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I want to be posting something else today. I want to be celebrating Senate Democrats who took a stand, driving thank-you calls to their offices. Instead, I have to post this (again). 15 Dems just voted to advance one of Trump’s MAGA nominees. Here's the roll call: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

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Forbes has some data on the impact of the economic blackout from last Friday. www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...

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Hey @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov: just asking, how do you feel about Donald Trump directly saying he's planning to use the law you're championing to take down speech that he feels treats him unfairly? Is that, I dunno, maybe a concern to you?

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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

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SSA is in complete chaos. Buried in this article is a service worker noting that "the phone never stops ringing" and retirement claims aren't being processed. Hard to overstate the significance of that. End goal is to privatize the agency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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A five-alarm fire for academic freedom.

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7 Democrats just joined Republicans to vote to repeal a Biden-era rule strengthening efficiency standards for batteries, dishwashers, washing machines, and pool heaters. Cuellar Davis (NC) Golden Gonzalez Gray Moskowitz Perez

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If you privatized USPS, rural postage rates would probably triple and all the rural post offices would close.

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The president United States just made a threat of genocide.

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A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes... www.propublica.org/article/miss...

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I'm not sure people understand what's happening. Israel stopped all aid trucks from entering Gaza until Hamas agrees to sign a rewrite of the original ceasefire agreement, which will allow Israel to continue the war indefinitely...and the whole world is quiet about it www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/m...

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SCOOP: Mike Johnson's chief-of-staff was arrested on a DUI charge after Trump's speech at the Capitol last night. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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The head of a crisis pregnancy center chain said AG Pam Bondi should enforce the 19th-century Comstock Act because “our country is facing a baby shortage" thanks to abortion. www.jezebel.com/ceo-of-crisi... @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

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I’m ready to go on the road in California and start hosting town halls - in Republican districts. If GOP House members won’t hold town halls in their districts, we will.

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The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

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Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇 I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.

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1) Economic growth is slowing. So the Trump administration wants to redefine "economic growth" -- by removing government production from GDP. This is a very dumb and ominous development. www.vox.com/politics/402...

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This could have implications in any state with an abortion ban — including signaling to doctors in restrictive states even beyond Idaho that they may no longer be able to count on EMTALA's protecting their ability to provide emergency abortions 19thnews.org/2025/02/emta...

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It is now the position of the US government that states are free to deny abortions to women and pregnant people facing medical emergencies unless they are on death's door. In danger of sepsis? Losing your uterus? Sorry, no abortion.

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If Donald Trump and Elon Musk fire thousands of workers from the Social Security Administration, like they’ve said they will, people will not get their checks on time. That's rent, groceries, electricity bills, and more. Trump and Republicans are coming for your Social Security.

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Hi! I'm a farmer, here's why that's stupid. The USDA won't let you vaccinate backyard chickens against bird flu. Bird flu is fatal to chickens. And the wild birds living in our backyards are spreading bird flu around. So how are we supposed to count on backyard chickens for food?

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It’s been six days since Chief Justice Roberts’s “administrative” stay in the foreign aid cases. That almost certainly means (1) someone’s dissenting; (2) the Court is trying to reach a compromise; or (3) both. Hard to be sure which it is, but the continuing pause is itself producing plenty of harm.

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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

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Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

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Buckle up, because when Social Security checks start disappearing people are going to lose their minds. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

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"The clinic will still be staffed and continue to take phone calls from patients while challenging the new law in court, Wellspring Health Access President Julie Burkhart said... the clinic will provide neither surgical nor medication abortions while seeking a court order blocking the new law."

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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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Former ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Incredible chart

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Per @janemayer.bsky.social: “POC” was targeted because they thought it meant “people of color.” It stood for “point of care” in medical emergencies: This Is the research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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So two DOGEbros now embedded at IRS are, according to WAPO, finalizing an 'omnibus agreement' for IRS to share Americans' individual tax data with officials across the US govt, something that would appear to be plainly illegal. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Please consider donating to @wbaidlaw.bsky.social. Our work is just beginning. We need brave #whistleblowers to come forward & we'll be there to provide pro bono legal representation.

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Senator Marshall bailed on his secret town hall twenty minutes early, after an elderly gentleman calmly told him what the government is doing is wrong.

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I’ve been suggesting on TV and podcasts—without actual evidence(!)—that it may turn out that DOJ will wind up not having enough lawyers to defend all the lawsuits challenging this administration’s illegal conduct. Turns out it seems already to be true. 👉

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