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Democrats should give Jasmine Crockett, AOC and Pritzker apartments right next to CNN and MSNBC so they can be on TV all day everyday.

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‘When has Russia ever kept its promises?’: Ukrainians furious over Trump’s plan to end war

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NEW: DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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SCOOP: The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” she said.

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President Trump said he would have had a “very nasty life” if he lost the presidential election, a surprisingly public acknowledgment that his legal challenges could have consumed his life and brought jail time.

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A coalition of congressional Republicans from the New York area rebuked President Trump for cuts to a federal program that administers aid to emergency workers and others suffering from toxins related to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

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Strikingly missing from this list is the Republican Congressman from Colorado's 8th district, the most heavily Latino AND largest recipient of Medicaid dollars, the soon-to-be-one-term Gabe Evans.

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Even Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, has issued public warnings that cuts to Medicaid could be politically damaging to Trump and other GOP leaders. “A lot of MAGA is on Medicaid,” he said on his “War Room” podcast just last week. “You can’t just take a meat ax to it.”

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As it turns out, Mike Johnson is now learning that a lot of Republican voters are on Medicaid.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence denounced Donald Trump over his biggest, most flagrant lie of late — the infuriating claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia. Pence reappeared to slam Trump’s Putin-inspired lie. Posting the indisputable truth on X, Pence emphasized his…

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The one gutsy thing Pence ever did.

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Hochul is one of the few Democrats who has grown in strength and spine since the election.

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Is flying getting more dangerous? And what, if anything, can passengers actually do to stay safer during an emergency? We consulted several experts to learn more.

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In remarks to reporters Tuesday, Trump said the duties would be around 25% and "go very substantially higher over a course of a year."

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First came the pharmaceutical executives. Then the insurance companies and the hospital leaders. In the gold-covered, chandeliered dining room just off the lobby at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump discovered one of his most lucrative moneymaking ventures.

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Shockingly, it turns out that empowering the richest human being on the planet to maliciously and gratuitously heap additional misery on that planet’s most poor, hungry, and desperate people might—just might—pose a niggling political problem to President Donald Trump.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that it is moving to correct the accidental firing of several people working on the federal government’s response to an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.

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The watchdog group Common Cause said it planned to run an ad criticizing Elon Musk in the Washington Post — but the paper backed out.

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I'm tired of trying to explain why people should care about others. How are people so cruel..and stupid?!

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“What he’s done is testing the limits of his power in a way we have never seen in this country,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.

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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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Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself.

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Two coders have already infiltrated the DOGE website and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another.

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"[It's] a continuation of the main MAGA propaganda strategy of the past decade."

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Donald Trump complained about a “new theory” about magnets during a rant about Boeing, while answering questions that were not about magnets or Boeing at all.

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So RFK Jr came out of the gate with a broad statement decrying medication for depression, anxiety, ADHD, weight loss, and god knows what else. you know what went unmentioned? HGH. Look at him (or almost any guy in Hollywood these days) and ask yourself... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Kennedy is on Laura Ingraham right now and it’s fucking terrifying. I don’t think a lot of Americans have any idea what’s about to happen with their health care.

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Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Now that RFK Jr has been confirmed, does MAHA mean "Make America Heroin Addicts?"

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So let me see if i got this right. Republicans were crying constantly over history being "erased" because people didnt want to honor the traitors that were the confederacy. And yet its perfectly fine to erase the involvement trans Poc in the stonewall riots.

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I hate it here. I hate it here. I hate it here. I hate it here. I HATE IT HEEEEERRRRREEEEEE!!!!

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

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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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This is who, 30 days ago, the Washington Post endorsed for Senate confirmation. Saying that DOJ "filed charges" intentionally misleads people into thinking DOJ took criminal action. It's just a civil lawsuit. Support @atrupar.com and independent media like him.

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They are angry that a judge restored a public website providing life-saving resources from the CDC, FDA, and HHS.

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"I will bring down inflation on day one." 😂😂😂😂

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TRUMPFLATION

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A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.

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Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

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Well… today I have my first DOGE subcommittee hearing along with a Judiciary hearing, all while DC is snowed in! If I had normal coworkers & the country wasn’t going to hell lead by DOGE Douchebags, I’d say, “nothing to see here,” but something tells me, today is going to be pure insanity…

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in.benzinga.com/startups/25/...

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