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"You are all survivors of an abusive state. They will try to split this country into parts for resource extraction and they will encourage you to attack each other to make their job easier." Lots of good stuff in @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's newsletter. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

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What is wrong with Senate Democrats? There is a five-alarm Article I constitutional crisis. No votes. No attending joint session Trump speeches. No normal operations at all until all the illegal stealing of Congress’ authority stops. Why is this so hard?

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I'm begging you to get involved with your local library. Get on the board. Go to meetings. Join Friends of the Library. Talk to your friends and neighbors, get them involved. Show up for the library the best you can.

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Elon is robbing us America

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About 70% of adults who receive Medicaid benefits are working They simply don't earn enough money to afford other healthcare And-of course-Republicans don't want to increase the minimum wage So maybe it's the 3 million military children on Medicaid that Rep Fallon is calling fat and lazy instead

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This is NOT THE TIME to be pulling the plug on preparing for next season's flu season!!! WTH? Please share this with anyone you know who doesn't follow the news. Everyone needs to be in the loop. FDA cancels meeting to update next season's flu vaccines www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-can...

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'Putting on a blindfold and smashing everything': New Trump order draws fire from critics: U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his wholesale assault on the federal government and its workforce on Wednesday by ordering agencies to submit plans for mass firings by March 13 as the destructive…

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'Chainsaw anyone?' Analysis details $38 billion in taxpayer gifts to world's richest man: A group of Washington Post journalists on Wednesday published what appears to be the most comprehensive readout to date of the government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits that the companies of Elon…

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it's a new look in the white house - how insane is this? what's with the hat?

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#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance CORRECTION This video clip is from 2018. It is Trump & Pam Bondi talking about a law they wanted to pass. To be clear, I am all for common sense gun laws. We do need a national red flag law. I’m laughing bc MAGA said it was dems that want our guns. Ironic

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So today I found out my monthly insulin cost went from $35 a month to $173 a month. Fuck agent Krasnov!

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BREAKING NEWS: The FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's vaccines. This is the second cancellation with no rescheduled date. Dr. Vin Gupta of @msnbc.com this evening says this is not typical. RFK,Jr. says measles is an annual occurrence. He's not concerned. #ProudBlue

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Rep Amos is on FIRE about the GOP Tax Scam. "This is a betrayal. Full stop. This is not some social policy experiment. Real people will suffer. It is a betrayal of our seniors. It's a betrayal of our families. It is a betrayal of the middle class."

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Southwest jetliner takes evasive action while landing at Chicago's Midway: Southwest Airlines flight 2504 narrowly missed colliding with a privately owned business jet that was taxiing across the runway upon which the airliner was to land at Chicago's Midway Airport.

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These 15 MAGA Republicans will sell out their own constituents to fund tax breaks to the rich. They are willing to let their constituents DIE and cut Medicaid to do this. Light up those phones!

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House Republicans said they would spend the next two years cutting costs for the middle class. It’s a bait and switch: the only thing they are cutting is nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid. They are hearing about it. Keep up the pressure.

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As VA releases a bunch more workers, remember that Trump put Doug Collins in charge of Special Counsel which is the first line of appeal for these fired workers. Hampton Dellinger, reinstated by an order SCOTUS is likely to override in coming days, asked MPSB to reinstate 6 people, 1 of whom is VA.

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This is the Republican budget and they're going to own it. They're trying to cut Medicaid funding. They're trying to cut SNAP benefits. They're trying to take out all the programs that support working families across this country. That's REALITY. Why? To give billionaires tax cuts. #Medicaid

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Now say the same thing when the CR comes up in 17 days.

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"I never imagined my right to free speech and assembly could be stripped so violently," wrote Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl. Multiple grown men dragged her out as the crowd watched, no one intervening. Her constitutional rights, erased in an instant. 1A for me, but not for thee? Credit stillwerise IG

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When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

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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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As a caregiver, I’m amazed at the number of people who don’t understand this. I’ve had to explain it to children of dementia patients so many times I’ve lost count.

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The GOP, their DOGEbags, Elmo and Felon 47 aren’t looking for government waste. They’re looking for ways to ensure the public pays for a $4.5T tax cut to the Billionaire Class.

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Don’t Cut My Medicaid instead make the billionaires and corporations pay their fair share!

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Double-plus-ungood. It’s not just the particular terms or even the self-censorship by federal employees that’s scary. It’s the cultivation of an atmosphere in which language itself is a threat, your own tongue may be your enemy.

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I guess the next step in owning the libs will be to wear white robes and hoods, with the smirking explanation "AckShuaLLy, I'm dressed up as a crusader!"

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House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

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A huge thank you to all of his constituents who turned out for this! If your congressperson does town halls, showing up & telling them your concerns is one of the most powerful things you can do. It demonstrates the strength of the movement - we're not just keyboard jockeys.

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its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

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I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

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Fun fact: while Phony Stark and the DOGEbags are taking money from our veterans, the world’s poorest people and kids with cancer, Assistant President Poopy Pants has already spent nearly $11 million of our money… playing golf.

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New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

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There's nothing slow-motion about it. We ride.

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The time to BEWARE, has passed…👇 Hasn’t it?! Unfortunately. For. Everyone.

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Wild to see how much Republicans like Scott Jennings are enjoying watching hundreds of thousands of Americans lose their jobs.

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“A contradiction runs through the United States’ approach…It has signaled that the U.S. alone will negotiate an end to the war but also that Europe alone must pay for and enforce an outcome it has not played a role in deciding.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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In a broader sense, the running story of the 2020s seem to be about decadent, nihilistic people and nations dramatically underestimating the extent to which other people and nations still believe in things.

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“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

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Hmmm. I think MuskRat is starting to be afraid of us. #50501 @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @mmpadellan.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @davidcorn.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social

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" The Trump administration has made obvious the real source of risk. It isn’t federal borrowing grinding ever higher. The true risk is our political leaders doing something wildly irresponsible that unnerves financial markets." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

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

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