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Gizmodo: "The move, while malicious, is not surprising considering the GOP’s general disdain for electric vehicles and the green energy movement, or wiping just about anything enacted by the prior administration."

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All GOP Senators but McConnell voted for him. Factcheck.org: "In Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first interview as [HHS Secretary], he made multiple incorrect or misleading statements, including about seed oils, an abortion drug and the notion that the U.S. has the 'sickest population in the world.'"

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Nice. A Friday night win at SCOTUS. Keep up the fight. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Apologies for linking to the Times, but here's an excellent story for Dems. "This is how the rebuilding starts. The wounded party begins clawing back voters and territory, often in unglamorous contests."

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Raise your hand 🖐️ and Repost if you still support President Zelenskyy and the brave people of Ukraine! 🇺🇦 I want all of my 168K friends to follow YOU! 💙 Like ❤️ and repost 🔄 and you will get MORE followers! 🚀 Who is with me? 🖐️

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CNN on 🍊 poll: "52% say he’s gone too far in using his presidential power, with similar majorities wary of his push to shutter federal agencies and elevate Elon Musk to a prominent role in his efforts to reshape the government."

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FYI, this supposedly still works if you want to grab some free tests before 🍊 shuts it down. special.usps.com/testkits

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TODAY IN ACTUAL GOVERNANCE... —Ds voted no Patel as FBI director —counter GOP push to outlaw most mail/early voting in NV —multistate legal action against efforts to shut down the CFPB —Nevada bill to make IVF treatments a right —State Ds voted to help Missouri seniors afford electricity

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Factcheck.org: After U.S. and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia to discuss an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump made several false and misleading statements about the conflict and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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He's got nothing left to f* up.

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"Yes, presidents and leaders can try to sell us out, either for personal gains or out of sheer cowardice. But I know that there are many millions of people around the world who stand with Ukraine." - Olga Rudenko, The Kyiv Independent mailchi.mp/kyivindepend...

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John Pavlovitz: "We could have had a president who didn’t seek the presidency as a way to avoid prosecution or to pillage our entire nation because they were beholden to a murderous dictator."

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"DOGE claimed that it had already saved taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. However, in an ironic twist, it would appear that the claims being made by Musk and DOGE about their own activities appear to be, themselves, fraudulent." - Gizmodo

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It's time for more Rs to stand up to this. This could very well be a make-or-break moment for the GOP to either fall entirely into a pro-Russian camp ... or stay on the side of democracy. Will they continue to support the kleptocrat and his mentor?

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"Relations between [Zelenskyy and Trump] deteriorated rapidly Wednesday as Zelenskyy said Trump was living in a Russian-made 'disinformation space' and Trump called Zelenskyy 'a dictator without elections' in comments that were sure to complicate efforts to end the war."

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Heads up—Sign up for this call next Monday to meet the incoming DNC Chair and hear what he has to say about digital organizing. "National Organizing Call with Chair Martin" ak.democrats.org/signup/2-24-...

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This! Amplify AOC everywhere. Follow: @aoc.bsky.social and Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/ocasi... I'm giving a monthly amount and will do so for any leader who shows a spine.

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"Vance’s culture-war tirade was not only pointlessly confrontational and ill-informed; it was also delivered at a moment when lectures on democracy from America have inevitable 'Physician, heal thyself' overtones." - The Bulwark

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“In Feb. 2017, Rubio posted on social media, ‘Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.’ [Recently] Rubio contradicted his past position and parroted Musk’s rhetoric by deriding USAID as a “global charity.”

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"But Musk has provided no evidence to back up his claims, and experts quickly pointed out that this is very likely just a quirk of the decades-old coding language that underpins the government payment systems." Apparently, Musk and his crack team don't know about COBOL. 🙄

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"A group of non-partisan data analysts calling themselves the Election Truth Alliance are calling for an investigation into Pennsylvania’s ballot-counting system after Trump complimented Elon Musk for his work on Pennsylvania’s ballot-counting machines."

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I skimmed this quickly and accidentally read it as "my love language is grilled cheese" and I was like, "OMG yes."

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FYI: Wicker chairs the Armed Services Committee and voted for the "rookie." "Hegseth is going to be a great defense secretary, although he wasn’t my choice for the job,” [Wicker] told Politico. “But he made a rookie mistake in Brussels, and he’s walked back some of what he said..."

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FACTCHECK: "Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, claimed, without evidence, that $59 million 'meant for American disaster relief' was sent to 'luxury hotels.'" - Factcheck.org

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Let's do this, Guv. “While multiple federal judges have ordered the Trump Administration to unfreeze this funding, access has not been restored, leaving my Administration with no choice but to pursue legal action to protect the interests of the Commonwealth and its residents,” Shapiro said.

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GOP BINGO! cut taxes + cut healthcare + raise the debt 🙄 "Mike Johnson and House Republicans...released their budget plan, which would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion ... to dole out $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy. They also threw in $2 trillion of compulsory cuts to Medicaid..."

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"'The U.S. could, if necessary, become self-sufficient,' David Gantz, a fellow in trade and international economics at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told us in an interview. 'However, he said 'it would require significant and expensive modifications' to U.S. refineries."

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"... even though the Tuskegee Airmen were given older, slower planes than white airmen and were sometimes even denied the parts they needed to repair their aircraft, they still excelled in combat. And by the time the war was over, they had earned more than 850 medals for their service and valor."

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...there’s little evidence the drug is leaving the country in large quantities right now... [CBSA's] Anson said there is an “existential, continuous” threat of Canadian fentanyl going global. “We are currently not an exporter of fentanyl. But we need to earn the right to say that every single day."

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Bobby has taken over Gizmo's new bed, relegating Gizmo to his old one.

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Strange that he doesn't have Bondi come up with the new guidelines first and then implement them seamlessly. It's almost as if maybe they will do the first bullet point and not the second bullet point. 😉

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"Translation: Elon Musk has made himself very popular with men who drive gas-powered pickup trucks and have no intention of ever buying an EV. Meanwhile, he has made himself toxic to the kinds of people most likely to buy EVs in the coming years." "Oops." - The Bulwark

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THIS IS PERFECT.

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Good to see this. Need more. Fight local.

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AANWire offers local, independent, progressive news from around the country via members of AAN Publishers ( @aanpublishers.bsky.social .) Subscribe here: www.aanwire.com

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“Senate Democrats stayed on the chamber floor all night Wednesday to protest the nomination of Russell Vought, an architect of Project 2025, to chair the Office of Management and Budget.” #fight Write/call Senators—they’re filibustering until 7pm. newrepublic.com/post/191238/...

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Thought and prayers for Mitch McConnell on his recent fall. I understand he has full Congressional medical coverage which is a blessing for him and his heirs.

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Fascinating read on the current state of politics in Germany. Merz may have stepped in it by breaking a taboo -- the center parties promised never to work with far-right parties in post-war Germany. "It is hard to overstate this moment’s significance." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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