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Look, Trump works for Russia. Americans have been so slow to figure this out. Trump and Putin are joined at the hip but they are not equal. Trump is like Putin's dog. He's doing the tricks and thinking he's great because he does the tricks. But Putin is the handler. There's no way this doesn't get absolutely horrible for Americans. #treason

This email from Sen. Chris Murphy is making the rounds this morning.

Report from the Senate Floor:

“Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. Republicans forced us to debate their billionaire bailout budget framework. We started voting at 6 PM because they knew doing it in the dark of night would minimize media coverage. And they do not want the American people to see how blatant their handover of our government to the billionaire class is.

So I want to explain what happened last night and what we did to fight back. The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And they plan to pay for it with cuts to programs that working people rely on. Popular and necessary programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, are all being targeted.

In order to pass the tax cut, Republicans have to go through a series of procedural steps. Last night, they took the first step which requires them to pass an outline of their plan, but with it, any senator can offer as many amendments as we want. So my Democratic colleagues and I did just that.

Now, we knew that Republicans would largely unanimously oppose them, but we had two objectives here. One, Republicans were forced to put their opinion on record — many for the first time — on the most corrupt parts of Trump and Musk’s agenda. Two, as I’ve been saying, I am going to make every process and procedure as slow and painful as possible for as long as my colleagues choose to ignore the constitutional crisis happening before our eyes.

So what did we propose? We proposed no tax cuts for anyone who makes a billion dollars a year. We made them vote on whether or not Elon Musk and DOGE should have limitless access to Americans’ personal data. We made them vote on whether to protect IVF and require insurers to cover it. Every single amendment Democrats proposed was shot down. On almost every single amendment, Republicans universally opposed it. Every Republican voted against our proposal to prevent more tax cuts for billionaires. The corruption and theft is happening in the open here.

The whole game for Republicans is taking your money and giving it to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires — even if it means kicking your parents out of a nursing home or turning off Medicaid for the poorest children. They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice.

Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do everything we can to make sure they cannot destroy democracy and steal your money in the dark of the night. We are being loud about what is happening. I’m going to continue to grind the gears of Congress down as much as possible to make it that much harder and slower to get away with this corruption. That’s why the votes lasted until nearly 5 AM.

This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months. It’s still in our power to stop the destruction of our democracy with mass mobilization and effective opposition from elected officials. So we can’t miss any opportunity to take advantage of opportunities to put Republicans on the record and shine a light on what is happening.

And you have a role to play in this as well. I need you to amplify what’s happening, support the leaders who are fighting for you to make sure they can continue speaking truth to power against Musk and Trump’s billionaire cronies, and show up at rallies and town halls. Use every tool at your disposal to send a message loud and clear about how you expect my colleagues to lead and fight in this moment.

Every best wish,” US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)

Felt this way in 2016 and still feel this way today. 8 years of feeling all this, all the time.
#Trump #fascism

This deserves a pin
#Democrats #Resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYoYr7NAZA

"Cortez Masto said she agrees with the need to cut waste in the government, but that the process has been haphazard."

STOP, Dems. Just stop fronting your statements with enemy talking points. Stop it. Start your statements with "this is illegal on multiple levels" and "this is blatant corruption" #USPol #coup #corruption

The question I wish all Americans were educated & thoughtful enough to ask is: Among Trump's close influencers, who benefits from dismantling the brain trust and infrastructure of what has been for generations the foremost global superpower? This looks like chaos but is not. This is the execution phase of a long term strategic operation. #InsiderThreat #treason #coup #corruption https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/

Beschloss: "Note how Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, countered Vance. He said that “every opinion has a voice in this democracy. It makes it possible for partly extremist parties like AfD to campaign completely normally, just like every other party.” But he also clearly stated that “democracy doesn’t mean that the loud minority is automatically right,” and that “democracy must be able to defend itself against the extremists who want to destroy it.”"

But American democracy doesn't work that way. It's designed with the mechanisms of its own death built in. And that is what's happening before our eyes. The cancer has won. #coup #corruption #InsiderThreat #treason #extremism https://www.americaamerica.news/p/do-real-americans-support-neo-nazism

"Deregulation and tax cuts meant that between 1981, when Reagan took office, and 2021, when Democratic president Joe Biden did, about $50 trillion moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. But rather than convincing Republican voters to return to a robust system of business regulation and restoring taxes on the wealthy and corporations, that transfer of wealth seemed to make them hate the government even more, as they apparently were convinced it benefited only nonwhite Americans and women.

