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“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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DEUTSCHE: “.. Inauguration day was exactly a month ago .. no signs yet that fiscal outlays have fallen in the first few weeks of the administration.”

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"Approval of Trump's handling of the economy has sagged" www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting for equity in farming.

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President Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to shrink the federal government have cut off all funding to pro-democracy and human rights groups abroad, giving China an opportunity to muscle in.

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You aren’t safe in Trump’s America.

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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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Republican senators are traitors to the international order that has kept this country safe for the better part of eighty years. They are traitors to their own constituents. They are traitors to everything that has actually made America great.

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More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

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President Trump moved to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that oversees the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge and one of the city’s most cherished public spaces, in an executive order issued Wednesday.

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www.instagram.com/stories/walt...

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PLEASE SHARE.

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WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

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The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month. Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either. And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.

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All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.

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When U.S. customs officials denied that Wong Kim Ark was a citizen in 1895, he took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.

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Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB? Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors. Follow the money.

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Time for Citizens to Hit Elon with a Privacy Act Violation www.bookersquared.com/p/time-for-c...

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CONFIRMED: Trump’s tariffs—10% on China, 25% on Mexico and Canada—start Saturday. U.S. consumers will pay more for imported goods and products made here using them. Top imports: 📌 China: Electronics, clothing, appliances 📌 Mexico: Vehicles, machinery, agriculture 📌 Canada: Oil, machinery, wood

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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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well, the founders’ nightmare of a foreign born subversive with no inherent loyalty to america grabbing power now looks very relevant. however they didn’t predict he would be a dope fiend too

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All that bootlicking and the New York Times still got kicked out of their Pentagon office.

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This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Yes, he is your party’s president and leader. You have supported him in the past and you support him now. He is tangibly hurting people in Maine, and you will prattle on, act concerned, and do nothing. You will own everything he does to hurt Mainers and everyone else.

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"'I was inexpressibly thankful for the privilege of recording my name on so glorious a page of the nation’s history.' But the hopes of that moment had crumbled within a decade." Sweeping and beautiful and gutting, from @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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All The Best Character Witnesses www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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At long last, Trump is delivering relief to the poor innocents who just want to commit sexual assault at our nation’s schools and colleges

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ALL NEW POLITICSGIRL PODCAST: You can grieve what happened to our country, and be angry that our institutions let us down, but you can’t curl into a ball and despair. That only helps them… youtu.be/eKdiEA-OhNw

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Good News Dems just flipped a seat in a special election in Iowa tonight. And, IA-35 was a Trump +21 district!!

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www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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January 28. 2025

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And @maddow.msnbc.com's opening tonight was also 🔥. It is so refreshing to turn on the news and feel like you're not crazy in your alarm. Huge appreciation to Rachel for covering all these Indivisible convenings across the country and what folks can actually do.

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It’s time to fight.

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Unreal.

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Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) speech about Trump Admin. "buyout" idea for federal workers "He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"

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Elon Musk, encouraged by his mother and an army of his cultish fans, is threatening tonight to sue a Washington Post journalist for pointing out on live TV that neo-Nazis welcomed his salute on Inauguration Day. Can we finally put the ‘he’s a free speech absolutist!’ BS to bed?

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Q: What’s worse than an anti-vaxxer? A: a hypocritical anti-vaxxer in a position of influence Caroline Kennedy confirms RFK Jr privately chose to vaccinate his kids while publicly discouraging other parents from vaccinating their children

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So, it turns out federal employees take their oath, their job & their duty to serve dead serious. Retirees (like me) understand the oath doesn’t expire just because you’ve left. This whole thread is giving me life, but especially this:

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Through an email blast, federal workers were given the opportunity to resign from their jobs before Feb. 6 and retain full pay and benefits through Sept. 30.

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She’s fired because of DEI? Compare her credentials with Pete Hegseth - a meritocracy? Sheesh.

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Meatpacking giants Perdue and JBS will pay a combined $8M penalty for employing migrant children as young as 13 to work in their slaughterhouses. These cases are part of a dangerous resurgence of child labor in America, fueled by corporate greed.

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The Trump administration fired the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan, within 24 hours of President Trump’s inauguration. The admiral, who was sworn in as the service chief on June 1, 2022, was the first female officer to lead a branch of the U.S. armed forces.

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Pete Hegseth’s former sister in law, Danielle Hegseth, has just submitted a sworn statement that Trump‘s nominee for the Department of Defense routinely passed out from alcohol abuse. Details: politicalwire.com/2025/01/21/h...

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at this point you have to ask, what evidence is that the hegseth isn’t abusive to the women in his life, or even any woman who crosses his path www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

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BBC at least sees the Silk Road pardon as huge. And horrific. US outlets both-sidesing.

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100% But do NOT forget what these arrests w/out due process will do. Remember the detention camps they’ve built/are building? What if Trump’s “detainees” are really just slotted for free labor indefinitely?

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New in PN: The "find out" phase begins "Trump’s campaign was ugly, dystopian, and authoritarian. His first presidency was a disaster. A near majority of voters pulled the lever to put him back in charge anyway. Put bluntly, we, as a country, fucked around. And now ..."

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