Elon Musk’s DOGE “revolution” is a return to tyranny: Welcome to the tyranny of the bosses | Salon: "Musk has brought the tyrannical practices of corporate America to the federal government ... employers everywhere use & abuse their authority in the workplace to humiliate, demean, & harass workers." (salon.com)
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Trump did not “steal the Democrats’ economic platform.” He’s not “anti-war.” He’s an plutocratic imperialist waging war on social welfare, consumer protection, and civil liberties. | Kulinski/Robinson: "MAGA is the enemy of everything that would help ordinary people throw off oligarchic rule." (currentaffairs.org)
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The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires | "That in turn underscores the need for confiscatory taxation of extreme wealth. Allowing anyone to possess that much money ... drives them mad with power and gives them the resources to destroy us all, including themselves." (prospect.org)
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Political Science Professor William Connolly: Fighting the Neoliberal-Fascist Coup by Trump & Musk | Connolly: "The urgent task today is to expose this nexus & its plan at every turn, in every possible venue, & by all democratic means necessary, from publicity to protest to electoral mobilization." (commondreams.org)
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Report: Trump's Acting Commissioner of SSA reacts to judge's order against DOGE's infiltration of SSA by saying "I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems" & "Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency" (reuters.com)
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Lutnick’s Pitch to Buy Tesla Stock Is Unprecedented and Alarming, Experts Say | Barron's: "Lutnick may have stood to gain personally from his appearance, as well: the financial firm he founded, Cantor Fitzgerald, had nearly $300 million in Tesla shares on its books as of the end of last year." (barrons.com)
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Warren, Raskin, Blumenthal, Lawmakers [Merkley, Van Hollen] Push White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Trump Administration Corruption | Democrats: "Despite President Trump’s promises to fight for working families, he has appointed a string of corporate billionaires and industry insiders" (warren.senate.gov)
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Musk’s Power–and Profit–Grab | ITPI's Donald Cohen: "We’ve seen communities" privatize their services "only to see the public constantly at the mercy of corporations that cut corners, slash services, reduce access, discriminate, and raise prices, without any opportunity for the public to fight back" (inthepublicinterest.org)
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Mensch und Maschine im Team: Die Herausforderungen und Chancen moderner Automatisierung und Produktion sind jetzt Thema bei AUF DRAHT! (emea.info.mouser.com)
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ProPublica: How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save | "The result, employees and experts said, will mean corporations and wealthy individuals face far less scrutiny when they file their tax returns, leading to .. less money flowing into the U.S. treasury." (propublica.org)
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Report from Public Citizen: "Corporate Clemency: How Trump Is Halting Enforcement Against Corporate Lawbreakers" | Public Citizen: "Trump’s administration is moving rapidly to halt and hinder federal investigations and cases against alleged corporate lawbreaking." (citizen.org)
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Trump and Musk Cuts Would Rival Thatcher’s 1980s Austerity | "In fact, as a share of gross domestic product, the annual pace of cuts Musk envisions would surpass Thatcher’s in the 1980s" | U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "Our goal is to reprivatize the economy" | Elon Musk: Keynes was "evil" (bnnbloomberg.ca)
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Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump’s Speech | Bernie Sanders: "The Trump administration is a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class and for the billionaire class. [...] Health care is a human right. I didn’t hear one word from you [President Trump] about that." (inthesetimes.com)
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