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Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!

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Remember when Senator Banks attacked a president who wasn’t engaged in litigation against almost half a dozen press outlets and stayed silent against one who was?

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I’ve been targeted for death in a bomb threat received at the Principles First Summit where I spoke today. To be clear, I’ve been threatened by far more capable people during my career. It won’t stop my advocacy for democracy and the Constitution: x.com/Acosta/statu...

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Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

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They learned something from their first term. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles. So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.

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“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

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Yosemite National Park workers hang distress flag to protest Trump and Musk coming for their jobs.

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Wow! What a great cover!

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It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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News Analysis: In the first month since he returned to power, President Trump has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions.

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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

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Trump administration struggling to find fired nuclear safety staff: Report

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President Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

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Elon Musk and his team say they have saved the government $55 billion. Their “wall of receipts” is riddled with mistakes.

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“Unless something changes, the specter of bird flu’s devastation will hang over the United States indefinitely — as will the threat of other emerging diseases,” Maryn McKenna writes.

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"The great illusion that Musk, Donald Trump, Miller and others are trying to push—that they’re rooting out immense amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government—is collapsing all around them."

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"They’re going to play golf. They’re going to do a lot of things. They’re not working."

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Remember when Donald Trump promised not to touch Medicaid? He’s already flipped.

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Trump’s mission is simple: to exert authoritarian control over all branches of the federal government. To do that, he has to break the back of the federal employee labor movement.

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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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Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.

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DOGE’s website got hacked: Podcast: www.404media.co/podcast-doge...

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Trump’s call to “clean out” Gaza—which many have suggested is simply ethnic cleansing “by another name”—shouldn’t be seen in isolation. It’s hardly new in Israel, writes @drhahellyer.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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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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Commenting on the arrival of Russian officials in Riyadh for talks on Ukraine, Elon Musk wrote: “This is what competent leadership looks like.” He attached a video of the Russian delegation’s arrival, filmed by U.S.-sanctioned state-run outlets.

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South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from USAID to stop work reut.rs/41l2Qpe

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OPINION: The Trump administration is already the most harmful to religious freedom in modern American history.

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“Vice President JD Vance has tried to justify Trump’s ‘America first’ agenda as in keeping with Christian teachings… Yet that claim is so preposterous that it was denounced by Pope Francis.” https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

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Ashley St. Clair revealed that she gave birth to Elon Musk's 13th child yesterday.

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National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

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The homepage on Friday featured text stating: "This is a joke of a .gov site."

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The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding Air Force One Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion.

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Health officials — who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreak — suspect 200 to 300 people in West Texas are infected but untested, and therefore not part of the state’s official tally so far.

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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

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The Trump administration’s move to fire thousands of federal employees could have a swift and severe impact on public services, staffers warned, as a beleaguered workforce struggles to cover for lost colleagues.

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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When the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe landed a $19.9 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in January, members were elated. Now, that and many millions more in vital funding for improvements, such as solar panels, are in limbo.

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