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We have a lot to talk about this week, to put it mildly.

The top headlines, you don't need to, you know, hear from me. You've

seen them. We've seen everything that has been happening coming into the third week of

the second Trump administration. And the big overriding thing is this assault that Elon Musk is leading against, you know, it's against

a lot of things. It's against the federal workforce, obviously, but it's also against the federal

government as an entity, right, that is not just that there's

a president and stuff like that. There is a state. It has an army. It has various social

services that provides support for large sectors of the population.

It supports science.

It does all these different things.

And that is an entity.

And it has been an assault on that entire thing.

And that entire thing is an expression of someone used, the guy I admire a lot, used this phrase somewhere a couple days ago,

an assault on the sovereignty of the American people,

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