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US business activity stalling, consumers' inflation expectations surge "Long-term inflation expectations highest since 1995" www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...

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Carville to Hannity: I will tell you this: More deficit has accumulated on a Donald Trump than other any other president in history… Your viewers and I’m reading another view so one of us is wrong. You got fact checkers at Fox?

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Pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio was arrested after a fight with a protester at his press conference today.

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Elon Musk's super PAC donated $1 million to support conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. Schimel's opponent, liberal candidate Susan Crawford, criticized the donation, alleging Schimel is being bought. I think — or hope! — Musk’s attempt to influence this race will backfire.

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A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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1. The president is colonizing the federal bureaucracy, replacing people of skill, competence and integrity with goons, or no one. One of his targets has been the FAA, the agency that regulates the airways and makes sure airlines obey the law. Guess what? The planes are falling out of the sky.

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"Trump (with his inability to nominate anyone competent) owns this. Elon (with his insistence on gutting the government of talent) owns this. And all of those spineless Republicans Senators (who greenlit Sean Duffy for fear of asserting their autonomy as a co-equal branch of government) own this."

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We warned you RFKjr was a filthy liar, America.

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NEW: Doctors for America — the group whose lawsuit led to an order that HHS and other agencies put back online specified relevant websites and datasets taken down — filed an amended complaint today that significantly expands the scope of the litigation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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It’s circular to write an executive order giving the president the sole power to say what the law is.

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Stephen Miller explodes trying to defend DOGE. “When faced with even the simplest questions about DOGE, Donald Trump’s former immigration ghoul couldn’t keep his cool long enough to make it through an interview on CNN.” newrepublic.com/post/191665/...

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Kash Patel lied to Congress, has clear conflicts of interest, and is being installed to weaponize the justice system for Trump. His final confirmation vote is scheduled for Thursday. Reports are that some R’s are still on the fence. The Senate main line is 202- 224-3121 🚨🚨 Light. It. Up. 🚨🚨

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Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

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A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

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NEW: Here is Trump's executive order purporting to end the independence of multi-member head independent agencies. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Yes. We left pregnant women and families with small children in dangerous situations.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

I think the DOGE madness will start hitting state employees hard very soon too, yes.

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Here’s a small, easy thing Dem communicators can do: when stories like this break, call the reporters and a) ask to be contacted going forward on stories within their jurisdiction, b) give them a blistering statement, c) blast it out on all channels. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Trump admin might destroy half a billion dollars worth of covid tests instead of giving them away:

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If you start from the assumption that pro-social behavior is for suckers and losers, evil is the only aesthetic left.

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"The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is temporarily closed until further notice." www.jfklibrary.org

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Clown show with all evil clowns.

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A reminder that 80 years ago the United States took actions to prevent billionaires from owning our media. The creators of the FCC said that out loud. And starting under Reagan we just apparently decided that media ownership didn’t matter. We should care about it again!

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Collusion with Russia is now official US policy: x.com/PawlowskiMar...

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If you don’t know who’s the sucker at the table, you’re the sucker.

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A German billionaire who supports Trump and Germany’s far-right AfD party is the CEO and co-owner of Politico’s parent company, which also owns major media companies in Europe

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There is no legal architecture that allows Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws. In other words, there's no way that his role is legal, constitutional, or compatible with democratic governance.

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It’s becoming very clear that the Trump Admin never had any interest in serving as an honest broker to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The plan was always to join Russia and others in plundering the Ukrainian economy like a 17th century colonizer.

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USA Today: FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink. DOGE fired them. I wouldn't let Elon pierce my ear, much less implant something in my brain. His stuff has a way of catching on fire. #ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice Hell No

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By the way, the Chief of Criminal is a hugely important person in a U.S. Attorney’s Office, one of the 3 most important people. The involvement of someone that high-level in a decision about a prosecution suggests shenanigans.

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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com had Anna Linn, former USAID contract worker, laid off by the thoughtless DOGE knife. She worked on reducing malaria deaths. It is consistent with her deep Christian faith. The program was started by GW Bush era USAID to address the 600000 malaria deaths per year.

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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Under the Minsk Agreements, over 30 ceasefires were agreed between 2014 and 2021. The Russian invaders broke every single one of them, usually within minutes. Russian ceasefires are "you cease, we fire." The Americans are willingly being manipulated by invader Russia to do evil.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

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NEW!!! France to convene second urgent meeting on Ukraine with other Europeans, Canada... Countries invited are Norway, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Romania, Sweden and Belgium, per Reuters

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This false meme just showed up in my mentions. Let me debunk it right quick. The graph (falsely) shows Harris receiving 16M fewer votes in 2024 than Biden did in 2020, & (falsely) suggests this gap is evidence of fraud in 2020. In reality, Harris received 75M votes (only 6M fewer) in 2024.

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Looking forward to more deep insights from Politico. "Wait, there were two presidents named Roosevelt?" "Not many people know that RFK Jr isn't the first in his family to enter politics." "His name was Lincoln? Really? Like the tunnel?"

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