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Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Dear @MSNBC: Whatever you were thinking, it wasn’t actually thinking. As I just said to my friend @joyannreid.bsky.social ⏵ “Trading you for Steele and Sanders is sort of like trading a Fabregé egg for an egg McMuffin.”

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 22 hours ago • 278 comments

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 13 hours ago • 125 comments

Lovers

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Maternal deaths rose by 33%. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

The WHITE HOUSE has found a workaround to block NIH-backed medical research even after judges ordered them to allow it to go forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

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A Must Read👇 "Once our justice system is destroyed and replaced with one in which power and cronyism make adherence to laws optional, who will want to spend large amounts of money on highly credentialed and knowledgeable lawyers trained to counsel clients in how to comply with them?"

submitted 3 days ago • 183 comments

Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

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NY law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is enthusiastically joining Donald Trump's effort to undermine the justice system. It’s sad to see a firm clients have long turned to for counsel on how to comply with the law rendering itself into an instrument for promoting lawlessness, I diacuss in PN.

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Gotta love the British press! 🇬🇧

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

No laws, no eggs, no safe skies, no housing, no cures for diseases.

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Where are all the self-proclaimed defenders of the rule of law and free enterprise? Open shakedowns of businesses happening right in front of us and it's just 🦗🦗🦗

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1219 comments

Fwiw I have heard that NIH funding is still paused in spite of court orders, at least to some extent. People seem confused, which seems like the point.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Sometimes, "Move fast, break things," just results in a lot of broken things.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

Sensational work by @izzy-diaz.bsky.social tonight at Spruill

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Leaving on a Jet Plane So far the Trump show seems more Bob Denver than John Denver, but after what Elon, Don, and Big Balls have done to the FAA, I'll take country roads next time I want to get Rocky Mountain high. by Maureen Dowd

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So when does the Golden Age of America start because right now I'm just seeing a lot of good people losing their jobs and a lot of planes crashing

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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American planes are crashing almost every day and the Secretary of Transportation is visiting the Daytona 500 and tweeting at Pete Buttigieg.

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I'm sorry if you think my use of the word "refused" here is over the top, but I literally embedded my post from the hearing when Chutkan raised this issue. She was incredulous when DOJ didn't have an answer at the hearing and asked for one. They followed up — without giving an answer. They refused.

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The first challenge to the Trump 2.0 administration heads to SCOTUS: "If you’re interested in rooting out waste and corruption, you want someone like Dellinger in place. So, Trump’s insistence on firing him is telling." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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File under “duh” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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1/ Very bad look for the business side of the Washington Post: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

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"Authoritarians try to crush independent referees and civil society institutions, including news organizations, universities, statistical agencies and central banks." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o... Grouping newsrooms with central banks, universities, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gets it right.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

@sensitivityandpowr.bsky.social is a phenomenal model

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this corruption has to stop.

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

Some wonderful poses by @noathemodel.bsky.social from a virtual drawing session

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

submitted 6 days ago • 2403 comments

The sad fact is this lawless pronouncement by Trump is damn-near a quote from the democracy-busting presidential immunity ruling from a compromised Sup Ct. This is PRECISELY why Justice Sotomayor (joined by Justices Kagan & Ketanji Brown Jackson) said, “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

submitted 7 days ago • 194 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities” electionlawblog.org?p=148644

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The community note 🤌😘

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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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