Anna Tambour

A Second Gilded Age Tariffs and favoritism are signs of a poisoned political era.

In the Gilded Age, tariffs fueled lobbying, favoritism, and graft in the federal government. Let’s not go back to that.

As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: "Wear pink."

That is our strength. It’s only this that can break a regime based on causing pain for the sake of it. The cruelty about passports is so retro, it’s Berlin wall stuff. With empathy and love—and the altruistic courage necessary for nothing less than mutiny against this lawless coup, will we win.

The legal route is the Maginot Line for Trump's traitorous government.

Makes Watergate into a day-late library return.

Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday,’ Trump says ahead of Vance-Zelensky meeting | CNN US President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine “may be Russian someday,” throwing into question the future independence of a sovereign country that, with Western backing, has defended itself against...

Trump commits US troops to Ukraine, to serve alongside North Koreans.
"We must contain the threat of democracy," he said, while Russian state media laughed.
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Even the nanas need a break.

Impeach Musk

He’s gone full commie chairman.

Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.

He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.

First they came for anyone who tried to stop them.

As a script, it’s all too unbelievable.

Trump called other countries “shithole” but now that he’s purging everyone who isn’t an asswipe, what is he making?

We’re Living in a New Age of Robber Barons | Dame Magazine There is a huge chasm between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of us. In 2024, it came out that Jeff Bezos makes roughly $7.9 million an hour—more than three times as much as a typical college gr...

This is one goal that Musk and others have for the U.S. government today. They want to carve off parts of the federal government and either privatize their functions and seize them for themselves, or simply destroy them. www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/05/w...

Fighting the Putsch Democrats need to throw every possible wrench into the plans of Trump, Musk, and their GOP cultists in Congress

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But Hillary’s emails.

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

A 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez who has admin privileges on Treasury dept systems that control about 95% of payments made by the gov, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and contract payments "has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system"

Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day.

This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.

Lame duck Trump's plan is to smash, grab, and bypass everything and everyone except for Musk who's rented him for a while, and Putin, who owns him--the Constitution, of course. But also all laws, and Congress. Eventually, Congress might get peeved as it shows how craven his party is.

They’ve also erased guidance on pharmacies’ obligation not to discriminate against patients seeking reproductive health care.

Breaking: Trump is Scrubbing HIPAA Info off HHS Website The White House is deleting information on reproductive health privacy and discrimination at pharmacies

At the newsletter right now:

The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.

'Plainly illegal': Donald Trump's firing of watchdogs at US government agencies criticised Trump's latest move could clear the way to replace independent watchdogs with loyalists.

Reminder. A hot dog has as much legal authority as Musk. A dead dog has as much legal stature as Trump's firings. tinyurl.com/2jcxwxmn

Talk about Aliens! This is to script, every alien invasion flick.

Trump and Musk are Xi's New Year's present worthy of the Year of the Snake.

Career law enforcers are going to have to make choices.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

So reassuring that the Pétain Press is happy. CJR has become Pravda.
“We’re a no-bullshit operation and we’re focused on the mission,” Cheung told CJR last week. “The press who have worked with us in the last two years understand that, and so they are better prepared to work with us.”