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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover WASHINGTON—Rebuking President Trump’s decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) staunchly vowed this week to continue falling down stairs in the face of an apparent fascist takeover. “I can no longer physically stand upright for a party that excuses a violent insurrection that targeted our Capitol,” the 82-year-old lawmaker said as he […]

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover
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Senator Murphy lays out exactly what is on the line.

"  There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, poor kids, poor families, Medicare, seniors in this country."

Hands Off Our Medicaid!

I’m reading about the fall of the Roman Empire. The self-dealing, the faux populism that was really all about self, the appeal of amoral rulers who pettily ridiculed opponents personally, but were liked because they were “funny” [Caligula] all mirror current Trump America. It is frightening.

Raffensperger Asks Federal Government for Help Suppressing Voters Read more.

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.

I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

i’m sorry but this guy is the most try hard pick me i’ve ever seen.

Elon Musk, that avatar or arrogance, is trashing the US Constitution. Trumpers, is this what you voted for? An end to America?

Kash Patel took the 5th before agreeing to testify before a grand jury.

Now he doesn’t want to share his testimony about Trump's unlawful retention of classified documents.

@booker.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, and I sent a letter demanding that he disclose what he said. It is essential.

Definitely nothing to see here 🫣
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WSJ outs a key Musk DOGE staffer helping lead the assault on the federal government as a racist who wanted to repeal the Civil Rights Act, backed eugenics, and opposed race-mixing.

Not great!

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Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.

Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "On Jan 6 2021, Republicans essentially decided that they'd given up on democracy... Most Republicans are very consciously looking the other way as Trump & Musk seize control of the government because they absolutely see it as a mechanism by which they can crush dissent."

Here @mcuban.bsky.social points out the hypocrisy of Musk shrouding his “transparency” crusade in secrecy — including a likely plan to load our data into his MEMPHIS-based supercomputer👇🏽

Calling it a “cost-cutting effort” helps cover it up. It’s an ideologically-driven power grab.

If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.

A message of encouragement from @aoc.bsky.social from those feeling despair (as Musk tramples the 🇺🇸 government): “We outnumber them — authoritarians are like the Wizard of Oz, they rely on their PERCEIVED power, not their actual power. You can resist.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFqgcQb...

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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🇺🇸 WATCH: Author of ‘Autocracy Inc’ @anneapplebaum.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social why Musk & Trump destroying USAID is self-defeating and helps anti-democracy dictatorships like Russia & China

Full @thebulwark.bsky.social podcast: www.threads.net/@thetnholler...

A Republican congressman just introduced a bill to abolish OSHA and get rid of federal safety protections for workers.

Remind me— wasn’t it Republicans who claimed that they were the party of the working class?

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary:

"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."

BOOM!

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