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The entire crew of paid, coordinated right-wing influencers all blasted out this pre-planned lie in unison last night. Rinse, repeat. I guess they think when people don’t have tax free tips/overtime in their paychecks, they might not notice. Good luck with that after you hype it.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

March 14 th is STRIKE day.

Musk’s Fraudulent Fraud Squad A tired trope gets a new lease of life

New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
Musk and Trump are modernizing the fraud trope, using it in new ways:
*Targeting core programs in unprecedented ways
*Undermining the government’s capacity to address fraud
*Providing a veil of legitimacy for state capture 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

JUST IN: USAID funding recipients have until 1pm to respond to the Trump administration's emergency appeal of the order to unfreeze spending.

The panel is:
-Pillard (Obama)
-Pan (Biden)
-Garcia (Biden)

When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.

UPDATE: Federal court issues injunction against DOGE based on Popular Information report On February 3, a joint report by Popular Information and Musk Watch broke the news that several Elon Musk associates working for the U.S.

UPDATE: Federal court issues injunction against DOGE based on Popular Information report: On February 3, a joint report by Popular Information and Musk Watch broke the news that several Elon Musk associates working for the U.S.

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

'Fascism Came to Idaho—and Hundreds of People Just Sat and Watched'

FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-ca...

I don’t really understand why all the supposed 2028 front runners like Shapiro & Whitmer are so shamefully silent & invisible, but Pritzker gets it & is running circles around them

What changes? This week, POTUS expressed reservations to some lawmakers about potential cuts to Medicaid, which while not specified in the budget, are expected given that the document calls for the Energy and Commerce Committee to identify more than $800 billion in reductions. While Speaker Mike Johnson has argued that those cuts would come from program “fraud,” many are skeptical the party can reach those kinds of savings without impacting constituents. View from one Trump ally: “He absolutely is depending on [the resolution] to change in the Senate,” one GOP lawmaker told me last night of Trump. “He does not want to cut Medicaid.” What changes? This week, POTUS expressed reservations to some lawmakers about potential cuts to Medicaid, which while not specified in the budget, are expected given that the document calls for the Energy and Commerce Committee to identify more than $800 billion in reductions. While Speaker Mike Johnson has argued that those cuts would come from program “fraud,” many are skeptical the party can reach those kinds of savings without impacting constituents. View from one Trump ally: “He absolutely is depending on [the resolution] to change in the Senate,” one GOP lawmaker told me last night of Trump. “He does not want to cut Medicaid.”

This is why I'm hammering the Big Medicaid Lie. Even some Republicans are pretending not to get it. And the press is reporting it credulously.

Trump wants to cut $900 billion from Medicaid and say he didn't do it. The millions uninsured were just gaming the system!

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Exclusive | A New Spy Unit Is Leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West The Department of Special Tasks has brought together veterans of the Kremlin’s most daring clandestine operations to carry out assassination attempts and sabotage overseas.

Exclusive: Russia’s spy services have a shadowy new unit taking aim at the West with covert attacks across Europe and elsewhere.

underrated how much the DOGE groyper dipshits are exposing everyone to regular-ass criminals all over the world. the potential for theft is practically limitless

Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.

Bronze star veteran, former clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts - Hagan Scotten - refuses corrupt DOJ order to dismiss Eric Adams case and resigns in honor.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Free speech 'in retreat' in Europe says JD Vance The U.S. vice president was critical of European policies during his address to the Munich Security Conference

JD Vance used his address to the Munich Security Conference to slam Europe's commitment to democracy as he said the U.S. was most worried about the "threat from within" the continent.

Full details: www.newsweek.com/free-speech-...

If you want to know what Posobiec, who the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE invited on a foreign trip, is about, read this from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/jack-posob...

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New filing: "NY v. Trump (federal grants/loans funding freeze II)"
Doc #121: USCA Judgment

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL69585994

Kash Patel Passes Senate Panel Vote Amid FBI Turmoil The vote moved Mr. Patel, a Trump loyalist, one step closer to leading the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.

Don’t do it!

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

They’re altering the deal, Mister Mayor. Pray they don’t alter it further.

Trump’s feared DOJ enforcer has a secret: He, too, investigated Jan. 6 The acting DOJ official behind a potential witch hunt against prosecutors and FBI agents who investigated the Capitol riot worked on Jan. 6 cases himself.

Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general:

"I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

NY machine dems haven’t had to actually fight or win for two decades.
They have functionally evolved into an island of flightless birds

this most cucked man I’ve seen on live tv since the oscars slap

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

Can’t we wrap the right wing media coverage in the cloak of conspiracy to get MAGA to notice how they are being manipulated?

we might get a bonus march situation soon enough

Even if this restarts the payments (which is doubtful), some of the damage done will be irreversible. And with the funding flowing again, will any organisation be able to plan around funding that can be cut off at one man's whim?

One for the map lovers