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These NIH funding cuts threaten research happening in Delaware on heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke recovery, & more. This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.

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Staff of NSF’s Human-Environment & Geographical Sciences program terminated. Anti-intellectual vengeance against geographers. And, perhaps, against Tim Walz, high school geography teacher & advocate, in particular.

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INBOX: Washington Governor Bob Ferguson’s office says that the state Employment Security Department is helping affected federal employees who have been laid off apply for unemployment benefits and seek new work, and is reporting numbers on affected federal workers.

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We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

submitted 21 hours ago • 238 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

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I’m starting to think he’s got no second act. He’s like a bad one-hit wonder band from the 80s.

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WATCH: “You just said something that’s not true — that tens of millions of dead people are on that list… but the same report you cited said almost none of them have received Social security.” Trump’s Press Sec hides behind saying they “suspect” it, then runs away 🤔

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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Trump benefits from the bully pulpit of the presidency, a legislative branch that has contracted out all of its autonomy, and Elon’s unlimited funding—but if he loses popular support, none of those things will matter. And we’re already seeing the tide turn. McCormick’s district (below) is R+22.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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The US Supreme Court declined for now to let President Donald Trump oust the head of a federal whistleblower agency, letting the official stay in the job until at least Wednesday.

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REMEMBER: Next Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can do this. I'm IN, are you? 👋💙

submitted 19 hours ago • 299 comments

If tRump really believed Zelenskyy was a dictator…

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The Trump administration’s mass layoffs of health workers hit a key vaccine unit of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

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oh boy -- Rich McCormick bailed on CNN after his ill-fated town hall

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JUST IN: HNL Lab Medicine will begin subtyping all positive influenza A samples from hospitalized patients to detect H5N1 bird flu.

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Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

submitted 13 hours ago • 831 comments

Why is @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social on book tour instead of doing a fight back tour?

submitted 1 day ago • 339 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 14 hours ago • 969 comments

This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.

submitted 12 hours ago • 151 comments

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 106 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 12 hours ago • 356 comments

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

submitted 1 day ago • 851 comments

I keep thinking about Trump saying that he needed the kind of generals that Hitler had.

submitted 10 hours ago • 74 comments

Democrats should go to all these ruby red and vulnerable GOP districts where voters are upset at Trump and Musk and court them. Full court press.

submitted 12 hours ago • 146 comments

👇🏽

submitted 13 hours ago • 273 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 533 comments

We refuse to let the oligarchs win and control us, and I feel a sea change (link to full video in reply)

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Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

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Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senator Warren, Senator Smith, and I are holding this Administration accountable.

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📉📉📉

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Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol on a charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others who received presidential pardons for crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the nation’s capital.

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Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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