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‘Secretly panicking’: GOP strategists fear Musk is leading Trump off a cliff – msn

“One of the biggest warning signs is the New York Times report on pro-Trump wrestling fans who were in attendance as Trump and Musk attended a championship event in Philadelphia over the weekend. Many of them were not happy about Musk, with one woman from Montana saying his constant appearances make Trump ‘look like he’s kissing a– to get money.'”

What do you think?:

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show – CNN

Musk holds court at first Trump cabinet meeting

Equal Justice under Law?

Under the Trump & Bondi regime, vandalizing one of Musk’s Teslas can get you 20 years in prison. Vandalizing the nation’s Capitol, on the other hand, a presidential pardon.

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down – WaPost

Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say – Axios

“Some of the most vulnerable Americans — including people who are hospitalized, kids in foster homes and those living in remote areas — will be effectively blocked from applying for disability benefits, according to one advocate who spoke with Axios and was at the meeting.”

Just called Social Security’s 1-800-772-1213 number for information.  A computer voice said I would have to wait several hours to talk with a representative. Before that, the voice told me that processing time for a disability claim was an average of 200-230 days to review the application and medical records. The computer did not estimate the probability of an applicant dying or running out of money while waiting for a decision.  

Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the courage to brawl for the working class – Guardian

“‘For years, I’ve talked about the concept of oligarchy as an abstraction,’ Sanders, an independent who votes with Democrats and twice sought the party’s presidential nomination, said in an interview after a joint rally in Tempe, Arizona, with the New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Vermont senator recalled Donald Trump’s inauguration, when the three wealthiest people on the planet – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – were seated in front of his cabinet nominees in what many viewed as a shocking display of power and influence.

“‘You gotta be kind of blind not to understand that you have a government of the billionaire class, for the billionaire class, by the billionaire class,’ he said. ‘And then, on top of all that, you’ve got Trump moving very rapidly toward an authoritarian form of society.'”

VT Senator Bernie Sanders has brains, heart, guts, and balls – characteristics which set him apart from today’s Democratic Party leadership. For that matter, the same applies to Republicans kowtowing to President Trump and dodging the fury of their constituents back home. Although officially an independent, Sanders is the best thing the Democratic Party has going for it. Can the 83-year-old senator pull the party back to its working-class roots?

Sen. Bernie Sanders Agrees With Trump On Border Security, But Slams Mass Deportation Plan – Tampa Free Press

Grim milestone in Gaza – ABC

“More than 50,000 Palestinians have died since the start of the war in Gaza.”

With the help of the White House and US taxpayer dollars, Israel continues to kill Palestinian civilians and take Palestinian land. This is not a war. It is a slaughter.

QED:

Report: Israel eyeing full-scale occupation of Gaza – Jewish News Service

“…After Gallant was dismissed in November, Israeli media reported that he told families of hostages that Israel had achieved all its military objectives and cautioned against attempting to control Gaza.

“Last week, Israel appeared to adopt a new approach, launching airstrikes that (Defense Minister) Katz likened to ‘opening the gates of hell.’ The strikes targeted not only members of Hamas’s armed wing but also civilian officials, including the director general of Gaza’s Interior Ministry, the director general of the Justice Ministry and members of the Hamas political bureau as they gathered for pre-dawn meals before fasting for Ramadan.

“On Friday, Katz threatened to not only temporarily occupy Gazan territory but to annex it if Hamas did not make concessions regarding hostages. ‘The more Hamas persists in its refusal, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed to Israel,’ he said…”

Why did Israel kill the last orthopaedic surgeon in northern Gaza? – MEE

“Such actions are part of a broader strategy to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a collective and ensure that Gaza’s population remains unable to recover or rebuild.”

Israel approves independence for 13 West Bank settlements – Daily Post Nigeria

“In a post on X, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the settlements would ultimately be recognised as independent, which follows the approval of tens of thousands of housing units across the West Bank. ‘We continue to lead a revolution of normalisation and regulation in the settlements. Instead of hiding and apologising – we raise the flag, build and settle. This is another important step on the path to actual sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,’ Smotrich said.”

UN Commission of Inquiry held its third round of Public Hearings to gather testimony from victims of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence committed by the Israeli Security Forces and Israeli settlers:

Kifeya Khraim & Witness #3 | Public Hearings, COI Palestine, East Jerusalem & Israel, 11/03/2025

This testimony details systematic, widespread sexual violence against Palestinian women (and men) by Israeli soldiers and officers… “It is very clear that it is a matter of policy.”

Immigrant women describe ‘hell on earth’ in ICE detention – msn/USA Today

All four women described being chained at the wrist, waist and chest and loaded onto a prison bus, where they were held, in one case, for six hours; in another, for 11 or 12 hours. “They took us to a bigger bus,” the woman said in the audio recording. “They checked us, and then they put like chains on us, hands to waist, connected. It was very scary because they chained my chest super-tight and I couldn’t breathe properly. I was really scared because I thought, ‘I’m not going to be able to breathe.'”

There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor. They watched, helpless, as some did.