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Infuriating! 😡 Don’t Cut My Medicaid! The majority of my son’s medical team are in Austin (1.5 hr drive), some in Houston (3 hrs), one in Dallas (5 hrs). Telehealth appts are needed & necessary! My son has extreme car anxiety, not to mention wear and tear on our car, gas! 🤬 And we’re not alone!

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An outbreak of listeria infections linked with frozen supplemental shakes has made at least 38 people ill in 21 states, with 37 hospitalizations and 11 deaths, the FDA said.

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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

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REPOST if you stand with AOC!

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Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

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Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

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Aviation workers. Nuclear safety experts. Disease investigators. Power grid operators. Maternal health specialists. Bird flu experts. They work to keep Americans safe—without fame or fanfare. Now, Trump and Musk are gutting their agencies and firing them. Here are the facts 🧵

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The director of the FDA’s food division resigned on Monday, saying the loss of critical employees made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

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JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

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Beautiful and Black!

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Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

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#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

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Are people finally waking up? The real fight isn’t about bathrooms or drag queens—it’s about who holds power & at whose expense. Culture war is just a distraction, keeping working people too busy fighting each other rather than noticing who’s actually robbing us blind: billionaires—not each other!

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The GOP's Taliban has a new message for women: The Republican Taliban doesn’t want my wife, Louise Hartmann, to vote. And they may well put that desire into law this year. Republicans have always been wary of women voting or even engaging in politics, while Democrats are welcoming of women. About…

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Reminder: some CAN’T get vaxxed because of health conditions, or they are extra vulnerable, like children and elders. Herd immunity is how grownups protect them. But if your kids are unvaxxed, you’re using other people’s kids as human shields and YOUR CHILD could hurt or kill the vulnerable.

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Time to tank AirBnB 📉

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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”

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He’s such a disappointment. With his casual ass

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

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Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

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Also, he has no wife. Never has and probably never will. Also also, Serena would NEVER.

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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

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Southern California – expect lots of rain over the next couple of days. Here's what you need to know:

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Ed Martin was part of the mob at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now, he’s head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C. — the agency that successfully prosecuted over 1,500 insurrectionists. Here's what you should know.

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If you have a child with a 504 plan or IEP please watch. If you don’t…watch anyway because if you’re reading this, you know someone who does. Please call your representatives and tell them to stop this nonsense! Children need advocates to protect them. Please be one. Part 1

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🚨O.M.G!!! “DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.”😳😱 🧵(1/3)

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Excited to jump into this book haul over the next two weeks! #booksky

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... When you have a moment Read and Share History Repeats

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I believe!

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Not even trying to hide it…

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America, you are in danger, girl! Elon Musk and his hackers—aka DOGE—are everywhere within our federal government, and they are spreading. Pay attention, connect the dots, and call it out—before it’s too late.

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Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.

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WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥 #DemocracyNotDictatorship

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A statement from the Kennedy Center

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Evendale, Ohio, witnessed a powerful stand as local residents confronted neo-Nazi demonstrators with swastika flags on a highway overpass. This historically Black community, burdened by a legacy of racism, rallied together to reject hate and defend their home. www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/u...

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The Trump Administration just cut billions of dollars from biomedical funding. Because who wants to cure cancer? 🤷‍♂️

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Every. Single. Word. Of. This. I couldn't be prouder of my fellow Floridian @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and the new generation of Dems fighting fire with fire. More of this, please!

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I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

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President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had paid Politico and other news media outlets for positive coverage of Democrats. The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing that agencies paid for subscriptions.

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Trump is pulling Biden's clearance and daily briefing access: President Trump announced on Friday he's cutting former President Biden's access to classified information and stopping his daily intelligence briefings. The big picture: Trump revoked security clearances earlier this month for about 51…

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I don’t trust this dusty mofo

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Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel: “We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

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Oh nothing, the kid who Elon allowed to access our sensitive information was a eugenicist who "was racist before it was cool."

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Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

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