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"Brighter than nothing. Smarter than nobody." Allegheny Dems committeeperson, Pgh ward 24
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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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The NCTN Cooperative Group Chairs are concerned about the impact of the proposed changes in the NIH & NCI budgets; their support has enabled significant advances in #cancer treatment, leading to ~14M life-years saved for patients. Full statement: ow.ly/I5Ke50V4n4u @eaonc.bsky.social

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How it started. How it’s going

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Oppose Kash Patel for FBI Director (02/13/25): With a 12-10 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Kash Patel. A full Senate vote is expected soon. From 5 Calls App 5calls.org/issue/kash-p...

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And it gets worse: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

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🔥🔥🔥 Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested for civil disobedience after speaking against a MAGA display that the city council of Huntington Beach agreed to put up at the public library…..that’s what’s up….every word👇

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are there feeds or parts of @bsky.app where folks discuss canvassing? #canvassing

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Good morning. The people fucking with critical systems in the public sector need to be stopped.

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Where are all the Dem consultants who supposedly do "comms" work at? Where's the website put together with succinct talking points, one pagers, posters that folks can easily download, print and pass out in their communities? Why aren't they doing this work PRO-BONO?

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For Presidents' Day, we had a protest in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. There's snow on the ground. It was about 20°F with a sharp wind, but we kept warm by yelling.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Please join me Weds 2/19 6-8 PM, at 816 Tripoli St for a petition signing and meet-and-greet with Democratic candidates for the Court of Common Pleas. We will serve hot food at 6 and expect candidates at 6:30. There will be no speeches. This is a drop-in event so come & leave as you please.

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just gonna leave this here heated.world/p/you-alread...

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This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

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Trump meme coin update: TRUMP: Over $100 million in trading fees THE PUBLIC: Over $2 billion in loses

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a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

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This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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Maybe a good time to remind ourselves that one of the reasons public research universities are so heavily dependent now on federal funding as their largest source of revenue is that state governments have steadily defunded higher education for four decades now

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