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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

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Wyden on why he's not attending Trump's speech tomorrow and instead is hosting a town hall: "We're not interested in hearing about the Donald Trump alternate reality."

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An excellent conversation about the real-world impacts of cutting Nat’l Weather Service. For four bucks a person we get life-saving emergency weather alerts and constant monitoring that keeps air travel safe and comfortable. That gets our packages delivered. www.thebulwark.com/p/national-w...

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Brazen corruption. The swamp runneth over.

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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Please stop mocking people for talking about elections like “oh isn’t it cute you think there’ll be another election.” You’re discouraging people from voting. Which is exactly what Trump wants you to do.

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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Imagine waiting MONTHS for the Social Security check that keeps you housed & fed—because staff cuts crippled the system. This the opposite of 'efficiency' and vulnerable Americans will suffer.

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NEW: Tomorrow, The Daily Beans podcast will run without any ads in solidarity with the 2/28 economic blackout. We'll be forgoing any advertising revenue for the day. You can listen and subscribe for free: link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans

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"'When we saw that the police wasn’t helping us, every able-bodied man in the neighborhood, with or without a gun, has stood guard and has been standing guard ever since,' said Dominic Brewton Jr., who runs a maintenance and repair company in the town..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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It's a dark time for the country, but it's a new dawn for political street art.

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God, take JoAnn's pain and give it to Hobby Lobby

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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

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BREAKING Andrew and Tristan Tate have been released by Romanian authorities after significant pressure by the Trump administration. They are en route to Florida via private jet.

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

Just want to reiterate it is NOT NORMAL FOR THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN WHO HAS NO OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT ROLE TO ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET. And, also, casually joke about accidentally cutting Ebola prevention for a hot minute.

submitted 5 days ago • 199 comments

Tribal Nations across the U.S. have been impacted by federal funding freezes & the firing of staff at BIA, BIE, and IHS. These actions undermine tribal trust and treaty responsibilities. We ask the Administration to take immediate action to halt, exempt, and reverse these actions.

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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

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Duckworth: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history. This has to stop, because these are hard-working people."

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Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

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This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.

submitted 6 days ago • 759 comments

Hero

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Wild. Bond villain stuff. Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to describe this. The national security concerns here are off the charts. www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

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I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

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UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

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Meanwhile, in #MO04 “.. an extraordinarily heated town hall .. At every turn, an angry crowd of dozens shouted their displeasure ..” #GodHasAPlan www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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this week's cover is on point ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 261 comments

If I am understanding correctly this is DOGE's version of "gov't efficiency" Blast an unbaked email, create mass confusion, make managers dream up their interpretation of the guidance, and then days later say, "Nevermind." Then another email kicks off the whole process again. Gov't efficiency!

submitted 7 days ago • 320 comments

Cherry Hill, New Jersey:

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Thought your Social Security was safe?

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes slams Trump's DOJ: Reyes asked DOJ to explain how pronoun usage would impact military readiness during a hearing on Trump's order. DOJ attorney: "I don't—" Reyes: "Because it doesn't. Because any common sense rational human being understands that it doesn't."

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"51 employees at CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence received calls Friday from their human resources office telling them to report to the visitors center at CIA headquarters in Virginia at 8AM on Tuesday with their badges and without lawyers..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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I watched Hannity's interview with Musk and Donald Trump so that you didn't have to. It was, as George W. Bush might have said, some weird shit www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 13 days ago • 161 comments

How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 14 days ago • 760 comments

Cutting funding at a time when California and other states remain so vulnerable makes no sense. When disaster strikes again, we need to be prepared, not underfunded and understaffed.

submitted 13 days ago • 249 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

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He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

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"US tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike" in the use of AI. "But the number of civilians killed has also soared, fueling fears that these tools are contributing to the deaths of innocent people"

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Trump Admin fired all of the US Attorneys appointed by Biden, informed them by email, and sent the messages to the wrong email addresses. Not just classless, but incompetent, too.

submitted 14 days ago • 102 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

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PSA: Words matter They aren’t “layoffs” It’s not about “efficiency”

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

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