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This hits hard.

Trump's attacks on the USPS aren't new. For decades, the GOP has been trying to privatize the Post Office and other crucial public services — all to pad the profits of their wealthy corporate donors.

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.

Warren Buffett said his company has paid the US government more than $101 billion in taxes since he took the helm 60 years ago, more than any other company in history, according to his annual letter to investors on Saturday.

Silicon Valley’s reading list reveals how the tech world thinks about politics and social change.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

🤯Twice as many Americans label Trump dictator than Zelenskyy, poll reveals

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...

🧵 My mother lived on a small retirement and social security. She was diabetic, she had a horrible episode that landed her unable to care for herself, she needed to be in skilled nursing facility. Because of the costs, she needed Medicaid. I know dozens of people who have been in similar situations.

The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel, who has published an enemies list identical to Trump's, to serve a 10-year term as FBI Director. He will be a major cog in Trump's vengeance machine to silence and intimidate critics. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/kash-patel-in-his-own-words

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“The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”

I’m forcing the Senate to vote on an amendment to reverse Trump’s layoffs of thousands of critical wildland firefighters. My colleagues claim to support our first responders. Time for them to prove it.

"The problem is not that you have not been educated. The problem is that you have been educated just enough to believe what you have been taught, but not enough to question everything you have been told." Edgar Morin, La Méthode

🚨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!

@moveon.org do you think Congress will actually listen to a petition at this point? sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

Another brick in the fascist wall: WSJ reports Linda Yaccarino (CEO, X) threatening IPG w/government (Musk) retribution unless they advertise on X platform. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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@dogs.bsky.social Happy National Love your Pet day! On the left is my foster dog Casanova who was adopted yesterday 🎉 on the right is my beloved Penny. She's also a rescue. 🐾

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Trump plans to seize control of USPS and fire the postal board. Yet another executive order, this time to take control of the independent mail agency, then place the Commerce Department in charge of it. Placing USPS under the control of the Commerce Department is viewed as “a regal approach” —

*Taps 🎤 * Is this thing on? Trump wants control of the USPS so he can fuck with mail in voting. TRUMP WANTS CONTROL OF THE USPS SO HE CAN FUCK WITH MAIL IN VOTING.

Donald Trump does not like mail in voting. He wants to absorb the USPS into the Federal government in order to control it. MSNBC

So, I'll say this: just this morning we got two polls showing Trump and Musk underwater with the public. So, yes, all this shit is terrifying, and yes, we're all at incredible risk. But they're moving fast because it turns out people don't like this shit, and we shouldn't lose sight of that.

January 6 terrorists are being denied entry to the CPAC-KKK convention and aren’t given specific reasons as to why. Karma is a dish best served cold. LMAO.

KKKetamine is a hell of a drug

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DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Exactly right

Senate Republicans just *BLOCKED* Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

We need to start recognizing Republican Nazism as an existential threat to our nation.

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