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The Worst and the Dimmest
https://www.the-reframe.com/the/

"What he's doing is illegal, if you care about #law... It's a #NationalSecurity crisis, if you care about national #security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the #Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the #economy, if you care about the economy... It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about #corruption."
- @JuliusGoat

#Musk #Coup #Republicans #Trump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Media
Text from article (edited for length):
...the richest man in the world fired off a couple Nazi salutes for the delight of the voting base and then he and his gang of pimple-faced digital stoßtruppen started firing everyone else...

It's smash-and-grab looting of our entire shared life together as human society, enacted by a guy who needs none of it, a man who has fattened himself in time of slaughter, who eats long after he is full to bursting, who grinds other humans between his strange teeth just for the love of chewing. And one thing I know about Republicans is that they either love it or they don't give a shit, and you'll know it too, if you ask them.

What he's doing is illegal, if you care about law. It's massively expensive, if you care about expense. It's a national security crisis, if you care about national security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the economy, if you care about the economy. It's burning the future for us and for our children, if you care about children. It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about corruption. Republican Americans claim to care about these things. They observably do not.

No Republican with any power to do anything about this is doing anything to stop any of it, and almost all Republicans at whatever level of power are either monumentally complacent or actually happy about what's happening.


Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo

Can #Trump & his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people & un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

"the memo warns #USAID employees not to communicate w/the #press about the shocking disruptions in #humanitarian assistance that are... are already producing horrific consequences."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #USPol #News #World #USA
Headline: Arrogance Inc.
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo

Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Greg Sargent
February 15, 2025


DOGE Goes Nuclear and Fires DOE Staff in Charge of Our Own Nuclear Weapons
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-goes-nuclear-and-fires-doe-staff

"another #DOGE mistake. They fired #nuclear staff without really knowing what they did, and then tried to rehire them. Outrageous!"

[ #video ]

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #Republicans #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #USNews #US #USA #Press
News headline:
DOGE Goes Nuclear and Fires DOE Staff in Charge of Our Own Nuclear Weapons

by Tim Miller
Feb 15, 2025


Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World

Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website

"this incident doesn’t speak well of the pseudo-agency’s #security procedures. The website has already been hacked by Thursday evening thanks to #coding vulnerabilities. And since #DOGE has gotten into all kinds of sensitive #data, every #American could be at risk."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #Press #USA
News headline from The New Republic:
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World

Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.

by Hafiz Rashid
February 14, 2025 / 4:56 p.m. ET


Trump Admits He Has No Idea Why Elon Musk Met With India’s Modi
https://newrepublic.com/post/191558/trump-no-idea-elon-musk-meeting-india-modi

"Modi was flanked by his entire foreign affairs team... facing some of Musk’s children, while #Musk & #Modi sat in the head chairs that the #president and a foreign dignitary usually sit in...

fuels the perception of #Trump as a simple figurehead while the...[South African immigrant] actually runs the show... One can only wonder how far this will go."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Politics #USPol #India #News #US #USA
News headline:
Trump Admits He Has No Idea Why Elon Musk Met With India’s Modi

Donald Trump isn’t watching over what Elon Musk is doing—even if that’s meeting with other world leaders.

by Malcolm Ferguson
February 14, 2025 / 12:11 p.m. ET


There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in #America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/

DOGE’s true purpose...

The only thing these policies will certainly do, & are clearly designed to do, is alter the behavior & values of the #CivilService.

Suddenly, & not accidentally, people who work for the #American federal #government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Doge #Politics #News #US #USPol
News headline and illustration with credit.

Headline: There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in America
By Anne Applebaum

Illustration: People ripping the Statue of Liberty from the ground by pulling at her neck with a rope.

Credit: Illustration by Ben Hickey


Hey You! YES, YOU!

RIGHT NOW is the time to SUPPORT Our DEMOCRATIC Nominee in the Special Election for the House of Representatives! #uspol #uspolitics #congress #election #democracy #Democrats #ny21 #vote #VoteBlue #democraticparty

Blake Gendebien is running for New York's 21st district in the special election. He is a husband, father, farmer, and community leader who is Fighting for US!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gendebien_website


RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has been planted by Trump in the role of Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

He wants to slash scientifically-established medication, hospital treatment, financial benefits, and government programs for people with these conditions:
- Chronic illness.
- Autism.
- ADHD, and medication including Adderall and Ritalin.
- Asthma.
- Obesity.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Psoriasis.
- Mental illness such as depression and anxiety, and SSRI medication including Prozac and Zoloft.

