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In December, House Dems voted 131 to 84 to give their top spot on Oversight Committee to 74-year old Gerry Connolly over AOC, in a secret ballot. Elon Musk is emailing all federal employees with demands, and Connolly has not posted any videos to IG or X this weekend, just posts. (Latest video:)

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If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2098 comments

Destroying the CDC team researching Lyme disease. Disbanding the HHS Long COVID council. Cutting Medicaid. How is any of this cost-saving? This is not about efficiency. It’s about funding tax breaks for billionaires while costing Americans their health. www.9news.com/article/news...

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1234 comments

"Major events in human history have been shaped by psychologically unstable white supremacists who are also addicted to meth" is an objectively true statement

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In my forthcoming book, I write how by the end of 2023, wait times for SSDI avg 228 days, >7 mos. These waits kill ppl. In the 2023 FY, SSA reported that 30K ppl died waiting for their SSDI determination.” DISABLED PEOPLE WILL DIE. I suspect that's the point. Source: www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

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I'm starting to think that repeatedly grooming NYC machine pols to be the next generation of Democratic congressional leadership was one of the great mistakes of the post-Citizens United era. Their loyalties are misplaced, their instincts unhelpful, & above all they are visibly, painfully soft

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Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

Guy who had to build a stage that Romney used to lay off the entire plant: "It was like building my own coffin and it just made me sick"

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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This might be an American thing, but she seems like a miserable sack of shit

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Midwestern public service announcement: in very cold weather a slice of cheap-ass bologna will freeze to a car and damage the finish in a way that can't be buffed out. Especially a car that's allegedly stainless steel that gets discolored by ordinary rain! Source: (REDACTED)

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Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

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Discontent with the Trump-Musk coup is rising, and that should be expected to continue as it further disrupts & destroys lives. As mass protests become inevitable, it's essential to channel that discontent toward a demand that's responsive to the scale & nature of the crisis. What should it be?

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OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 2 days ago • 565 comments

someone on another app asked (paraphrasing a longer post) "if the right thing to do about Hitler would have been for the people to take up arms and fight him, are we cowardly for not doing that or do we not really believe Trump is a threat on the level of Hitler?" thought I'd share my reply here—

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The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

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The Maine Principal's Association said it would continue to allow trans girls to compete in school sports, saying President Trump's recent executive order is in conflict with state law.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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EXCLUSIVE (by me, heh) New York Times caught passing off GOP flack as average Black voter www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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so @chatterton.bsky.social’s position is basically that i am a cult leader and that all of you are mindless hordes who have no actual thoughts and do not engage with substance

submitted 1 day ago • 843 comments

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

More convinced than ever that senior and elected Democrats might really be misreading the sentiment among their base, and that they could be caught badly flat-footed by their own voters very soon. split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...

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Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

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