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Breaking: A federal judge just blocked Trump’s order banning transgender Americans from serving in the military.

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Nothing to see here... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NEWS: A federal judge barred the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on transgender peopel serving in the military, saying it was "soaked in animus," unconstitutional and justified by mischaracterizing data. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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👇 👇🏻 👇🏿 👇🏾 👇🏽

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BREAKING: President Donald Trump fired both Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, the administration’s latest high-profile shake-up of top leadership at an independent government agency.

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Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵

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🚨🚨Medicaid goes by different names in different states. Trump, Musk and MAGA Republicans are laying the groundwork to cut its funding so they can give tax breaks to billionaires and the ultra-wealthy. Make sure that you know what it is called in your state👇 Save Medicaid

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Just did a Live with Alexander Vindman. Here is a brief clip, go watch the whole thing! (Link in reply)

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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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Statement from FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on being fired by Trump today. "He is afraid of what I’ll tell the American people"

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Vance will be the first sitting vice president to serve as party finance chairman, according to the RNC. The move places a top Trump ally within the party's campaign wing ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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BREAKING: President Donald Trump fired the FTC's two Democrats on Tuesday, a move the commissioners vowed to fight and that further tees up the brewing legal battle over separation between the White House and independent agencies. www.law360.com/artic...

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BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang finds that Elon Musk’s efforts to dismantle USAID likely violated the Constitution. Musk and DOGE have therefore been been ORDERED to restore nearly all USAID operations. In a 68-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang,…

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My statment on the illegal firing of Federal Trade Commisoners Slaughter and Bedoya:

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⚡️ “I don’t want us to be on Putin’s ‘menu,’” Zelenskyy said. 💬 “We are not a salad or a compote for this man, despite his appetites.”

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Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?

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BREAKING: Trump fires two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), challenging a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling that protects FTC members and other independent agency officials from presidential removal for political reasons.

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Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West, pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a member.

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WITAOD WATCH: New filing in American Federation of Labor v. Department of Labor shows that Amy Gleason, the alleged acting administrator of DOGE, was appointed as an “expert/consultant” at Health and Human Services on March 4.

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⚡️ Kremlin demands halt to foreign aid to Ukraine to avoid war escalation. The Kremlin has demanded a halt to foreign military aid and intelligence to Ukraine, calling it a "key condition for avoiding an escalation of the war." It also called for Ukraine to stop mobilizing and rearming its military.

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The #WITAOD mystery deepens. @annabower.bsky.social whomst?

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Fox News' Greg Gutfeld is big mad at SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts saying that impeaching judges is "not appropriate." He tells Roberts to "shut the F up." That little dwarf is always so angry. 🤣

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Would like to report some gang tattoos.

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The sitting Vice President of the United States is going to also serve as the Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee. In other words, he'll be able to shake down donors using his position in the administration. Shamelessly corrupt, but then again, JD Vance has no shame.

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🚨 Trump just illegally fired the two democratic FTC commissioners… www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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The ABA stands firmly with Chief Justice John Roberts’ statement rejecting calls by government officials to impeach federal judges who issue rulings with which they disagree.

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THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE. “Lower Manhattan this weekend. Thousands of people protesting what Trump & Musk are doing and their threat to things like Medicare & Medicaid that tens of thousands of Americans rely upon.” @maddow.msnbc.com shared our die-in. RIP Healthcare 🙏 #Resist

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The Hungarian Parliament has passed a law banning gay Pride marches in public spaces and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees. Why is Hungary still a member of the EU?

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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tul...

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400 killed. Mostly women and children. And this is the front page headline.

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WIRED: “It’s a heist — real federal auditors are horrified by DOGE… DOGE has posted some of its ‘findings’ on its website, many of which have been revealed to be errors.” www.wired.com/story/federa...

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WATCH: @RepTimBurchett throws an absolute hissy fit on CNN and lashes out when asked if Trump should respect a judge’s ruling.

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"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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We must save Medicaid! Medicaid covers roughly 1/2 of childbirths, & 2/3 of nursing home stays. Approximately 1/5 of Americans rely on Medicare/Medicaid for healthcare. Yet the GOP just passed a bill requiring DEEP cuts to these programs. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY! #SaveMedicaid

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