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“It is effectively sending a message to all the lawyers that you best not challenge this administration, or you, your lawyers and your clients will suffer. It is the most un-American thing I’ve ever heard.” wapo.st/3FfoeDI

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Re: veterans fired by DOGE "They're not fit to have a job at this moment..." - Alina Habba, Trump advisor www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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"John Christopher Winsmith, an ex-Confederate who embraced racial equality, wrote to Grant in 1873, 'A few trials and convictions in the U.S. Courts, and then the pardoning of the criminals' had emboldened what he called 'the hideous monster – Ku Kluxism.'" theconversation.com/the-us-has-p...

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"I suggest requiring the comptroller general of the U.S. (a nonpartisan official appointed by Congress) to make monthly reports detailing any presidential impoundments of congressionally appropriated funds...Such reports trigger a mandatory congressional vote." www.thebulwark.com/p/how-democr...

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"Trump, Musk, and the ideologues around them are interested in is power. They want to eliminate or downsize every part of the government that is dominated by nonpartisan civil servants.Their legislative agenda is to break the legislative branch." www.thebulwark.com/p/how-democr...

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

Another day, another Trumpian dumpster fire. youtu.be/kxMt06IlQD0?...

submitted 17 hours ago • 113 comments

Also from a government source: HHS is offering employees a $25,000 buyout

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

Per @esjesjesj.bsky.social: “When Elon purchased Twitter he reduced the parental leave for mothers to 2 weeks.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 177 comments

My pledge to you is that no matter how big this media network gets, we will never forget our humble beginnings, and we will always remain humble stewards of the news and of the reporting you expect to defend and fight for your family. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

Trump's plan to fast-track white South African farmers for citizenship is racist, illegal, and pure apartheid nostalgia. He has no authority to do this, but that won’t stop his white nationalist pandering while he guts protections for actual refugees. 1/2

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Eternal shame for the Trump sycophants who support his disgraceful, deadly betrayal of democratic Ukraine to side with Putin. The blood is on their hands.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Trump’s tariffs are a chaotic disaster, tanking the economy while his billionaire pals cash in. Cutting Ukraine off from intelligence to appease Putin is pure treason. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is purging LGBTQ+ references like it’s the 1950s. 1/2

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In MD, 20 Democratic attorneys general have sued the Trump administration seeking a TRO & reinstatements. The suit describes a host of administrative, public health & fiscal challenges onset by the firings, including remarkable upticks in unemployment claims. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left. An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.

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@aoc.bsky.social: "You have a right to see your elected member of Congress... Our job is to hear from people. And if you aren't doing town halls because your own residents and members of your community are upset with what you're doing, the answer is you’ve got to own your decisions."

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WAPO: “.. The Army Corps of Engineers colonel responsible for releasing water from two California reservoirs at President Donald Trump’s direction in January knew that it was unlikely to reach the southern part of the state as Trump had promised, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”

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The only argument I’ve heard from the right is that Coney Barrett was a “DEI” pick chosen only bc she’s a woman. They then bash her for being dumb and unqualified, which apparently they only came to realize when she didn’t rule the way they wanted in a few cases.

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Trump’s Aid Freeze Cripples Uganda’s Ebola Response as Outbreak Spirals 🚨In this video, we explore a New York Times report detailing how Trump’s aid freeze has severely hindered efforts to contain Uganda’s worsening Ebola outbreak. youtube.com/shorts/dTgAU...

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Donald Trump's Justice Department put 3 federal prosecutors in Manhattan on leave. Andrew Rohrbach and Celia Cohen worked on prosecuting disgraced New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Rohrbach also prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice. Is MAGA gonna be mad about it or nah?

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Happy that Trump and Elon are “saving” money by slashing government jobs like Park Rangers and cancer researchers? Here is the big problem. 👏 that 👏 money 👏 is👏 not 👏 for 👏 you 👏 It’s for them.

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If zee mark fits…

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People—don’t fall for it The smackdown on Columbia is NOT about what happened with those protestors (which I abhor) Trump is using it as an excuse to start his campaign against universities, teachers, students, and ideas

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MAGA may not have ever received the Epstein files, but the Trump administration did just put the prosecutor who prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell on leave!

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

RFK Jr. is poised to begin a catastrophic brain drain at NIH www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

What do you notice first about the folks at Donald Trump's first White House Crypto Summit?

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If the Biden administration had done this, it would be deemed proof of the Democrats' hostility to religion. But Trump is doing it, so his Christian allies turn against Christian ministries and gut their ability to serve the poorest of the poor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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This is not how public servants should be treated who have done nothing but serve their country and justice admirably. All pointless, vindictive and poltical. sdny.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Trump: "Never sell your bitcoin. That's a little phrase that they have. I don't know if that's right or not. Who the hell knows?"

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Their racism takes many forms

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One key part of the DOGE story is research Musk's team did pre-election to find cryptic trumper/stoolies deep in the bureaucracies of agency's they wanted to incinerate. www.ajc.com/politics/obs...

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A federal judge has ruled that Trump illegally fired NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and ordered her reinstatement. This is a huge win for workers and unions — and a crucial reminder that Trump is not all-powerful. Keep up the fight.

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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

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REPORTER: How concerned are you that the large-scale federal government layoffs will weaken the labor market? TRUMP: The large-scale fentanyl what?

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BREAKING: Measles Outbreak in the U.S. Continues to Grow Texas Reports 39 New Cases (198 Total), New Mexico Sees 20 New Cases (30 Total)

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Is Elon on a data hunt? www.salon.com/2025/03/07/a...

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Our big blubbery babyman leader has had a week full of retreats, losses and surrenders and is now far weaker than he appears. The bottom line - this Trump 2.0 thing just isn’t working for him or America. My latest, 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-has-...

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I witnessed 10 members of my party vote against Al Green's right to exercise the 1st Amendment. I also checked who's been voting across the aisle with MAGA (let me know if you need data) and I'm done with them. Our leaders have never been weaker. It's time to demand change. It's up to us.

submitted 2 days ago • 167 comments

In his first day on the job, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former criminal defense lawyer — changed priorities of long-running programs at the Justice Dep't and threatened to reassign Main Justice attorneys to border states if "require[d]." Read the memos at Law Dork —>

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Trump and Musk aren’t running a government—they’re dismantling it. Farmers abandoned, scientists defunded, entire agencies gutted while Musk loots the Treasury. DOGE is just a cover for mass firings and corruption. Trump brags about prosperity while burning down the American dream. 1/2

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Republicans go all-in on firing veterans, the stock market nosedives, Trump's NATO threats, a brutal jobs report looming, a judge's scorching rebuke of Trump and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT!

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

Watching NBC Nightly News and Elon's new rocket has disappeared???? I'm sure Big Balls and DOGE can find it

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