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Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

Project 25—is mirroring Orbán’s successful takeover of Hungary’s democracy:

1. Purge disloyal employees.
2. Replace them with political allies.
3. Restructure agencies so they serve executive power instead of acting as independent institutions.
4. Move quickly to prevent organized resistance.

The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents on 115,000 apartments. Congress has repeatedly failed to act.

How Investors Exploit Housing Loophole to Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
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The fluoride action is ill-informed.

Fun way to spend your day.

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours.

More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

Germany’s protest against Nazis and the AfD ahead of the election.

“democracy needs you”.
(🎥Kilian Boedrich) #3E

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

Although widespread cuts are expected for much of the government's discretionary spending, the outlook for the National Science Foundation appears to be especially grim.

Ubuweb is restarting its archive to help “prevent the annihilation of the memory of the world” www.ubu.com

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Tell Microsoft To Stop Partnering With Israel's Genocide BREAKING: Microsoft is a core partner in Israel’s AI-powered massacres of Palestinians. Leaked documents published on Jan. 23, 2025, expose the deep partnership between Israel’s military operations a...

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We strongly urge you not to resign and recommend seeking legal counsel!

Musk and his team have hostilely taken over OPM. Tonight’s email to fed employees mirrors the “Fork in the Road” message sent to Twitter (now X) staff after Musk’s 2022 takeover. He is working with the Trump administration to build profiles on federal workers based on loyalty (political standing).

Give Dems a break y’all, their high priced consultants enjoyed their holidays in the Maldives and aren’t fully ready for focus groups yet.

Plus it’s not like the republicans gave them a roadmap or anything.

What you can do Ten ways to resist Trump II

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How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the…

A Nixon-era law forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements. Federal courts have also prevented presidents from refusing to spend money unless Congress grants them the flexibility.

Trump seeks to upend it all.

By @mtredden.bsky.social
(Published Nov. 2024)

Repost: fgrlsclub IG

A ROUGH ANATOMY IF A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CHARLATAN

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This poster is from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Download and spread this image. We have to recognize these signs before it's too late.

The Yurok Tribe is Restoring Prairie Lands in its Ancestral Territory, and Here are the Hows and the Whys

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What an interesting little prison we build from the invisible bricks of other people’s opinions.

Watch Trump a few months ago adamantly disavow Project 2025.

Now see how most of Trump’s first-day executive orders were torn from the pages of Project 2025: levernews.com/trumps-first...

Pass it on.

Smh

YouTube video by Democracy Now! "Have Mercy": Watch Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's Sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service

Threats are already being made to her for confronting the most fragile president in history.
#hero
#speakingtruthtopower
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UnitedHealth units ordered to collectively pay $165 million for misleading Massachusetts consumers Three UnitedHealth-owned insurance companies collectively must pay over $165 million for engaging in widespread deceptive conduct that misled thousands of consumers in Massachusetts into unknowingly buying supplemental health insurance, a state court judge has ruled.

The entire health insurance business model is built on scamming customers and denying the coverage they pay premiums for.

Health insurance is not healthcare.

It’s an unnecessary middleman that preys on the sick, and only exists because lobbyists pay off our politicians.