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Published: March 14, 2025 17:22

Schumer's alternative to the shutdown was a 30 day extension. Process. What setting clear priorities. Here is a sample: 1. No more firings or office closures at the Social Security Administration. 2. Restore funding for cancer research. 3. Don't…

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Published: March 14, 2025 17:15

The "level" of a federal judge has no bearing on the judge's authority. If you disagree with a judge's opinion, you can appeal to a higher court. Ignoring a judge's order, whether you are the president or anyone else, is not a legal option. [contains…

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Published: March 14, 2025 16:22

If there are Democratic Senators who plan on voting for the GOP budget, other than Fetterman and Schumer, they should say so now and articulate their reasoning. Elected officials should not hide their intentions from their own constituents.

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Published: March 14, 2025 15:59

Trump congratulates Schumer for giving him exactly what he wants

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Published: March 14, 2025 15:54

I know that Schumer and Fetterman have publicly said they are voting to advance the GOP budget. Who else is voting with them? Republicans need seven Democrats.

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Published: March 14, 2025 03:22

The deal is I punch you in the face How about I give you $50 instead Nope, I want to punch you I’ll buy you dinner but no violence Sorry, I really like to punch Ok, what if you slap me medium-hard It’s a punch in the face or nothing Ok fine, punch…

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Published: March 14, 2025 03:07

Senate Democrats were offered nothing in exchange for voting for a GOP budget and decided it was a deal that was too good to pass up

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Published: March 14, 2025 03:03

The actual plan for September is to hope that REPUBLICANS stand up to Trump [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:59

The idea that greenlighting a bill that Trump, Musk, and every single Republican in Congress support is not giving Trump what he wants is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:46

This is not an impressive defense. Literally every “consequence” of a government shutdown is a description of things Trump and Musk are already doing https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opinion/trump-musk-shutdown-senate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:41

Glad Senate Democrats spent years not doing things to preserve the filibuster only to decide the savvy move is to not use it and give Republicans exactly what they want

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:38

Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it. The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to…

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:25

I don’t really like to comment on political strategy but WTF are Schumer and Newsom, two of the most powerful leaders in the Democratic Party, doing right now?

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:23

The GOP spending bill that Schumer is supporting will devastate DC. This is a choice he made. https://popular.info/p/the-maga-plan-to-cripple-dc

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Published: March 14, 2025 02:17

The only way to combat Trump, we are told, is for Democrats to relinquish their power and give Trump exactly what he wants [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 17:28

Predictably doge.muskwatch.com has come under sustained attack on X. Really top quality stuff over there.

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Published: March 13, 2025 17:21

Our new tool, the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker, has already come under direct attack from Elon Musk. The attack itself is incoherent. He's upset we are exposing the truth about his efforts. https://www.muskwatch.com/p/update-musk-attacks-musk-watch

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Published: March 12, 2025 23:26

I'll note that Elon is claiming that the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker is somehow hypocritical (it's not) but he is NOT CHALLENGING OUR ANALYSIS. That's because our analysis is correct. doge.muskwatch.com

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Published: March 12, 2025 22:59

UPDATE: Elon Musk is attacking the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker because he's upset that we are exposing the truth about his efforts. Musk is grossly overstating the scope of the cuts. See what Musk is upset about:…

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Published: March 12, 2025 12:42

1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that…

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Published: March 12, 2025 00:38

The cost of an infomercial on the White House lawn is about $100 million

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Published: March 12, 2025 00:36

The bill Fetterman is planning to vote for will punish hundreds of thousands of DC residents for no reason. Why is the only option to shut the government down or vote for this bill, written exclusively by the GOP when they lack enough votes to get it…

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Published: March 12, 2025 00:34

President Trump needs to write an email about five things he's done in the last week to lower prices. Hosting an infomercial for Tesla does not count.

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Published: March 12, 2025 00:25

If you aren’t subscribed yet to Musk Watch, now is the time. We are upping our game tomorrow morning. muskwatch.com/subscribe https://muskwatch.com/subscribe

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Published: March 11, 2025 21:24

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Published: March 11, 2025 14:09

"The start of Trump’s second term has delivered a stunning reversal for many of those billionaires sitting behind Trump in the Capitol Rotunda, with five having lost a combined $209 billion in wealth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."…

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Published: March 11, 2025 13:18

Mundus sine Caesaribus

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Published: March 11, 2025 12:48

1. As part of a federal budget agreement, Trump and his allies in Congress are advancing a plan to cripple Washington, DC, gratuitously forcing the city to cut $1 billion+ in spending in the middle of the fiscal year. It would devastate public schools and…

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Published: March 11, 2025 12:42

BREAKING It's now illegal not to buy a Tesla

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Published: March 10, 2025 23:09

The Trump meme coin, which peaked at more than $73 just before inauguration, is down 86%

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Published: March 10, 2025 22:59

"Hayden Haynes, chief of staff to House Speaker Mike Johnson, slurred his speech and was "staggering" when shortly before Capitol Police arrested him after Trump's speech at the Capitol last week... Haynes was charged today with a driving under the…

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Published: March 10, 2025 22:57

Musk called Social Security a Ponzi scheme Now he says his goal is to cut up to $700 billion from "entitlements"

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Published: March 10, 2025 22:53

"The National Institutes of Health will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated and how to increase acceptance of vaccines, according to an internal email obtained by The Washington Post on…

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Published: March 10, 2025 22:50

Every word of this is a lie. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 10, 2025 19:49

"A top political columnist for The Washington Post resigned today, accusing Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis of killing her column that criticized owner Jeff Bezos's drive to overhaul the opinion pages to focus on his libertarian priorities." …

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Published: March 10, 2025 15:39

Remarkably, Tesla stock is now worth less today than it was the day before the 2024 election.