RFK Jr says wants people who live with chronic illness such as those listed above — who often require daily preventative medication, a professional carer/assistant, or an assistive device for their daily functioning and to maintain their quality of life and sense of dignity and autonomy — to be stripped of their treatment and put into in "Wellness Farms" for "three or four years if they need it".

This is the sort of inhumane mistreatment of people requiring medical care that happened in the USSR and still goes on today in North Korea. It should not happen in the USA.

This move by RFK Jr is going to destroy childhoods, ruin families, cause people financial ruin, and for some people it will cost them their life.

#USPol #RFKJr #Trump #ChronicIllness #ChronicDisease #Autism #ADHD #Adderall #Ritalin #Asthma #Obesity #MultipleSclerosis #Psoriasis #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Depression #Anxiety #SSRIs #Prozac #Zoloft


People who don't pay their share of taxes, or run multi-million dollar for-profit companies that don't pay any taxes, want to see the taxes of the people who do pay their taxes.

Ludicrous.

#DOGE #IllegitimateAgency #USpol


Stop saying "DEI is being attacked." Civil rights are being attacked.

Before 1973, U.S. newspapers used to carry ads, "Help Wanted: Male" and "Help Wanted: Female."

Until 1968, it was legal to refuse to sell a house to someone based on their ethnic heritage.

This isn't ancient history. And this is what they're rolling back.

#USPol #DEIA #USHistory
Employment ad from the Pittsburgh Press, 1971, shows jobs classified by "male" and "female"
Help wanted director lists jobs by "female" and "male"
Help Wanted ad from the 1970s says, "MEN NEEDED: EARN HIGH WAGES"


Update: #FAA employees fired incl. one who spoke to me on the record who's partnered with the #DOD on a classified, urgent need for an upgraded radar system for HI to detect cruise missile threats -phone was wiped, inst. knowledge & records erased.

FAA staff fired over the weekend incl. personnel that worked radar, landing & navigational aid maintenance, among others. 100s were fired. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by #DOGE prior to being fired.

#USPol https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437


"From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism


Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health WKRs: #TrumpMusk HHS cuts are far-reaching. The# of WRKs let go: unclear —snr officials said as many as 5,200 might receive term. notices *now expected to be somewhat lower.

There may have been some reprieves -reported that the Indian Health SVC was in line for big cuts -not yet materialized. Members of the EIS program -had been warned Fri they were to be fired -by midday Mon none had received term. letters.

#USPol #HHS #DOGE
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/trump-layoffs-hhs-impact-on-health-safety-cdc-fda-cms/


Before election day pathologically lying Donnie repeatedly denied any affiliation with the subversive authors of "Project 2025", following his incurable psychopathic urge to lie.

Yet what he's responsible for now is exactly having "Project 2025"'s subversive plot to sabotage U.S. government put into practice.

Firing the aspiring fascist Trump regime & its conspiring subversive bastards of the people's democracy, before they can inflict even more damage on the nation, government & country is who now?
Public servants & the sovereign of all government, the people.

#RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurity #Democracy #Freedom #Law #Justice #Constitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #DefendDemocracy #YouMatter YourVoiceMatters #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #WeThePeople #WeGoForward #USPol #USPolitics


Here's a great diagram of the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant's actions.... sorted out into themes by Christina Pagel (UCL)

[with link to Pagel's orginal post in the Alt-Text]

#USPol

h/t Carole Cadwalladr
Apologies to alt-text readers; the diagram is so complex & text heavy I couldn't type it all in but here is a link to Pagel's orgianly post that might allow your text reader to work... and again sorry for making this less easy than just having alt-text:

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is-how-liberty-dies-making


The NAACP has published a spending guide for Black consumers showing companies that have rolled back their DEI initiatives and others that have maintained their commitment. #freedom #uspol #equality #AllOfUs #together #dei

https://apnews.com/article/black-consumers-dei-buying-guide-naacp-34664d8af92e2dc1ba787a498348b7a4


Trump is a [insert your own favourite expletives here. As many as you like!]

