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This is what happens when people have disregarded science and chosen to forgo life-saving vaccinations - RFK,Jr is going to be held accountable along with the GOP who voted for him! #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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I’m on @facethenation.bsky.social this Sunday discussing latest developments related to avian flu and efforts to alleviate egg shortage, the ongoing Measles outbreak, and other health topics

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WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀

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If you can’t represent your constituency you don’t need to be in congress

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Precise mortar strike on the Russian assault group in winter camouflage.

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Folks! We have a fundraising. We are in desperate need of night bird 3T. With it help we will be able to find Russians. Especially to see how they are advancing and destroy them. Just like in this thread🧵 AFV losses in Kursk. We need only 900$🔽 secure.wayforpay.com/donate/Krieg...

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slava ukraini

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Birds of Magyar unit continues to deplete Russian AFV reserves. 3 T-80BVM, MT-LB, BTR-82. More in a full video: youtu.be/VTNfD38LeR4?...

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Jetzt werden selbst "Tiger" (mit Minenwalze?) an die Front geworfen.

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In the beforetimes a lot of this was just media spectacle, and the strategy of not becoming the lightning rod for the right was at least somewhat viable. That's not what's going on anymore, and institutions have not adjusted.

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He’s baaaaaaaaack

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Russian sources say F-16s are active on the Kursk front

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When did firing national park rangers, scientists and air traffic controllers become a better idea than just taxing billionaires?

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Not easy to do, but I think this hits all three words in the oft-said "waste, fraud, and abuse" of taxpayer dollars.

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Musk, Vance and their support for the anti-American, pro-Russian German far-right From Jamie Kirchik www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

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Hope no-one relies on the US government for anything.

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

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Wow, so Trump's "revised" offer to Zelensky has "virtually the same provisions that Kyiv previously rejected as too onerous": access to Ukraine’s vast mineral wealth and "revenue sharing" as ("$500 billion") repayment for past (not future) US aid. No security guarantee in exchange.

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The DOGE Project Will Backfire. Why Trump’s war on public employees is bad for all of us. #StopElonMusk #DOGEscam www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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well would you look at that

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NEW: The Trump/Musk blitzkrieg aims to destroy government to advance oligarchy & autocracy—and to crush the Democrats & the progressive agenda. It's an existential crisis. Yet so many Dems are missing in action. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I ask, WTF? Pls share. link.motherjones.com/public/38721...

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Helping Ukraine has been simultaneously the morally correct thing to do AND in our objective national interest AND something we can do (and have done) effectively. An exceedingly rare trifecta and it has completely broken the brains of cynical people who assume there simply must be a catch or angle

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3 🇨🇳Chinese warships conducted a live fire exercise in seas between 🇳🇿Australia and 🇦🇺New Zealand this week. Commercial flights disrupted. (Type 054A frigate Hengyang (Photo ADF) with Type 055 cruiser Zunyi & auxiliary Weishanhu)

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"Next week, House Republicans will hold a major vote on Trump’s fiscal agenda. The House blueprint, which Trump backs, lays the groundwork for up to $880 billion in Medicaid cuts and tens of billions in cuts to food stamps." Everybody knows someone this will harm.

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Is it psychotic as the world’s richest man to have your 13th child with a fourth different mother, abandon the child to the point the mother seeks sole custody, and then text the mother asking for “legions” more children? Asking for a friend.

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Here come the “town hall no-show’s”. #Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

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Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats’ restrained approach www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Warren Buffett. Sellin’ stocks & raisin’ cash. 💰 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

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DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

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“.. ‘We did not elect him,’ a man shouted. “.. more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled ‘don’t lie to us.’” #WI06

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AXIOS: “.. GOP lawmakers are getting roasted back home over President Trump's swift cuts and firings, as polls show signs his monthlong honeymoon could be wearing off.” www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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A previously unflappable market finally flapped. A fifth straight Friday loss, this one a deeper but still orderly setback, digesting a slow-motion "growth scare" and policy flux. Cyclical, bank and small-cap stocks back to their Election Day gaps, sentiment mixed, froth being skimmed. New column.

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Our new FBI director. Congrats America!

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China issued ‘disconcerting’ warning of live-fire exercises to planes flying above, Australia says apnews.com/article/aust...

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This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

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There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

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Trump's team asked Ukraine to withdraw the UN resolution condemning Putin for waging war . Kyiv was shocked: Zelensky refused , — Washington Post. *I mean these dipshits.

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Call it the Musk-Trump Veteran Firing Program. Nearly a third of the federal workers are veterans, and the figure is much higher at DoD. Musk and Trump are going to fire tens of thousands of American veterans, on top of the thousands they already fired. “Thank you for your service, you’re fired.”

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A Russian evacuation group recorded Ukrainian drones striking their equipment on the "Road of Death" near Vyshneve. After seeing this footage, the Ivan Franko Group shared their perspective, showcasing the battle from the drone operator's viewpoint.

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It appears that physical nets for drone protection are not proving effective. Consequently, the Russians have opted to use smoke screens deployed by ground drones in the hope of shielding the remnants of their equipment.

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If Trump genuinely thinks he will go down in history as the greatest of all time, he’s completely delulu. And the cut off was before even his first term.

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This made the rounds earlier today and is quite good.

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🤬"Russia is not an aggressor": The US demanded that Ukraine withdraw the UN resolution condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky refused, - WP.

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