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Rather than try and defend Joe Biden's selfish reelection campaign and poll denialism, Mike Donilon should just be apologizing to Democrats for Donald Trump's second term.

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It's just grotesque how Biden aides, like Mike Donilon, seem to have no shame about what they did.

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Exactly. Mike Donilon is one of the worst political advisers any modern president has had. Biden was on pace to lose 400 electoral votes. Biden comes from a small 3-county state & brought his longtime subpar political team of white yes men & women to his WH. They helped produce Trump’s 2nd term.

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Remember, Russell Vought said he wanted to "traumatize" federal civil servants.

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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How Trumpy is the Toledo Blade? Here’s its publisher hanging out with Trump on his plane.

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More than 7 out of 10 American Jews don't support MAGA & do support Israel. They're not mutually exclusive. That doesn't make us an "enemy" or "disloyal" unless the only measure of loyalty is fealty to Trump. We'll never support MAGA b/c of the dangerous extremism & antisemitism represented here👇

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The Trumpiest newspaper in America, the Toledo Blade, says that Trump’s top policy priority will destroy agriculture in Ohio.

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Pray for the Pope.

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Exit polls show that Trump won Catholics’ votes overwhelmingly. Not surprisingly then, only 10% of Catholics said their Catholic faith affected their vote & 86% said it played no role in their vote.

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Just a reminder that the neither the U.S. Digital Service (which has been converted into DOGE) nor OPM has any legal authority to direct every single federal government employee to give them a job summary. Literally no such authority at all.

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As much as I lately tend to share bad news on here, it’s not all bad news. contrarian.substack.com/p/showing-up...

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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#TeaPartyToo

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Ben Collins is apparently a hate-filled anti-Catholic, ageist bigot. Good to know about the owner of The Onion.

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Blocked and blocked. Leave your hate elsewhere, at the Nazi salute guy’s website.

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One neat trick to see if students are reading your emails is to put a survey link on there for extra points on the midterm. Turns out, they are not (30% response). Good to know. Good to know.

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I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

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Trump fired General C.Q. Brown, our highest-ranking military officer. A four-star general, Brown served the country for 40+ years. The words they’re using to justify these firings like "woke" and "DEI" — we know what they mean. Why would they apply the term "woke" to him?

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🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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I'm praying for Pope Francis who, sadly, is now in critical condition after suffering "a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen." www.13abc.com/2025/02/22/v...

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Are we already watching a failed presidency, as mainstream Republicans flee for the exists, and Russians and our enemies cheer Trump's every move. Join Legal AF's Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok on the latest After Dark edition of Legal AF.

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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How many child cancer researchers did they fire to pay for this?

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Trump drops at Super Bowl and Daytona 500 wasted millions of dollars. #Vanity. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/02/22/o...

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ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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Democrats held the Senate floor for ten hours on Thursday night, attempting to block the most damaging budget cuts and fight for the American people. What did we see? Senate Republicans voted down every single amendment to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

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New findings from Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio & Bob Ward Generic ballot —> D+5 Among swing voters: —66% say tax priority should be helping working class families; 1% say helping highest earners —Top-polling policy: extend expiring health care tax credits under ACA

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Our voices matter: The White House restored funding for the 9/11 first responder survivors’ health program after an uproar from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ensued following the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts last week. thehill.com/policy/healt...

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It is an extremely challenging time for higher ed, and I don't envy institutional leaders at this moment, but I am nonetheless deeply disappointed by this decision & the lack of communication to faculty about why it was made: www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Love seeing this.

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Joining Alex Witt @msnbc.com soon

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Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui giving the Nazi Salute at #CPAC

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“I admire a lot of what you do,@elonmusk..but your vicious attack on President Zelensky last night was incredibly disappointing. Anything negative to say about Vladimir Putin - or is it just the guy whose country he illegally invaded who is the problem?” Where you been, Piers? #LeopardsAteMyFace

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“A lot of my neighbors that voted for Trump, they walking around scared, crying, nervous” #LeopardsAteMyFace

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Trump fans can’t get over threatening Ukraine “So the US is now a country that threatens and robs other countries. Amazing. I was a Trump supporter but … now I start to believe those who say Trump is a fascist. He is showing his true colors and it's ugly af.” #LeopardsAteMyFace

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“Supporting Trump was not a popular thing with many of my friends and family members. I did it nevertheless. If Trump really said that Ukraine started the war, I feel deeply ashamed for my naivety. I strongly assume that most decent people feel the same way.” #LeopardsAteMyFace

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An interesting article on how Pope Francis, who hasn't taken a vacation since 1975, worked himself into the hospital by putting the Catholic Church above his own health. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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Anyone seen the immersive Van Gogh and Monet exhibits? They're coming to South Carolina. Are they good? cc: @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social

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Even the @wsj agrees DOGE claimed savings are not true. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Framing school attendance for children sick with measles as a matter of parental autonomy is a feature, not a bug, of this administration's approach to infectious disease response. And we've been here before! This mirrors the actions taken by FL's Surgeon General last year.

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Wow. An article on how the culture of Ohio, and of Columbus, Ohio in particular, can bring "us closer to natural law" by following the mindset of Ohio's JD Vance. Wow. www.theamericanconservative.com/ohios-gritty...

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In a setback for Trump’s anti-DEI purge, a judge said the orders would “likely” be found to violate the First Amendment.

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Trump literally named as head of the Social Security administration a low level employee who was suspended and being investigated for illegally sharing classified data with Elon Musk. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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