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House Republicans are preparing a budget package that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That’s TRILLION. With a T.

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Breaking — All Department of Justice office leaders just received an email saying they should be “prepared to follow the instructions” in the OPM/Musk bullet email, according to a copy shared with me. Full text:

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Thread of recent Nazi salutes Musk: "My heart goes out to you!" [salutes x2] Eduardo Verástegui: "That is why I am going to join the Elon Musk and President Trump's movement. My heart goes out to all of you! Fight! Fight! Fight!" [salutes] Steve Bannon: "Fight! Fight! Fight! [salutes]

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I told OPM what I did last week

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(Now former) Teacher in Pennsylvania: "our hearts go out to you" and Nazi salute. www.facebook.com/share/p/15Jf...

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Yes, everyone, please let Elon know what you did. Email [email protected]

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Ok, so IRS got the 5 bullet points, justify your job, email. Our Union NTEU is saying to not respond at this point until National NTEU has a chance to assess the implications of responding. 1/2

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1. Why, if you control OPM and have all the job details, do you need me to tell you what I do? 2. When did feeding your AI system become part of my job? 3. This is just another Fork email to intimate. You can't send Fork emails anymore, so this is the next latest crazy.

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This will make our troops less safe. Again, he's building a significant amount of backlash and stepping on a lot of toes. The Pentagon never created a job if there wasn't a need for it. And why anyone would celebrate people losing their jobs whether corporate or government is beyond me.

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The party of absolute trash.

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Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

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Under her command, the US Navy met its recruiting goals last year. The Army did not. She made being in the Navy more tolerable, based on experience of more than 20 years of her career at sea. People wanted to join Navy, to the point they had to deny people because the training slots were filled.

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the federal government represented in court that this man is not in charge of anything official

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Please see this thread of the various recent Nazi salutes by Trump's people.

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The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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NEW: One of Sean Combs’s lawyers filed a motion to withdraw as counsel overnight, raising attorney-client privilege and asserting in an affidavit that “under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs, consistent with the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice.”

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[You'll have seen this in lots of my writing.]

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"In every state, every congressional district, and more than 95 percent of counties in the United States, public charities receive government grants. Without these grants, most nonprofits would be unable to cover their expenses." Should not be a partisan issue. www.urban.org/research/pub...

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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The fact that Musk had employees of his security company Foundation deputized by the US Marshal Service is so dangerous. Federal law enforcement agents should NOT be on the payroll of a private citizen!!!

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

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Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

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This is how ‘Dr.’ Death is going destroy vaccine programs and make vaccines unaffordable to most. “Insurance companies are mandated to cover recommended vaccines; however, if the CDC and ACIP don't make a recommendation for a new vaccine, insurers have the autonomy to decide whether to cover them.”

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