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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Are they dead yet

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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This is really something

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

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Are they dead yet

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Are they dead yet

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Math is hard

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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Are they dead yet?

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ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

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llhan Omar: "[Musk] wakes up lying, he goes to sleep lying, & frankly I don't think he understands the laws of this country." Me: "He doesn't like you." Omar: "Yeah, it's mutual." Rep @ilhanmn.bsky.social responds to Elon Musk's attacks on her and on the federal government.

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The biggest US bank, which has financed nearly $400 billion in fossil-fuel projects since the Paris Agreement, launches an important and credible climate advisory note for clients, who apparently have been clamoring for such a thing. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

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🤦🏼‍♀️

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This fight will not be easy. What we're dealing with now is one of the worst stress tests our nation has ever endured. But I believe that we will survive. Do not descend into despair.

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Start impeachment now

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So light bulbs, invading countries, going to the Super Bowl, plastic straws, and on and on are a distraction to the real harm the felon is doing to this country. He needs to leave this earth

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Well… today I have my first DOGE subcommittee hearing along with a Judiciary hearing, all while DC is snowed in! If I had normal coworkers & the country wasn’t going to hell lead by DOGE Douchebags, I’d say, “nothing to see here,” but something tells me, today is going to be pure insanity…

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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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