That hatred has led to a skewed idea of the actions and the size of the federal government. For example, Americans think the U.S. spends too much on foreign aid because they think it spends about 25% of the federal budget on such aid while they say it should only spend about 10%. In fact, it spends only about 1% on foreign aid. Similarly, while right-wing leaders insist that the government is bloated, in fact, as Elaine Kamarck of the Brookings Institution noted last month, the U.S. population has grown by about 68% in the last 50 years while the size of the federal government’s workforce has actually shrunk." #coup #corruption #oligarchy https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-15-2025

#USA #ClassWar #billionaires

Watching Musk carry out these stupefying acts of corruption and direct conflicts of interest as Trump looks on in the role of pliant Russian asset -- the stunning incompetence, unmitigated ignorance, and sheer indifference -- I feel indescribable anger. #coup #corruption #treason

Current flu season is a 15-year high. Several children have died. News reports haven't indicated in all cases whether the children were vaccinated or not, but I have seen some of the reports noting children who were not.

#Flu vaccine doesn't necessarily prevent infection, and may not prevent getting sick. I got the flu several weeks after my vax this year. But it was bad enough that I'm sure without the partial protection from severe disease I got from the vax I'd have had to go to the hospital. #vaccines #influenza https://www.wral.com/lifestyle/health/9-year-old-randolph-county-girl-flu-death-january-2025/

Trump's grave is going to be the most-visited, most-used urinal in the U.S.

I held a couple of fairly senior analytic positions in the IC, was a member of a couple of NIC committees for years, and worked closely with various DDNIs and other NIC leaders. As I observe everything going on from the Musk brunchlords usurping Congressional power and shutting down agencies where Musk has conflicts of interest, to the installation of known foreign assets and theocratic extremists into the national security apparatus, it seems to me that if Trump and his closest circle were carrying out Putin's wishes, things could easily look the same. While it's more likely to be a case of Trump and Putin simply having converging goals, it ends up looking the same as some dark collusion to damage the U.S. In any case I don't think people can yet grasp the extent and permanence of the damage of the Trump II regime.

Trump #coup hits #Alabama residents relying on electric utility assistance grants created by Biden's infrastructure & jobs act. What a nice surprise for the vast majority of them who put the traitor in office.

"Trump is exploiting an anti-trans panic, which far too many centrists and liberals have enabled over the years, as cover for the long-standing conservative goal of trying to reverse decades of women's progress in education, the military, and science." #WomensRights #misogyny #theocracy #fascism #military #DOD #gender https://www.salon.com/2025/02/10/women-is-a-banned-word-uses-trans-panic-to-strip-rights-from-all-women/

Every single post I put on my local state and town subreddit gets removed 😂 I guess mods in AL just aren't taking any honest talk.

"Another part of the program is the work of fanatics. I do not use the term loosely. If you take the trouble to read the writings of the thought leaders of the new right, who form a good portion of the brain trust of the anti-democratic movement, you will discover a group of men who really hate women, admire Nazi political theorists such as Carl Schmitt and believe in the existence of an insidious, all-controlling monster called “the woke,” which apparently works out of diversity, equity and inclusion offices in the back of “the cathedral.” They are acting out their fantasies now, taking revenge on imaginary enemies, and the American republic will be the principal victim."

Almost humorous this was published in the NYT, which has been gaslighting the country for years about what was happening before our eyes.
#fascism #theocracy #oligarchy #coup https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/trump-musk-christian-nationalism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU4.WPjR.Z_P_Zx3T8x8A&smid=bs-share
Archive link: https://archive.is/eO9IS

@GottaLaff Heard on a podcast this week, I believe it was Dahlia Lithwick's: Yes the courts will be very important and especially it's critical that many, many lawsuits be brought because even if the SCOTUS is in Trump's/oligarchs' pockets, they can't and won't take every case that comes through the appeals process. They'll take a few. But if there's a flood, it means Federal courts will be able to stop a lot of the malicious shenanigans, and SCOTUS won't end up involved in the majority of cases.

"As an OPM employee, I want my fellow federal workers and the American people to know that these emails may be coming from inside the house—but they are not coming from us. We at OPM are just as frustrated, confused, and traumatized as the rest of America. When I started my job at OPM, I swore an oath to the Constitution, and to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic, making it especially awful that the threat to our government is coming from inside my own office building."
#coup #corruption #USPol Original: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html
No paywall archive: https://archive.is/yNwnC

LOL. But seriously.