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Joy has been one of the few left on the network to call it like it is, and this sucks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

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If I had to respond to an email as a federal employee asking me what I did at work last week, I'd make sure to list all the duties I had to absorb because of mass illegal firings, followed by a description of what the EPA's Walter Peck did in Ghostbusters.

submitted 1 day ago • 747 comments

There is a TRO that stops this. Enforcement and sanctions motions need to be filed immediately.

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#Emails2DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 235 comments

Yep.

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The disrespect has been shocking but this is now full on contempt. All it takes is 3 Republicans to join us and leave behind the silence and complicity. We must call out Musk on his harassment of the civil servants who keep our country running. Keep the pressure on.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2118 comments

Shit is being stirred up everywhere and I think these right wing assh*les have no idea how few people actually want what they're doing.

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THIS THIS THIS

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Dow Jones plunging again today on fears of Trump chaos - tariffs and inflation. Now lower than when Biden left office. Told you we would miss him. Trump making a mess of our county and economy!

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The fools who voted for this charlatan. Screwing up the booming Biden economy, and failing on his number one priority.

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Awful. I hope she sues.

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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just fired Joint Chiefs Chairman CQ Brown—no reason given. That’s another highly qualified African American official ousted, only to be replaced by a white guy. This is what "America First" looks like? So sad.

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📉📉📉

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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🚨 BREAKING: Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee, has expanded the blockade on DOGE’s access to Treasury systems, citing a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process has already compromised sensitive payment data. Thank God for these Biden judges!

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Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

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You're a piece of sh*t Elon Musk! DOGE canceled a $257,000 federal contract for 9/11-related research comparing cancer incidence rates among firefighters exposed to the World Trade Center toxins to firefighters in three cities not exposed. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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* Trump: DOGE has already made “HUNDREDS of billions” of cuts * DOGE website: $55 billion * Actual amount : $8.6 billion

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Since the inauguration of President Trump, stocks in Europe and China are vastly outperforming the U.S. equity market. I will add the early optimism I heard from Wall Street people about Trump is gone as well. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/p...

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NEW: U.S. consumer sentiment plunges—down 10% from January over tariff and inflation fears. Most people I know think the economy is cooked thanks to Trump’s policies—designed to help the rich and screw working folks. He’s not doing shit to fix the economy or lower costs. Just broken promises.

submitted 2 days ago • 151 comments

Important thread.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

This is about vote by mail. Make no mistake about it.

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I have followed Sara Nelson for years and she is an absolute force to be reckoned with. This is but one example of her ferocity, and as usual she is right.

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Some good news to end your day.

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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This thread. Whew. Share it far and wide.

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Absolute disaster.

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The Trump administration ended the Presidential Management Fellows Program in a late-night executive order Wednesday, axing a decades-old government initiative that has long been celebrated as a pipeline to draw talent into civil service careers.

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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“Republicans are trying to normalize plane crashes now like school shootings.” ~ @meiselasb.bsky.social

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Donald Trump is threatening the President of a sovereign country—AGAIN—to force Ukraine to hand over their democracy and sovereign territory to Vladimir Putin. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/z...

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My heart breaks at news of another horrific plane crash. I'm praying for the families of the victims & people of Arizona. It's vital the government thoroughly investigate this tragedy to bring peace to the victims and families and protect everyone flying in the US. abcnews.go.com/US/2-dead-af...

submitted 4 days ago • 494 comments

Oh no.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.” —Audre Lorde

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This is where we are folks: Trump is siding with Putin, calling for new elections in Ukraine, presumably, so Zelensky can be replaced by a Putin puppet. He also blamed Ukraine for the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine! Remarkable and incredibly embarrassing for our country. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Trump shut down the JFK Library 😡🤦🏻‍♀️ Where are the normal Republicans? www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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Stuff is happening so fast! I am writing it all down for The Weekly List which comes out every Wednesday. Trump is now taking control over independent agencies. I gifted this article. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...