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props to the people of CA-23 for showing up and taking their representative to school! Read the writeup from the local paper. www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...

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CALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...

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Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

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👀 👀 👀 here’s big boy bob attempting to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatening to pepper spray her if she did not comply. he stated he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, yet he was wearing a hat that said sheriff and his badge was visible on his belt

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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

submitted 10 hours ago • 205 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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We are living in a nightmare.

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A must read story by @lomikriel.bsky.social "A top former government official who worked on refugee issues told ProPublica that another 100,000 refugees who had already been vetted by the Department of Homeland Security have also been blocked from entering the country." propub.li/3EI9X29

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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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More carnage. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

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This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Legit don’t know if this is vandalism or a detail put on by the owner

submitted 14 hours ago • 59 comments

Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 17 hours ago • 146 comments

She is right. One of the great orgs doing this is @amandalitman.bsky.social and @runforsomething.net. I think they said 20,000 people signed up since the election. If you’re interested but don’t know how, they will help you. Run or donate!

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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

submitted 17 hours ago • 36 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 17 hours ago • 520 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 21 hours ago • 110 comments

i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 135 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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This man is a maniac. On the flip side, I need to print a shirt that says, “I’ll see you in court”

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This right here. I highly recommend this episode of The Daily podcast featuring several fired federal employees. The incompetence of Trump’s henchmen is staggering. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/p...

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...when you've lost the Post...

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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A thread to be read about Trump’s purge of federal employees. Don the Con-quistador is ruining so many lives. Fired individuals, their families and the American public who will be worse off in their absence.

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A thread to be read

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And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

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Great to know which American hockey players admire and are starstruck by a neo Nazi dictator.

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Come knock doors with us in Milwaukee to help our friends in Wisconsin elect Susan Crawford in the critical April 1 state Supreme Court race. Crawford faces a right-wing opponent funded by the likes of Elon Musk. From Feb 22 all the way through March, we're canvassing every Saturday. INFO/SIGN-UP:

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Cracks in the dam status: growing

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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Yes, that’s real.

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Getting Boeing to relax safety standards. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔

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During tax season....

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I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

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It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

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Large crowd of current and former federal workers, incl. some Democratic members of Congress, protesting mass firings and funding cuts at HHS in DC.

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“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”

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Gotta fly across the country in a few days while experts are warning us that flying is no longer safe. Pilots, airline CEOs — ground everything until safety is restored. Please.

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This man is going to kill your kids, “but he showed his spiritual side.” You’ve got to be kidding me with this. Shameful.

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"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

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