Notices by Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: (nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange), page 2

Got an email from Doug Jones pushing a new social media site called "sez (dot) us" that's supposed to be I guess a Dem counterpoint to Xitter. I looked at it. Seems like a Lemmy instance maybe? I didn't like the privacy policy. Not going to try it out. Also it's owned by a corporation. F that.

@WarnerCrocker Try a different framing, even though I realize the legacy media will fail.

The Republicans will be shutting down the government. The Republicans are doing this. They are extremists using the budget to harm the American people and national security. Democrats should not collaborate. President Musk is shutting things down and disabling agencies while Trump is placing entirely corrupt individuals in charge of them. The framing needs to be on what the Republicans are doing, and not of Democrats who will not collaborate with causing damage.

N. AL

Digital bulletin board in Birmingham, AL

From r/fednews:

5 Bullet Points to be Submitted Weekly.
U. S. Air Force employees now have to submit the 5 bullet points on a weekly basis. The email address isn’t a .mil or .gov or .org. It’s a .com. The madness deepens ….
#coup #corruption #natsec

I don't know if this is happening across govt but in DOD the civilians are being told to send 5 bullet points about what they did each week, and it's going to a dot com. This is outrageous.
#coup #corruption #military #natsec

Center for Systemic Peace, which published the Polity Index: "The USA dropped below the "democracy threshold" (+6) on the POLITY scale in 2020 and was considered an anocracy (+5) at the end of the year 2020; the USA score for 2021 returned to democracy (+8). Beginning on 1 July 2024, due to the US Supreme Court ruling granting the US Presidency broad, legal immunity, the USA is noted by the Polity Project as experiencing a regime transition through, at least, 20 January 2025. ... The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8-point drop in its POLITY score)."

This is linked from Brian Klaas's blog post titled "Is American Democracy Doomed?" https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-american-democracy-doomed
#autocracy #coup #RegimeChange #corruption

Chris Hayes: Trump is coming for Social Security. And he has a new 'Big Lie' to justify it.
#SocialSecurity #coup #corruption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcdRSBS_V8

Trump Consumer Tax hikes about to start. Enjoy your higher prices, Americans! Cheeto Mussolini has fucked you over again! #coup #corruption #tariffs

@lednaBM @GottaLaff I just blocked her. I've seen a lot of rude attack posts from her lately. Done with it. She may be justified in being mad, who isn't right now? But she's just lashing out at any target.

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