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All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

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I did not think this was real

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NOTE: There are more people in this frame of television than there are transgender athletes in the State of Maine All of this is theater for stupid people

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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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The average wage for a McDonalds crew member in 2014 was $9.01. In 2024, it was $13.21. If you add that data to the chart below, the percentage increase for wages was only 44%. The rich get richer, while the average employee in 2024 has less spending power than their 2014 counterparts. #ClassWar

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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Isn’t Stopping Fraud. It’s Making It Easier. newrepublic.com/article/1940... via @newrepublic.com

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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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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

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I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts. Tune in here:

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This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

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This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

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Good morning #BlueSky!💙😁 And now a message from China: #JDVance

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Not trying to draw attention but I’ve edited my profile comment

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He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

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One of the MANY needless harms from this reckless action: gutting LIHEAP staff--which cuts off $400m of life-saving relief for households facing utility shut-offs or dangerous extreme heat or cold. NEADA director Mark Wolfe says "The program could well grind to a halt.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...

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National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and other senior officials used their personal Gmail account for government business, The Washington Post reports.

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Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

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Time to speak up

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Baby mama drama continues for the DOGE man.

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Looking for corporate media coverage of the @booker.senate.gov filibuster and finding NONE. Currently live on CSPAN2 and YouTube.

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Hell yeah, Austin.

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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

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Koh: I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights..

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If she was that confident, she wouldn’t object to due process.

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gazes wistfully out a window

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This keeps getting worse and worse.

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Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

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“I won’t forget” ?

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Damn anti-vaxxers.

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Shameless.

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I’m dying! None of them actually want to go back in! They wanted to get out! The vaccine was the perfect excuse! — Marines and soldiers discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine show limited interest in rejoining apnews.com/article/pent...

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This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

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Seen yesterday on a public bus in Heidelberg, Germany.

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The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.

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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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📌"Because Zelenskyy has tasted gun powder and breathed the odious smell of death on the battlefield, he wasn't about to be pushed around by some morbidly obese, 78-yr-old yacht club bully and his toady, who think swinging a sand wedge to free a golf ball from some bunker is dangerous business." 1/3

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45 years after Churchill warned that the world was splitting in two, it appeared that democracies, led by the United States of America, had won. But history, in fact, was not over. Oligarchs in the former Soviet republics quickly began to consolidate formerly public property into their own hands.

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We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

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Green: I will suffer whatever the consequences are because I don't believe in the richest country in the world people should be without good health care. I stood up for my constituents then. I'm standing up for them now. I would do it again.

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Pretending you’re at Sotheby’s isn’t going to stop fascism.

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