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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

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Inspired by the idea of "scruffy hospitality" here, tonight we're hosting the second in a series of open houses we're calling "commiseration potlucks." The only way we're going to get through this is together. Buddy up. newrepublic.com/article/1885...

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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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📢 100 constituents met with Rep. Sean Casten’s staff to thank him for protecting democracy & urge him to stand strong against extremist budget cuts. We need bold leadership to fight back! 💙 Call your member of congress & demand action! 📞 #HoldTheLine #ProtectOurDemocracy #Indivisible #Resist

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On Being in Community joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

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🚨Authoritarianism thrives on fear & silence—but history proves that resistance is powerful. The fight for democracy is won by those who refuse to comply with the Lie. My latest on how we counter Trump’s authoritarian push—one act of defiance at a time. www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/hope-in-th...

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A long but important read: farmergeorgiewrites.substack.com/p/the-devast...

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When my class was elected in 2010, we cut congress’ own budget and our personal ones by about 10 percent. This one should cut theirs by about 20, and each office should lay off a couple employees. Same DOGE is requiring. Make every @gop answer

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Illinois congressional legislators and labor leaders met to push back on President Trump’s widespread funding and staffing cuts. “He has stuck a middle finger in the face of the American people,” U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood said, “and it’s unacceptable.” to.wttw.com/4i39SEI

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Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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A team of engineers who work for Musk’s SpaceX will visit the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system command center in Virginia as the Trump administration considers an overhaul of the agency, which was previously seen as exempt from government cuts.

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I am going to attempt to post every single, not my Presidents’ Day protest, I see. Will I succeed? I guess we’ll see at the end of the day. When you see this post, make sure to amplify every post I include in it 🧵

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Someone posting protests found me. I'll share some of their posts too. Go through their feed to see some of the other protests happening today and don't forget to come back here for more live feeds and local news reports from across the country! #PresidentsDayProtest #50501Movement #50501Protest

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/r 50501 Feb.17th Chicago #Resistance #BuildTheResistance #NoKings #50501 #50501Movement Hundreds and hundreds of protesters in Chicago right now!

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Protestors in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Springfield, IL #50501movement #50501protest #springfieldIL #Illinoisprotest #presidentsday #illinois

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67 fake bomb threats on Election Day 2024. Almost all of them targeting heavily Democratic cities — which had lower turnout than in 2020. Many of the threats were clearly traced to Russia. And the mainstream media and establishment have somehow COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN.

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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At some point very soon, republicans in Congress will have to choose between pleasing Trump to avoid being primaried, and helping their constituents to avoid being primaried.

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I think what he’s saying is he’s about to grab the country by the p*ssy and when you’re a star, Republicans in Congress let you do it.

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You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

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The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal” — Richard Nixon, 1977 “He who saves his country does not violate any law” — Donald Trump, 2025

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Where law ends, tyranny begins.

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Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments

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This is ballgame on the First Amendment unless there is immediate action by news media, Congress, the courts & the public to condemn & prohibt this www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

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Unreal. DOGE posted National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) headcounts. NRO budgets and headcounts are classified to prevent adversaries from using them to extrapolate our intelligence priorities. Stop giving kids who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing access to this shit.

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One critical way to take action NOW as an active participant in the Resistance is to learn about the branches of the government… how bills are introduced, who can propose a bill (everyday citizens can btw), what voting takes place to approve these bills, and what the President’s role is in all this.

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it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

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NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races. This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

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This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.

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NEW: Treasury Department officials said Tuesday that the agency last week “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Elon Musk’s team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database, prompting an internal forensic investigation that remains ongoing. “Mistakenly” my a$$

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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

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The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Serena Williams 2 Harrison Butker 0 That’s the post… 😎

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Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

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Vance posted on X: “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” You mean Trump’s “power” being used to violate our Constitution? The Constitution is not something any president can manipulate for political games.

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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