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In the first month since Trump returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

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The DOGE numbers don't add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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BREAKING: President Trump fires the country's highest-ranking military officer amid a wave of top brass dismissals at the Pentagon.

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Paul Farmer called them "stupid deaths." We built programs, trained workers, supplied drugs, and are now turning off this hard-won infrastructure for no reason, causing so many senseless, preventable deaths. Read @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social on the USAID freeze. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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I see almost zero mention of the Bibas babies on Bluesky. Why is that?

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If you don’t know what this is about, you should. If you know and you haven’t said anything condemning Hamas today, you should.

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Pro tip: if @matt-nathanson.bsky.social comes to your town, go to the concert, you will enjoy it, guaranteed 👏🏻 Last night in Ft Lauderdale was a festival of great tunes and big laughs, including the pre-show meet and greet.

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"The terrorists didn't shoot them, they murdered them with their hands." This sentence, and the horrifying images it evokes, will be burned into my brain forever. Such inconceivable cruelty.

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Interestingly, in the view of Trump and Musk, this war is not "pointless" for Russia, which has lost over 200,000 KIA, sending costly human wave attacks for months and years to seize the lifeless smoking ruins of distant Ukrainian towns in Donbas and declare yet another grandiose victory on TV.

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The Defense Department has temporarily paused a plan to carry out mass firings of civilian probationary employees

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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This is really the right-leaning New York Post’s cover this morning.

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So, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has gotten the text of the letter sent by 40 news orgs to the White House re its ban on the AP. Signatories range from NBC, Washpost and The Guardian to Fox and Newsmax. www.status.news/p/associated...

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LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

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The depravity of Hamas is boundless

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USAID’s waiver for 'life-saving' aid got headlines. But funds still aren’t reaching the people who need them. "Even programs with waivers are still frozen, according to people in more than 40 USAID-funded groups, bc the payments system used to disburse funds to orgs has not operated for weeks." 1/2

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To help homes survive more intense disasters, FEMA has been developing recommendations for stronger building codes. The Trump Administration has pulled them back.

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Our look at how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling the government teams that have stopped Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and others from meddling in US elections: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b... With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @stevenleemyers.bsky.social

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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May the memories of Kfir, Ariel, Shiri and Oded forever be a blessing.

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After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

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Fact check: Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill' cuts taxes, Medicaid and balloons deficit www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BQ...

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Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.

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The US is refusing to co-sponsor a draft UN resolution marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that backs Kyiv's territorial integrity and condemns Russian aggression, three diplomatic sources said, in a potential stark shift by Ukraine's most powerful Western ally reut.rs/435NMNI

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‘History teaches us the consequences of appeasing dictators: more conflict further down the line.' @mrandrewfox.bsky.social writes for @lbc.co.uk on Trump's shift towards Ukraine, the risks of sidelining NATO, and standing firm against authoritarian aggression. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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The identification may take 6–24 hours. If Kfir Bibas is in one of the coffins, his identification could be difficult. Forensic scientists use dental records, but Kfir had none. His teeth never had the chance to grow in. He was just a sweet baby. My heart is shattered 💔

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President Trump moved to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that oversees the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge and one of the city’s most cherished public spaces, in an executive order issued Wednesday.

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More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

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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. They might disapprove of foreign aid, but they want starving children to be fed." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Too many details in this just-published @ashleyrparker.bsky.social @matteowong.bsky.social @michaelscherer.bsky.social @shaneharris.bsky.social piece to pick just one. Trust me when I say, just read it: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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(AP) — The IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, a person familiar with the plans told The Associated Press. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/irs-...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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“Trump’s name will be remembered in history as a surrender artist just like Neville Chamberlain,” says Charles Kupperman, Trump's own former deputy national security adviser. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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How deep in Jew hatred do you need to be before you forget that the ones who forcibly kidnapped someone are responsible for their fate?

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“A lot of anger, a lot of outrage.” South Florida’s Ukrainian community feels betrayed by the president’s comments blaming Ukraine for the war Russia started. Here’s our NBC6 report. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/s...

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Once considered a bastion for free expression, America's record on press freedoms has fallen to a historic low, according to Reporters Without Borders. Under Trump's second presidency, the press is "under siege," the group argues.

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Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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Oh cool Trump just re-invented DARE.

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