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Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

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The 'find out' phase is here.

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I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

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Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.

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HCR outlines with clarity the World crisis we have created. “The British tabloid The Daily Star interprets the changes in American politics differently. Its cover tomorrow features Vladimir Putin walking “PUTIN’S POODLE”: the president of the United States.

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Hypocrite says what?

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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"Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch." --Jacob Knutson

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ASA has joined with 230 national, state, and local organizations (+ 2,600 individuals from the private, public, non-profit, and scientific sectors) demanding Congress to order the restoration of taxpayer financed data removed from federal agency websites. www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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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. As you know, my name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

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Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

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Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

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When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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“A new study has found that an explosion in virus diversity 2.5 million years ago occurred at the same time radiation from an ancient supernova bathed Earth in cosmic rays. This could imply a link between the diversification and the cosmic radiation.” www.sciencealert.com/radiation-fr...

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On Feb. 21, 1965, civil rights activist Malcolm X was shot to death in New York. Three men identified as members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of murder and imprisoned. All were eventually paroled. (Convictions of two of the men were dismissed in 2021) Read more: t.ly/2NyWx

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Trump 0. Canada 1.

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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I spotted this beautiful creature on February 21, 2021 during a dark time. I remember how it brightened my day… nature can help heal ✨🍃

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I am alive and healthy today because of NIH funded Cystic Fibrosis research. I am on life saving medication funded by NIH. Eff Tr*mp and his weenie brigade #cysticfibrosis #nih

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If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

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Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Twitter is now an American right wing disinformation machine interfering in global politics. Your participation in it, is collaboration and nothing less.

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As an experiment, I asked chatGPT to summarise a really great paper I'd just read. It completely missed the main points of the paper. It took some keywords and turned them into reasonable sentences, but they did not relate to the paper, and they didn't really mean anything.

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I'm brand new to Bluesky, still learning how it all works. I'm a fiber artist, usually working with upcycled fabric scraps. I've been stitching my feelings lately, and this is my latest embroidery project - Sunbonnet Sue, Days of Rage collection. It's inspired by the 1930's Sunbonnet Sue designs.

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DOGE = Department of Gross Errors

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JUST IN: HNL Lab Medicine will begin subtyping all positive influenza A samples from hospitalized patients to detect H5N1 bird flu.

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The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel, who has published an enemies list identical to Trump's, to serve a 10-year term as FBI Director. He will be a major cog in Trump's vengeance machine to silence and intimidate critics. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/kash-patel-in-his-own-words

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Anyone you know shocked at the blatant Nazism of the GOP needs to be sat down and told they need to listen better in the future.

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