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My latest. I brought receipts: "With Democrats Like These, Who Needs Republicans?" Democratic leadership is moving to the center & adopting Republican talking points to court MAGA voters who will never accept them, while throwing their base under the bus. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...” "Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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DOGE “seemed unsure” of what USAID programs they cut and is now attempting to reverse some of the cuts, says @propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy. “This is the opposite of a careful review."

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“Hamilton” is canceling plans to perform next year at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing President Trump’s moves to impose his values on the venue. “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Agriculture must reinstate 5,900 fired employees for at least 45 days, per an order issued Wednesday by the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that handles federal worker complaints.

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News Analysis: President Trump’s speech to Congress covered tariffs, Ukraine and cuts to the federal work force but did little to address the perils that accompany the abrupt shifts he has engineered.

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US President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data reut.rs/4bzhkVZ

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Trump's first round of staff cuts to federal agencies eliminated dozens of positions at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, in charge of implementing the No Surprises Act.

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President Trump has repeatedly made false and misleading claims in his first few weeks back in office. Here's a fact-check on issues that may come up in his address to Congress on Tuesday.

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Canadian PM Trudeau announces 25% retaliatory tariffs on some US goods in response to new Trump levies, escalating a global trade war cnn.it/4knZFo6

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Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivered the Democratic rebuttal to President Trump's speech to Congress from Wyandotte, Michigan, a place she says that both she and Trump won. “America wants change,” she said, but there is a “responsible way,” calling Trump’s approach “reckless.” Here's the latest.

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Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a moderate elected in a state carried by Donald Trump last year, made a case for bipartisan values and invoked former Republican president Ronald Reagan in her party's rebuttal to Trump's address to Congress reut.rs/4ktuKqv

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NEW: In a flurry of posts on social media, Elon Musk took to his platform to threaten impeachment of judges ruling against his efforts to disembowel the government. Here’s what you need to know about the growing threats against the judiciary.

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White House plans to expand mass layoffs to IRS and Veterans Affairs

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“I spent my whole career as a lawyer and I’ve always believed that accountability is essential to democracy. That when people violate community standards, violate laws—laws like you can’t interfere with an official proceeding, you can’t assault police officers—that there are consequences.”

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President Trump says Canada and Mexico are allowing fentanyl to come into the U.S. at “levels never seen before.” However, U.S. Customs data shows almost none of the fentanyl intercepted at American borders comes from Canada.

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A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.

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Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

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Senator Elissa Slotkin, a first-term Democrat from Michigan, delivered a simple message as her party’s official response to President Trump’s combative address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night: Trump, she said, was “going to make you pay in every part of your life.”

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NEW: The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would you cut back on the revenue side?” one expert asks. By @andykroll.bsky.social

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This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.

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Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Health Department employees just last month that he would work with them to "launch a new era of radical transparency."

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President Trump has repeatedly made false or misleading claims in pursuing an aggressive agenda in the first weeks of his second term. Here's a fact-check on his remarks ahead of his address to Congress on Tuesday night.

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NEW from Bill Kristol: The Oval Office fiasco was not just about Ukraine, it's another step on the Trumpian path from America as a friend of democracies to America as "an unabashed predator." www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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The immediate removal of USAID funds and programs is not like a tech company firing their QA team. It’s like someone told you they would feed you next week and instead of canceling with notice so you can go to the shop, they take all the food you have in the house and burn down your kitchen.

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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This may be the fastest Presidency to recession in American history

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RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

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When Obama was president & I was in Congress, he gave a joint address to Congress. I boycotted his speech & went home to get my constituents take on things. Democrats should boycott Trump’s speech tomorrow. They should do town halls back home & get their constituents take on Musk/Trump/Putin, etc.

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This is the Dems secret weapon. Funny !!!

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EU OVERTAKES THE USA AS THE LEADING SHINING BEACON OF GLOBAL FREEDOM & SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. USA is now part of the Axis of Evil: RUSSIA / NORTH KOREA / USA. GREAT WORK maga

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President Zelenskyy doesn't owe Donald Trump and JD Vance a damn thing. Them crying that he isn't expressing gratitude, thanking, or fawning all over them is absurd.

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has been on a tear for much of this hearing on CFPB dismantling. She's concerned the agency will be "choked out of existence before I get to rule on the merits." She wants an evidentiary hearing.

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Hundreds of workers at the CDC. More than 1,000 at the NIH. Scores of staffers at the FDA. Trump’s purge of federal employees includes those doing lifesaving work. Many of them expressed fear at what would happen to the projects they left behind. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @deldeib.bsky.social

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The Trump admin is killing aid programs en masse, contrary to what it told a federal court. One program is for extremely malnourished babies -- who may die within hours without treatment. The program costs $120k / month. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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In 2017, 1,070 people were killed in the U.S. in circumstances related to domestic violence. By 2021, that number had skyrocketed to 1,800. Illinois’ own tally reflects the national pattern, going from 34 killings to 49 over the same period. By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

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ICYMI: Sen. Ted Cruz flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”

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#ICYMI: The confidential personal information of hundreds of thousands of alleged victims of housing discrimination, including victims of domestic violence, is now in DOGE’s hands. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social