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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year. Amanda’s Story: Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…

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I posted this was a lie right after Musk said it. This is the Commander of the ISS. Musk responded to this post by throwing a temper tantrum and calling for ISS to be defunded.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

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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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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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JD Vance, a Yale Law graduate, doesn't understand Marbury v. Madison, the most famous case in Constitutional law, which established judicial review of the other two branches of government.

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The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

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NEW: Did Elon just create a secret IT contracting vehicle at OPM to avoid Congressional and public oversight? We need to get more eyes on this so please share my latest (always free): www.muellershewrote.com/p/did-elon-j...

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🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does. Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does: (1/14)

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We’re supposed to just take Elon’s word that he’s found “massive” fraud in federal systems he took over? The same guy they found committing fraud on his fellow gamers?

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Hospitals that can afford Super Bowl ads shouldn’t be sending their patients to collections

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The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

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Great point.

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

submitted 17 days ago • 1054 comments

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

submitted 25 days ago • 1779 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 26 days ago • 232 comments

This photo hits hard.

submitted 26 days ago • 904 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 27 days ago • 840 comments

Senate learns of new allegations against Pete Hegseth: The Defense Secretary nominee’s former sister-in-law, in an affidavit, said she witnessed his drunken aggression and that his second wife worried about her safety.

submitted 36 days ago • 481 comments

These bills are being heard in red states across the country right now…

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The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to cover the cost of preventative health treatments such as cancer screenings. Understand what's at stake: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/1xCuGx

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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?! 👇

submitted 44 days ago • 376 comments

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

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👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Doctors are increasingly defying NHS rules to prescribe over-the-counter items like baby formula, shampoo, toothpaste and multivitamins for patients struggling to afford basic goods.

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Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽

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Living the dream of paying thousands of dollars a year for the opportunity to drive in circles to possibly find a parking space at my place of employment.

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The head of Pasadena Humane says that they're taking names of people who are willing to foster animals that are coming into the shelter that are displaced from the Eaton Fire. She says that the main thing they need is money. Please donate if you're looking for a way to help.

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This was a fantastic water drop in the Hollywood Hills Sunset Fire from one of the aerial firefighting planes. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

submitted 48 days ago • 305 comments

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

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Former President Jimmy Carter was a wonderful person. A lady walked into a restaurant where he and his family were eating. There wasn’t anymore tables. The lady was going to leave. Jimmy Carter invited her to sit down at their table to eat and she did.

submitted 48 days ago • 92 comments

Think different in 2025: Find and support businesses that are actually doing the right thing. Money talks—spend it where it matters.

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A federal judge today held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for failing to turn over information to two former Georgia election workers he defamed after the 2020 presidential election, as they continue to try to collect $150 million in damages.

submitted 51 days ago • 640 comments

So, the @Washington post tried to stop the world from seeing a political cartoon critical of its owner, and as a result, they’ve lost tons of subscribers, the incredible cartoonist who drew it quit, and it’s created such an uproar, that WAY more people saw it than otherwise would have. Brilliant.

submitted 52 days ago • 506 comments

This year is already so hard. Anyone have some positive thoughts?

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