#USPol #Trump
A sign informing the public that an FBI presentation on “Scams targeting seniors” has been cancelled. This is because of an executive order from the orange fuck wit that no longer allows the FBI to perform community outreach programs.


Did #Trump pardon #LuigiMangione here?

Has he preemptively pardoned his deposers? Are we all now deputized, by him, against him?

#uspol
Donald Trump tweet: He who saves his Country does not violate any law.”


That is some dark comedy.
✈️💥 🛩️🔥 🛬❌

#USpol #PlaneCrash
Screenshot of a post by Just Kidding @internethippo.bsky.social: 

I voted for Trump because he said he would make planes fall out of the sky every day but I never thought he'd actually do it 

February 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM


World news: Europe is in a major geopolitical crisis as tyrants carve up the world between themselves.

UK news: Some royal kiddies done some drawings! Print them out and stick them to your fridge! Tear down the meagre efforts of your filthy lowborn scumspawn to make room! These people are both definitely completely normal and not weird entitled cunts and also, by definition, your natural betters! See their sketches and adore them, you fucking disgusting waste of flesh!

#USpol #ukpol


Bwahahaha! #NOTSatire, from the MOST RESPECTED #news source on teh intertubz! 🤣

Report: Presidents Washington Through Bush May Have Lied About Key Matters

https://theonion.com/report-presidents-washington-through-bush-may-have-lie-1819566677/ (OK it's #Satire, NOT #Realpolitick... 😎) #USPolitics #USPol #Trump #Biden #Obama


So aid programs also have benefits for the donor country?! 😮‍😲

#USpol #Aid #USaid #Musk #Trump #RashadCrenshaw

https://youtu.be/geBaXj1_LPw?si=EoDRxbllaB5lSd12


I'm sorry, but it can't be as simple as "Americans are just racist and sexist" when the official non-racist/sexist option was publicly committing #genocide.

#uspol #uspolitics #genocidejoe #holocaustharris #bluemaga #israel #fediantisemitism


If you know of or are involved with an organization that helps people in a way that the #TrumpAdministration doesn't approve of, and the org is worried about continuing to do their work while protecting their employees, volunteers, and clients, I am happy to meet for free with the org to work through with them what their threat model is and how they can improve their security posture. They can reach out to me on Signal at jik.87. Please :boostRequest: for reach.
#politics #USPol #resist #infosec


Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s 'bold vision' for Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/feb/16/netanyahu-says-israel-working-closely-with-us-on-trumps-bold-vision-for-gaza-video

Well, the current US administration is doing everything to go down in history as the most evil genocidal regime ever in US history.

Not sure how to call this, would neoliberal capitalist oligarchic fascism with at touch of imperialism be.a term for it? Or is Trump simply using Putin's playbook.

More and more I get the idea they need to be stopped short violently...

#uspol #gaza #genocide


Many believe Musk & others will get their money from tax cuts. You can't cut zero tax pmts more than zero. It would be a negative number. It's been well publicized that these men (and they are all men) paid little or no taxes b4 Trump returned to office.

Trump is impounding money PLUS closing agencies w/o telling anyone where future taxes from citizens will be spent.

W/O guardrails, future #tax #revenue will go directly to #Trump's #pocket. No other reason to decimate agencies.

#USPOL


Inhaltswarnung: Vance, abortion buffer zones, & an ace protest sign


"MAGA Women Think Musk is Robin Hood" - This woman's take is EXACTLY what I am hearing on the ground. 100%.

#DOGE #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News #Project2025 #Fascism

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RPV1YjTuuWc&si=7Juv6z02r71eT131


Did you know that NNSA, the agency DOGE randomly fired people from without knowing the agency secures our nuclear weapons, also helps prevent asteroids from killing us all?

Well, they do, and now you know.

"NNSA works with partners to detect and mitigate impact threats from potentially hazardous near-Earth objects."

This is just the declassified stuff they do to keep us all from dying.

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/planetary-defense-teamwork

#nnsa #doge #USpol #PlanetaryDefense #asteroids #coup