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Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

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"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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RFK just released his plan for HHS. He claims he will “eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate distrust.” Hypocrisy. RFK profits from spreading disinformation about vaccines and suing vaccine makers, which creates distrust in science and kills people.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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I am very concerned that immunizations against childhood diseases (as well as others) will be prohibited, meaning only those who can afford to travel outside the U.S. will be able to obtain them.

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Hard to argue with this, no?

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What can you do? Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness. Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up. Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards. Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies. Resist. Stand with others.

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Done!

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Deleting historical evidence is something fascists do. I wonder how many of this administration’s minions are currently scouring archives and such and removing/deleting our history?

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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

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It started in Silicon Valley as a fringe idea: an inefficient democracy needs to die - replaced by a "red Caesar" dictatorship that would fire federal employees and govern with the latest tech Thiel, Musk and Trump are making this dystopia a reality. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

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NEW: Associated Press was banned from the Oval Office event today because it refuses to recognise the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The Trump administration again behaving like a despot dictatorship. Thank you to AP for standing up for factual journalism 👏

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External studies have shown: -NIH funding directly or indirectly supported the development of ALL new treatments that were FDA approved between 2010-2020 -the return on NIH investment is estimated at 25-40% annually given the improvement in productivity from a healthier workforce Facts matter.

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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now? youtube.com/shorts/keNw6...

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1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE. I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

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"This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

reupping. i think this is the one path to changing things - with DOGE and the whole crime spree - in the near future

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Maybe I should be thankful that I’m old, because after reading this lengthy but extremely important thread, the future of the U.S.—and maybe the entire world—looks awfully bleak.

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Makes total sense now.

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Bondi is already busy doing the oligarchs’ bidding.

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

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It’s clear why Trump blames DEI for everything | Judith Levine

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This is the moment we’ve always been headed towards. If the President refuses to follow a court’s order we are in deep crisis. The GOP has courted this disaster.

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open.substack.com/pub/thegrimh...

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They are certainly making their mark! ❤️

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It's a coup: "Elon Musk said his 'DOGE team' of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the US Treasury Department."

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It just dawned on me that this nightmare is starting to feel like a particularly scary episode of The Twilight Zone (which young people probably haven’t even heard of)….

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A must listen… Chilling, informative and instructive.

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As the historian Timothy Snyder said, be kind to our language…

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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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US official policy is to weaken Canada economically, end Canadian sovereignty and annex Canada to the US

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