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Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

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There has been considerable focus in recent weeks about the impact of firing probationary employees at the FDA. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. I've assembled a list of all the other cuts that are coming next. It's a LONG list. (Free read) www.agencyiq.com/blog/a-guide...

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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

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A crypto national reserve is like a national reserve of Beanie Babies. It serves no function. There is no situation where it would be necessary. Except to move massive sums of taxpayer dollars to private interests in exchange for worthless garbage.

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How it started How it’s going 💰 🤷🏼‍♂️

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A lucky trader just happened to put in a $200m trade with 50x leverage a few hours before a Trump pro-crypto announcement. The price of crypto jumped and this person made hundreds of millions. Pure luck I’m sure.

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NEW: Nick Enrich, acting asst admin for USAID Global Health, was just placed on administrative admin leave by Trump admin. It comes after he shared a memo with USAID staff, including those on leave/fired saying it’s been impossible to implement Rubio’s waivers for lifesaving aid

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago. You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.

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Dr Seuss, 1941.

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We Need to Talk About the Lying www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o... Yes, we do need to fight the evil &the widespread destruction of our government.

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This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

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We tried to quantify the impact of abrupt PEPFAR cuts. The results startled even us www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/p... via @statnews.com

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“In exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute, a prosecutor should not improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person. Because of Rodden’s explicit bigotry and racism, he cannot be trusted to properly exercise his discretion.”

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What a goddamn farce. Border crossings are currently at a 50-year low.

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One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

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Oleg Magdych was there when the war began. He knows who started it. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/trum...

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🕵🏻‍♀️ BREAKING while we were distracted with Ukraine…Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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"Either way, it’s as if Franklin Delano Roosevelt had showered slurs on Winston Churchill during the Blitz and praised Adolf Hitler" -- The Philadelphia Inquirer's great foreign-affairs columnist Trudy Rubin, on what the hell just happened here www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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The #WHO put out a detailed statement on the ongoing outbreak of unknown cause happening in the north western DRC. Health authorities & WHO experts are on the ground working to determine the cause & strengthen response efforts. Here’s what we know so far. 🧵👇 www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...

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Cool paper from Florian Kramer & colleagues about a novel feature of circulating H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4. These viruses have a longer stalk in their neuraminidase (NA) enzyme, a key viral protein. This was not seen in past H5N1 strains (2002-2019) Why does it matter?🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Via @thehill.com: The Catholic Health Association, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Catholic Charities have all called on Congress to protect Medicaid as a matter of faith: thehill.com/newsletters/...

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Rishi Sunak writes for The @economist.com arguing in favour of seizure of Russian assets. “if the financial centres of Europe, North America and democratic Asia act together, the risk that seizing the assets causes financial upheaval can be contained” www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

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President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

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Last week, Hegseth ordered Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital action therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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Trump/Vance get rave reviews from Moscow!

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SCOOP: Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

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Israel announces that it will end an official boycott of several European far-right parties. It will now establish and maintain ties with France’s National Rally, the Sweden Democrats & Vox in Spain “as with any other political party”, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced.

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The groups contended in court filings that the State Department moved to kill the contracts after the judge in the case verbally granted the preliminary injunction but before he could issue a written order.

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How it started/How it's going

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In a "quiet but seismic recalibration," Trump has rolled back constraints on American commanders to authorize airstrikes & special operation raids outside conventional battlefields, broadening the range of people who can be targeted according to US officials with knowledge of the policy shift

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OPINION: Stop claiming that any other entity is able to take over the massive, maybe not so well-oiled, but still very functional machine that is the U.S. government when it comes to foreign aid.

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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!! Earlier today the Trump administration terminated all contracts with refugee resettlement organizations; a day AFTER a judge blocked Trump's refugee resettlement order. This would make any future resettlement impossible. Now the plaintiffs in that case are seeking an emergency status conference.

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Did Russia invade Ukraine? Is Putin a dictator? @elainegodfrey.bsky.social asked every Republican member of Congress these two simple questions, and so far, has gotten few straight answers. She's keeping a running list of responses; follow it here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Jfc this morning’s measles news is terrible.

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I've said it repeatedly: this is Aktion T4 2.0. The Nazi Aktion T4 program murdered the disabled, the "useless eaters". There's an apocryphal saying attributed to Margaret Mead, that human civilization began w/taking care of people who had broken limbs, who would otherwise almost certainly die.

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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

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ECONOMIST: “Team Trump claims .. America will turn its superpower status into profit. Instead it will make the world more dangerous, and America weaker and poorer.” @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Groups tied to Elon Musk have already spent more than $4.2 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race—a clear sign that his plans for oligarchy extend well beyond Washington.

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"Aw Shucks Fascism isn't that hard to spot. Don’t sit still for it. Don’t play along with it."

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"For five decades Marty traveled extensively, delivering thousands of lectures, sermons, and commencement addresses. He authored more than sixty books, hundreds of scholarly articles, and countless essays, columns, and forewords for other books." currentpub.com/2025/02/26/m...

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#BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts issues temporary, "administrative" stay of the government's midnight deadline to turn spending taps back on in foreign aid funding case. This is not a sign that the Court is going to rule for Trump on the merits; it's buying a short amount of time to sort it out.

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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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