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The Trump administration is investigating James Comey, the former FBI director who President Trump fired in his first term, for a social media post that officials claim amounted to a call for Trump’s assassination.

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The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin. www.wunc.org/2025-04-15/d...

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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The Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court has picked and chosen the counties whose absentee ballots should be counted. In case you don't immediately see why that's a lawless attempt to overturn election results, here's an explanation: ncnewsline.com/2025/04/15/t...

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Makes ya think

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This executive order is bad — cartoonishly so. But it is also a wake-up call for those who believe the danger of election subversion has passed. To the contrary, it has only just begun. And so has our fight. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 89 days ago • 101 comments

My dear friends of Bluesky! This one has hit way too fing close to home for me. This young woman, Rumeysa Ozturk from Istanbul, Turkey wax detained by US Homeland Security today. One of her professors at Tufts University in Medford, MA just spent a week in my home in Charleston, SC.

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim. Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.

submitted 91 days ago • 265 comments

We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.

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The original purpose of NATO, our columnist Bret Stephens writes, was "to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down. Under Trump, it's something like the opposite: America out, Russia in, and (the wrong kind of) Germans up."

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Red wave

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Sometimes, when I see someone for the first time in several months, he or she asks me how my recovery is going. It's not always immediately clear to me that the reference is to my June 13 bicycle crash, because I was at 90% by the end of August and at 98% by the end of September.

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The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season.

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The Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy is responsible for expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people of the United States and citizens of other countries. This is who Trump & Rubio selected for that role. Any questions?

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.

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Collins: He said that Canada is going to be implementing a $1.3 billion border plan, where they talk about reinforcing the border. I should note that's actually something that was announced back in December

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The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.

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Trump deliberately plunged the FAA into chaos as soon as he took office. Musk pushed out the FAA Administrator so the agency was leaderless, Trump fired the entire safety advisory board. He bullied staff to accept buyouts. Not a surprise the tower was “not normal”.

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7 Are Killed in Medical Plane Crash in Philadelphia www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

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“We're witnessing a broad assault on genuinely meritocratic achievement — one that could enable right-wing elites to corruptly loot the place, or install a highly ‘personalist’ government marked above all by loyalty to Trump himself, or some combination of the two.“

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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January 30, 2025

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Fellow GOP judge is a top donor in Jefferson Griffin's legal fight | WUNC search.app/6FuDkeGVgapx...

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"The issue here has nothing to do with unqualified people being hired or promoted based on criteria other than merit. The issue is encouraging more people to want these jobs in the first place." New from Ben Parker: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-pla...

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headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Yeah, you'd think the guy leading the Pentagon would know that celebration of diversity has long been a theme in American military history.

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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

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Perfect: Trump is angry that deportation numbers aren't high enough, so he's demanding higher numbers of daily arrests, WaPo reports. But that's going to require rounding up non-criminals. Confirms what I tried to argue below: Manufacturing a perpetual emergency constantly requires new enemies.

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Hey, @ncstate.bsky.social, your women's basketball team was completely dominant last night against Virginia Tech. Please create a BlueSky account for them so I can tag them in a post.

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Trump Is Already Drowning Us in Outrages www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Meta blocked posts from abortion pill providers, and temporarily suspended some accounts. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

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Americans caught up in immigration raid abc7ny.com/post/newark-...

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