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A student was telling me that she learned what a "party line" was from folks at the senior center... as if I didn't grow up with those too! #YesIAmOld

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Peter, the press corps has power. Don’t go!

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."

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The House will vote TODAY on whether to advance devastating cuts to Medicaid that would destroy lifesaving programs for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Call your representative now and tell them to save Medicaid at (202) 224-3121.

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RFK, Jr.'s proposed "wellness farms" or "wellness camps" are actually intended to be the current day United States version of "concentration camps." 🤬 This administration must be stopped. #MentalHealth Article: www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

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REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs? MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.

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UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

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Instead of going after corporations who pay $0 in taxes, Republicans are focusing their budget on slashing assistance for people who struggle and the farmers and small businesses who power our economy. It doesn't make any sense. And it's just cruel.

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And.... theres another org I will stop supporting.

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New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out

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there’s a type of person who doesn’t “sweat the small stuff” bc “things will just work out,” who doesn’t see that things “just working out” is the result of others stretching to accommodate them and their failure to “sweat the small stuff,” so the person and/or their plan doesn’t go off the rails.

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My Dad had his tires popped & crosses burned on his lawn for daring to promote the idea that black folk should have the same level of rights and responsibilities as white folk. I asked him if he was afraid and he confidently said he wasn't because "they were cowards."

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Not Joann Fabrics!! This timeline is the worst.

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#DOGE

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It’s Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl. They keep leaving off the “Dr.” Pay attention to how Idaho & the msm media infantilize her, calling her a “little girl” and ignoring her academic achievements. None of that is on accident.

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A federal judge in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order on Monday, blocking members of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency team and anyone “working on the DOGE agenda at the Department of Education” from accessing sensitive data until March 10.

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New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

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yes. love it. do this.

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now, call me a science denying postmodern kook, but if a medic (or, indeed, anyone) needs to know the reproductuve capacity of a coma victim then, to my mind, that is a wee bit sus.

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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

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I’m positive you all saw the video from Coeur d’Alene, where a woman was pulled out of her seat and arrested by men who claimed to be sheriff deputies, but were not in uniform. I need the men to do something: When you see a woman being abused, step in. Step up. Get in the way. Put your body to use.

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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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🧵 Y'all ever think about the way things that don't seem related very much are? I was thinking about America's literacy problems. Around half of American adults read at or below a sixth grade level. Only 37% read a novel or short story last year. That's bad. For multiple reasons.

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I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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This is a direct reference to the Proud Boys who use the gold wreath FAFO logo. I fully believe Elon is going to utilize vigilante violence to enforce things. You should take this seriously.

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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Why aren’t you here? Want to show the administration how you feel? Show up. Now. Lincoln Memorial. Please.

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Big protest coming to Stonewall National Monument in just an hour or two. If you are in the area, get down there, be active, show your disapproval of the removal of transgender people from all online websites for the Stonewall National Monument page!

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Growing up, my BFF's dad was a genetics prof at Harvard, and was saying IN THE '70s that IQ tests and genetics were no measure of financial success, unwanted pregnancy, and violence. And here we are, 50 years later. hms.harvard.edu/news/science...

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Don’t be a nice person…

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The fact we have become this stupid and cruel and awful of a country in real time Would be a god damn satire worthy of VOLTAIRE If it wasn’t completely in earnest and absolutely triggering

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Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

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another Nazi salute at CPAC

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This is rape culture at work. These women will not be safe... and that is by design. Evil at work. Bureau of Prisons to move trans inmates as early as next week www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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Just sharing a minute of my improvised comments from #nokings event in #lewisburg #pennsylvania @actiontogethernepa.bsky.social

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