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"The USA today is not the USA I fought and came close to dying for," says 100-year-old Frank Hartzell, who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. His experience offers a warning about the dangers of political extremism:

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Things that make you go hmmm.... #USDemocracy

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MAGA Republicans and Trump are waging an all-out war on democracy. They think they can fool us, gaslight us, and demoralize us, BUT we will not falter. We will NOT fail, and we will crush MAGA Republicans and Trump. We MUST stand together and FIGHT like hell #USDemocracy

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Peeps💙Let’s expose these unlawful thugs who are terrorizing our nation! They must be rooted out and be prosecuted for their crimes against humanity!! #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

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Very Well Said….

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Now here's a great thought!!!

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Existing evidence on the safety and efficacy of getting a COVID vaccine in pregnancy all points the same way: the shot is important for maternal and fetal health.

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RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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NEW: Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters by making it harder for voters to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social‬

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A D.C. judge said Musk appears to lack the legal authority to direct alterations to the government because he is not a Senate-confirmed official and DOGE was never authorized by Congress. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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When the magazines of your guns are bigger than your manhood and you've been trying to get perfectly healthy women pregnant for a decade (forget keeping them happy), of course you don't want anyone to have an abortion...

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Anyone else VERY concerned about WHAT they're leaving with? They're not the type to tuck tail and walk away from anything empty-handed. We need investigations and we need them now before they bury the evidence in digital vaults.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, opened a probe into the private dinner that President Trump hosted for top investors in his meme coin, seeking to highlight the ethical and legal concerns raised by the president’s willingness to profit while in office.

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The average rental prices for studio apartments in New York and Miami are two to three times what one person earning the median income in those cities can afford. Here's a look at where else renters will struggle to find budget-friendly studios. nyti.ms/3HuI2E8

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The Trump administration is canceling a nearly $600-million contract to the drugmaker Moderna that was intended to develop a shot for humans against bird flu.

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RFK Jr. has bragged his “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, is based on “gold-standard” science: In reality, its citations are error-ridden, with missing links, incorrect conclusions, and sometimes even made-up studies. https://trib.al/D5miniT

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I don't know how I'm following you but have not seen your posts 😭 You are a gem, we are here for this! #DrAndrewsforSenate #Grahamsucks #SCPol

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"... Elon Musk’s brief time in Washington made American life worse, with actions that will continue to reveal the true extent of their immense damage for years to come. the thing that I’ll remember the most is Musk’s cruel disdain for the federal worker."

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

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One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

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Trump is such a colossal embarrassment, I’m guessing the GOP get dizzy from shaking their heads in disbelief!!

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NEW: A federal judge greenlit lawsuits challenging Elon Musk’s position in the federal government and DOGE as unconstitutional, stating that the faux-agency’s efforts to slash the government likely violate the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social‬

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Hey Elon Unscheduled disassembly 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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🚨Fascism is here!!!

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Oh No hide the Ketchup, hide the whiskey, oh no fuckin shit #NotSurprised🙄

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“Trump Reverses Another Tariff Policy” which Lawerence O’Donnell replied “the stupidest and most cowardly President in American history backed down, again.” O’Donnell also created a new phrase: "Trump Always Chickens Out" or better known as "TACO." #TACO 😂

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Truth 💥

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Prison for miscarriages. A woman miscarried in a fast food restaurant. She was arrested, her bail set at $100,000, which she didn’t have so they let her rot in jail for five months, while they determined that she did indeed have a miscarriage and didn’t do anything to cause it.

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Do you double check your receipt when you buy groceries? Maybe you should. Kroger stores in multiple states show a pattern of listing expired sale prices on the shelves and then ringing up regular prices at checkout, an investigation by the Guardian US, @thefern.org and @consumerreports.org ‬found.

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A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s effort to gut the Education Department was not just a government reshuffle but a full-on attempt to dismantle a federal agency.

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Communist China wishes they could 😂😂

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Opinion: There has been a steep and steady decline in 'task discretion' since the 1990s. This is a measure of how much influence people say they have over their day-to-day work, such as which tasks to do and how to do them. ⁠https://www.ft.com/content/45260941-711b-4742-999a-f17eeb4b5a15

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Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options to get you started. www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

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Under His 👁️

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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The closer you live to a golf course, the more likely you are to develop Parkinson's Disease due to heavy pesticide and other chemical use. But who needs regulations? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Exponential growth like in that first graph on a global scale is the scariest thing imaginable, given that the underlying process kills us and our planet. But crypto and AI centers, amirite? Thank God for shareholder wealth.

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A new poll shows that if AOC would beat Chuck Schumer in a Democratic primary in 2028 by TWENTY ONE POINTS. I truly hope she runs for that Senate seat. His words and deeds have proven him to be utterly ineffective in fighting the clear and present fascist danger.

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"From failing to publicize a major outbreak to scaling back safety alert specialists and rules, the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory and cost-cutting push risks unraveling a critical system that helps ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply"

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