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William Lindsey :toad:"Thanks to the political muscle of white Christian nationalist Evangelicals, and the financial backing of revanchist billionaires like the Kochs, the movement that started as the Tea Party and grew into MAGA became a ruthlessly successful RINO-hunting machine, executing a hostile takeover of both the Republican Party and state governments."~ Michael Podhorzer<a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> /5<a href="https://www.weekendreading.net/p/americas-second-redemption" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.weekendreading.net/p/americas-second-redemption</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Trump’s belief that America holds all the cards, that the rest of the world needs access to our markets but we don’t need them, is all wrong. We are rapidly losing the world’s trust, and part of the cost will be financial."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"One way to think about this is to say that Trump is doing to America what Elon Musk is doing to Tesla, destroying a valuable brand through erratic behavior and repulsive ideology. Did I mention that Tesla sales in Europe appear to be cratering?"~ Paul Krugman<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> /4<a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/teslafying-us-exports" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/teslafying-us-exports</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Rather than denounce the clear and present dangers to our country, many business, religious, media, and other elites continue to support Trump and Musk. Some do this by staying silent, while others follow hollowed-out GOP politicians and Christian nationalist charlatans in claiming that the smash-and-plunder operation masquerading as a government is 'saving the nation.'”<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChristianNationalism</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:"We are living through processes of moral deregulation and moral collapse in America today under the authoritarian government of President Donald Trump and unelected co-President Elon Musk. Their policies are wrecking a robust national economy, paralyzing government, allying with dictators, creating conditions for the spread of disease, and abandoning the rule of law."~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> /2<a href="https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"As Trump literally tanks the American economy and the trust of the international business community, where are the voices of America’s business leaders? Are they all hoping that Trump will do a commercial on the White House lawn hawking their products too? ...Your tax cuts will not be large enough to cover your shame. And we will remember."~ Sherrilyn Ifill<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> /1<a href="https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/it-is-not-enough-to-fight-you-have" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/it-is-not-enough-to-fight-you-have</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"WaPo reported that over 5 million Americans work in industries that could be impacted by retaliatory tariffs from China and Canada that just went into effect, and the vast majority of them live in counties that voted for Trump. New tariffs from those two countries primarily target the agricultural, manufacturing and energy sectors."~ Ron Filipkowski<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agriculture</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#industry</a> /9<a href="https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-ddb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-ddb</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Cuts that sound like a good idea to Elon Musk and Donald Trump have real impacts on the rest of us. That is only just beginning to dawn on people, who I’m sure you’re hearing, like I am, saying, “But I didn’t vote for this.” Trump 2.0, as I’ve written previously, isn’t a pick-your-own-adventure experience. You go to the carnival, you get all of the rides."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chaos</a> /8

William Lindsey :toad:Joyce Vance comments on how much people through the center of the US relied on NOAA forecasts and warning with the massive storm system that has just caused so much damage and loss of life. Yet about 2,000 NOAA have been cut since January and there's no way the program will continue to function well with massive cuts in personnel.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chaos</a> /7<a href="https://joycevance.substack.com/p/who-doge-hurts-gutting-noaa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://joycevance.substack.com/p/who-doge-hurts-gutting-noaa</a>

William Lindsey :toad:After making multiple calls to SSA, during which he was "put on hold and then eventually disconnected" and securing an appointment that was ultimately rescheduled for the next week, Johnson went to his local SSA office, one of several sites DOGE now wants to shut down across the country. He waited and waited to be seen at the SSA office and finally jumped the line and insisted he was alive. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seniors</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:Danny Westneat tells the story of what happened to Leonard "Ned" Johnson after his wife got a notice from their bank in February that the Social Security Administration requested a return for benefits paid out after the supposed death of her husband. Since Ned was alive, his wife figured it was a scam, but SSA then yanked $5,201 from their bank account.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seniors</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> /3<a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"This week, a still-more ominous threat appears to be circling. Bloomberg reports that three individuals representing private equity concerns — firms in an insidious financial industry intent on harvesting anything that can rake in a profit for the ultrarich — have now shown up, alongside DOGE, to meddle in the life-sustaining work of the SSA."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seniors</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:"The Social Security Administration (SSA), an irreplaceable lifeline for 73 million people, is only the latest venerable U.S. institution to be hit with a campaign of media falsehoods and startling internal sabotage efforts, all on the orders of Trump and the reactionary right."~ Tyler Walicek <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seniors</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TaxCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxCuts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chaos</a> /1

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