Do you ever think about the great things America could do if we focused our energy on common good rather than corporate greed?
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Do you ever think about the great things America could do if we focused our energy on common good rather than corporate greed?
"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Thank you, Senator Booker—eager to see more of this fight from you and your colleagues!
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
May we never lose sight that our rage is rooted in compassion and a desire for justice.
Celebrating the end of due process for others is celebrating the end of due process for yourself.
Tread carefully.
Wild that Cyber Trucks are trash, SpaceX rockets are exploding all over, and X is a broken shit heap. Wonder if there’s anything in common.
Hey Democratic Party,
You ain’t raising money until you start raising hell.
Sincerely,
A Huge Portion of Your Supporters
Lying, then lying about their lying lies. Pathetic.
“These are not savings,” said Lisa Shea Mundt, whose firm, The Pulse of GovCon, tracks federal spending. “The money’s been spent. Period. Point blank.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Mass firings, shutting down critical services, blowing up our alliances, crashing the markets, encouraging inflation...
These aren't the actions of a political party aspiring to get reelected.
These are the actions of an authoritarian regime that does not intend to honor elections ever again.
The entire town has come out to protest JD Vance and reports indicate he’s been either run out or forced to go into hiding. #3E #EndImpunity #StandWithUkraine
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing."
~ Hermann Hesse
this week's cover is on point
ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social
Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
It's astounding how he finds time to run Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and Doge, fill his body with drugs, be a deadbeat dad AND post nonstop. Probably the drugs.
Everyone, please read this thread and share.
Musk is closing down Social Security offices and it is not being reported.
You have to go to the DOGE website to find it.
Here are all the details:
www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
America, if you want to continue living in the Land of the Free, you’d better start acting like the Home of the Brave.
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
