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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

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New Substack from the team @Plural Policy covers AI legislation moving in state governments : including the AI summary of California AB 1064 - Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act substack.com/inbox/post/1... - pretty cool use of AI to analyze and summarize proposed policy about AI

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Subscribe to the Pebble Cast - from my friend a longtime organizer: open.substack.com/pub/apebblec... It won’t be overwhelming—just a few simple, thoughtful prompts and links: Something to Learn Something to Do (an Action to Take) Something to Celebrate Something to Reflect On

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Craig Strong recently installed a new, more efficient grain dryer on his farm; it was supposed to be funded, in part, by a federal program to reduce the need for fossil fuels in rural communities. Now, he and other farmers aren't sure they'll be paid back. (via @wskg.bsky.social)

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🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid. Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨

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"The crowd again started shouting “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich” and “tax the billionaires.” " www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

Every single wave election I've ever seen in my career has started with massive blowback from voters at town halls like this. It happened to Obama in 2010. It's happening again to Trump in 2026. They've badly misplayed their hand since day one.

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

Every person in Congress should be asked about this over the next seven days. Get the answers on the record. Publicize those answers to the American and global public.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

When they privatize everything, it isn’t regular people who win. It’s their friends and whoever does what they want. 🇺🇸 is not a business. The more we run it like one, the more we leave those with the least behind. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

NEW: Get ready for delayed tax refunds, long hold times + dropped calls with the IRS, thanks to Trump illegally firing more than 6,000 employees there today. *Except if you're a wealthy tax evader. You will now "feast" as the IRS strains to function. www.huffpost.com/entry/irs-ma...

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NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

submitted 9 days ago • 74 comments

Overheard in a store today where fire alarm was going off in error: “I hope DOGE gets rid of fire departments next. What a waste of money - we only have one fire a year in this town” We’re truly sunk….

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As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 11 days ago • 845 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 12 days ago • 191 comments

$15 Billion+

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This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 12 days ago • 148 comments

Robbie’s take on the ManU bench: “Booster seats and bottles of milk” #FPL

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SEN. MURPHY: “There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid: poor kids, poor families. Medicare: seniors in this country.”

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments

You know what was more important than the booing? The way a crowd in Montreal sang the anthem, in English and French, with their whole chests. That was the stuff.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 14 days ago • 231 comments

Never heard this sort of reaction to the Canadian anthem in Quebec. Donald Trump is a miracle worker

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Still waiting for Governor Kemp to stand up for Georgians. This is just one example of the technical and humanitarian job loss already under this President. A brain drain. www.wabe.org/georgia-cdc-...

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This is how bad it is in the US. The American Bar Association had to put out a statement in support of the Rule of Law. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

@jeremywhite.bsky.social @sneakyjoe.bsky.social think you’re way wrong this morning. The minute we lost two weeks ago you hope PM wins, is dubbed the GOAT, and KC gets fat dumb and happy. Now they’re motivated and will be doubted again next year to the peril of the AFC.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Figures they beat us then crap their pants

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i really hope democrats are listening to @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-win...

submitted 21 days ago • 76 comments

Rep. Golden (ME-2, second whitest & second most rural district in the country) says calls to his office have picked up: www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

submitted 25 days ago • 343 comments

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

submitted 25 days ago • 143 comments

Burnley transfer announcement wins again: www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...

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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 26 days ago • 1308 comments

News from last week for no particular reason. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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BREAKING NEWS: The development follows a federal judge's order Tuesday that temporarily blocked the effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.

submitted 30 days ago • 116 comments

Been watching since before Ronnie Harmon. Blended clock is 100% made up

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Cook is cooking

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How it started. How it’s going.

submitted 34 days ago • 152 comments

We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Autobiography! Congratulations to all of the finalists.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined. Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.

submitted 37 days ago • 399 comments

And the rich are getting richer: billionaire wealth surged by $2tn last year, roughly $5.7bn a day, three times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

F those guys and F that place.

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