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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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the ‘pro-business’ party is now a protection racket

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It’s also logistically impossible. It’s wrong. It’s unconstitutional. And every single federal employee should send @elonmusk & Trump an email and tell them both to go fuck themselves.

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He’s gonna read a few million emails or many hundred thousand? Have a weekly standup zoom call? GTFOH

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Rot-ruh... local ABC News in CBus is reporting on how impossible it is to get a hold of our US Sentors It's all fun and games until it hits the local news during a winter storm watch..

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I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

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Three-year/old Clayton has been at the Baltimore animal shelter longer than any other cat. Look how sweet he is! Details in alt text.

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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer nyti.ms/4hVfn8w

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Well not convert anymore I guess

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Tho I did not need to look up FDR, I did need to figure out whoJack Blanchard is. I figured he was some obscure guy w/ a substack or something. Bc who needs FDR explained? Managing editor of Politico Playbook?!! OMG! White guys, I beg you, stop showing us “failing up” examples. We have enough!

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Last spring, Philly's Eviction Diversion Program became permanent. As a result, the number of eviction filings in the city dropped.

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So cops are threatening us?

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There has been an increase in trolls breaching the @bsky.app The good news, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social is that many of them are illiterate. For those who are able to read, I highly recommend this brilliant, important, timely article and look to the book's release jach.law.wisc.edu/the-reconstr...

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"the house of the USAID mission director in Kinshasa had been looted, and videos of the ransacking began circulating on social media..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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#WelfareQueenElonMusk 🤬

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there are protests planned at state capitols, city halls, and other civic spaces all over the country tomorrow: www.commondreams.org/news/anti-tr...

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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

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Some transgender Americans report they’ve been refused a passport altogether — with any gender marker — in recent weeks. “The goal is to make life untenable”: www.vox.com/politics/399...

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If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 293 comments

Trump's election doesn't seem to be helping the financial fortunes of his namesake company, which generated more revenue in 2023 than in 2024.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 9 days ago • 418 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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A federal funding freeze on domestic violence programs threatens to shutter shelters and silence crisis lines—leaving survivors with nowhere to turn.

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NEW: ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

submitted 10 days ago • 105 comments

Somebody needs to channel Audre Lorde and explain to the institutional leaders of higher education that their silence will not protect us. We need to be 10 toes down and LOUD about celebrating and explaining the value of education, the importance of free inquiry, the life saving impact of research..

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I suspect no one who voted for Trump thought he would let Musk invade their privacy. Right now, inside the Dept of Ed, the world’s richest man is rifling through 45M people’s private student loan accounts and feeding the data into AI. www.aft.org/press-releas... apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump’s funding cuts harm our veterans. As Ranking Member of the @democrats-appropriations.house.gov MilCon & VA Subcommittee, I hope VA Secretary Collins will work with me to ensure our veterans receive the benefits & services they’ve earned. wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documen...

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During our collective 18 years at the helm of the Treasury, we never were asked to stop congressionally appropriated funds from being paid out in full. Not since the Nixon administration has this type of executive action been contemplated. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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From Henry Ford to the esteemed, path-blazing New York Times foreign correspondent Anne O’Hare McCormick, expressions of fascist sympathy had reached the center of mainstream discourse and American political thought by the late 1930s.

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