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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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This you @usatoday.com?

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TV news networks brand themselves as fearless truth-tellers, but this week they flinched over three simple words: Gulf of Mexico. www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...

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So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study? A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.

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The man’s devices should have been confiscated two days ago

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He added Jeff to the chat. That’s how it happened.

submitted 7 hours ago • 205 comments

This aged badly

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I had legit completely forgotten this.

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Congress and other proper authorities must provide oversight of this incredibly stupid security breach. At a minimum, Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard, and Witkoff must resign or be fired. And a special counsel should be appointed to investigate. My statement: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

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Playing to an audience of one

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<saves to show FOIA office>

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Tulsi Gabbard once again tells Senator Angus King that there was "no classified or intelligence equities" in the Signal chat group. "You're the head of the intelligence community and you're supposed to know about classifications...If that's the case, please release that whole text stream." 🍿

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Last month the @texasobserver.org reported on ICE Prosecutor James Rodden who operates a virulently racist Twitter account, "GlomarResponder." I filed an ethics complaint against him in D.C., where he's licensed. Turns out the D.C. bar has no problem with an ICE prosecutor being a white supremacist.

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The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

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This whole thread

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"This would almost certainly violate the Espionage Act in that they were placing classified information or, more broadly, national defense information into an unauthorized location...in any other time in DC politics and governance, this would be a cause for immediate congressional investigations."

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Opinion | As a national security hawk, I would rather have a Republican Secretary of Defense accidentally share war plans with the editor of The Atlantic using a government account than have a Democratic Secretary of State share a risotto recipe with friends via her private email.

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🍿

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Heads must roll. This is one of the dumbest security breaches in history, and it suggests a larger pattern of potentially criminal behavior that puts Americans at risk.

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God grant me the serenity to lie about the things I think I can get away with, courage to deflect from the things I can't and the wisdom to know the difference

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Just checked on Fox News and saw that the big story was....Hunter Biden!

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I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security. It was … two days ago.

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White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

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The Rosenbergs were executed for far less

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This is the message federal employees receive after trying to send in their mandatory “5 bullets” email about what they did this week:

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The best and brightest

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look folks, how do you expect us to round up and send 8M evil people to slave labor camps if you make us prove theyre evil first?

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“I stand by what I said two months ago: We must refuse to be complicit. The more you give in to Trump, the more he will take.” www.americaamerica.news/p/refusing-t...

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Some pages about figures like Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo Code Talkers and Desert Storm-era Gen. Colin Powell have been restored to Pentagon websites following public outrage. But many remain down.

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“If American journalists flinch at merely calling a centuries-old body of water what it has always been known as, what will they flinch at next? History is full of regimes that began by controlling what people could say.”

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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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The New York Times just pushed this let’s-justify-the-attacks on diversity op-ed. As soon as I looked at the author, I knew exactly who he was from past reporting: The co-founder of an anti-“woke” asset management firm that he started with Vivek Ramaswamy.

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We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

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The Trump administration has removed the profile of Alfred Masters, the first enlisted Black man to serve in the Marine Corps, from the Defense Department website. Masters entered the Marine Corps in 1942 and served in Guam and the South Pacific during World War II.

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This is unreal. A state Supreme Court race. The cancer has permeated the entire system.

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No one could’ve predicted that a candidate who threatened journalists and spoke of jailing protesters would turn out to be an enemy of free speech.

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He did this in MI and PA last year as well

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Famously, the way to beat fascist bullies is to flop onto your back and say “my vital organs are exposed, take what you want.” Certainly they will stop at the first vital organ.

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Mike Waltz can't explain why the State Department cut off funding to a program that finds Ukrainian kids who were abducted by the Putin regime

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It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.

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“House Democrats’ most common messaging strategy on trans issues, advised by McBride after the election, has been to treat Republicans’ anti-trans attacks as a distraction and to pivot to other issues.” While this is an entirely sensible strategy, the pivot can’t be to sell out trans folks.

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Absolutely

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Dom Lucre, who posted infamously horrific and wildly illegal child sexual abuse material to Twitter - and then had his account personally reinstated by Elon Musk - allegedly was recently invited to the White House.

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😂

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The Trump administration helped bring back the Tate brothers (charged with rape and sexual trafficking), hosted Conor MacGregor (multiple allegations of sexual assault), and now invited Dom Lucre (horrific CSAM stuff) to the White House. These are the people they're celebrating and defending.

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Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...

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We need more Jon Ossoffs in the Democratic Party. This is just fantastic.

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MAGA can’t even decide if they’re pro-buying soda with SNAP benefits or not. Some of their “influencers” are getting paid to push the agenda of “Big Soda,” and some are being paid to push the laughable MAHA narrative. Can’t take these clowns seriously.

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