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Marko Elez, the DOGE operative who had read-write access to the Treasury payment system, sent PII found in Treasury records to GSA officials in an unencrypted form and without being authorized to do so, according to a sworn statement filed in federal court last night and first noted by Bloomberg:

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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians in Gaza in strikes on Saturday, according to the Gaza health ministry, the latest in a string of Israeli attacks that have kept up despite a roughly two-month-old truce with Hamas.

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Just when I think they can't go lower. My cousin Army Major General Charles Calvin Rogers, who received the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, has been removed from the Department of Defense's website. Just checked. "Page not found". He was the most senior Black soldier ever awarded.

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“Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”

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President Trump’s administration has officially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S., a spokesman for the South African president said on Saturday, calling the decision “regrettable.”

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In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

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The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

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Corruption. In five parts. – Musk spends $290M to elect Trump and other Republicans – Trump gives Musk control of the executive branch – Musk dismantles the agencies that regulate his companies – Trump does a commercial for a struggling Musk company – Musk donates another $100M to Trump

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This message is so important and needed. Thank you, Senator Murphy.

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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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Every time I talk to Postal Service workers, they say they don’t have enough workers to deliver all the mail on time. Make this make sense. Elon and his minions need to stay the hell away from USPS.

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It is worth pausing to appreciate how bonkers the “national debt” debate has been in this trifecta. Every Republican lawmaker except Tom Massie and Rand Paul voted for a Trump agenda budget allowing a net deficit hike of trillions (House) or hundreds of billions (Senate).

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SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

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Having the President call out private citizens like this is appalling, dangerous, and scary.

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@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social I am so disheartened by your yes vote on cloture for the CR today. It feels like a betrayal of our federal workers and Congress’s spending power. I will not support you for any further public office.

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@hassan.senate.gov I am so disheartened by your yes vote on cloture for the CR. It feels like a betrayal of our federal workers and Congress’s spending power. I will not support you for any further public office.

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@cortezmasto.senate.gov I am so disheartened by your yes vote on cloture for the CR today. It feels like a betrayal of our federal workers and Congress’s spending power. I will not support you for any further public office.

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@schatz.bsky.social I am so disheartened by your yes vote on the CR today. It feels like a betrayal of our federal workers and Congress’s spending power. I will not support you for any further public office.

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@schumer.senate.gov I am so disheartened by your decision to vote yes on the CR. It feels like a betrayal of our federal workers and Congress’s spending power.

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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.

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Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

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The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

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This is not normal.

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Update: DHS — whose officers conducted this detention — did not answer questions. It instead directed us to the White House.

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“He has a green card,” an agent apparently said on the phone, confused by the matter. But then after a moment, the agent claimed that the State Department had “revoked that too.”

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I beg you to share this story because it's a travesty! Vivi, less than 3 months away from graduating, lost her commission to the military under President Trump's bigoted purge of our armed forces. Vivi was in my best friend's son's ROTC detachment & is his friend. www.laloyolan.com/news/she-wan...

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President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Just weeks into his term, economic forecasts have deteriorated, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves and immigration roundups. nyti.ms/43sbBz5

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Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

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Trump won't call on Putin to stop his brutal and illegal war on Ukraine. When Putin is "bombing the hell out of Ukraine," a US ally, Trump identifies Zelenskyy as the problem. This is despicable. Will any Republican speak out against it? (That's a rhetorical question.)

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U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pause sharing intelligence with Kyiv has raised fears in major Ukrainian cities that Russian missile attacks could now occur without any warning.

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The total amount the U.S. government spends on payroll for federal workers is about $336 billion a year — that’s 1% of gross domestic product, and almost 5% of total federal spending. Cutting federal jobs indiscriminately will “substantially damage the economy,” experts say.

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