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Published: March 10, 2025 13:51

"A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by President Donald Trump is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because of the White House."…

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Published: March 10, 2025 13:28

1. In an affidavit, a former senior official at the Social Security Administration detailed how deputies for Elon Musk forced their way into the agency and gained access to sensitive databases The official warned that careless actions by DOGE could lead…

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Published: March 10, 2025 12:52

1. EXCLUSIVE The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles It is an unethical…

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Published: March 9, 2025 19:18

NOTE: If Trump/Musk really cared about identifying "waste, fraud, and abuse," they wouldn't have fired all the Inspector Generals, who actually have the expertise to do it

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Published: March 8, 2025 22:12

Protests are not illegal. It's a Constitutionally protected right. I've reviewed the text, and it applies even if people are protesting a Tesla dealership. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1

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Published: March 8, 2025 21:56

Musk is blaming "Herbert Sandler," among others, for secretly financing the protests and Tesla dealerships over the last few weeks. Sandler died in 2019.

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Published: March 8, 2025 21:50

So when, according to the anti-DEI crowd, did racism end? When did it become unacceptable to discuss or study?

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Published: March 7, 2025 23:35

I'm not sure why we are pretending this has anything to do with "DEI" anymore. There is a systematic effort to purge any acknowledgement that race or racism or gender or misogyny EXIST

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Published: March 7, 2025 19:50

March is “Women’s History Month,” or as its officially known during the Trump administration, “Men’s History Month, Part 3 of 12”

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Published: March 7, 2025 18:21

“Mr. Duffy said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?”…

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Published: March 7, 2025 12:20

“In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan,…

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Published: March 7, 2025 01:46

Trouble in paradise? “President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093

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Published: March 6, 2025 15:54

1. The Trump administration has declared that book-banning is a “hoax.” But last month, Trump invited John Amanchukwu, the self-proclaimed “book-banning pastor,” to the White House "We want to ban books that seek to pervert the hearts and minds of…

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Published: March 6, 2025 15:52

Hey everyone. I have a pretty exciting project I'm planning to launch next week I'm looking for a graphic designer who is proficient in data visualization and has some technical knowledge This is a paid gig If that's you, please contact me on Signal…

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Published: March 6, 2025 12:40

Republicans in Congress are reportedly asking Musk’s permission to hold votes

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:45

Along with managing 2 million federal employees, making unilateral decisions about trillions in federal spending, running Tesla, running SpaceX, running X, running Xai, running Neurolink, and spending with his 14 kids, Musk will also provide "near instant"…

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:27

Musk has ursurped the power of the purse from Congress, and is now giving out his phone number to a select group of Republican Senators, in case they have questions https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/musk-congress-anger-doge/

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:21

I'm not a messaging guy but I'm pretty sure Democrats can do better than "Ronald Reagan was amazing."

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:20

Can someone explain to me why the Democratic response to Trump's speech last night included claim that Musk fired people who "conduct the research that finds the cure for cancer — only to re-hire them two days later?" No one fired at NIH was rehired. …

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:31

Hey everyone. I have a pretty exciting project I'm planning to launch next week. I'm looking for a graphic designer to help who has experience working in Tableau. This is a paid gig. If that's you, please contact me on Signal (juddlegum.47) or…

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Published: March 5, 2025 18:22

1. Trump is pushing forward with his plans to create a "Crypto Strategic Reserve." No one has bothered to explain why diverting government resources into crypto has ANY STRATEGIC BENEFIT FOR THE UNITED STATES. The only benefit is for people who are…

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Published: March 5, 2025 12:05

“Sales of Tesla cars in Germany, Europe’s largest market for electric vehicles, dove 76 percent in February compared with a year earlier, the German Association of the Automotive Industry said Wednesday.”…

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Published: March 5, 2025 02:56

Not sure why Trump is bothering to address Congress. His theory of governance is he can do what he wants and does not need Congress’ approval or consent.

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Published: March 5, 2025 01:34

The idea that Bezos’ push to make the Post MAGA-friendly would be limited to the opinion page was always a fantasy [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 4, 2025 13:57

1. EXCLUSIVE Popular Information has obtained an email, sent yesterday by a Trump administration official, explicitly instructing CFPB employees not to carry out activities REQUIRED BY LAW. This directly contradicts what administration lawyers told a…

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Published: March 4, 2025 11:17

Trump ran on a pledge to reduce the price of groceries and then, a few weeks after taking office, imposed a 25% tariff on the countries that import the most food to the United States.