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I missed that on Thursday, the bill to effectively repeal Idaho’s Medicaid expansion cleared a big legislative hurdle, passing 38-32. The bill pushes for a Medicaid work req, a cap on Medicaid enrollment, and kicking people off Medicaid expansion after 3 years. www.eastidahonews.com/2025/02/divi...

Damn yeah I can’t imagine what it was that made you so angry at this

(CNBC) - The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers may ultimately amount to the biggest job cut in U.S. history, which is likely to have ramifications for the economy, especially at the local level, according to economists. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/23/h...

Luke McGarry. #comics #art #cartoon

OMG. If you, like my husband, don’t get it, because you are not a musical theater person, let me explain: This is an anti-royalist call to arms (set in 1830s France). Sung by the US Army Choir a day after Trump declared himself king.

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Let alone your imminent annexation by a fascist.

US Army choir said REVOLUTION

met a dog named Emmy who had a custom made Mardi Gras dress, real highlight of the day

Germany has rejected the racist, far-right, AfD and Elon while confirming JD Vance's unfitness. After embarrassing the US with his Munich speech, he refused to meet with anyone but AfD’s Alice Weidel because he was so sure of their victory. What a pathetic and disrespectful miscalculation.

You like these? Good. Because they're awesome.

Randomly sharing this because I had to find the link to the publication for something: the Maria Juana story from Spanish colonial Louisiana that I was fucking obsessed with for YEARS www.scholarlyediting.org/issues/41/ki...

Loving this meme’s evolving narrative 😂😂😂

I’m just going to keep posting links of Republicans getting pressed out by their constituents 🤭 www.newsweek.com/kevin-hern-c...

USWNT playing soon, if you need a break from our political hellscape.

We can NEVER let this MAGA wannabe and the Conservatives be elected as our next federal government.

I don’t even like Merz but this is easily the clearest public recognition of the threat from any major European leader so far. Other Euro leaders would want to wise up about the influence of Musk and American fascists in our elections. Expect “Ireland is full” horseshite x10 in the next Irish GE.

i have recieved your email requesting to understand what i got done last week. please see the attached, thanks

Samuel Pepys, being normal as usual

Lotta question yesterday why Elon included his firing threat in the tweet but not the email. Pretty sure this is why. OPM's own lawyers say it's false. And putting it in writing in a government email is one of those major legal liability things. no lawyers sign off etc.

🇩🇪🇺🇸 The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Washington was "no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow," — Merz.

Is this your cat? This pretty girl or boy started showing up in Mid-City L.A. where I feed a community cat, and took up residence in a neighbor's crawlspace. She has a collar, so she belongs to someone, but so far I can't get close enough to her to see if it has tags. We want to find her peoples!

Once again I’m saying this is one of the best songs ever written and recorded: youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo?...

It is incumbent on other EU member states to call this out also. A senior US official attempted to subvert the elections of the EU’s largest member state. Silence is not an option.

Real quick: there are a lot of people who are asking why more people didn't jump in to intervene physically This is a place where Patriot Front will hold exercises outside your house if you piss them off enough. This is a place where the people on that stage control every government institution

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

Guidance to NASA employees is trickling in on how to respond to the recent DOGE-driven email asking for what people accomplished last week. The general theme: wait to respond, with further agency-wide guidance expected Monday www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Timeline cleanse: Three cheetah sister kittens training to be animal ambassadors for the Cincinnati zoo. cincinnatizoo.org/cheetah-cub-...

More Charlie. This time in slo mo

He said the quiet part out loud. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Elon Musk is not the owner of the US Government and his email to all federal workers is bullshit

Dumping the women of color won't save any mainstream network. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

That's my Senator!

For generations, both the Yolŋu people from Australia's Northern Territory and Indigenous groups from Taiwan have maintained ancient cultures despite colonisation, with the shared experiences of the groups in focus as part of a new cross-cultural performance.

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

The owners of Black Pearl Books want to make sure readers can find all the books that were banned by school districts in Texas last school year. www.kut.org/business/202...?

Check out the in-ear comms on the blackshirt.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Mood #NowPlaying 🎶 #Ella #Jazz 🎷 #music #legend #SundayMotivation #EllaFitzgerald #SundayVibes

What the Trump administration wants to do by creating these camps is monstrous enough. But a key thing I found when writing a book on concentration camp history is that when you establish this kind of detention, it tends over time to devolve into much worse kinds of camps.

"Shiffrin claims historic 100th World Cup win"

[Oberlin] college said in a campus-wide note that following the law “does not diminish our support for every member of our diverse community.” Bullshit. Ohio bathroom law targeting transgender students has brought internal strife to some campuses apnews.com/article/tran...

Too simple to even try and cover his tracks.

Unelected Musk has taken away jobs from thousands of federal workers—auditors, lawyers, scientists, nurses & more. Now he’s headed to Fort Knox to “check on” the US gold supply. What does gold have to do w/ govt spending? Why is he suddenly interested in US gold? www.cbsnews.com/news/fort-kn...

Plotting illegality. Plotting crimes.

“First projection shows conservative CDU in the leaD: Here's the first projection from German public broadcaster ARD. Unlike the earlier exit poll, a projection is based on real results, but as you can see, the numbers are very similar.”