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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Senator Bernie Sanders asks, "How many seniors would be thrown out of nursing homes if the Republicans cut Medicaid by 880 billion? It would be a disaster! " This is and an issue that should reach EVERYONE. As Sam Seder say on the Majority Report, HANDS OFF OUR EARNED BENEFITS! #Medicaid

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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Gene Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner for “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico […]

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So the only question remaining is whether John Roberts is going to sell out the Constitution. What say you, motherfucker? #SCOTUS #JohnRoberts #UnitaryRussianAgent #ArrestKrasnov #USPol

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LA Times: California couple confided about stuffed mountain lion to fellow fliers, authorities say. They were in for a shock "...they confided that they had hunted a mountain lion. In fact, they said, a close relative was a big fan of wild animals that had been stuffed and mounted — they had […]

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#DOGE Gains Access to #Confidential Records on #Housing #Discrimination, #Medical Details — Even #DomesticViolence While some #FederalAgencies have resisted efforts by #ElonMusk’s team to access confidential records, #HUD has opened the door. The potential #harm to #privacy could be […]

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#WashingtonPost’s opinion editor, #DavidShipley, is exiting as #JeffBezos said the section’s focus would narrow to defend “personal liberties & free markets.” “I am of America & for America, & proud to be so,” #Bezos said, in an email to employees. “Our country did not get here by being […]

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WaPo, but it’s an exclusive 🤷🏼‍♀️ #GiftArticle #ElonMusk’s business empire is built on $38B in #GovernmentFunding Govt infusions at key moments helped #Tesla & #SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s #wealth #Musk & his cost-cutting US #DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim govt […]

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"Worlds Most Annoying Man Suffers Consequences" It really feels like Elon is on a self destructive spiral and I am so here for that. https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to-cancel-his-collaboration-with-elon-musks-starlink/ #CarlosSlim #ElonMusk #Musk

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>20 #CivilService employees resigned from billionaire #Trump adviser #ElonMusk’s DOGE, saying they would not use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people & uphold our oath to the #Constitution across presidential administrations […]

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Never thought I'd see the day when the United States is a coin flip away from allying with Russia and North Korea in an illegal invasion of another country. Might be time for all ranks of all US services to re-familiarize themselves with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the US […]

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🚨🚨🚨 More attention on please: #PeteHegseth Lobbied #Trump to #Pardon #WarCriminals Among those Trump’s pick for #DefSec] #Hegseth …advocated for was Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL platoon leader…[who] shot [#civilians, including a school-age girl, & knifing to […]

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[climate change, West Atlantic russian client state policy] American scientists banned by Trump from contributing to IPCC climate change assessment reports. I guess if you don’t see a problem, there is no problem. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/21/climate/trump-blocks-scientists-ipcc […]

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@StillIRise1963 @ErickaSimone I find Parkrose refreshing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1USdkPQ5w

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The old "but some scientists think..." boogie. The old "let me throw doubt &/or hope into this, so you're left vaguely unconcerned". Exactly what do they think, in this case? They 'think' wave energy is another renewable. NOT "turning the tide" FFS. #ThisIsNotJournalism #ClimateChange #TheGuardian

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Firing America’s senior military leadership overnight and replacing them with party loyalists is definitely dictatorship stuff, if anyone is under a rock right now.

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When scientists are threatened with being fired over saying the wrong words, it's up to the rest of us to say the words they're not allowed to say: The high temperatures last month bears the fingerprints of #ClimateChange caused by the burning of #FossilFuels, which needs to stop […]

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My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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#Trump expected to take control of #USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in #ECommerce business & the 250-year-old #Postal Service. #idiocracy #USpol https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/trump-usps-takeover-dejoy/

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#DOJ deletes database tracking federal #police #misconduct The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by #Trump, the #Justice Dept confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved #PublicSafety by helping to prevent bad officers […]

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We had a packed house at the Aiken County Democratic Party meeting tonight. Folks want to know how they can make a difference amidst this “chaos,” as speaker Antoine Seawright called it. Quoting MLK Jr., he told us to focus on “community,” winning local elections & finding common ground with […]

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#Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against #ForeignInfluenceOperations The Trump administration has reassigned or forced out several dozen government employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in US #elections at multiple agencies, according to current & fmr ofcls […]

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The Google Threat Intelligence Group says it has observed "increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services." […]

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If you want to see leadership in the face of metastasizing American fascism, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_SLAzHMmc

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From @MeidasTouch #USFS #wildfires #ForestService #Politics #USpol

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Hoo, boy. This is REALLY radical. Waaaaaay more radical then it might seem. It's completely disassembling the modern state, in which agencies administer the laws on behalf of both Congress and the Executive, jointly […]

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#Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder that an aide said “reestablishes the long-standing norm that only the president or the attorney general can speak for the United States when stating an opinion as to what the #law is." The order comes as Trump allies question court rulings blocking some of his […]

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RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has been planted by Trump in the role of Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. He wants to slash […]

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I was literally joking about the Netherlands offering to make New York into New Amsterdam again last week. My wish has come true! #USpol #NLpol #EUpol #funny #YesPlease

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Nothing says "I support democracy" like an oligarch whining that law-abiding protestors should be thrown in jail on President's Day. #elon #presidentmusk #uspoli #presidentsday #protests #usa #aoc #bernie #trump #potus #doge #donaldtrump #berniesanders #musk #elonmusk #vptrump

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@ai6yr The storm maps still look crazy at the sink. We had the president of the United States, doing a joyride around a race track without even addressing the flooding crisis going on. These guys want the states to handle disasters the end I think you’re probably more than aware of that […]

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#SouthCarolina

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You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

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[Politics, USpol, FAFO, farmers] #FAFO #TigersEatMyFace PBS: "In the last two presidential elections, farmers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, but now some are saying his efforts to cut the government are causing major financial pressure. " […]

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Firing Air Traffic Control Staff despite multiple crashes. Firing IRS agents, in tax season. Firing the people that will let you know bird flu transmission is rising. Firing the people that will let you know a storm is coming.... during winter and as states still are recovering from […]

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The Eyewall: Unfortunately, the flooding that we expected to occur in Kentucky and West Virginia happened as forecast. As those areas clean up, they will also be readying for a snowstorm this week, as a complex, significant winter storm takes aim at them, the […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

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Picked up a scifi novel (Praxis, by David Gerrold, author of The Trouble With Tribbles, The Man Who Folded Himself, and many, many others) about two college students arrested during a riot, who escape indentured labor by agreeing to emigrate to an unknown […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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#TXwx #MSwx #TNwx #ALwx #KYwx Ryan Hall is live for Severe Weather YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Dqjd6xoRDIQ?feature=shared

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Y’all, there is more major flooding happening in the Appalachian mountains right now. #climatechange #Kentucky

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