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Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

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How it started. How it’s going

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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Trump: Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants trying to keep America safe and running. Also, Trump: Give DHS a budget of up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly thank Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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And who they didn't like

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JUST IN: Suit filed in DC by @POGOwatchdog argues DOGE is an operational federal agency and must abide by Federal Records Act, subjecting DOGE to #FOIA. Trump says they're presidential records, putting them off limits 'til 5-12 years post-presidency. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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I Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦

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When exactly did the Southern Baptist Convention's proclaimed plan to build a denominational database become a denominational sham? They say it’s “not a focus…at this point,” but was it ever a focus? Or was it always a charade? My column today: christabrown.substack.com/p/southern-b...

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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NEW — I wrote about Leland Dudek, a Social Security Administration (SSA) staffer who went from being on admin leave for aiding DOGE to acting head of the agency overnight. I talked to multiple SSA employees about how this prolific LinkedIn poster became Musk's poster boy for government allegiance:

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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👇Evergreeen www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

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They didn't "save money." They starved kids and fired watchdogs. That all costs us more in the long run.

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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1. The Senate confirmed RFK Jr at the same time as a massive measles outbreak was sweeping through areas of Texas with low vaccination rates. RFK Jr visited Texas yesterday. Not to address the burgeoning crisis but to continue to push anti-vaccine messaging.

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Hi Bill, you could have actually done something to reduce the exponential growth in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in the US in recent years. Instead you confirmed RFK Jr. Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect. Was selling your soul worth it?

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Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

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I can’t stop thinking about these two headlines

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Homebuilder confidence really tanked this month. Especially notable is their view of the "next six months". Toll just missed their numbers. Housing Starts out tomorrow!

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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Panama’s security minister "told reporters the migrants were not 'detained' by the Panamanian government but rather 'are under our protection'"... ... one of the detained people "sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: 'Please try to help us.'"

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Vibe shift getting spicy. 🌶️ #CPI

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The Freedom of Information Act is an essential pillar of transparency and democratic accountability for the US government. Eliminating the capacity to comply with laws in general, and FOIA specifically, is a ticking grenade under our democracy.

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Not reposting Trump's insane Ukraine comments, just wondering if people are still saying "They are both the same"

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

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Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

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"We will protect DOGE." This morning, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin — a "stop the steal" organizer and Jan. 6 defendant advocate — sent an email titled "Operation Whirlwind" in which he said he's personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer. The text:

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What happened to this Marco Rubio?

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