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“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” – John Lewis

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How DOGE will add to the federal budget: It will fire government workers who will be replaced by private contractors at higher rates. It will cancel contracts that will be renegotiated at higher rates.

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“The first two years of CIA officers’ careers are a time of intense training; the government spends large amounts of money to teach them spy tradecraft, languages and other skills. “Literally millions of dollars has been put into some of these employees,’ he said…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the Black Lives Matter mural, painted in the summer of 2020 on a street near the White House, will be removed as part of planned changes to Black Lives Matter Plaza.

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Isn't this stock market manipulation? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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BREAKING: A draft executive order set for release tomorrow calls for the closure of the Department of Education. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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"None of the employees with security clearances for nuclear secrets were properly debriefed, the current DOE source said... "Those employees could be targeted by foreign adversaries for nuclear espionage... "They have lost their source of income..." www.reuters.com/world/us/fir...

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🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

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it feels like not enough people are talking about how the philadelphia eagles football club won the super bowl in dominant fashion against the two-time defending champions

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“While we’re on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information, and your bank accounts?”

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Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

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[speed date] HER: hi i’m- ME: if a fish had sex with a duck would the baby be called a dish or a fuck HER: what ME: dish or fuck hurry please

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Call to Action: March 4 Liberty. Washington, DC and every state capitol, March 4th, 12PM - 9PM. Further announcements for the 5th to come later. Need max number of people in DC as Trump addresses congress. #3E #USprotests #March4Liberty #FiftyFiftyOne #Mar4

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Mark your calendars: March 4 Liberty mass protest in DC, on March 4th starting at noon. “We are stronger together” #3E #USprotests #NoKings #march4liberty #Mar4

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PROTESTING THREAD. I cut my teeth protesting vs. Jean Marie Le Pen in France. The French are master protesters. We can learn a lot from them. 1st thing to know: there is no such thing as "too late." We can protest before, during, and after a coup. Eastern Europe did it under tyranny. So can we.

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Gonna need people to stop referring to the Eagles as "America's Team." We hate that. That's the Cowboys. You will notice how they are extremely shitty. The Eagles play for the Free City of Philadelphia. They are Philadelphia's Team. Show them some respect and get it right.

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From United Humanists on FB

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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swear to god if this were a movie script the studio would send notes back saying "tone it down, no one's gonna buy this"

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that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

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People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

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“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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Appearing today in The Week:

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Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

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Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.

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Hitler died in 1945 Trump was born in 1946 Just saying.

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They voted for the guy who said he would lower the price of eggs. Now we have no eggs.

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