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I left X to see if this place is better. 😊🌊💙 I love the U.S.A.!🇺🇸 | Californian in the PNW| Democrat| Lost a child | College Student | Senior | End Gun Violence! Fan of chocolate, Democracy, Taylor Swift, the West Coast, & a good Cabernet. 🚫MAGA🚫DMs
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Interview by Scott Dworkin of Beto O’Rourke: Courage open.substack.com/pub/natperni...

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Transcript: Musk’s Threats Darken as Trump Declares Himself Above Law newrepublic.com/article/1916... via @newrepublic.com

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup' open.spotify.com/episode/4m53...

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Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. “We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.” https://propub.li/4370xr2

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#EndGunViolence

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What Does Defiance Look Like? open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Daylight saving time 2025: These states are trying to ‘lock the clocks’ "Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and West Virginia" myfox8.com/news/nationa...

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Over 900 people have died from influenza since the beginning of October in California, more than have died at this point in any of the last six respiratory virus seasons, according to a report released Friday by the California Department of Public Health. www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/02/22/m...

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Trump’s promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals & private industry with a speed that’s surprising even some of his supporters and critics — and could leave an impact on the planet’s future well after his presidency. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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National Parks across the country are cutting hours, cancelling cave tours, closing visitor centers and warning of other cutbacks following Trump administration cuts to the federal workforce. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Oversight Democrats Demand That Trump Abandon Illegal Plan To Dismantle USPS www.politicususa.com/p/oversight-...

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Fascism Expert Timothy Snyder Says Trump's Oligarchical Coup Is Fading www.politicususa.com/p/fascism-ex...

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"Do you want your next ride-share driver to be packing heat? The "Protector" app, which offers on-demand protection in the form of armed former law enforcement or military officers behind the wheel, is now available in Los Angeles." lamag.com/crimeinla/ar...

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Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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'An accompanying bar graph showed the number "20,086" next to a photo of former President Joe Biden and the figure "1,041" next to a photo of Trump — a 95% drop, a big green arrow indicated. ' www.politifact.com/article/2025...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one of 19 universities, known as the 1890 land grant institutions. apnews.com/article/hbcu...

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ICYMI: DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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"raising questions about whether leadership changes at the National Archives and Records Administration were affecting programming at the 13 presidential libraries it oversees." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

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"Ukraine on Saturday was seriously considering a revised American proposal for its vast natural resources that contains virtually the same provisions that Kyiv previously rejected as too onerous" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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"Democratic despair and denial are giving way to an angry message from party activists and voters to their leaders. Do something." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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"Musk and his associates have swept rapidly through government agencies, dismantling programs and seizing access to sensitive databases, some federal employees are pushing back" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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"Some contracts the group claims credit for were double- or triple-counted. Another initially contained an error that inflated the totals by billions of dollars." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Weekend Bonus Edition of "The Jim Acosta Show" - my interview with Oregon Senator Ron Wyden open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

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The UK prime minister reiterated the UK's "ironclad support" for Kyiv when he spoke to Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday. bbc.com/news/article...

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Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas newrepublic.com/article/1839... via @newrepublic.com

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Pope Francis' health remains in critical condition, according to a Vatican update released Saturday. He experienced a severe asthmatic respiratory crisis this morning, requiring high-flow oxygen therapy. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/p...

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Michigan Governor Accused of 'Wage Theft' for Signing Tipped Minimum Wage Legislation www.commondreams.org/news/michiga...

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Halting Trump's Anti-DEI Orders, Federal Judge Says They Promote 'Textbook' Discrimination www.commondreams.org/news/dei-rul...

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"They were hired after lawmakers and bureaucrats debated and negotiated and persuaded their colleagues — sometimes over the course of years — to make those problems someone’s job to solve." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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"In January, Elon Musk, one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers, appeared via video at a campaign event in Halle on behalf of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), urging those in attendance not to be ashamed of its nation’s history." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The nostalgia behind the slogan “Make America great again” has always provoked the obvious questions of just when America was great, and for whom. Early in the second Trump administration, we are getting the answer. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"federal workers will receive guidance next week to shut those chargers down, with some regional offices already told to take their chargers offline." techcrunch.com/2025/02/22/t...

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"Social Security recipients rely on in-person service in all 50 states, and the shuttering of offices, reported on DOGE’s website to include locations everywhere from rural West Virginia to Las Vegas, could be hugely consequential." www.alternet.org/trump-social...

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How covid contrarians are seizing power under Trump www.alternet.org/trump-267119...

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'Tip of the iceberg': Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases www.alternet.org/measles-texa...

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"Leland Dudek had raised suspicions from his perch in a small anti-fraud office after he appeared to be helping Elon Musk's DOGE staffers access information. That led to his suspension –– until the president elevated him..." www.rawstory.com/trump-social...

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' the military was “the last piece” President Donald Trump needed “to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government” after installing MAGA loyalists inside the Justice Department, FBI, and intelligence services.' www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

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"Here, seven historians tell Rolling Stone how monarchs, elites, and dictators of the past anticipated someone like Trump, the results of their often brash and short-sighted decisions, and what kind of legacies they ultimately left behind."

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"Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has nothing but praise for U.S. President Donald Trump" www.newsweek.com/trump-hungar...

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"The media shake-up celebrated by Trump has raised concerns among some in the industry who fear that access to reporting the truth will become increasingly difficult" www.newsweek.com/trump-ramps-...

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"The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months on the job were consumed with the war in Ukraine and the expanded conflict in the Middle East." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hamas freed all six hostages in the latest exchange Saturday, even as heightened tension between the adversaries clouded the future of the fragile ceasefire deal. www.huffpost.com/entry/hamas-...

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"Medicaid provides health insurance coverage to 72 million Americans, including millions of children, and is a vital safety net in many states full of Trump supporters." www.huffpost.com/entry/medica...

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“If we’re not going to have the enforcement of the FACE Act and our federal law enforcement officials will have their hands tied, it makes us feel like we’re swimming out here all alone and we’re sitting ducks,” www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...

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" the Trump administration is figuring out the hard way, after turning tens of thousands of people’s lives upside-down, that federal employees and the work they do is essential for millions of Americans’ safety, health and general happiness" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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