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Social Security Administration Plans to Cut Half Its Workforce: millions rely on for benefit implementation SSA field offices to close, where seniors, people with disabilities & survivors whose parents have died can sign up for benefits and information Making it more difficult bit.ly/41AkcPd

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Putin celebrates the success of his influence operations in the United States, noting they are producing their intended effect, the collapse of the West and the triumph of Russia. He then added: "The West is now collapsing from within."

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It’s worse than you think in the same way that your brain breaks a little when you try to picture how deep the ocean is. It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn. www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has paused multiple vaccine projects – including one to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form.

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feeling compelled to share this once again

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Now that’s an opening argument for foreign aid: This is Literally How You Get Ebola

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Q: “Can you guarantee Medicare, Medicaid, SS will not be touched?” TRUMP: “We're not gonna touch it… we are gonna look for fraud.” TRANSLATION: They’ll cut it with “fraud” as a cover — cutting taxes for the rich while exploding the deficit. He thinks you won’t get it.

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Seems like everyone has kinda memory-holed this one. thehill.com/homenews/new...

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Some of the best reporting I have read about what is at stake when we talk about curtailing women's access to abortion. projects.propublica.org/the-year-aft...

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“How Elon runs it, how he’s hired people.” “How Elon runs it, how he’s hired people.” “How Elon runs it, how he’s hired people.” HOW ELON RUNS IT, HOW HE’S HIRED PEOPLE

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Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine What could possibly go wrong? 🤨

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A key meeting on updating next season's flu shots was canceled by FDA today Even if rescheduled for later, a former official warned us it could hamper availability of shots in fall "This delay will really put manufacturers behind." www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-can...

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It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

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A runaway Mad King & a random quasi-federal employee without any legal authority are stealing Congress' Article I powers & unplugging large portions of the government, & the Senate Majority Leader is wasting his time on this. A total, comprehensive failure of the Constitutional order.

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3 months after Montanans voted for abortion rights, state Republicans want to criminalize abortion travel: www.jezebel.com/3-months-aft...

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They’re so used to creating pseudo-events to provide more material for the distorted frames of their bullshit machine. They are not used to these dynamics being turned against them. The left needs to seize the moment, organize its own events, and start generating content for its own viral messaging.

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Trump plans to fire 65% of EPA employees, which mean the loss of nearly 10,000 jobs, which would devastate the agency responsible for clean air and clean water. Remember in November!

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"Party leaders suggest that if lawmakers feel the need to hold such events, they do tele-town halls or at least vet attendees to avoid scenes that become viral clips, according to GOP sources." They made it clear, they don't care what you think. Get louder: 202-224-3121

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GOP capitulation to 47 is a familiar story line, but this moment is still worth marking. With a few timid exceptions, the party that once prided itself on standing up to Moscow has bowed to a president who himself is bowing to an adversary. Gift link. Useful short summary by Jonathan Lemire.

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Project 2025 calls for gutting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — putting national and election security at risk.

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And this should go down well in Trump country: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Last night, the House GOP passed the Trump tax framework that would explode our national debt. It will make deep cuts to Medicaid, and increase taxes for the vast majority of my constituents. We should be reducing costs and the tax burden on working Americans, not increasing them.

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"Faye Nemer, CEO and Founder of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) ... called the video 'offensive and counterproductive to peace talks' in a statement to NPR. Nemer, who says she voted for Trump in November, is calling on him to remove the video and issue a 'reconciliatory statement.'"

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Why is this prevalent now? trauma response? "The Overgrown Adolescents of MAGA" "...high-risk, low-regulation, near-total disinhibition—characterizes leaders and thrills followers." "....psychologically adolescent men... fuel one another’s worst impulses." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective ..."

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Woke up to see Donald Trump sharing a video on Truth Social about turning Gaza into a holiday resort with a giant gold statue of Trump, ending with a final shot of Trump and Netanyahu enjoying the beach together. Absolutely unhinged. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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"The reason Putin might finally be ready to negotiate seems to be remarkably simple: He wants to avoid a humiliating bankruptcy" Trump has rescued him www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

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Musk now has access to our federal government’s sensitive data. Here’s what no one is talking about. Musk may be using that data to train his AI model. He wants AI to replace workers, starting with government workers, and he wants to own the AI.

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This monstrous plan, whether controlled by Erik Prince of Blackwater infamy or by Steven Miller himself, would end the United States of America as we know it. Neighbors turning in neighbors. A private army reminiscent of the Gestapo. Hidden cameras & mics everywhere www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Republicans are making life harder and more expensive. All to satisfy their billionaire donors.

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"This promises to be a tough way for Americans to learn a critical fact too often overlooked — that one of our country’s greatest and least-appreciated assets has been public faith and trust in a variety of highly complex systems staffed by experts whose names we’ll never know."

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In 1974 an antisemitic, Christian Nationalist Congressman from Arizona insisted that he be allowed to inspect the gold in Fort Knox after hearing testimony from Peter Beter, an author who believed world events were controlled by the Rockefeller family, the "Bolshevik–Zionist axis" & the Kremlin.

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Trump asking Democrats in Congress to fund his crime-spree administration because his own party cannot untie its shoelaces is a pretty good rewrite of the old joke about the man who killed his parents then asked for clemency because he was an orphan.

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For the 1st time in US history, the leader of an insurrection pardoned insurrectionists. Trump’s alliance w/paramilitary actors is part of how he’s digging in, cementing power, & laying groundwork to crush political competition. This is the Entrenchment Agenda

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I need to tell you about a Russian tech exec named Vladislav Klyushin. He was convicted in the US of orchestrating one of the biggest insider trading cases ever. He was convinced he'd never do real time. That's because Klyushin had a powerful patron in the Kremlin. www.wired.com/story/russia...

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A spate of abductions has sent crypto executives and wealthy investors in search of ways to protect themselves.

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"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows." apnews.com/article/doge...

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Trump and Musk are for they/them. They're not for you.

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Anyone remotely surprised by the US vote in the UN regarding Ukraine today needs to read this. This is what's going on. america2.news/donald-trump...

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Bongino said on his February 11 show that Trump “should ignore” an unfavorable court order and, invoking the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises", suggested that the president “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions.”

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All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I don't understand how making things shittier is going to make things better.

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For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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