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tbh I still can’t bring myself to like/repost Liz Cheney even when I agree with her

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Trump, Vance, and all the MAGA boot-lickers would treat the sex-trafficking Tate brothers with more respect than they did Zelenskyy

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You’d be forgiven for thinking Russia installed its most valuable asset in the White House 🫠

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Is this how the USA surrendered to Russia? This and the obscene ruckus in the White House today?

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The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Think about this for a hot second

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Remember the day Elon bragged with an infantile giggle about putting USAID into the "wood chipper". just your bog standard sociopath marauding through our world.

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How is this impacting research university partnerships like those with @oregonstate.edu at the Hatfield Marine Science Center??

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Accused sex traffickers now welcome in the United States. Cool, cool.

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I love this so much for my aging parents 😭😭😭

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How much does it cost to feed a child with SNAP benefits? $6 per day.  How much does the GOP Budget give away to the rich? $6 million — per billionaire.  The American people won’t forget the GOP's betrayal.

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A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas. It's the first U.S. measles death since 2015.

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So Marty Baron says it plain: “It was only weeks ago that The Post described itself as providing coverage for ‘all of America,’” Baron wrote in his statement. “Now its opinion pages will be open to only some of America, those who think exactly as he does.” www.thedailybeast.com//ex-wapo-edi...

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Lee Zeldin was on Fox today talking about clawing back money lawfully appropriated to organizations by legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act simply bc Trump doesn't like it. This is an especially egregious example of how Trumpers have redefined "fraud" to just mean "spending I disagree with."

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During a GOP town hall at Coeur d'Alene High School, Teresa Borrenpohl called out, “Is this a lecture or a town hall?” Witnesses said three unidentified men, who were not wearing badges or ID, then physically removed from her seat by order of the Idaho county sheriff.

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

Wind/hail/rain is intense

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Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

submitted 6 days ago • 396 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 489 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 7 days ago • 293 comments

Never thought we'd see someone wrest away from J. Edgar Hoover the title of Biggest Asshole to Ever Lead the FBI, but looks like we did it!

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 8 days ago • 987 comments

If you haven't yet, make an account with Social Security dot gov. See how much you've paid into SS over your lifetime. It's YOUR money that you've loaned to the government until your retirement. It's not a fucking "entitlement" beyond the fact that only YOU are entitled to it. Elon Musk is not.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Stacy's mom's medicare is gone

submitted 8 days ago • 111 comments

He’s in close competition with RFK & Gabbard, but this is probably the most dangerous & frightening nomination to make it through.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

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The Great Lakes states have, for years, been fighting an invasion of lamprey eels, which were devastating the fish stocks in the lakes. Trump fired the people who've almost succeeded in doing that. www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

submitted 8 days ago • 128 comments

You can bet Jimmy Carter would not have been silent

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 9 days ago • 1150 comments

Trump is telling us to our faces that he's going to stand by while Musk guts and likely steals the social security that several generations have paid into. He's counting on his flock being perfectly fine with it. And sadly, they probably will be.

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Ugandan health authorities have closed all the clinics that focused on patients with HIV and TB. Staffed by health workers who over time developed deep expertise in sensitively managing infectious yet stigmatised diseases, the clinics were key to cutting HIV infection rates.

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Elon Musk’s claim of Social Security fraud is…a fraud. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 11 days ago • 132 comments

Americans from all walks of life rose up today, standing shoulder to shoulder in protest against Musk’s illegal actions & the creeping grip of fascism. This is Not My President Day—a day to reclaim our democracy. With sustained, nonviolent resistance, we can & will win. Credit @jessicayellin IG

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

The processing fee for a passport is $130 but there can be other costs and you have to get documents establishing your citizenship like a birth certificate and a photograph. This is the new pull tax if the SAVE act passes.

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

I don't think we've ever had a pro-sex trafficking administration before www.ft.com/content/3f95...

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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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Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

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Smart lil hummer taking shelter under our eaves. I’m rotating the feeders to keep them thawed. #pdxtst #pdxbst #orwx

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Near white out conditions in Happy Valley—can’t see beyond about 50 yards. #pdxtst #pdxbst (Don’t know what a maidenhead coordinate is but here’s mine CN85sk)

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