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“Warning to Big Law: those who fail to stand up while they can for the rule of law may rue its erosion and regret their silence.” Trump’s petty retribution violates the 1st and 6th amendments, but it still takes guts to ignore his threats and act honorably. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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I’m almost at 11 hours and 16 to go because I started early. I have no inclination to make any purchases today. It feels wonderful contributing to this collaborative effort to grab them by the wallet.

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Is it incompetence or cruelty? Either way, DOGE screws Veterans and this should definitely be getting more attention! DOGE is dragging its feet on processing VA claims, leaving veterans without the healthcare and support they earned.

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Jordy Meiselas: Well, look, people want fighters. The messaging on the right has worked so effectively because the Republican politicians are meeting this generation of voters where they exist in the digital ecosystems. Now, they're lying to them…

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I’m a poor-ass teacher. I’ve been paying my student loans for 18 years on IDR. If this goes away, I’ll be effed. Eat the rich.

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Cuteness Overload...

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At MIDNIGHT, Friday, February 28, NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this. I'm IN, are YOU? Grab them by their wallets. That’s all these billionaires KNOW.

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A deadly mystery disease in Congo has killed 50+ people—half within 48 hours. Serious question: If a deadly virus hits our shores, how will we even know other than word-of-mouth? Trump pulled us from WHO, is gutting the CDC & put an antivaxxer who thinks WiFi causes “leaky brain” in charge of HHS.

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Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine What could possibly go wrong? 🤨

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Column: Jeff Bezos threw the Washington Post under the MAGA bus. His decision to revamp its opinion section threatens not just independent journalism, but the Post's business future, writes our senior editor Michael Schaffer.

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Thousands of grant applications had been stalled when the Trump administration blocked the National Institutes of Health from posting notices to the Federal Register.

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President Trump said that he would strip security clearances from lawyers at a prominent Washington law firm aiding Jack Smith and end any federal government work the firm may have.

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Lynn Dekleva, a lobbyist, once led an aggressive effort by an industry group to block regulations on formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical. Now she’s in a senior role at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file.

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Six fired federal workers will be temporarily reinstated after a decision this week by the Merit Systems Protection Board, the first step toward what lawyers representing fired employees hope will be the restoration of thousands of jobs cut by the Trump administration.

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Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night said that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work.

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"There was no guidance. Other than you were supposed to turn your stuff in, but there was nothing about our final pay, there was no severance offered, no extension of benefits. There was nothing."

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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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DISGUSTING. Elon’s “savings” come off the backs of service-connected disabled Veteran small business owners—89% of his cuts come from canceling their contracts. Stealing from those who sacrificed for this country? It doesn’t get lower than this. MORE: www.washingtontechnology.com/contracts/20...

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🚨Trump & Musk are coming for your VA benefits. They’re coming for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. We can make it politically untenable—but we need your stories. VoteVets delivers the hardest-hitting ads in politics. Help us fight back. Submit now: votevets.org/doge-tipline

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Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.

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Over 230,000 Canadians have signed a petition urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship.

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Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

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More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

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More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

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Just think about this: The United States is siding with Russia. In the single greatest attack on freedom, democracy, and sovereignty in Europe since WW II, the United States of America is opposing freedom/democracy, and is actually siding with the invader/dictator. Shameful.

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New: A top official at the US Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office expects additional job cuts after it lost more than 10% of its staff in recent weeks, according to a recording of an all-hands meeting that was shared with Bloomberg News

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Congress is about to vote on a Republican budget that would destroy Medicaid. These 17 House Republicans won by fewer votes than the number of people they want to steal health care from. We are sending billboards to their districts to demand they vote NO on the budget.

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The shift in U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia has raised alarms in Kyiv and in capitals across Europe. A new documentary finds that those anxieties are especially high in some of Russia’s neighbors on the Baltic Sea.

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One VA employee said they were "furious" to see leadership's advice that they justify their jobs to Elon Musk.

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BREAKING

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You have power. Use it.

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GOOD MORNING SKIES OF BLUE THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT SOAR EAGLES SOAR I honor the PHILADELPHIA EAGLES TAKE A STAND AMERICA

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The Trump administration's big cuts to the federal government are hitting one group particularly hard — the country's veterans.

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"When the history of the era is written, Zelensky will be seen as the global leader of the anti-authoritarian resistance, who refused to accept the terms that the powerful sought to impose on his nation," Franklin Foer writes.

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Axed from jobs not easily found outside government, thousands of federal workers caught in President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts now face a difficult search for work.

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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

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Always #Ukraine

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I’ve been targeted for death in a bomb threat received at the Principles First Summit where I spoke today. To be clear, I’ve been threatened by far more capable people during my career. It won’t stop my advocacy for democracy and the Constitution: x.com/Acosta/statu...