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and there are folks who told me, "oh, he can't do that..it's against the law." They haven't been paying attention.

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from your lips to God's blog!

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2022: undocumented immigrants paid $96 billion into Social Security/Medicare—yet these Trump marks have no clue they pay into the system & get nothing back. Just going to say it—Dems don’t have a messaging problem. We have a stupid people problem & encyclopedia-length memes won’t reach these folks.

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Oh, come on!!

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And the opposite narrative is an anti-vaccine LIE that “jabs” are creating these symptoms. It’s as if the virus has allies. Smh.

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This will be the largest coordinated nationwide protest to date!

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We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.

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Fight back!!

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Astounding how openly this guy is stealing American elections!

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💯

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Will they be pardoned? Pff..

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There should be laws against this!

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Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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If the whole fund collapses, can they still privatize it? And, will the country have to bail out the fund? Can't have a gigantic tax cut for the rich AND bail out Social Security, so...?

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MAGA folk are just not being told what the real effects of his non-Congressional "ACTS" are.

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They want to annex Canada and Greenland after running on avoiding World War 3.

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WTH is WRONG with this guy?!

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WTF?

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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/uXU1g37J

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Because…?

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As part of the #TeslaTakedown movement, people around the world are coming together today around noon for a Global Day of Action—with over 500 peaceful protests planned at Tesla facilities and public spaces. Our coalition is full of tree huggers, and we’ll be out there standing with you.

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Slowly.. but will it stick?

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Seriously? Hey.. let’s outlaw bearded Jewish men, just like Disney used to do, before public sentiment, among other things, forced them to change.

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So, it’s looking like federal judges will force the administration to return them to the US. Will they all still be alive?

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Sure. If they all go out of business, so what? Remember, the emperor is NOT naked. He’s just stupid.

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Maybe if enough are fired, it’ll counter all the stupidity of the top people? 🤔

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“Executives' attempts to pacify Trump have backfired spectacularly. Their dreams of deregulation and a business boom have quickly faded… While we are taught as children to stand up to bullies, their actions have only emboldened Trump's quest for greater power…” www.status.news/p/trump-medi...

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Bit slow on this, so it won’t fix any illegal sway of the election. Trump will never let Musk be prosecuted for anything.

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Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

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This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.

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But will they adhere to the decisions of a federal judge?

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Because .. Biden? Or a ploy to support Trump? Steel manufacturing went bye bye decades ago when the GOP convinced automakers to build their cars in other countries - cheaper, more profit.

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So they can avoid ALL oversight now, and in the future.

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Gee, I wonder why they would suddenly feel they can do something like that? 🤔

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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

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Elon Musk PACs have spent $17M on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. He’s also donated $3M, and giving voters $100. Elon is currently suing the state and would have cases ruled on by the winner. Billionaires are a direct threat to democracy.

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This is what tyrants like Erdogan do- they kidnap people off the street and disappear them. We are now an authoritarian state like Turkey.

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a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that

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DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ helped cybercrime group. One of the most prominent members of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) team once supported a cybercrime group that boasted about trafficking stolen data and stalking an FBI agent.

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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

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A federal judge in Maryland extended a temporary pause on the Trump administration’s attempt to fire probationary employees at more than a dozen federal agencies for five additional days.

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