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NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ. Reporting from NBC News:

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"Court allows CIA to fire employees who worked on DEI" www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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"Alcoa warns Trump's aluminum tariff could cost 100,000 US jobs" https://buff.ly/3QWNK3r

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Thread: A viral clip of Donald Trump Jr saying on his Triggered podcast that "the US should have been sending weapons to Russia" instead of Ukraine is AI-generated and fake. Worryingly, the fake AI audio sounds near identical to Don Jr's real voice. Let's see how we can verify that it's fake.

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Shots Fired Into the Home of Oregon Insurance CEO @dropsitenews.com

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A strong statement from the the editors of Reuters, Bloomberg and AP on the White House's decision to change how the news media cover the President reutersagency.com/resources/st...

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Fed. judge grants PI, finds the federal aid freeze is likely arbitrary and capricious, exceeded statutory authority (major questions doctrine), and may have violated the First Amendment. Orders defendants to release disbursments and stop blocking funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“Promise I won’t get political tonight” Me after one glass

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From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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This feels like something out of Watch Dogs

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A HUD spokesperson told @raphae.li Monday that the video of President Trump licking Elon Musk's toes that played on video screens at the agency was a "waste of taxpayer dollars and resources ... appropriate action will be taken for all involved": www.reuters.com/world/us/bog...

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5 things i did last week: -i talk to the customer -i take specifications from the customer and give them to the engineers -i deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers dont have to -i have people skills damnit -what the hell is wrong with you people

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Ran into the paywall for the @thebaltimorebanner.com this morning, was a reminder to re-up my subscription. All the congrats in the world to them, they are truly kicking ass

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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"Grand jury recommends [an] Alabama police department be 'immediately abolished'" abcnews.go.com/US/hancevill... Officers consuming gear from evidence locker, dealing drugs, dispatcher dies from “combined toxic effects of fentanyl, gabapentin, diazepam, amphetamine, carisoprodol and methocarbamol”.

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(1) good! (2) link to the goddamn filing!

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Exxon, others should face climate claims by Puerto Rican towns, US judge says reut.rs/4bdAHDG @mikescarcella.bsky.social

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Apple pulls end-to-end cloud encryption feature in UK www.reuters.com/technology/a...

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In Russia, dozens of dissenters are held as psychiatric patients www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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US IRS expected to fire 6,700 employees on Thursday in Trump downsizing spree - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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REUTERS: Planned news conference of US envoy to Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy had been cancelled, at the request of the US team.

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Absolutely gutting

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I have a little context to add to this outstanding reporting. ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/

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Another doozy from @stevanzetti.bsky.social

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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is released from a Florida prison weeks after Biden commutes his life sentence.

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Andrew and Tristan Tate are required to stay in Romania on human trafficking and sexual misconduct charges. The U.K. is trying to extradite them on rape charges. Enter: the Trump administration. www.jezebel.com/trump-behold...

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Why this is ultimately unsurprising is because our understanding of journalism, its function, its role, is distorted. Journalism cannot speak truth to power when it is part of the structure of that power. This is not something journalism likes to admit. But it is often the case. It's about power.

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"American venture capital firm Insight Partners was the victim of a cyber breach last month. Insight Partners has notified both its portfolio companies and limited investors via email about the breach." Hmm.. that's not good 😶 www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...

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worth underscoring it's all just the most depraved corporate cost-cutting bullshit that's slammed every other sector over the last few decades. they're gonna start making people take those aptitude tests that got me rejected by Blockbuster video in 2004.

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As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

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Trump: If it saves the country, it's not illegal “echoing Napoleon” @reuters.com

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Sullivan's decision came after the attorneys in the meeting contemplated resigning en masse, rather than filing the motion to dismiss, another source briefed on the matter told Reuters. There are approximately 30 attorneys in the Public Integrity Section. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

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US Defense Department contract "inaccurately represented" on social media, says Thomson Reuters www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Manhattan US attorney and top DOJ officials resign after order to drop Eric Adams case www.reuters.com/world/us/man...

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Exclusive: Matt Schlapp, CPAC Chairman, allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar, witnesses say. (via @yasharali.bsky.social)

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New: The Trump administration has started laying off workers at the GSA. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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