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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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The crazy part is they think they're fooling anyone. newrepublic.com/article/1916...

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If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. That starts with banning super PAC donations in Dem primaries. There’s no way the party can speak for the majority of working people in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

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This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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Money talks

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Please never take a horse drawn carriage ride. It’s so cruel. 💔

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/b... President Musk. @rbreich.bsky.social @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social

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"Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency"

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Elon and Trump complained (falsely) that the USA was supplying condoms to Gaza. Maybe someone should hand Elon Musk a condom after having his 13th child with a fourth woman.

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Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons. They are now trying to rescind the terminations.

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They won’t ever learn will they

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The IRS Free File pilot program helped 140K taxpayers save $5.6M in tax filing costs in 2024. Despite recent claims, the program is still running and is now available to 30M people in 2025. Any attempt to dismantle it will enrich the tax prep industry at your expense.

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I’m going to continue to work until my computer access is revoked,” Lennox said. “Then I’m going to volunteer. I’m going to keep working as best I can to support the veterans. That’s what I’m here for.” taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

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This is the way.

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@rbreich.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social

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If President Musk really wanted to tackle government waste he would use a team of forensic accountants, not computer programmers who are just out of diapers. 😡 @rbreich.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @occupydemocrats.bsky.social

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People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

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www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m... This is behaviour an oligarch would do. The Associated Press??

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Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ. So I’m no expert. But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.

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Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, is laying off roughly 10% of its work force, according to an email that was sent to staff on Thursday. The cuts, which could affect about 1,000 roles, follow several years of rapid growth.

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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for hundreds of foreign aid contractors who were negatively impacted by a 90-day blanket freeze. The order temporarily blocks the cancellation of foreign aid contracts and awards that were in place before Trump took office.

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Trump hiring freeze creating chaos at Yosemite National Park

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Elon's "call out conflicts" plan doesn't seem very solid

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One of Elon Musk’s closest friends, a billionaire co-founder of Airbnb, is taking a role in President Trump’s administration to help Musk carry out his drive to slash the federal bureaucracy, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

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As you know, I've been in communication with hundreds of federal workers & I've noticed a pattern. This is totally anecdotal, but I feel like I need to say something. For at least 5 agencies, the payment systems went offline briefly & were then restored - all around the time DOGE was there. 1/

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www.reddit.com/r/AskCanada/... @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

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They are angry that a judge restored a public website providing life-saving resources from the CDC, FDA, and HHS.

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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume payments for federal programs after the White House violated a previous order blocking a federal funding freeze.

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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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