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Protest in Greenville today. Big turnout! Great signs. Lots of support from ppl driving up and down Main St Absolute highlight is this Cybertruck that pulled up to talk shit over his loudspeaker, but like everything else on a Cybertruck, the speaker sucked, so you couldnt understand a word he said

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Clueless - VAT is not a tariff - US exports to Europe charged VAT (c.20%): European exports to US charged sales tax (c.7%) - In Europe, VAT applied equally to all products , where it originates irrelevant - Trump basically saying US exports need unfair advantage to compete

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Maybe they shouldn’t fire FAA staff until planes stop crashing.

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Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.” No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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NC5: “Musk & Trump’s cuts are hurting Tennessee families.” Fired VA worker: “It turned our world upside down. We don't know what's going to happen.” www.newschannel5.com/news/efforts...

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Let's shed a tear shall we !!! 🙊🙉🙈 Not

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Democracy dies in the darkness. Call your Members of Congress & tell them to #FireMusk 📱 (202) 224-3121

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Ethics actually matters.

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Because you are sucking up to the owner of your newspaper?

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This times 100!

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Do you know what Dems did today? It may not be everything we want them to, but Dems are fighting for us. They get very little media attention but Dems do indeed fight for us. Meanwhile, Republicans are the party of fascism/tyranny. Pay attention to what Dems are doing so you can tell your friends.

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BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

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Rep. Morgan McGarvey checking in on a few of Trump's promises for working families — must have missed them in the Republicans' budget. Guess what IS in there? Ending Medicaid as we know it.... Hands Off My Medicaid!

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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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New: 46 Senate Republicans led by John Thune have proposed to eliminate the estate tax. Elon Musk's heirs would benefit more than any other, as he's worth ~$400 billion. A 40% tax on that would be close to $160 billion, though there is a whole industry devoted to helping the rich bypass the tax.

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This new Administration is a bunch of terrorists blowing up all that is meant to keep us safe and healthy. CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... via @statnews.com

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Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk's push to radically overhaul the federal government is now reaching the U.S. court system with a demand that the judiciary justify why the administration should not cancel leases for space it utilizes at 160 locations nationally.

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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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Every single day I mourn what could have been....what should have been. 😔

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How can we be surprised that this administration is normalizing AfD — a far-right, anti-immigrant, extremist party that has called Holocaust remembrance a “guilt cult” — when its own policies and leadership (including Musk) seem squarely aligned? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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A foreign service employee tells me their team can no longer access Politico, NYT or Bloomberg -- even though they have paid subscriptions to all of them. "It is critical to our jobs" to have this access, says this employee.

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Dear Global Friends, We know how you feel. We get it. We don’t recognize these people holding power either. We don’t recognize them as legitimate expressions of our values or principles as Americans. Thank you for voicing your disapproval and opposition. Signed, A concerned American

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🚨The FINAL senate vote on KASH PATEL to head the FBI will most likely be next week. Let your legislators hear from you. The latest: Kash Patel failed to disclose two companies involved in a million-dollar land deal. But there's more .... 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"The reality is I come to work to help people," Paul Osadebe told WUSA9 Friday night. He's an attorney who works for the federal government.

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I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

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New in PN: The AP provides a model of effective press resistance "The dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico seems trivial, especially compared to the others horrors Trump is currently perpetrating. But tyrants are tyrants in part bc they insist on asserting control over even trivial matters."

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💥💯 @studentsdemocracy.bsky.social

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Guys I’m really confused. I reread the Bible yesterday and didn’t see any mention of cancelling foreign aid, letting people die, letting people starve, or closing the borders to migrants in need. It didn’t even say to abandon our citizens seeking healthcare. Is it possible MAGA never read it?

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Call things as they are. Vance's meeting w/AfD, the far right wing, neo Nazi, pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine "Alternative for Germany" political party, reinforces their alliance & shared ideologies. His visit to Dachau, a German concentration camp where 1,000s of Jews & others died, was a sham & betrayal.

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Again, it's all right out of the Twitter playbook, as @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social covered in their book. SAME EXACT THING. Except there he at least had the authority to do this. Here he does not.

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 61. 2/14/25. Valentine’s Day edition features quite a few toxic duos. Here is everything you need to know about what happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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IMPORTANT REMINDER: All six of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s children have been vaccinated. Not only is RFK Jr. a longtime anti-vaxxer, he has made a highly profitable career of endangering the lives of millions in his dangerous crusade against vaccinations. The ascendancy of this lying profiteer…

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On the Russians and Americans backing the German far right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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