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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

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From United Humanists on FB

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"But do not be misled: this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot." www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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This is what’s possible when we work together! 😎

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If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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This is how it’s done.

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“DOGE HAS ‘GOD MODE’ ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT DATA: The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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“They were careless people, Donald and Elonia—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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"The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug: A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get." www.wired.com/story/doge-i... via @wired.com

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Get your kids off of screens: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

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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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"I thought that someone with his business acumen would have..." -- It seems Trump's disastrous policies and insane EO's are a _perfect_ illustration of his "business acumen!!!"

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Appearing today in The Week:

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In case you were wondering!

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I must've missed the part in the Constitution that says Congress shall be a eunuch.

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Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

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Or Threads???

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👇

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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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“THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DOGE GUYS TAKE OVER: Inside the federal agencies where Elon Musk’s people have seized control, fear and uncertainty reign.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"Don’t believe the hype. AI myths and the need for a critical approach in higher education" Jürgen Rudolph, et al journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.p...

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The ignorance is infuriating, but is really not surprising; software engineering does this repeatedly and endlessly. There seems to be no "accumulated wisdom." www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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A thoughtful discussion of the COBOL-vs-DOGE (or is it DOGE-vs-COBOL?) issue: www.fastcompany.com/91278597/elo...

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“The Opposition Is Already Growing: Trump is getting substantial pushback, both from the courts and from other pockets of civic life.” — QUINTA JURECIC www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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“You are a superpower...We are church together, and together we will continue to defend the most vulnerable communities and people among us as Jesus taught us.” -- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton bit.ly/4jY3dx8

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"‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics" The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Trump’s illegitimate power grab brings US closer to dictatorship: Experts warn president’s blatant violations of law could upend US government’s system of checks and balances" #ConstitutionalCrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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WTaF: "Married Women Could Be Stopped From Voting Under SAVE Act" www.newsweek.com/married-wome... #ThisIsActuallyHappening

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“Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.” — Anne Applebaum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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OMG this actually happened!

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If you're an experienced #RStats package developer, consider this Sr. Engineering Manager position at @posit.co : posit.co/job-detail/?...

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truth

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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“You don’t need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus’s parables on the rich and the poor.” — Fr. James Martin, cited in “J. D. Vance Brawls with the Bishops Over the Trump-Musk Agenda” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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