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Selling the country to the highest bidder.

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“Your voice is meaningless right now. ... I can talk over all of you” said the emcee at the GOP event as the woman objecting to Medicaid cuts was dragged out.

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Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

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Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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'Utter incompetence': Federal agency rehires crucial workers after 'accidentally' firing them — again: The latest workers to come in the crosshairs as the Trump administration moves to cut the federal government through mass firings and funding freezes are workers at the Department of Agriculture.…

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Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data. The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances. Period. End of story.

submitted 9 days ago • 848 comments

"I don't think you can work from a home. Nobody is gonna work from home. They are gonna be going out, they're gonna play tennis, they're gonna play golf, they're gonna do a lot of things. They're not working." -- Trump, last week

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Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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“Musk’s decimation of government agencies has drawn comparisons to the frenzied cuts he made after acquiring Twitter in 2022, but the long-term effect of Doge may more closely resemble how SpaceX enmeshed itself with Nasa to the point where it now handles the majority of the US’ space launches”

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Musk continues his assault on Americans' personal data privacy with the intent of accessing our individual IRS tax records. Nothing could be more wrong than giving this hater another trove of data to weaponize against us. And WORST OF ALL, it can't be undone once stolen by his illegal hackers.

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“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country… sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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As DOGE and Trump claim to be rooting out govt waste, remember that the first Trump administration granted "church" status to the Family Research Council, allowing the nonprofit to shield its finances from public scrutiny. It also can't be audited without ok from a high-level Treasury official.

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IRS Memo Sets Stage for Musk Adviser to Access Taxpayer Data

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The DOGE website missed its Valentine's Day deadline for producing a detailed list of the savings it was making, and now it's missed its second self-imposed deadline...

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Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS The unusual request could put sensitive data about millions of American taxpayers in the hands of Trump political appointees www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 10 days ago • 2238 comments

Remember the whole: No tax on tips No tax on OT No tax on Soc Sec benefits? Yeah that won’t be in the tax bill. You fell for it again, morons.

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Private prisons getting the business boom they paid for. Private prisons donate heavily to trump and republicans. abcnews.go.com/US/private-p...

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

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"McConnell’s boldness deserted him when it came to Trump." And that is now his legacy. @jilldlawrence.bsky.social from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/mitch-mcco...

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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If you didn’t already believe he thinks that veterans are “suckers and losers” Maybe this will finally convince you

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Rock on, Germany!! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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JD is blowing hot air and bullying, guess he knows how that feels.🥴 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a rebuke US Vice President JD Vance's attack on Europe's stance toward hate speech and the far right, saying it was not right for others to tell Germany and Europe what to do reut.rs/41f5EEl

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If you think JD Vance is a hypocritical piece of 💩, then repost.

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Trump executive order would defund schools that require Covid vaccines: Amid fears of what U.S. President Donald Trump's second term will mean for global health and public education, the Republican on Friday signed an executive order to defund schools that require Covid-19 vaccination for…

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Concerning.

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🚨BREAKING: Two attorneys with DOJ Public Integrity Section have entered appearances, and moved to dismiss the criminal indictment against Eric Adams. This stain on this once proud part of DOJ will not easily be erased.

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That word hurts his feeeewings! kicks rocks

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Because the AP is a cooperative made up of 1,300 papers and radio and TV stations, this isn't kicking out one news organization, it's kicking them all out.

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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SHOWN: That face you make when you spend the better part of five decades destroying government institutions and creating a corrupt power base only to have a spray-tanned moron swoop in and steal it.

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👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

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We should all be lucky enough to find someone who loves us as much as Trump loves Putin.

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Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. Bravo! 👏👏👏

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This is how much the orange loves our Vets! Keep in mind that the VA is notoriously short staffed, lack necessary supplies, and dramatically under budgeted by the federal government! So why not fuck them over some more! www.alternet.org/amp/veterans...

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new resignation from SDNY Hagan Scotten -- he's a John Roberts clerk -- Roberts can't be happy at that -- and a 2 times bronze medal winner for duty in Iraq. This is the best of DOJ v the worst of the political system. The lines so clearly drawn

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