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Yes, we can rebuild USAID—but it will take decades while millions of children will suffer more illness, poverty, and illiteracy for a generation, at least. Trump's callous plan is cruel and heartless—all so that billionaires and millionaires in America can preserve tax cuts passed in 2017. #Hubbell

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I hate to post WaPo, but are you fucking serious: Musk says on X that feds must explain what they did last week — or lose their jobs www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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#BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned

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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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Terminated while working a fire: “I was actually down helping fill in engine crew for some prescribed fire down in Louisiana when I was terminated. I got a call from our Forest Supervisor. He told me I was terminated effective immediately. So I asked ‘great, how are you getting me home?’”

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This morning AG Bondi fired ATF’s Chief Counsel, Pamela Hicks. Within an hour, Hicks was given the memo from the AG, computer access was terminated, and she was escorted out of the building. Hicks was an exceptional and highly ethical chief counsel. Trump’s purge continues

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Say goodbye to the Presidio in San Francisco. Next he'll be selling Central Park to Saudi developers. www.kqed.org/news/1202786...

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Both CNN and CBS News are reporting that “The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, granting them certain protections of federal law enforcement”

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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order & fire members of the Postal Service’s governing board & place the agency under control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick. The board is planning on suing the Administration. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

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This is a coup.

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Oh yeah, I made this for @altssa.bsky.social , going off a thread they posted earlier:

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JUST IN: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy hit back at President Trump's call for the country to hold fresh presidential elections following Tuesday's historic Russia-U.S. talks in Saudi Arabia, describing Trump's assertions as Russian "disinformation." abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump’s alkie Hegseth is drawing up plans to pull all US troops from Syria. While Trump is working to undermine Bosnia & Herzegovina’s sovereignty by giving parts of Kosovo back to Serbia. We're about to see the Balkans flare up again just as Putin wants. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/17/i...

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Termination of probationary federal employees does not just affect employees who've been hired in the last year or 2. It can also affect long time employees who've been promoted. New supervisors are often in a probationary status for the 1st year. #Feds #FedEmployees #civilservants #Resist

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What Trump promised: - helping reduce cost of living - helping working class folks generally What Trump is delivering: - costs keep going up, up, up - working class folks losing their jobs - healthcare and medication costs explode - yet Elon Musk is getting MILLIONS in govt $

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Another good trope for Not My President’s Day

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A Delta flight carrying ~80 passengers from Minnesota appears to have crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport. No casualties reported as of this time. Numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. At least 8 people injured.

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Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta has called for reporters and news outlets to band together against the Trump administration after it blacklisted an Associated Press reporter for refusing to call the “Gulf of Mexico” by its new Trump-appointed name.

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NEVER FORGET: Trump Tower was built by illegal immigrants from Poland for $4 an hour, working 12 hour days. Donald Trump was found GUILTY in a conspiracy to defraud these workers of their pay.

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These are the best among us—the brilliant minds who have devoted their lives to public service— being discarded like chaff. Thank you for your unwavering dedication. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the elderly on social security they paid into to be called a “parasite,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.

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NEW VIDEO: While the country is riveted by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing in Washington, DC, the Republican Party continues to attack voting rights in the states and in the United States Supreme Court. Watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuW...

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America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

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Other worldly. #BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome #photography

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Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media should be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

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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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When CITES was first implemented in 1973, it was a cutting edge relatively effective international conservation treaty But political corruption, politics, & other impediments have become problems in the ~50 yrs it has been in effect

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🚨BREAKING: In a stunning display of cowardice, Trump refuses to blame Russia for the invasion of Ukraine when asked, instead saying "There are a lot of people to blame." No, there aren't. Blame Russia.

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This is a very heavy day for us. To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again. To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up. Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war. We will win it. This is our country. #RISEUP

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Yes!

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BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS It’s official. Donald Trump has just announced he has BANNED the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One for refusing to recognize the Gulf of America.” This a direct assault on the Constitution and the First Amendment.

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The SAVE Act, a bill that would require anyone registering to vote in federal elections to provide proof of citizenship, is a top priority for Congressional Republicans. Learn more about how it would harm voters here.

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