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Associated Press sues White House over ban from Oval Office and Air Force One www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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A Manhattan federal judge on Friday banned Elon Musk’s team from regaining access to the U.S. Treasury Department’s most sensitive payment and data systems until the conclusion of a lawsuit that claims the group’s access is unlawful.

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I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

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Let me help those who just get mad and post. It will take years and possibly decades to build infrastructure anywhere in Ukraine to be able to mine these minerals. Then, the biggest refiner is China. It will take a decade for the first $ If Zelensky gets what he wants, who benefits the most ?

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Let’s do this on Feb. 28! www.cbsnews.com/news/economi...

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

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A century later, it's Germany sounding the alarm about a dark malevolence spreading across the world. The harbinger of darkness this time...is us. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

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We highly recommend y’all crack open a copy of the U.S. Constitution before you break anymore laws…

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Monday thought:

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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Second time’s the charm. Congrats to the @Eagles, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, Nick Sirianni and an outstanding defense for winning one for Philly. You earned it!

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Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

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These are the men and women destroying the United States government agency-by-agency. They must be held to account. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 16 days ago • 764 comments

DOGE is not a real department. In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress. Pass it on.

submitted 17 days ago • 84 comments

OH OK THEN! SEEMS FINE! NOT LIKE WE’RE GIVING THE PERSON WITH THE POSSIBLE/VERY ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST THE POWER TO DETERMINE IF THERE IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!

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Rep. Golden (ME-2, second whitest & second most rural district in the country) says calls to his office have picked up: www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

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This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.

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At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought. “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "We right now have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House. He is backed up by other white supremacists...they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president." Woooooooboyyyyyyy! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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You can take the boy out of apartheid but can you take apartheid out of the boy?

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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted. Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.

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“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.” -- James E. Dennehy, NYC’s top FBI agent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

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Fox always talks about Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social like it’s the first time they’ve ever heard of her. They slow down when they pronounce her name and say there’s a Congresswoman from Texas… We know exactly what they’re doing, but we know exactly who she is. Keep kicking ass, Jasmine!

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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

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Some people voted for trump. Some people voted for Kamala. Some people voted 3rd party. But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security. What the fuck is THIS bullshit?

submitted 21 days ago • 1352 comments

WIRED has been doing vital work. If you’re looking to support good journalism right now, subscriptions are cheap.

submitted 20 days ago • 106 comments

For the visual learners...

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NEW: David Hogg has won the vice chair DNC election.

submitted 21 days ago • 2274 comments

This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

submitted 22 days ago • 2389 comments

You can't make this stuff up.

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In the 20th century, they were known as "concentration camps." Now, they are simply called "housing." Doesn't that sound so much more humane? Voila, problem solved!

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DMV News Live has posted the following video on twitter of the plane crash in northeast Philadelphia

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If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

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The Five Eyes is America’s most effective spying alliance. Now intelligence agencies in the U.S. and allied countries are worried about its future under President Trump, writes WSJ’s Bojan Pancevski.

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President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials.”

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Who are you talking to right now? Me? Am I supposed to go handle things? What the fuck do you actually do?

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Air traffic controllers have been emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash.

submitted 22 days ago • 196 comments

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

submitted 22 days ago • 101 comments

@brontyman.bsky.social

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Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target. Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

submitted 22 days ago • 803 comments

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

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