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letter from the biggest federal employee union: "AFGE members have concluded that a widespread government shutdown has been underway since January 20 and will continue to spread whether senators vote yes or no on HR 1968" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...

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Republicans’ SAVE act would not even accept marriage certificates for name changes. You’d have to have a passport and good luck getting the State Department’s depleted workforce issuing you one

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has proposed a reduction of the state’s annual appropriation for NJ PBS from $1 million to $250,000. NJ PBS’ total revenue in FY23 was $10.7 million. current.org/2025/03/nj-p...

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Trump Administration takes action leading to 10 year old girl undergoing treatment for brain cancer to be tossed out of country with deported parents.

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"It is important for the executive branch to be able to break laws much faster than the judicial branch can stop them" is a hell of an argument to make in March 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

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NEW: Ohio lawmakers are debating on spending $600m to help finance a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns after Republican leadership called the same amount of money "unsustainable" when it came to funding public education. @ohiocapitaljournal.com www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

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Tommy Tuberville: "When it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the same: send them to jail."

submitted 15 hours ago • 1197 comments

Check out our updated guide to Signal, which is as easy to use as your phone’s native texting app and which you should absolutely be telling your mom she has to download if she wants to be able to text you:

submitted 19 hours ago • 44 comments

uh.... newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

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The U.S. Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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FBI telling Citibank to freeze accounts of Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the State of NY Dept of Taxation, among a few dozen others.

submitted 21 hours ago • 178 comments

Boycotts are protected by the First Amendment, but U.S. regulations DO prohibit federal employees from using their public office to benefit themselves, their friends, families, or affiliates. WTF?!

submitted 21 hours ago • 27 comments

"okay Bobby, do some standing" "got it. normal human standing"

submitted 21 hours ago • 37 comments

But, on the bright side, a recession is on the horizon.

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Republican congressman Keith Self introduced transgender Representative Sarah McBride as "Mr. McBride." Sarah snapped back and called him madam chair. Dem Congressman Bill Keating went off on Rep. Self and adjourned the meeting over his lack of decorum and purposeful targeting of Sarah McBride.

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"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back

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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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buttons are back, baby!! buttons are good I will die on this hill

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Trump’s retribution campaign is now targeting prominent Democratic lawyers — with broad implications for every American. www.vox.com/us-federal-c...

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Even as a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, claiming one life, West Virginia lawmakers are ignoring doctors and pushing forward with a bill that could open the door for outbreaks here. mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/03/05/l...

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Nothing to worry about here, just @justinling.ca reporting on Pete Hegseth's plan to cut up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Sure it'll be fine www.wired.com/story/pentag...

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The arrest of a protester, without alleging a violation of immigration law, marks an attempt to escalate enforcement of the administration’s deportation power in a way that civil rights groups say violates the Constitution

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A US judge ordered that Palestinian Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil not be deported for now as part of US President Donald Trump's crackdown on some anti-Israel protesters, and set a court hearing for the case for Wednesday reut.rs/3FhAseZ

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Where are all the "Confederate statues erected during the civil rights movement were about preserving history not Lost Cause mythology" people at www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...

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South Dakota's "arrest the librarians" bill, HB 1239, passed out of committee and moves to a full Senate vote next week. Moms for Liberty testified that several books they want to censor remain on shelves, and they need more tools to harass librarians. www.argusleader.com/story/news/p...

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The free speech warriors are at it again

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Bruh

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"Although all of those things would almost certainly be happening if former Vice President Kamala Harris had won the election, the uncertainty that President Donald Trump’s economic policy has unleashed is exacerbating those problems." why would all of those things almost certainly be happening?

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The list touches on the personal priorities of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist who has repeatedly promoted medical conspiracy theories and false claims.

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It was also used to seize their passports—including US citizens like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who fought it for years. I read her pamphlet on the McCarran Act in her archives at Wayne State, here’s a digitized version: digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/ob...

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Dave Walton, a row crop farmer in Muscatine County, Iowa, said farmers had expected Trump's administration to improve the federal safety net, not slash it. "In farming, your word means something. If you sign a contract, that means something," said Walton. www.reuters.com/world/us/far...

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“My suspicion is this was a way to subtly go after birthright citizenship,” said Rep. Chellie Pingree. Trump has said he wants to end birthright citizenship — which is a provision enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that guarantees people born in the United States are citizens.

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British cartoonist RE Burke was backpacking through North America. Now she’s locked up in an ICE detention facility. www.comicsbeat.com/cartoonist-r...

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Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

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oh ffs: extensive scientific research has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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For some reason this reminds me of people I know who insisted to me that they were teaching Critical Race Theory in my daughter's public school (they weren't but some dude who reads the NY Post knows more than I do about it).

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In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II apnews.com/article/dei-...

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Amid federal spending cuts that National Park Service workers say are straining operations and staffing, 2024 visitation numbers released Wednesday indicate that demand for the agency’s parks has increased. wvpublic.org/as-w-va-nati...

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When I’m trying to explain the dangers of Elon Musk gutting the same agencies that regulate his companies, I could not come up with a better example than “stripping the CFPB of its authority to regulate digital payment systems like the one X plans to roll out soon.” www.theverge.com/news/624904/...

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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

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SCOOP: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled "Catch and Revoke" effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

utterly fucking astounding that any Dem would look at what’s happening and think that giving this administration sweeping new authority to prosecute speech on the internet is a good idea

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So reassuring to know that Elon's team is now in charge at the FAA.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Someone pointed out he’s the only one of the space billionaires to not have gone up in one of his own rockets yet

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The fiscal note for the bill accounts only for the jump from a 70% to a 100% tax credit, without considering the likely surge in donations that such an incentive would trigger — even though increasing giving is the entire point of the policy. www.propublica.org/article/miss...

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just for reference, Ogles is also the one who filed the “let Trump be president for a third term” resolution

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The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it" Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.

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