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X escapee, retired, pro democracy, anti Trump/Musk slash and burn, pro main stream journalism.
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#ProudBlue Good morning, friends. These are very difficult and stressful times, we have a lot at stake. Please take time for yourself and hold on to those you love. We can’t let hate destroy us, do something this weekend that brings you joy. Love, smile and breathe 💙

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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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Say it loud: this is fascism – and we must all resist it | Letters

submitted 23 hours ago • 37 comments

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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Saturday Feb. 22, at 2:00 pm here in D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial, there's a rally for Ukraine, organized by United Help Ukraine, Razom for Ukraine, and others. Trump may have switched sides. America needn't. unitedhelpukraine.org/events/3-yea...

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This.

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Compare MD salaries in autocratic gvts. Coming soon to the U.S. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

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Eliminate the NIH, the CDC, and voila. Seniors die and the Social Security dilemma is solved. www.marketplace.org/2025/02/19/h...

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These are the GOP members of the House Ways and Means Committee--THEY'RE some of the people hiding while DOGE disrupts Medicare/Medicaid and NIH funding. If they are YOUR representative, consider a visit to their LOCAL OFFICE this week, while they're home, to explain why they need to oversee DOGE.

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REPOST if you stand with AOC!

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Hey DOGE bros - found some of that wasteful spending you were looking for. How many gov employees could have kept working and feeding their families with the estimated $2.5M this stunt cost?

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I'm in. February 28, 2025!

submitted 5 days ago • 342 comments

Funding that provides speech and occupational therapy for students with disabilities, for example, should not be diverted to pools of money that states can use for unrelated purposes like vouchers or tax cuts. www.aft.org/column/prote...

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At some point very soon, republicans in Congress will have to choose between pleasing Trump to avoid being primaried, and helping their constituents to avoid being primaried.

submitted 6 days ago • 823 comments

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

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