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The Department of Veterans Affairs embraced telehealth, especially for mental health care, in recent years. Now, staffers hired to give therapy and other health care remotely are ordered to do it from offices lacking privacy, VA clinicians told NPR.

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This is egregiously unacceptable, @washingtonpost.com. Trump cannot do this. It's illegal. You know it! You say it! And yet, you still give him the headline. This is journalistic malpractice, with democracy hanging in the balance.

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🚨 Cornell’s administration and the Trump White House are teaming up to deport Momodou Taal, a student activist, for speaking out against Israeli genocide. But he's fighting back. Momodou Taal tells Mondoweiss exactly what's at stake—and why silence isn’t an option. ⬇️ mondoweiss.net/2025/03/this...

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On 2/3, Musk Watch reported DOGE had access to OPM databases with sensitive personal info for millions of fed employees A week later, a group of labor unions sued, citing Musk Watch's report 7x Today, a federal judge imposed a preliminary injunction, blocking DOGE's access muskwatch.com/subscribe

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Truth Social is hemorrhaging cash as a social media company so now the plan (apparently) is to turn it into a Crypto company which is a much easier grift

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"The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios." www.axios.com/2025/03/24/s...

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Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/s...

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"The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month...Social Security is the primary source of income for about 40 percent of older Americans." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.

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This vote to confirm Trump's Deputy Secretary of State was yesterday after it was shown Trump's national security leadership is incompetent and sharing military secrets outside normal channels. Inexplicably bad policy and political strategy. Zero upside, just attaching their names to a liability.

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“My first thought was, ‘This is a witch hunt’” Federal civil rights attorneys ordered by the Education Department to document the nationalities of protesters

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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

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NEW: The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

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Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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“The sheer sloppiness is bad. The illegality is probable. The dangerousness is very high.” @cnn.com

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GOP : we have to privatize social security its broken People: you broke it GOP : but its broken

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As if the entire Hegseth / Atlantic reporter debacle wasn’t bad enough, consider that Hegseth was posting about targets, weapons and attack sequencing. He wasn’t typing that with two thumbs. He was copying & pasting it from what was likely a top-secret document that was on his un-secured phone.

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BREAKING: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warns that if Hamas continues to refuse to hand over the captives it holds, Israel will seize Gaza territory and fight until the Palestinian group is completely defeated. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zchwop

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Here you have it. The problem is they now have the credibility of a used car salesman, or the President of the United States. They didn’t even mention state secrets until their 3rd or 4th attempt at evasion. Scoundrels. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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#OtD 25 Mar 1911 a fire took place in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, killing 147 workers, with most of the victims being women and young girls. The owners were charged with seven counts of manslaughter but weren't found guilty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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That's not how States Secret privilege works at all (and I've litigated several). Executive Branch does not get to shut down judiciary inquiry. Quite the opposite, per Supreme Court. Trump Administration is proceeding at its own peril.

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Great energy, you can use it while drafting a statement calling on Hegseth and Waltz to resign or be impeached

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The staggering Atlantic report about the administration’s sloppy preparation for military action is hands-down the most obvious demonstration that the right’s rhetoric about Clinton’s server was bullshit. Gift link: wapo.st/4c2yQCj

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Trump is working to dismantle the entire Social Security Administration—gutting benefits people earned. So I asked Trump's pick to lead Social Security: will he stop the cuts to 73 million Americans’ benefits? Frank Bisignano owes Americans answers.

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Periodic reminder that ICE administrative warrants do NOT give ICE (or anyone else) legal authority to enter your home (or anywhere not open to the public) without your consent. Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.

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"A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market." $170,000 ABOVE ASKING PRICE

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“Before this genocide started, I was a young college student studying journalism. Little did I know I would be given one of the hardest jobs in the world: to cover the genocide of my own people.” RIP Hossam Shabat. He was just 23 💔 www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...

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Thanks for all your recs I’ve updated my list with a bunch of new accounts! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

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tired: opsec inspired: oopsec archive.is/JEYep

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A fake website meant to look like a CDC webpage was put up and quickly taken offline, but not before diligent information manipulation researchers noticed several signs that it was likely connected to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" is attacked by Jewish settlers and arrested, activists say.

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Undocumented immigrants, who contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes each year and help fund benefits like Social Security and Medicare while remaining ineligible to receive them, are expected to soon lose the privacy afforded to them by a long-standing IRS policy.

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and yet Lawyer Ensign seems sincerely convinced that he personally has suffered the greatest hardship this past week . . .

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Roses are red Whales are gigantic I texted the war plans To the Atlantic - P. Hegseth

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Reminder she's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's wife. And they were both on separate seasons of the Real World. Reality TV really cost this country so much.

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“The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“No money for kidney cancer,” Vieth said. “No money for pancreatic cancer. No money for lung cancer. It leaves so much completely unfunded. Yeah, wow. It’s pretty devastating.” Wonder what percentage of America knows Elon is stealing cancer research for his tax cut?

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State Department’s full response on the leaked Signal chats—“No comment.” And “Contact the White House” per @pbsnews.org

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Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

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A plane carrying 199 people deported from the US has landed in Venezuela, as President Donald Trump continues his crackdown on foreign nationals ⤵️

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Trump is already defying the courts. He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court. Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.

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Remember when we were all gaslit the first time they bombed a hospital? Now they’re at it all the time and there’s silence from many of our governments.

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