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NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. townhouse that is the center of an evangelical pastor’s secretive influence campaign — and the home is owned by a major GOP donor. www.propublica.org/article/mike... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

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Wtf? EA opensourced various Command & Conquer games. github.com/electronicar...

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ALSO: Judge disagreed, but DOJ argued that OPM's directives to the agencies to fire the probationaries were just suggestions or requests. That being the case, should agencies do anything OPM/Ezell says going forward? Shouldn't they just say that your own attorneys said it was just an ask.

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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

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there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

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… so about last night … 😳

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Equity Arc is an awesome organization that I have enjoyed working with in the past. You can donate to support their work here: equityarc.org/donate/

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ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)

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White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers ajc.com/education/wh...

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Some additional recommendations in the responses for if you're traveling & wanting to keep your private stuff private.

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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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Coconut wrapped in a sweater ♥️

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If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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NEW PIECE: Since early on this crisis I've thought about the fastest warning signs of mass payment failure or mass impoundment. I pursued "deep background" calls with former or current Federal Reserve/Treasury/Banker informants to find out. This is the result www.crisesnotes.com/how-can-we-k...

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what is up indeed

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And this article does a great job of communicating why the work these people did is essential: keeping mothers and babies from dying, and keeping donor organs from getting lost. It's important to portray this work as common sense.

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Literally, there are nearly 100k local elections in 2025 online, most of them before July. You can get involved. (And it’s probably not too late to run!)

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Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

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Perhaps a small thing in the grand scheme, but part of why we've seen so many successes in New York in terms of making streets safer is because advocates got smart and joined community boards, started organizations like @streetspac.org and ran for office themselves. Acting locally works!

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GitLab's security team has discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Chrome extensions on the official Google Web Store. The extensions were used to insert ads and manipulate search engine results. Over 3.2 million users downloaded the extensions gitlab-com.gitlab.io/gl-security/...

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Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...

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hiiii i have a jewelry and cabochon and game token shop at nora.jewelry and i am having bit of a slow day! i would love to send you a lovely pakige of items. here are some things you can get!

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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"A major riot broke out [at] Upstate New York [prison] on Thursday" following another "major riot...on Wednesday..." Revolt follows growing strike by guards angry that 7 co-workers now face murder charges for savage beating death of Robert Brooks in December. www.corrections1.com/riots-and-cr...

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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Motion to dismiss Trump's "consumer fraud" lawsuit against J. Ann Selzer, filed on her behalf by @thefireorg.bsky.social today: www.thefire.org/research-lea...

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

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Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

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This is what the Silicon Valley gang wants the US to base its full faith and credit on.

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

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IGN's parent company Ziff Davis removes DEI mentions from its website: aftermath.site/ziff-davis-ign...

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Astonishing crowd inside Manhattan Criminal Court two hours before Luigi Mangione’s follow-up appearance. Organized chaos, people are in cordoned-off gaggles down the full length of the hall, chatting casually. Feels reminiscent of fans waiting for a concert ticket line to open.

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🚨 URGENT! 🚨 The White House is expected to issue an order today to dismantle the Postal Service. This cannot stand. Speaker Mike Johnson must take action NOW. 📞 Call 202 224-3121 and tell him HELL NO to dismantling the Postal Service. #FightLikeHell

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BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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from one Dept. of Education employee: “Many of these students are in crisis. They are counting on some kind of intervention to get that student back in school and graduate or get accommodations ... And now the federal government is literally doing nothing.” @propublica.org

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More on Icon Hazel Scott. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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NEW: Trump's DOJ is threatening to prosecute a central New York sheriff. Why? The sheriff released a man ICE wanted to arrest, after the man completed his sentence. A constitutional scholar told us "there's no basis in the law" for such charges. But the DOJ wants to spook local officials. More:

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BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

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Disgraceful. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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tell everyone on nextdoor this guy is breaking all our shit

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#CTA: Send a message to your member of Congress to restore the Unaccompanied Children Program today! Super easy and takes less than two minutes: 1. Fill out your information 2. Letter Topic: Immigration 3. Send Letter actionnetwork.org/letters/rest... #ProtectKids

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If you are faculty (especially one with any degree of money or status), you must join AAUP. Members fund our lawsuits against Trump, access resources to learn how to fight, receive free legal consultations and referrals in case they're targeted, and return a portion of dues to their local.

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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

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