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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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The firings were part of an estimated 420 dismissals of workers in wildlife refuges nationwide, leaving 2,230 employees to oversee 850 million acres of land and water, the largest network of conservation lands in the world. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

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It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

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BREAKING: Republicans Confirm MAGA Conspiracy Theorist as FBI Director The Senate has bowed to Trump by confirming his problematic nominees for high-level positions, most recently Kash Patel.

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Today is the #DayofRemembrance for Japanese internment. On this day, we remember the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans who were stripped of their freedom and their rights for no other reason than their heritage.

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Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly uprooted from their homes during WWII, simply because of their heritage. We cannot let history repeat itself. This Day of Remembrance, we recommit ourselves to the fight for justice, equality, and civil rights.

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I voted NO to confirm Kelly Loeffler to run the Small Business Administration. Just last week, Elon fired 720 employees at SBA, including those focused on disaster recovery efforts. Not a peep from Loeffler. Elon & Trump are NOT looking out for small businesses—just themselves.

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Breaking: 'Executive order' cited as reason for sudden closure of JFK Library, a Boston landmark https://www.wcvb.com/article/jfk-library-boston-closed-trump-executive-order/63832670

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Hundreds of people have lined Main Street in downtown Greenville, SC as part of a protest with the @50501movement.bsky.social #50501

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50501 rally, State House, Columbia, SC, 2/17/2025 #3E #USProtests #r/50501 #scpol #ColaSC #MidlandsSC #SodaCity #RedStateDems #ColumbiaSC

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Good crowd for the 50501 Protest in Columbia SC today!

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The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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FT columnist: "It is clear that the US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally for the Europeans. But the Trump administration’s political ambitions for Europe mean that, for now, America is also an adversary" www.ft.com/content/11f1...

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🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

submitted 8 days ago • 336 comments

Are you a VA employee who has been terminated from your position since January 20th? If you're comfortable sharing your experience, please follow the link below to share your story.

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If the Musk-rats will leak classified information, think what they will do with your private data as they rummage through our data systems. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

Here is the resignation letter of Hagan Scotten, the seventh DOJ attorney to resign over Trump's attempt to drop the corruption case against Mayor Adams. Worth the read - esp the third paragraph!

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🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

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UPDATE: Judge CHUTKAN has called a 4pm hearing on the lawsuit over Elon Musk's authority to run DOGE.

submitted 9 days ago • 317 comments

No school should have to face the tragedy that Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS—my alma mater and a cornerstone of my hometown—faced in February 2018. We need action to protect kids and educators from school violence, and I’m leading a new set of commonsense bills to help do it:

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), a pediatrician, told me today she is "very scared" that people are going to needlessly get sick and possibly die now that anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. is leading HHS. “It is the saddest and most horrible way to understand how important this is.” www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

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We're voting on the Republican budget tomorrow. They want $4.6 trillion in tax cuts for their wealthy donors, and we don't even know what they're cutting to pay for it — they left 31 pages blank. But I think we can guess. And @housebudgetdems.bsky.social are pushing back.

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I've thought about this a lot.

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The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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Shonda Rhimes resigns from Kennedy Center after Trump’s takeover of the performing arts institution

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Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO

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Lawrence: “The most powerless image of a president of the United States ever created by a camera.” @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com comments on Elon Musk’s influence on Trump after their joint appearance in the Oval Office. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7s0...

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Millions of the most vulnerable people across all 50 states would be impacted by a federal funding freeze. We have the data: https://buff.ly/3CRgtmx

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We're seeing a level of executive overreach that is unprecedented in the US But other countries have defeated autocratic forces before—& Americans can learn from their successes We outlined a pro-democracy blueprint👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

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PUNCHBOWL: “.. House GOP negotiators now believe they will have to dig deeper into Medicaid spending to meet those targets, including potentially cutting benefits for enrollees .. This will be a complicated political challenge.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/archive/2102...

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NTEU sues OMB director to prevent dismantling of the CPFB. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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If you haven’t already, please consider following @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social — organizations I co-founded to help counter myths and disinformation about the economy and politics. I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.

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Liz Cheney to JD Vance: "You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Speaker Johnson and House Republicans need more time to round up votes to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, housing, food assistance and health care. rollcall.com/2025/02/09/j...

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Looks like DOGE will soon be spending more than it could ever save, not to mention the far-reaching devastation to hard-fought American infrastructure and services

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BREAKING: Staff and contractors at CFPB have been told via email that the bureau's DC headquarters is closed for the week. They are to work remotely, "unless instructed otherwise from our Acting Director or his designee." Update coming soon here. www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

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Timely piece (no pun intended) by @abradschwartz.bsky.social on the media's complicity in McCarthyism's rise and the mistakes they're repeating today. time.com/7213586/medi...

submitted 14 days ago • 29 comments

Visit me in the camps

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Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

submitted 15 days ago • 181 comments

The president backed Elon Musk, whose government-slashing campaign has drawn the ire of lawmakers and citizens alike.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

If he's worried about the farmers in his state, perhaps the Senator from Kansas would like to get off his a$$ and mobilize his colleagues to resist, undermine, and overturn the administration’s illegal actions.

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Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 14 days ago • 1232 comments

Always anchor your TVs and furniture to the wall.

submitted 16 days ago • 167 comments

re-reading this tweet every few years with a new perspective on who "we" refers to

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As a former medical researcher, I know firsthand the incredible impact these trials have on patients & their families. This is another disastrous result of the Trump administration slashing programs that can change lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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