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It is important to remember that nothing has been sent to Ukraine by the Trump administration since he was sworn in. All today's announcement did was make explicit what had been implicitly happening. This was why I kept hammering on Biden's natsec team to send everything promised before 20 JAN 2025.

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War for Ukraine Day 1,103 update has posted.

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Rick Scott has long been vigilant when it comes to people breaking federal laws. Just search for "Rick Scott Medicare fraud" and you'll read an amazing story about a master criminal.

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ICYMI: A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit alleging Elon Musk is wielding vast unconstitutional power to reshape US government called the Trump administration’s incomplete explanations of the billionaire’s actual role "highly suspicious"

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Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The new selection platform. This is where SS doctors made the selection of arriving Jews, sentencing most of them to be murdered in gas chambers. In the historical pictures, we can see the arrival of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz. (Photo: instagram.com/javierflores__85)

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www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/02/r...

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The richest man in the world has gotten IRS to fire the people investigating the richest men in the world for tax fraud and instead gotten them to look for fraud among people poor enough to rely on (non-DOD/IC contract) govt benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Put them on a rocket and shoot them into the sun. A cavalcade of LOSERS that have fed off the Dem party far too long

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"It came as little surprise last week when a pair of new bills suddenly surfaced in Tallahassee meant to banish guaranteed income from Florida." Looks like Florida may be the next state to ban local governments from doing basic income pilots, because the results make billionaires feel uncomfortable

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Very important 🧵!!!

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Folks who claim America can be safer and more secure outside of NATO are traitors and liars.

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I think Dems should consider doing hearings of their own outside of Congress. Rent hotel ballrooms, bring our own witnesses, make our big arguments, get stuff on the record. Early topics - illegal/unconstitutional disassembly of US govt, Trump selling out to Putin, his reckless econ policies.

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CDC data shows the flu vaccine, on average, saves more than 5,000 lives per year. So yes, the RFK, Jr. and the Trump administration are planning mass murder.

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I missed the one today in Rochester. Hopefully I can make it to some in the future. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

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I believe Musk and DOGE disbanded 18F because we stood in the way of their "procurement capture" operation. We get the government out of wasteful contracts. Musk wants that money back for himself. Explanation by @anildash.com of procurement capture: www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D...

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Hi @lisamurkowski.bsky.social! You're not here as much as you are on the other place, but I saw this anyway. Maybe, with Trump and Musk also eliminating jobs in Alaska, it's time for you to talk to your House colleagues about impeaching this President.

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🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

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The crowd is growing and has lots of support from people driving by. Spaceship X protest now.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Five Ways Trump Is Sabotaging the United States www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/01/t...

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Emptywheel’s essays are always a must read.

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Here are ways to help elect Susan Crawford for the WI Supreme Court race on 4/1. Opportunities include attending a free zoom event w/guest speaker @benwikler.bsky.social & 2 other dynamic speakers, Phone banking Wisconsinites, & posting on SM. Please sign up, and let’s save our democracy together!

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My name is Blake Gendebien, and I am the Democrat who is fighting to represent the North Country in the upcoming special election. From lowering costs to protecting our farmers, my commitment is to put you first. Can you chip in $21 to help? secure.actblue.com/donate/gende...

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A worthwhile thread of fact checking

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If you're feeling hopeless and want to do something to fight back, @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @sunjeevbery.bsky.social have some advice.

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More reasons to love the guy: Singer Mick Jagger, plans to donate his share of the Rolling Stones catalog to charity instead of leaving it to his children. The material is valued at US$500 million, around R$2.5 billion at current exchange rates.

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NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

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Someone said I was exaggerating. I am going to ask you to not only look at the broadsheets but read the descriptions. The description of today's? Begins with "The front page features a prominent image of a spacecraft orbiting Earth, labeled as the lunar lander Athena taking a selfie..."

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I think that Democrats should boycott the State of the Union, which is pointless. Instead, of having a Democrat provide the rebuttal, they should bring in recently fired federal workers to describe the important work they used to do.

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If you want to understand how we got here, this is the essential source

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Bezos isn’t “bending the knee.” Corporate media isn’t either. The oligarchs aren’t scared or capitulating, they’re part of a coup in the middle of an aggressive class war. The longer we keep framing it otherwise the worse it’s going to get. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-birth-...

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Just a reminder that Trump’s DOJ just dropped a criminal fraud investigation into Ogles, including allegations that he used a photo of his stillborn child to raise tens of thousands of dollars for a burial garden for children that was never built. He has never accounted for that money.

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Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

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I think this is worth watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Wz...

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It's likely SCOTUS will shortly allow Donald Trump to fire Hampton Dellinger. But in 2 weeks since Judge Amy Berman Jackson held that off, he issued a ruling--& MSPB upheld for now--that the mass firings are Reductions in Force that must follow certain guidelines. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/26/t...

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The DOJ lawyer might as well be saying "what are you going to do about it?"

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Some 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization papers. And the SAVE Act would require these documents to register to vote.

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Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

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Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

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it seems like DC might now be a free fire zone for ALLEGED domestic violence, as long as you have an R after your name

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War for Ukraine Day 1,096 update has posted.

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Issue with "Dems aren't opposing" storyline is how it feeds "there is no opposition to this regime." This helps the right's claim they have the power to do as they please and cynicism that nothing can be done. Yes, I recognize that in my fury I have contributed to this narrative.

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Having some billionaire dude bro complete a hostile takeover of our government and full scale robbery of our money and data is in fact "nuts." Full stop. No caveats.

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