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Know a few people who are due tax refunds and the deposit date keeps moving back

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Trump claims to only care about the undocumented. Instead he is de-documenting those here legally.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 481 comments

Prices for transformers have surged 70–100% since 2020, and US domestic supply meets just 20% of demand. New tariffs could further inflate transformer prices, worsening grid bottlenecks as AI data centers push demand higher. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1122 comments

Holy crap. Police in Tennessee failed to investigate a serial rapist because he paid off the department and they just settled with his victims for 28 million. Fuck that. Who's going to jail? tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/18/j...

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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Medicaid pays for more than 60% of nursing home residents, making it the primary payer for most. Asking you to think about what will happen to those people, many of them our parents or grandparents, if that funding is cut or eliminated. To me, it's impossible to envision any way it can end well.

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

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The Nazi owner of Twitter (X) and business partner of Premier Doug Ford thinks this is funny. 👇👇👇 #cdnpoli #peipoli

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The cruelty. bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

“As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres.” www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Grotesque

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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I’m thinking about federal income tax. If the federal government isn’t meeting its obligations why should we? Specifically, I’d love to see states get the money first and hold it in trust pending litigation. I want to pay my taxes but not to a government that doesn’t respect the constitution.

submitted 6 days ago • 924 comments

Where is journalism? Why aren’t we seeing interviews with Marie Hill? Capitol police? Fauci?? People who know what dangers we are facing

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Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.

submitted 6 days ago • 153 comments

This is actually happening in Texas

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Might be time to stop paying those loans. If they are dismantling the dept of ed and none of our $ is going to help people achieve education then fuck it

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U.S. Judge Robert H Jackson at Nuremberg Trial on Nazis: “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.“

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

NOT OPTIONAL. Haskell Indian Nations University had to let go of about 50 staff, including instructors. Some students were left without teachers for classes in the middle of spring session. This is enraging.

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Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history." theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 168 comments

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

submitted 8 days ago • 1962 comments

Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

Tax season. Married, grown children so even with max taken out of our combined income of less than 100,000 a year we owe the irs. Not feeling like paying a govt that is shutting down every social program and giving my money , more of it, to the band of thugs running this place.

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 626 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

Meanwhile, here in Ohio – The first case of bird flu in a human, even though you wouldn’t know it because the CDC’s weekly flu report is two weeks behind. www.wkyc.com/article/news...

submitted 9 days ago • 98 comments

Musk's DOGE robbed NYC of $80 million, right out of one of their bank accounts. This was Congressionally authorized money. He's robbing Americans.

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Trump and Elon took FEMA money out of NYC bank account comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/sta...

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👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

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