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“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.

House Democrats have just introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act.

What will H.R. 1101 do?

Stop the extremists from stealing your name, address, birthdate, Social Security number and bank account information from the Treasury Department.

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Pete Hegseth says "No one will attempt to be more transparent with the American people" than himself.

30 seconds later, the Defense Department stops streaming when audience members start asking him questions.

Recap:

One side wanted statehood for Palestine.

The other side didn't recognize Palestine or Palestinians. They wanted them gone. To steal their land and turn it into a riviera for their rich friends. To make the Palestinians refugees forever.

Guess which side the pro-Palestine crowd voted for?

There is already evidence, just a day after the hearing, calling into question representations by the government’s lawyers that DOGE access at Treasury was “read only” and that the point was merely to conduct an “audit.” These bozos left an electronic trail of their intent.
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Community health centers are closing amid funding confusion Community health centers are facing a potential federal freeze on their grants and funding following orders from Trump.

Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze.

We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.

Susan Collins, who can be counted on for saying she's "very disappointed," says she will vote for Tulsi Gabbard.

Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.

This. Make it hard for the Republicans to destroy the country.

My God, I feel this post as much as any I have read in the last month

House Oversight Republicans spent two years subpoenaing and deposing every person who ever had a cup of coffee with Hunter Biden over the last 20 years, but now oppose a subpoena to hear from the person really running the government who hasn’t even had a confirmation hearing.

Greatest security breach in American history. Foreign hostile powers could start looting the Treasury, steal our money, cripple the country.

Trump has now backed off imposing tariffs on both Canada and Mexico.

He played chicken and lost, twice.

His credibility on threatening tariffs - his much bragged about super-leverage - is now in shreds.

If only they could. Think.

Extremely important read this morning (HCR's post last night): bsky.app/profile/hcri...

The word for this is "coup."

Or even midterms next year.

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say (Gift Article) A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Somehow we got to the point where millions of American Republicans love Vladimir Putin and hate Canada.

The “free speech / anti-cancel culture” party now literally firing people for thoughtcrime

USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.”
THIS HAS TO STOP.

This is great news! Keep up the fight! A lot of these EOs are illegal, and need to be beaten in court.

So the world's richest man spends a fortune backing Trump and is given the go-ahead to...

-Run an "efficiency" agency despite having billions in govt contracts

-Replace civil servants with his own cronies

-Gain access to sensitive Treasury payment systems

See the problem?

If they were doing this to a single bank they would be immediately arrested but the Treasury of the entire United States doesn’t even have a guard at the door?

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

On the whole I’d rather have Hunter Biden messing with a laptop than Elon messing with the Treasury Dept’s computers

February 1, 2025 Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...

February 1, 2025