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McConnell had the chance to stop Trump after Jan 6. He lost his nerve.

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83-year-old reptile Mitch McConnell says he is not running for reelection in 2026. He will retire more than 20 years older than the median age in the Senate, but he's still a young tortoise. 🐢 He should go down in history as the villain who paved the way for Donald Trump & the fall of this country.

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Mitch McConnell announced his retirement after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

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I don’t judge Mitch McConnell for his choice of political party. I judge him for his greed, racism, and hunger for power. I judge him for causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, and not voting to convict Donald Trump. So will others. So will history.

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A bunch of libertarians took over a small NH town and couldn’t stop the bear attacks. “Several of the town residents had taken to feeding the bears, more or less just because they could.” Ah, FAFO strikes again. [newrepublic.com]

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The work of @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social is key to understanding the voucher issue:

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Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

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Yup. Thirdly, collecting massive amounts of data on US citizens and corporations to inform their AI algorithms and manipulate people to keep power. Read @hcrichardson.bsky.social Feb 17 2025 letter.

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It’s not just about the economy. It’s also about the data, especially the personal data. Dr. @hcrichardson.bsky.social does a great job explaining the troubling access DOGE has to all kinds of personal data as they rampage through the government. People need to be arrested!

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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

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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?” says a cybersecurity researcher who tracks cybercriminal groups."

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Who is the administrator of DOGE? Yesterday, Taylor Popielarz of Spectrum News asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitz to answer that question. But she wouldn’t say.

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IL Gov. Pritzker is one of the great leaders of our time. You can watch his full IL budget address here. If you forward to the 26 minute mark, you can watch as he shifts to a dire warning about the direction our country is taking, but also words of hope. We should all take heed.

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The United States is in the midst of a regime change, in which Kash Patel, if confirmed, would be useful. snyder.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star. Putin’s Poodle

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2025 and Democrats still don’t grasp Lesson 1 of “Dont Think of An Elephant.” NEVER REPEAT FALSE CHARGES

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This is unheard of in American history. Absolutely insane in peace time.

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It’s well past time for the Republican Party to speak the truth. I commend Mike Pence.

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February 19, 2025

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My latest: MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com Is Now #1 Podcast, Beating Out Joe Rogan

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Next year we will be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation, when we declared our independence from a king. “The Royal Brute of Great Britain” Never forget that.

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

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This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

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The key point that was made in this clip is that it happened organically. We don’t come from the consultant class, we get zero legacy media hype, we don’t get invited on shows & don’t want to be on TV, no big money donors writing checks. It all happened one person at a time. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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KLUWE: “MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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* EXCLUSIVE - US DECLINING TO CO-SPONSOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION BACKING UKRAINE AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AHEAD OF WAR ANNIVERSARY, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

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“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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DEUTSCHE: “.. Inauguration day was exactly a month ago .. no signs yet that fiscal outlays have fallen in the first few weeks of the administration.”

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Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

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"Approval of Trump's handling of the economy has sagged" www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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Siding with dictators and referring to himself as “King.” The world is on notice: America has switched sides.

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It’s hard to overstate how damaging this will be for Americans going forward, especially on an international basis.

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

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Republican senators are traitors to the international order that has kept this country safe for the better part of eighty years. They are traitors to their own constituents. They are traitors to everything that has actually made America great.

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".. the Philadelphia Fed survey for Feb contained inflation red flags, w/Prices Paid and Prices Received both rising to the highest level in more than 2 years (Prices Paid spiked 9 points to 40.5 while Prices Received advanced 3 points to 32.9)." - Vital Knowledge

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HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Global ocean heat content is at record high levels - new update just in from the Japan Meteorological Agency dataset... 🌊 Graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

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For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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