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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

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McConnell really had an awful final act. Could have retired at age 78 in 2020, gone out on top locking in the conservative SCOTUS. Stuck around for four years of Biden judicial confirmations, followed by two years of Trump making fun of him and memes of him falling down and glitching.

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Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, issued a stark warning today that Europe must be prepare to defend itself without the US.

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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The right wing woman is not insincere in her politics, but she is tactical: she believes that sexual and reproductive service to right wing men will earn her their protection, affection, and material support. She is wrong.

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Having to do this in a reply to Elon bullshitting about the latest update to his anti-woke chatbot… bleak

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Mitch McConnell announced that he will not run for reëlection next year. In 2020, @janemayer.bsky.social wrote about the political self-interest that has driven his career—and its consequences.

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Sorry. I just couldn’t let you get off that easy. apple.news/AqjfAq0eXQu6...

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Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

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same vibes

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Elon Musk is racing to perfect an AI model, just as his teams are gaining access to some of the nation’s most sensitive and closely guarded databases through DOGE. More in today's West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government👇

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

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This is the reason other news outlets need to put their foot down more. They need to show the leverage they have. At the end of the day, Trunp doesn't want to only communicate through Newsmax, OANN, and Breitbart.

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they sat idly by and watched a handful of brazen extremists turn Twitter into a death threat targeting system against random LGBTQ folks, never once imagining that the Horror Gun could easily point at them instead

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

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Waits for his buddy 🥹

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."

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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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“These are dedicated career employees who have worked through several administrations. I worked through the first Trump administration. We’re not partisan. We just put our heads down and do our work.” from @highcountrynews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org

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The worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party is the consultant class

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"Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency"

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"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired" Emerging 4th world country in North America! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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The Dep't of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies, including the FDA and CDC. Those laid off included people who evaluate the safety of medical devices. @rachelcohrs.bsky.social @bloomberg.com Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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

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Did you know? Right now you can look at every single payment coming out of the federal government, like a Venmo feed for federal loans, subsidies, and grants. Why does the government make this available, and how can it illuminate some questions everyone seems to be asking right now. buff.ly/4jX8t4i

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Trump's Truth Social, site just announced it lost $400.9 million last year. Its annual revenue declined 12% to just $3.6 million.

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It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.

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It’s a cult.

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85 year old congressman Steny Hoyer speaking at an anti-DOGE rally cries, "We're gonna win! We're gonna win! We're gonna win! We're gonna win! We're gonna win! We're gonna win!"

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JFC indeed.

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Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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Knowledge is power…

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Glad Trump had the chance to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to fly over the Daytona 500 and then ride The Beast on the track as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee are underwater. Priorities.

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