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Veterans Group Wants to Make Elon the Supervillain of the Midterms
A new ad campaign from VoteVets goes after vulnerable House Republicans by turning the spotlight on DOGE.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/veterans-group-wants-to-make-elon-the-supervillain-of-midterms
"The #ads all feature the same roundtable of #veterans sharing their struggles after losing #employment because of #DOGE cuts...
it features #Musk throughout, incl the now infamous scene of him wielding a chainsaw on stage at #CPAC."
Protests outside the White House tonight..
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #protests
Michael West · Top 40 Tax Dodgers of 2023 - Michael WestFossil fuel giants and other foreign multinationals are again the biggest tax dodgers in Australia, topping the Top 40 Tax Dodgers charts.
"The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good."
- Heather Cox Richardson
One of the names at the top of the list of potential Supreme Court replacements for Thomas (age 76) and Alito (age 74) is 43-year-old U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon; Another is a 33-year-old U.S. District Judge Trump appointed to Tampa in 2020, who had no experience as a judge. Mork from Ork help us.
If Thomas and Alito retire, and Trump makes the replacement, five of the nine will be Trump appointees. #USPol
NaNO NaNO
'We’re heading over a cliff': Trump considering these 2 MAGA judges for the Supreme Court Carl Gibson - Alternet.org (Carl Gibson) https://www.alternet.org/trump-maga-judges/
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"America's allies are reportedly stunned by two things #DonaldTrump has done since returning to power. One is his alignment of #US foreign policy with #Russia. The other is his fixation on annexing #Canada.
Here’s the key to understanding these two confounding moves: They’re related. Trump thinks about Canada in much the same way #VladimirPutin thinks about #Ukraine."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-lust-for-canada-echoes-putin-lust-for-ukraine-artificial-borders-greenland
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Tesla Execs Want Trade War Relief, Just Don’t Tell Elon Which Execs
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/17/tesla-execs-want-trade-war-relief-just-dont-tell-elon-which-execs/
"someone at #Tesla sent a detailed letter to the #US Trade Representative essentially begging for relief from the very policies their #CEO has been championing as he destroys the traditional institutions of #government
...they’re apparently too afraid of their own boss to put their names on that learning experience."
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The Brave New World of Oligarch Lordships—Apparently They’re AWESOME!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-brave-new-world-of-oligarch-lordships-apparently-theyre-awesome
"Will #Elon soon be the sovereign over a chunk of #Texas? Are we about to start handing out #digital lordships to the top #oligarchs? I have no idea. What interests me about this, however, is that we’re actually in the midst of one such #experiment. A digital lordship is really what #DOGE is. It’s not geographical. Or rather, it’s the entire country."
Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth slashes 60,000 Pentagon civilian jobs in massive purge sending shockwaves
If you are on bail and have the standard condition "may not associate with known felons", you would be violating those terms by meeting with the President of the United States.
Let that sink in.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Guts U.S. Nuclear Agency
DOGE cuts have hit some of the country’s top nuclear scientists.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192825/elon-musk-doge-cuts-nuclear-scientists
"Several #nuclear scientists, bomb engineers, & #safety experts critical to #NationalSecurity were among the cuts...
the wanton, haphazard budget cuts championed by #Musk & the #GOP... Many people who left the agency held top-secret #security clearances, and it will be tough to train replacements."
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Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds
It appears to be the first time a federal #judge has acted to constrain Elon Musk, a top adviser to #Trump...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/elon-musk-usaid-doge-unconstitutional.html
"Efforts by #ElonMusk & his team to permanently shutter #USAID likely violated the #Constitution “in multiple ways” & robbed #Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created"
The resemblance is uncanny...
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how #government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/
"federal #auditors with years of #experience... say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual #audit looks like...
“Honestly, comparing real #auditing to what #DOGE is doing, there’s no comparison... None of them are auditors”
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Outgoing Commerce Official Shreds Elon Musk’s Starlink in Final Email
An official working on broadband expansion brutally condemned #Musk.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192819/commerce-official-elon-musk-starlink
" #ElonMusk intends to get rich at the expense of rural #Americans...
“Stranding all or part of rural #America with worse #internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Feinman wrote"
#Trump fired two #Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, with both commissioners saying they were ”illegally fired.”
Alvaro Bedoya posted a scathing critique of the Trump administration after the firing:
https://xcancel.com/BedoyaFTC/status/1902105345545113607
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said: “The President illegally fired me from my position as a Federal Trade Commissioner, violating the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/business/ftc-commissioners-fired/index.html
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Why will it take DOGE three years to respond to a simple FOIA?
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/why-will-it-take-doge-three-years-to-respond-to-a-simple-foia/
"DOGE is “likely covered” by the Freedom of Information Act, and... cannot hide its records...
[DOGE] tried to argue it would take 3 years to respond to the #FOIA request, even if they fast-tracked their response...
Even if the recent ruling stands, we will have to keep a close eye on the myriad of ways #DOGE could continue to evade #public scrutiny"
