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The irony of Democrats sending a strongly worded letter to Trump to stop the dismantling of the USPS isn’t lost on me. Don’t let him turn democracy into a dead letter office. F’n FIGHT.

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A friend shared this - from the other side - it seems so true. Be Kind! #UP

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The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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“I believe that his abrupt firing puts the security of veterans services at risk” a source with knowledge of VA systems said. “Eliminating the person responsible for the security of veteran info on VA.gov erodes the quality of the service for the veteran. It’s reckless” www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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We wanted to know what the average Black person thinks of Donald Trump. So we asked the communications director of the Houston Young Republicans, who grew up in a mixed race family in a majority white Long Island suburb.

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One million seconds is about 11.5 days. One billion seconds is about 31 years and 8 months. Think about it

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From the below: "Number of Americans who died from Covid through 2023 boosted Social Security by $205 billion." Fuck.

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Buy. Paper. Books. (and download ownable ebooks onto your own devices) New from me at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

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can't get yelled at in town hall meetings if you never show up for town hall meetings

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Bit surprised, but the #H5N1 #birdflu case in Ohio tested positive in the hands of the #CDC. Had been told there wasn't a lot of virus in the sample and they might not be able to confirm. That brings the confirmed national total since March 2024 to 70 human cases. www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/sit...

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Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

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RIP to one of Africa's & global cinema's great visionaries, Malian director Souleymane Cissé: apnews.com/article/mali...

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We’re excited to introduce the Kyiv Independent’s first-ever print edition, a permanent record of Ukrainian resilience and life during wartime as told by our staff. The pre-order starts today: store.kyivindependent.com/products/the...

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The GOP convicted felon has launched a war on the American people & our constitution. We have guardrails to stop a rogue president. But are our lawmakers? Happy to be part of it & obey, in the foolish belief that THEY will be spared. Wait for the final irony. #Opposition #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Updated CDC H5 wastewater testing published today. As of Feb. 15, CDC reporting again verifies the WastewaterSCAN H5 detections in Newark, NJ and Stamford, CT from earlier this week. Once again, multiple sewersheds in the Newark/NYC region with H5 detections as of Feb. 15.

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🚨West Virginia introduced a bill in the Senate & aims to make opioid treatment programs ILLEGAL in the state. Senate Bill 204 targets programs that provide on-site administration or dispensing of opioid agonist medications, like methadone, commonly used in treatment.🚨 www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/...

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Desantis bought the Kari Lake filter.

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Idiocracy was a documentary

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

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I keep trying to tell y'all that ProPublica is out here lapping most other outlets. Them, Wired, and the Texas Observer.

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Today, Senate Republicans continued Donald Trump's great betrayal of the American people — passing a budget that lays the groundwork to deliver tax cuts for billionaires while Trump and Musk cut vital services for working people. My full statement on this sham Republican budget:

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Johns Hopkins study finds 31 blood proteins that distinguish post-COVID POTS patients from healthy controls Key proteins link to immune function, actin filaments, and blood clotting Potential biomarkers for better diagnosis and understanding of POTS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New H5N1 genotype found in dairy cattle

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Three more #H5N1 detections in Indiana

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“The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported 36 more H5N1 avian flu detections in house mice … as well as four more virus detections in domestic cats.” One mutation away from human to human transmission? #birdflu #RFKJR #DOGE

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This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

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"No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States." from @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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A reminder that Nikki Haley endorsed, supported and voted for Putin’s puppet. Just shut the fuck up.

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I missed this one: CNN filed a FOIA request for some information about DOGE accessing records at the office of personnel management, and someone from OPM wrote back saying "Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team." newrepublic.com/post/191663/...

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More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

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The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

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