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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

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Ahem

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Imagine if another country’s president was cracking down on the opposition party’s fundraising mechanism “to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure” Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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The Department of Defense boss’ number is linked to Airbnb, a fantasy sports site and a plumber review.

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When a state vilifies diversity, centralizes cultural control, and demands ideological purity in education, history echoes. The Nazi regime began by dismantling pluralism—today’s policies risk walking that path under a different flag.

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The defunding of the Women’s Health Initiative halts vital longitudinal research into heart disease, cancer, and aging in women. Not a fiscal adjustment, but a strategic abandonment of evidence-based, gender-specific science.

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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

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🚨NEW investigation from me and @jeremykohler.bsky.social We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable. Best of all: We got the receipts. Pls read and share. www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...

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Pete Hegseth installed a make-up station at the Pentagon. JD Vance loves a smoky dark eyeliner. Trump cakes on orange base till he resembles an Oompa Loompa. And these guys say LGBTQs are threatening gender norms?

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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They will tell you that this virus is a dangerous bioweapon that escaped from a laboratory, but if they see you taking any steps to protect yourself from this virus they will tell you that this virus is really just a cold.

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@thebandcake.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/r/1Apt...

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Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

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NEW damning details on Pete Hegseth: Minutes before U.S. jets hit Yemen, Gen. Kurilla sent strike intel through a secure gov system. Hegseth turned around and dropped it in at least two Signal chats—on his personal phone. Jet timing. Target locations. And he still has the job.

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NEW: 60 Minutes’ top producer resigned over lost editorial freedom. Trump sued them. Project 2025 calls for pulling licenses from outlets that criticize the president. CBS’s parent company needs government OK on a merger. This is what corporate-captured propaganda looks like.

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Your Earth Day reminder that the dual crises of economic inequality and climate change are no accident. Both are the result of decades of deliberate choices made, and policies enacted, by ultra-wealthy and powerful corporations. But we can fix them both. Here's how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXU...

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The VA just sent an email out to all employees announcing an Anti-Christian Bias Task Force and asking them to turn in fellow employees for a list of violations. They want them to use Anti-ChristianBiasReporting@va .gov! So you know….

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You will no longer be able to trust any foods in the country.

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i follow the logic succinctly. #truthovernarrative

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"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

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Remember that the following GOP Senators who are up for re-election next year were each the deciding vote to confirm Pete Hegseth: Thom Tillis Joni Ernst Dan Sullivan Ashley Moody Jon Husted John Cornyn They KNEW was unqualified for Defense Secretary and they put our troops in danger anyway.

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White Tennessee GOP rep calls Texas Democrat Al Green, 77, ‘boy’ in putdown

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Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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Sending the 300 migrants to a prison in El Salvador is a violation of 13 international laws and/or treaties, US law, and 3 Constitutional Amendments.

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Deliberately ignoring EVIL is the same as SUPPORTING it and deliberately ignoring the TRUTH is the same as BURYING it. -Bharat Luthra

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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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This

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The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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#Hegseth needs to resign. No one should trust him with ANY #CLASSIFIED INFO. www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/p...

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The saviors Easter message:

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Nancy Mace is a bigot. She cries when one of her constituents asks if she's having a town hall and she immediately starts babbling about supporting gay marriage. It's April and she's screeching about the town halls from last year? Posting this isn't the flex you think it is, you unglued loon. 🤦‍♀️

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“The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index is probably the best metric to understand if the U.S. is ‘bringing manufacturing back home.’ And it's absolutely cratering: -26.4, one of the lowest readings in memory.”

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Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

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The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns, has been shut down.

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Trump will eventually launch airstrikes on US neighbourhoods, we are one bad day away from it. He needs to be reined in now or the US risks nationwide revolt

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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

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Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

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It’s not that complicated.

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I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

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As British soldiers were being evacuated from Dunkirk, the 1st Canadian Division was already in the UK as the only fully armed force to defend the shores. This photo of Canadians in the Battle of Britain is displayed across from our parliament. We fought fascism from day 1. Don't fuck with us.

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