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House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan subpoenaed the FBI for a trove of new materials related to Biden admin activities, including investigations around Jan. 6 and communications with Big Tech companies.

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LAPD Lt. Ensley was arrested in April for a DUI crash resulting in injury. When questioned by CHP after the crash, he said, "I didn't even know I got into a crash until you guys showed up." He said he was a 1 or "slightly buzzed" on a scale from 1 to 10. He blew over .15%

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New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

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JUST IN: Judge McFadden has denied the AP’s emergency motion to restore its access to WH press pool events but has ordered expedited consideration of the matter given the weighty issues at the heart of it.

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@newsjennifer.bsky.social on the gripping and impactful DOGE reporting by local news outlets: "It would be both ironic and so very American if the rich and powerful oligarchs were finally stopped by the underfunded newsrooms and working-class reporters." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/local-news...

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Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s “central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. Call it the “Great Resegregation.”

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"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.

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“Racial zoning covenants first gained traction in Modesto after the Gold Rush… When Chinese immigrants began to move into predominantly white districts, locals tried intimidation. When that didn’t work, Modesto’s city fathers in 1885 enacted an ordinance to force laundry services into Chinatown.”

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Trump administration appointees running USAID have in recent days fired hundreds of employees who help manage responses to urgent humanitarian crises around the world, according to officials and recent employees.

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‘Venture capital is killing more value than it creates,' author and tech activist Catherine Bracy argues in a new book, World Eaters. Silicon Valley needs to focus more on solving real-world problems and less on fast profit, she says.

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Steve Bannon: "The people of Israel got to understand something. The number one enemy to the people in Israel are American Jews that do not support Israel and do not support MAGA. Okay, MAGA and the evangelical Christians and the traditional Catholics in this country have Israel's back..."

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BREAKING: Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis Saturday morning.

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Firings Squeeze National Parks: ‘You Won’t Have the Full Experience’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t... #parkchat

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We can’t call a Nazi salute a “gesture”

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WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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Fresh off appearing on Newsmax this morning, Politico's White House bureau chief is hosting an event at CPAC 🤔

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This was just done at the University of Cincinnati. The administration are also requiring RAs to inform on any potential trans students to assign them to separate dorms.

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The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 90 cases across seven counties, the state health department posted online Friday, and 16 people are hospitalized.

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Elon Musk and DOGE are causing chaos across government — and often blindsiding and aggravating Trump's advisers. New story from @jeffstein.bsky.social, @laurameckler.bsky.social, @johnphudson.bsky.social + Jackie Alemany and me on emerging tensions in the new administration.

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Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in history, won't seek reelection next year.

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American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Jetblue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines joined a petition to try and overturn a rule that protections disabled passengers. www.scribd.com/document/829...

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Local consequences for all the DC firings. A recent UW-Madison PhD dedicating his work to keep kids from smoking is out of a job at the FDA. There are literally thousands of these stories. Dedicated expert loses job; public health to suffer. www.channel3000.com/news/it-cert...

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As you've probably seen, MO wants to create a state-run registry tracking possible abortion seekers & an "eHarmony"esque state-run adoption marketplace. Whether it passes or not, there are layers to how terrifying it is—and the surveillance systems it calls for more or less already exist:

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“Do we want a democracy that’s narrow and specifically tailored to benefit the people who already have power and privilege, or do we want a democracy that legitimately includes everyone?” 🙌👏 boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

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Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

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Everyone seems to be waiting on saviors, messiahs. This is not a strategy.

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Absolutely devastating piece by @jeremystahl.bsky.social detailing the brutal harms inflicted on Americans by Trump/Musk's illegal shutdown of the CFPB. Including an 83-year-old woman with terminal cancer who may now die saddled with unfair debt. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Sen. Patty Murray: "If you receive a directive to violate appropriations laws and withhold funding for workers, what will you do?" Labor secretary nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I do not believe the president is going to ask me to break the law." Murray: He's... been doing it.

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NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

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Probationary employees are receiving termination notices today at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Notices have already started going out, per agency source.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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It’s nice that the Target founder’s heirs oppose canceling DEI & sidelining Black-owned products, but they don’t run the company—and Target has made its stance clear. @Target.com: There’s nothing you sell that I can’t find elsewhere. I don’t shop where I’m not welcome. You’ve already been replaced.

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If you to send something to friends and family who don't follow the news closely something that'll bring them up to speed, try this @nprfreshair.bsky.social interview with @charliesavage.bsky.social, who has been covering attempts to expand executive power for 30 years. www.npr.org/2025/02/17/g...

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"

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Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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No rapist left behind

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“When you live in a world crumbling under your feet, the only thing that helps you survive is to believe in guidelines, in civilized democratic countries that uphold values. When countries like the United States cease to be pillars, there is nothing to hope for.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

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Casar: "You know what Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking into? His own contracts."

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one of the stupidest things i have had the misfortune of reading today and i am sharing it with you.

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