Progressive Panic – It’s Titanic
28th February 2025
Elon Musk Is South African. It Explains a Lot. (William Shoki/New York Times)
Trump is ‘no longer an ally,’ former French President Hollande says (Victor Goury-Laffont/Politico)
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (New York Times)
Tesla investors furious at stock’s plunge turn tables on CEO Elon Musk (Christiaan Hetzner/Fortune)
How Trump’s Cabinet Scrambled to Respond to Musk’s DOGE Email (New York Times)
Trump’s proposed ‘gold card’ visa comes with a hidden tax break for the wealthy (Robert Frank/CNBC)
The MAGA War on Speech (New York Times) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Federal workers could get a second email Saturday. It might require a response. (Washington Post)
Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed (David Smith/The Guardian)
Trump’s Assault on Social Security (Pamela Herd/Can We Still Govern?)
California Judge Finds Mass-Firings Of Probationary Federal Employees Likely Unlawful
Trump’s new world order: Strongmen make the rules (Zachary Basu/Axios)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells NPR: ‘Everything feels increasingly like a scam’ (Steve Inskeep/NPR)
Andrew Tate, Accused Sex Trafficker, Is Trump’s Kind of Guy (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
Patel, Ratcliffe Set Up U.S. for a National Catastrophe (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
Sanders steps back into role as anti-oligarch crusader (Hanna Trudo/The Hill) “Oligarch” = Rich Person Progs Don’t Like
Republicans Want to Gut Medicaid. They Might Regret It. (Michael Kinnucan/New York Times)
Boycott tomorrow! – Join in tomorrow’s economic blackout – A grassroots movement … (Robert Reich)
Services to millions of people collapse as USAID cuts contracts worldwide (Reuters)
Daily Show Pretends Ditching DEI Means Ditching History
Donald Trump branded ‘racist climate denier’ as opposition grows to US President’s Scotland trip
Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)
Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
US Forest Service firings decimate: entire generation of talent and passion lost
MAGA’s Orwellian notion of “free speech” (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Democrats Need A Battle Plan–And A War Room (Murshed Zaheed/Off Message)
Democrats Are About to Eat Their Own (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)
Emperor Newsom podcasts while California burns (Tiana Lowe Doescher/Washington Examiner)
US Attorney Ed Martin Demotes Jan. 6 Case Supervisors (Bloomberg Law)
Mississippi Judge Orders Newspaper To Remove Editorial Criticizing City Council
Trump, Departmentalism, and the Judiciary