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It is a cop out to say Americans can't analyze/describe authoritarianism at home because we aren't used to it/it hasn't happened here. If you ask any Black person who survived Jim Crow, this is not unforseeable. We've sanitzed and emptied Civil Rights history to get to this point of misrecognition.

Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal government Thousands of people worldwide protested Elon Musk and his efforts with Donald Trump to dismantle the US federal government on Saturday, with rallies held in front of nearly every Tesla showroom in the US and many around the world – a concerted effort to go after the billionaire’s deep pockets as the CEO of the electric vehicle maker. Protest organizers asked people to do three things: don’t buy a Tesla, sell off Tesla stock and join the “Tesla Takedown” movement. Continue reading...

Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk

Cowards.

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat? Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to ...

NEW: Who is *actually* running DOGE?

Insiders told us @propublica.org that the named administrator Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run the show.

The latest w/ @chrisbing.bsky.social + Avi Asher-Schapiro: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate.
 
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.

So now we are selling US citizenship for $5 million. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns | CNN Business The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

Trump’s closing message is a full blown hate campaign against black and brown people. Historians will look back in astonishment that this terrifying reality wasn’t the subject of wall to wall coverage and commentary in weeks leading up to this election. He’s not hiding anything.

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.

NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people.

By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Hey!!

DCA crash puts Trump's appalling unfitness on full display When crisis hits, he makes it worse.

at public notice, wrote about how trump rushed to gut the FAA, and how his only response to tragedy is hate. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-dca-...

Good lord

Tim Kaine: "Trump doing a hiring freeze and putting somebody in as the chief guy in OMB who says he wants to traumatize federal employees -- we don't need to traumatize air traffic controllers. We need to hire more, train more, continue to have standards of excellence."

Trump gutted the Aviation Safety Cmte!
Trump ousted the FAA admin!
The FAA admin was fired because Elon wanted him out!
One air traffic controller was doing the job of 2 people during the crash!
Trump ordered a hiring freeze!
Trump is supposed to be in charge-- why won't he accept responsibility?

Heeding Trump, Air Force won't teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.

The Air Force will stop teaching recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen after an order from Donald Trump.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black US military pilots and excelled in combat during World War II.

Trump Boys Take Turns Shouting ‘Penis’ At Inauguration

Trump Boys Take Turns Shouting ‘Penis’ At Inauguration

The TikTok ban (soon to be lifted) is a gift to Trump. It allows him to signal to businesses that he controls their on-off switch. That’s the message of dictators.

Trump hanging his supporters in DC out to dry in favor of an exclusive inauguration where only his inner circle and top donors can attend is the perfect metaphor for this administration and today’s GOP.

DOJ Sues Six Large Landlords in Effort to Stop Alleged Price-Fixing in Rental Markets Federal prosecutors allege that the landlords have used RealPage pricing software to collude and artificially raise rents. The legal action is the latest development stemming from a 2022 ProPublica…

RealPage’s software collects pricing information from multiple landlords and feeds it through an algorithm that then recommends an optimal rent level to landlords who use it — in violation of rules that prohibit collusion, DOJ prosecutors alleged.

By @heathervogell.bsky.social

Kinda funny, but not.

The New Republic is doing it right. Journalists take note

Huge gratitude for our neighbors, Mexico and Canada have sent fire fighters and army to help us.

Sums it up nicely.