Wow. Confirming what Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) posted early this afternoon at
bsky.app/profile/muel...

this hits like a punch in the gut

This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government

Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.

Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

Salt Lake City showed up

NOLA rally!

#HandsOff

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

We wanted to reshare this with more details—please help spread the word! This is getting out of hand—they just can’t accept a loss.

A compilation of photos showing protests in nine different towns across Oregon. Salem, Portland, Grants Pass, La Grande, Roseburg, Corvallis, Tigard, Eugene, Hillsboro.

Oregonians showed up yesterday to send the powerful message to Trump that we are speaking up and pushing back. There's a long road ahead, but cracks are starting to form in their attack on America. Huge thanks to everyone who showed up to push the pendulum back to a better America.

I come from the tea party. What's happening now is much, much bigger than the tea party.

Nice graphic

How are things going politically for Republicans? Well, you currently have Rand Paul and Tim Kaine doing a joint appearance on Fox calling Trump’s tariffs insane.

This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.

Bar chart showing how Americans view President Donald Trump's recent pardons for people convicted of violent and nonviolent crimes during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

74% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats, disapprove of Trump's pardons for Jan. 6ers convicted of violent crimes. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Here we go.

Imagine if the entire DC media was reporting on Musk and Trump with the *ferocity* and *velocity* of WIRED these past three weeks.

IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.

As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up In the three weeks since President Trump took office and gave Elon Musk free rein inside the federal government, millions of calls have poured in to members of Congress, jamming the system.

"Calls are pouring in from constituents outraged about Mr. Trump’s unilateral moves and how he has allowed Mr. Musk to gain access to and begin dismantling critical parts of the federal bureaucracy, and demanding that members of Congress take a stand against them." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

“If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.” Barbara Jordan

“Delete” the CFPB & IRS. Abolish bank regulators. Gut Social Security and Medicare.

The Musk-Trump administration’s plots all boil down to the same thing: swindle working people, funnel money to the ultra-rich.

*endorsed

New York Attorney General Letitia James posted on X, stating, “This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they’ve obtained.”

Playbook used at USAID (other agencies, take note)

0. Use acting administrator to implement the strategy (developed externally) to fold the agency. Give him/her the language to email to agency employees.

1. Cut off all external communication by fiat (gag) and threaten any one who violates this

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.

Mass deportations + tariffs on largest trading partners + mass government layoffs = Making The Depression Great Again.