

Elbows Up

YouTube video by Universal Pictures Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?

for no particular reason

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Senate votes to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the lone Republican to vote against him.

gross
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Elon Musk calls for US government to 'delete entire agencies' Elon Musk called Thursday to "delete entire agencies" from the U.S. government as part of his push under President Donald Trump to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities.

Delete EM from our governance

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Her legislative time is up

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it....when a long train of abuses and usurpations....it is their duty to throw off such government....."

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February 10, 2025 As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding...

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USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency | CNN Politics The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agen...

NEW: Trump fired the USAID Inspector General just one day after the IG filed a report critical of Trump's dismantling of the agency. www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/p...

@aoc.bsky.social
Great partnership.
Add @raskin.house.gov

@govpritzker.illinois.gov , now do Trump the brand, and the entirety of EM's business holdings: Space X = Premature Discharge
Time for Alt-Govt
H/T @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Let's expand this and solicit stories from all whistleblowers. Immediately

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.

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CRINK: It’s the new ‘Axis of Evil’ An informal alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea is forcing NATO to tighten links with Indo-Pacific countries.

CRINK + EM = ???

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Federal judge partially blocks DOGE’s access to Treasury financial systems Two DOGE-linked workers can still have read-only access to Bureau of Fiscal Service systems, per the ruling.

Partial..... is....

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legislature an ineffectual body nearing ceremonial status. Time for unentrenched pro-democracy citizens to step up. We can form a consortium.

Many in Congress such as Susan Collins have acutely and irrevocably abdicated their responsibility to their constituency, the Constitution and this nation. They cower close to the terrorists in hopes of being afforded meager shelter. This is sheer cowardice and has rendered the

I urge @govpritzker.illinois.gov to expend and political capital you have in thinking outside the box in an effort to save our country.
@altnps.bsky.social
@govandybeshear.bsky.social
@governorwalz.mn.gov
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3/ It is time to bring all pro-democracy factions under the aegis of one leadership (such as, for example, the Dem Gov Assn), and if the suggestion sounds radical and far-fetched, so does the plot of a hostile takeover of our Treasury by a South African billionaire, yet here we are.

2/alarm fire and how we respond will reverberate forever. We need creative, resourceful substantive action that leverages all the power that remains and identifying novel alliances and options.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

Something needs to be done.
Someone needs to remove the terrorist in our midst.
In the meantime, @altnps.bsky.social as the basis for Alt government, funded by 2024 taxes. How we respond to this coup will reverberate forever
H/T @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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1/We are in an unprecedented moment, amidst a coup to which we are frenetically reacting lack whack-a-mole. We can no longer rely on our institutions, on conventional means to secure law and order as these have been coopted by terrorists, our Congress rendered largely ceremonial. This is a 10-

YouTube video by Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman - Talkin' About A Revolution (Official Music Video)

listen up
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We need a multinational movement. Across the globe large swathes of the populace are rejecting extremism. We must collectively resist and promote global democracy. In the antithesis of isolationism, we must merge and solidify international intent and defense of global democracy.

We will not be silent.
We will not back down.
We will not concede.
We do not consent.

We don't consent.
We don't consent to the hostile takeover of our government.
We don't consent to rule by unelected billionaire.
We DO NOT consent.

Thugs are attempting to take over key sectors in our government.

Now is the time to not only push back but to push them out.

Senior US Treasury official to exit after rift with Musk allies, report says David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

Purge all oversight?

www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...

The utter loathsomeness of the administration is nearly incomprehensible. The crass sociopathy of the leadership is staggering. The complicity of Congress is revolting. Time for a new guard.