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A federal judge has ordered Trump admin officials involved in Elon Musk's "opaque" DOGE to testify under oath in one of the sprawling lawsuits seeking to block DOGE's access to sensitive government databases. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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On today's ruling out of California halting the Trump administration's mass firing of probationary status federal workers at several agencies, from Bloomberg Law:

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Very good thread, and worth reading my piece that, in part, deals with why they went after USAID first/so hard: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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5 former Secretaries of Defense: "The United States cannot afford to have our military infected by partisan politics..." A warning Congress should heed now about the consequences of the #Pentagon Purge for our national security & for Americans' trust in our armed forces 👇

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No, the Pentagon budget is not actually being slashed. It's being reshuffled to finance some alarming Trump priorities, including: border militarization, "Iron Dome" for America, and militarization against China. @stephensemler.bsky.social and I analyze the latest. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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free speech! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

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DOGE is slashing VA staff, cutting suicide prevention programs, delaying Veterans’ healthcare, and firing those who served (Fun Fact: 30% of Federal Employees are vets!). They call it "efficiency." I'd call it betrayal. #DOGEscrewsVeterans

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Where are all the MAGA supporters who claim to care about human trafficking?

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BREAKING: Judge tosses libel suit former Ambassador to @RichardGrenell filed against former NSC official @OliviaTroye for saying he tried to get Pence to go to a white supremacist gathering abroad. Judge Alston (Trump/EDVA) finds no defamation. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Murderer.

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By all means, we don't want open government anymore. Authoritarianism thrives on opacity.

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Planes fall out of the sky. Children die from measles. Billionaires run the government. DEI has been replaced by DAF.

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🤔

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👀⚖️👇🏾

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Despite the govt's claims, evidence shows Musk is violating the Constitution's Appointments Clause & undermining the separation of powers The next step: a hearing on the plaintiff’s motion for a PI this Friday We, @sddfund.bsky.social, are proud to stand up for the plaintiffs & the Constitution

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Let me translate two things this libertarian light nincompoop is saying: Personal liberties means doing whatever the fuck I want. Free markets means doing whatever the fuck I want. He’s an adult toddler.

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“.. when Trump spoke, he uttered a phrase that will no doubt stand tall among quotes from great American leaders past: ‘This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting.’” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Washington Post Chief Marty Baron blasts Jeff Bezos amid his censorious takeover of the Opinion section. "It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…” @johnjharwood.bsky.social reports: zeteo.com/p/jeff-bezos...

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Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

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BIG NEWS: A Fifth Circuit panel holds that Planned Parenthood has immunity for its attorneys' actions (because the attorneys, too, have immunity) in a long-running False Claims Act case over Medicaid claims, ordering the district court to rule in favor of Planned Parenthood on the affected claims.

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A strong statement from the the editors of Reuters, Bloomberg and AP on the White House's decision to change how the news media cover the President reutersagency.com/resources/st...

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A child died from it today. It’s been 10 years since someone has died from measles.

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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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Billionaire owner of Washington Post seizes control of opinion page. Will focus nearly exclusively to promote rightwing libertarianism. "Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Democracy Docket will expand its pro-democracy opinion section. www.democracydocket.com

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Stefanik’s life in the in-between — voting on the budget resolituon on Tuesday night, attneding Trump cabinet meeting on Wednesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

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Just think of this when you file …

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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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NEW: Federal judge DENIES Trump administration request to implement the birthright citizenship-ending EO during appeal. "[T]his was not a close case," Judge Sorokin reminded the government in denying DOJ's request, noting that the administration had lost the at the injunction phase "lopsidedly."

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

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I told you all @jeffbezos was feral. He’s now killed the Graham/Bradlee legacy of justice, the First Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense, testosterone fueled (and HGH) double talk that is more than a little pathetic and utterly shameless.

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Lauren Boebert thinks the fires in Los Angeles might still be burning if it weren't for Donald Trump "opening up the spigot." The water he released doesn't even flow to LA. Gropert is embarrassing.

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How long before bezos starts spiking articles like this one www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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Billionaire propaganda

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As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

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First reported US death from measles in a decade. “.. When asked about the measles outbreak and death, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ‘it’s not unusual ...’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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This is Musk trying to run government like a business and it perfectly encapsulates why that's bad. When I started my company, we moved fast and did a lot of dumb things because we didn't know what we were doing. You can do that when it only affects seven people and around $50,000.

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By all means don’t listen to the voters

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SSA employee to me re: 50% staff reduction: "Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed."

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This is a very big deal. One step closer to information blackout.

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No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 (Photo @justinng.bsky.social - 2022)

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When a Frenchman is scoring points against you in your own office it's probably best not to pretend to be internationally respected

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Elon Musk is not the richest man in the world; men who live at home with their partner and children who love them experience riches he couldn't imagine.

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I really like this thread, talking through process, and each place we can stop them. Republicans tried to cut Medicaid in (at least) 1981, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2010, and 2017. Now 2025. This record of our success and their failure doesn't mean we'll stop them. But we can. We have before.

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