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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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A full-on purge of the military leadership, targeting women and people of color. This perfectly captures where we are: An escalating authoritarian takeover of the state, combined with an aggressive program to re-segregate the spheres of influence and power and restore complete white male dominance.

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This is huge! Trump is ramming his agenda through now, so he can’t be stopped later—shock & awe. But look at these approval numbers—he’s underwater on our major issues. Public opinion is against Trump & his policies—his approval rating is historically low. It’s only going to get worse… MUCH worse.

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"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this." -- email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen about Donald Trump in 2015 -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? I wonder what race he … come on, let me finish before you start laughing

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Trump has announced via social media post that he is ousting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General CQ Brown and will be replacing him with Air Force Lieutenant General Dan 'Razin' Caine.

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

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Afraid we will lose our government because Judges will sit on their hands rather than act with any sense of urgency. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Tomorrow on my live webcast History Matters: “On Kings” Thomas Paine (and I) have a LOT to say Tune in. We need to talk. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

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The Senate has taken the incredible/inevitable decision to confirm Kash "Qanon" Patel as director of the FBI The Deep State must be shaking in their boots www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Mitch McConnell's legacy, right here

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Republicans in Congress sold us all out for what exactly - we are not safer.

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"History was written by the winners, and the winners were assholes." --THEY KNEW (2022)

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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

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Maybe, just maybe, these Republicans should enlist help from the FBI and investigate the threats ... Oh wait ...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Trump on DOGE: We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is still there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox. You know about that? We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox. But we’re going to go to Fort Knox and make sure the gold is still there.

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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Trump is completely abandoning: - democracy - our European allies - any pretence that he serves America I don't know what Putin has on him and the GOP but it's worth more to them than our country

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it’s so cool that we are at the whims of this reactionary force of groypers that don’t understand anything, lead by the dumbest guy ever seen in history

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BREAKING: Court pushback against Trump executive actions reaches intelligence community as judge halts firing of CIA & ODNI personnel involved in DEI. Judge Anthony Trenga (GWBush appointee)in Alexandria grants administrative stay blocking dismissals of 11 officials www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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First IRS, Now DOGE Busts Its Way Into the Social Security Administration talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

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This is preposterous in every way. I hope Ukraine and the EU do whatever they can to work for an actual solution despite this 👇👇👇

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"We need to take a step back and realize that the GOP has become an authoritarian political party. It's either on board with authoritarianism or completely willing to tolerate it." On the pod, Steve Levitsky is highly Illuminating on our slide into autocracy: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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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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This is obvious hogwash flailing around to concoct new rationalizations, but it's telling even still they refuse to say who is USDS Administrator (there isn't one) because that would mean conceding somebody who isn't Musk is legally in charge of it.

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If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

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Thousands of protesters opposing President Trump’s agenda took to the streets on Monday across the U.S., derisively calling him a “king” on Presidents’ Day for his efforts to terminate thousands of federal workers and to fire prosecutors and independent watchdogs. nyti.ms/3CQA2LX

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Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

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America. "Yesenia also says agents threatened to send her to Guantánamo, and that her kids could be put up for adoption. 'My son, 9 years old, was crying. He’s really sensitive. He kept trying to stop the agents from talking to his mom and sister like that, but they yelled at him to be quiet.'"

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About 60 million people are forecast to experience subzero temperatures. The polar vortex may also fuel yet another snow and ice storm in the coming days.

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How many unions and their members voted for Trump and the GOP?

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Iran in 1979. And then the religious zealots came to blame women for their erections. This can happen anywhere.

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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

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On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

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ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

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Zelenskyy says Russia will ‘wage war on Nato’ if US support for Ukraine wanes

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This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

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Barely satire but outstanding nonetheless www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

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Good news: Mass deportations have not lived up to expectations. Bad news: Attempts to destroy the federal government have exceeded expectations. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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SCOOP: Top DHS officials received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency By @zhirji.bsky.social w/asst from me 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Happy Flag Day, Canada 🇨🇦 @flaviovolpe.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca Randell Adjei

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