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“Their first wave of actions — initiating the elimination of 41 jobs and the closing of at least 10 local offices, so far — was largely lost in the rush of headlines.” ProPublica

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New signs at the University of Cincinnati, close to where my daughter lives. The fact that colleges go along with this is very disappointing. They also changed the few single stall bathroom signs from “All Gender” to “Single Occupancy.” Words have power.

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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I know someone who was fired after 27 years of service at the CDC and had just received a promotion. She received a “bad performance” letter. The firings are chaotic and damaging for 1000s of people and will have rippling effects throughout the country… & not just for those fired.

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A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

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DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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The case threatens to bankrupt Greenpeace US, but the biggest impact could be a chilling effect on free speech and activism.

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Works as advertised

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“The Trump administration has no regard for the 80 years of Atlantic cooperation and the sovereignty of Ukraine.”

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Included in Trump and Musk's mass layoffs were hundreds of FAA employees who keep U.S. air travelers safe. Apparently Trump and Musk are missing what’s obvious to the American people: we need to do MORE to improve our air safety right now — not less.

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Social Security is a promise that has been kept for almost 90 years. We CAN NOT allow Elon Musk to break that promise.

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@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

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Turmoil at DOJ. @eliehonig.bsky.social joins me to discuss the resignations amid the dispute over dismissing NYC Mayor Adams charges on a new episode of CAFE Insider. Listen: bit.ly/41mz9En

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits. Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices. Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators. That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.

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How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

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Our first post on BlueSky! We are the Democratic Club of Kent County Maryland. We're the smallest county in Maryland but our progressive community is growing. Learn more about us at DCKCMD.com. Our headquarters are on High Street in Chestertown. Thanks for following us and sharing information.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are putting your Social Security checks at risk.

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Joan and I with Sen. Chris Van Hollen at the Annapolis anti-fascist protest today.

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This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

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“President Trump regards people who take their constitutional oath seriously as, by definition, his political enemies. His attack on public service is not about reform; it’s a first strike against a key obstacle to authoritarianism” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Protests at all the state capitals today. Ours is in Annapolis at NOON. “So if you’re just waking up on this holiday Monday, and you have the day off, contact a few friends to see if they’re free to take their first stand against the MAGA crowd that is busy trying to shut our democracy down.”

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John F. Kennedy: “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/e...

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Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

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U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees.

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Tomorrow, Democracy Docket is launching a new Trump Accountability Scoreboard that tracks Trump accountability lawsuits and where those actions currently stand. Become a member now to receive this and other premium content. www.democracydocket.com/member-me

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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🚨 14 State Attorneys General have filed a lawsuit which claims Pres. Trump has violated the Appointments Clause by creating a federal department without Congress’s approval and granting Musk broad powers without Senate consent. (NM, AZ, MI, CA, CT, HI, MD, MA, MN, NV, OR, RI, VT, WA)

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So far "defending women from gender ideology" (as Trump puts it) looks a lot like shutting down programs that prevent rape and domestic violence

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PEN America: “Presidents should not be dictating a singular view of culture. The cultural sector must remain free from political control; that is fundamental to protecting creative freedom in a democracy.” Full statement: pen.org/press-releas...

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PEN America responds to action taken today by the Department of Education dismissing complaints about book bans and referring to them as a “hoax”: "All students deserve to see themselves and the world around them reflected in the books shelved within their public schools.“ pen.org/press-releas...

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Measles outbreak hits unvaccinated in Texas www.rawstory.com/measles-outb...

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

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Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

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Trump and Rubio sued by government workers over ‘catastrophic’ USAid cuts

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A commissioner is removed only after a replacement is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and Ms. Weintraub said that the president did not have the power to force her off the commission before that.

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Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and W.H. officials said it didn’t exist. Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

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“This should make Americans both angry and deeply worried. This is exactly what most people [in the civil rights community] feared: a Justice Department that was created to protect civil rights literally abdicating its duty and responsibility to protect Americans from all forms of discrimination.”

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Crowd at our little Vermont state capitol for the 50501 demonstration. Way to go Vermonters! Stop the lawlessness.

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Trump and Musk’s hostile takeover is closing health centers, cutting care and raising prices — looting the Treasury to fund a massive tax cut. There are real people behind the numbers — including Trump voters!Uplift their stories and stop the power grab!

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