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JD Vance petitions to bring back that super-racist member of DOGE
Former SpaceX software engineer Marko Elez was working for DOGE to supposedly expose "fraud" in the Treasury Department (yeah right) when a WSJ reporter found his old social media account on which he called himself a "eugenicist" and wrote things like "you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," and "normalize Indian hate." He immediately resigned, but now JD Vance is publicly pushing for the little Nazi bastard to return to government work. "Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever," Vance said. "So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that." So what is he, JD? Is he a silly stupid baby who can't be held responsible for the things he says and does but should ALSO be trusted with the inner workings of the federal government? You can't have it both ways! On top of that...Vance's wife is Indian-American! He can't even stand up for her against a guy who hatefully trashed his marriage. This is beyond pathetic, even for JD. Oh, also, Elez is 25 years old. Funny how willing the right is to infantilize their own when it suits their narrative.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump bristles over Elon taking center stage
It's not like we couldn't see this coming from a mile away, but the MAGA cult leader — who has literally faked his own TIME Magazine covers — bristled when asked about Elon Musk landing on the cover of the latest issue, sitting behind the Oval Office's Resolute Desk no less.

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Trump and Elon take an axe to Biden's climate wins
350.org In his first hours back in office, President Trump ordered a series of actions that abandon U.S. climate leadership at home and abroad. He withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, pushed to greatly expand fossil fuel production, and attacked clean energy. Now our communities that have long fought relentlessly for clean air, safe drinking water, and protection from toxic chemicals are bracing for yet another onslaught on public health and environmental safeguards. 350.org is leading the fight to keep our communities safe and stop the Trump admin from undoing everything we've accomplished in the past four years. Will you chip in to help 350.org stand up to Trump and his polluter cronies?

The White House keeps pointing out "insane" USAID spending that isn't USAID
The Trump administration, Elon Musk, and the right-wing propaganda machine have been in a frenzy over the past few days as they "discover" government spending reports that have always been public and decry everything they don't like or understand as "wasteful USAID spending," despite most of it having nothing to do with USAID, as they try to justify the disassembly of one of our most important foreign aid agencies. Of course, anyone with basic reading comprehension can tell you that the very expenses the right is kicking and screaming about have nothing to do with USAID and this is just a smear campaign that demeans the very real and very important work that USAID has done to help uplift and heal millions of people across the world. "All of this is bullshit," said former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk. "All of the evidence they point to, they are making things up because the truth and the reality are not on their side, so they have to resort to lies, they have to resort to gaslighting. That’s all they have."

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Controversial Christian nationalist legislation introduced in North Dakota House
Right-wingers in North Dakota have proposed a bill that would "acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ," which pretty clearly spells out where the Republican Party stands when it comes to the Constitution, democracy, and the separation of church and state. You won't be surprised to learn the author is Rep. Nico Rios, the same guy who called on the CIA to depose Mexico's "Jew" president. Great to know we have such incredibly sane and rational people in charge of state policy.

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Springfield, Ohio, sues neo-Nazi group for relentless "campaign of hate and harassment" over Haitian migrants
The Ohio city that became a flashpoint of the immigration debate during the 2024 presidential election after Donald Trump amplified false rumors of Haitian immigrants “eating the pets” is suing a neo-Nazi group for unleashing a “campaign of hate and harassment” against residents who defended the city’s migrant population. In a federal lawsuit filed this week in the US District Court in Dayton, the city of Springfield alleged that the Blood Tribe and its leadership fueled fear and anger with its coordinated "hit" on the town to stop the "invasion" of Haitian immigrants. Springfield is seeking damages from the white supremacist organization for conspiracy to violate civil rights, public nuisance, telecommunications harassment, menacing, ethnic intimidation, and inciting violence.

UnitedHealth hires defamation firm to bully critics and whistleblowers into silence
Since the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, there's been a great deal of scrutiny applied to the health insurance giant's inhumane and exploitative practices, which mostly involve inventing bullshit reasons to deny people the coverage that they pay absurd amounts of money for. Rather than, ya know, doing the right thing and improving their business practices, UHC has instead decided to spend buckets of money on a defamation legal firm to sue anybody who shares stories of UHC's villainous claim denials. Their first target was Elizabeth Clark, a Texas plastic surgeon who had one of her patients denied post-surgery hospital stay following cancer surgery. "I had to scrub out mid-surgery to call United, only to find that the person on the line didn't even have access to the patient’s full medical information, despite the procedure already being pre-approved," she wrote on Instagram. The firm demanded that she "correct her posts," apologize to the insurance company, and condemn the violence against Thompson. Clark rightfully told them to shove it. But it should be a wake-up call to everyone that a multi-billion-dollar insurance company would rather bully its critics into silence than, ya know, provide the service their customers pay them handsomely for.

BTC leads collective of progressive creators with plan to take back the internet from Joe Rogan and the right-wing machine
Chorus: This election has made it painfully clear that Democrats' messages are just not getting through the tsunami of right-wing propaganda and lies flooding through social media, and we have no real answer to a Joe Rogan or a Ben Shapiro...until now! Chorus Collective is a new collaborative founded by creators like Brian Tyler Cohen, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl), Roland Martin, David Pakman, Elizabeth Booker Houston, and Adam Mockler, who are bringing their audience of 40 million people together to create a new infrastructure to scale their voices and build support for more creators like them. Chorus aims to not only amplify progressive voices but also uplift new creators and build a left-wing social media ecosystem that supports its voices ALL the time, not just in the months leading up to an election. Will you chip in to help Chorus get off the ground and help break the right-wing stranglehold on social media?

Elon Musk’s financial disclosures for DOGE work will be kept private despite his call for "maximum transparency"
You see, when Elon calls for "maximum transparency" he means for government agencies, employees, companies with federal contracts, and basically anyone else who isn't Elon Musk. As the world's richest man with extensive investments, assets, and government contracts of his own, a public financial disclosure report might help ensure the havoc he is wreaking across the federal government isn't motivated by conflicts of interest. Which is precisely why he's gunning to keep ALL of that information private and confidential.