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House GOP leaders are reportedly urging their members to stop holding town halls in light of the blowback some of them have been getting back home. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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New - First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that’s infected more than 120 people. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...

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PHILADELPHIA In 2005, Philadelphia became the first major city in America to make an African American history course a graduation requirement. That landmark class could now be on shakier ground. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

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But hey! The whole fucking thing is one gigantic scam-o-rama to put megabucks in the pockets of Erik Prince and whoever else he decides to spread the wealth around to. Does the name, Donald Trump, sound like a likely candidate? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/doge-with-...

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"Protection Racket Diplomacy" Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

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"The reason Putin might finally be ready to negotiate seems to be remarkably simple: He wants to avoid a humiliating bankruptcy" Trump has rescued him www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

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House Republicans just voted to rob 72 million Americans of their Medicaid coverage to give tax cuts to the rich. 😤 Give your House Reps a CALL BACK to let them know how you feel about their vote. 👉 5calls.org/issue/budget...

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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

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House Republicans Can Kiss The Majority Goodbye As They Pass Medicaid Gutting Budget Bill House Democrats are now set up to run against every single Republican who voted for gutting Medicaid in the budget bill www.politicususa.com/p/house-repu...

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BREAKING: Elon’s Epic Email Rake-Stomp Finally Explained! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

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The grift goes on. The USA is now QVC.

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CLAIM: The House budget resolution (H Con Res 14) doesn't touch Medicaid. FACT: The resolution directs the Energy & Commerce committee, which oversees Medicaid, to find $880 billion in cuts, and Republicans have openly called for spending less on Medicaid. Connect the dots.

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🚨 If you make one call today, make it be to your House Rep to VOTE NO on the billionaire hand out budget resolution! 🔥

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Kremlin casts doubt on Trump claim Russia would accept European troops in Ukraine Spokesperson reiterates position as sources say Putin is committed to Russian control of Ukraine’s political future www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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BY WHOM INDEED

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HAPPENING NOW Nearly 25% of Mike Johnson’s constituents receive Medicaid But he STILL wants to cut the program By $880 BILLION To fund more tax breaks for billionaires-like Elon Musk It’s obscene The vote on this is planned for TODAY Don’t Cut Our Medicaid CALL CONGRESS. NOW. 202-224-3121

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Here's a task for some journalist who hasn't had their White House press credential yanked yet: Ask Caroline Leavitt why Donald Trump didn't just appoint Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers or Enrique Terrio of the Proud Boys as deputy director of the FBI luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-shit-s...

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Glenn Youngkin has "seemingly decided the best way to proceed is by trying to convince federal workers that getting laid off is the best thing that could have happened to them." That's one spin. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

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I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

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We have a right to expect Republican Congressmen to treat their DC girlfriends with the same respect and lack of violence as they treat their families back in the district.

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@kim.senate.gov: “If you're going to try to send out a mass email to all federal employees, have them by name identify themselves and what their tasks are… Basically, we're doing China's job for them… And I just find that to be appalling.”

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DENMARK David Leonhardt explained why, in an age of right-wing populism, Denmark’s liberals are winning. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

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"Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him." "The war will only end, truly end, when Putin gives up these goals. Don’t accept any peace deal that allows him to keep them." Anne Applebaum www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Another must read from Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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As the historian Timothy Snyder put it: “It is morally grotesque, during this war, to put imagined American grievances first.” "Recoup the costs", by @TimothyDSnyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Trump Is Breaking Things First And Trusting That Congress, Courts Will Get On Board Later talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-i...

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The point isn’t to clown on Hassett ... but rather to demonstrate how bankrupt the conservative intellectual world has become. Because no system based on any kind of merit would elevate a man like Hassett to the the heights he has reached www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-kevin...

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Reminder: @MarshaBlackburn’s last town hall was 8 years ago this month. Have a great Sunday!

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🇩🇪🇺🇸 The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Washington was "no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow," — Merz.

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Pete Buttigieg Is Really Getting Under Donald Trump's Skin Buttigieg seems to be in Trump’s head, which is why the rest of the country should encourage Pete Buttigieg to keep talking. www.politicususa.com/p/pete-butti...

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On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh

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Protesters wearing masks of Elon Musk, AfD leader Alice Weidel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and JD Vance in Berlin on Thursday. Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

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Artist Henry Grant - Anti-nuclear protesters marching to Aldermaston, Berkshire, May 1958 © Henry Grant Collection London Museum.

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We need to replenish ourselves, and it matters, because for those of us who care about biodiversity and diversity and the environment and equality, we need to be connected to the thing that we are fighting for. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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I’m sure Trump & Musk will condemn Putin for this since they claim to care so much about peace and the Ukrainian people.

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We had friends & allies around the world based on alliances & relationships that were built over many decades. In one month, Trump has torched them all. Now our friends are Putin, Orban, the crypto scammer in Argentina, and the guy in El Salvador offering us mercenary prisons.

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America Joins the Jackals Let’s focus on the global about-face, because however grievous the other depredations, they are, at least in theory, reversible. Abandoning world leadership is not. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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The former Brazilian president, a Trump ally, could face years in prison over a scheme to overturn the country’s 2022 election.

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“Making our military great again means destroying wokeness and firing the generals that promoted it,” Sen. Jim Banks said. “We must refocus on lethality.” All they care about is reversing woke with good old fashioned white boy DEI. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/turning-ba...

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This is a wild, WILD situation. The President is at least allowing, licensing these emails though clearly not directing them. Meanwhile parts of the uniformed military are directing civilians within DOD to ignore them. Same at State and according to Dilanian FBI. But DOJ is saying do what the ...

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"It's almost like watching state disintegration in real time."

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