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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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In case you need this Images from a JWST deep field. About a grain of sands worth of sky.

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They hate the truth

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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

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Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

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Hey congressional Republicans, still waiting for you to announce how much you’re cutting from congress’ own $6.5 billion budget….

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are criminals

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Another trump approved liar gets a job. Just brutal. Senate Democrats get on it!!!

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings, was arrested after speaking out against plans to install a plaque with references to President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” at a library in Huntington Beach, California.

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www.instagram.com/reel/DGRHTvs...

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Thank you @SNL for an absolutely wonderful, funny as hell, 50th anniversary show. Priceless. LOLed till I cried for 3 hours. Well done. Here's to 50 more...or at least 20...#saturdaynightlive

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Wow! What a hero! 💙

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A 10% universal tariff on $3.25 trillion of annual US merchandise imports would potentially raise ~$300 billion. Last year, US personal income tax brought in nearly 30x that.

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This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

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Just a reminder: #SpaceX is nothing more than a launch services provider, FULL STOP. If you believe SpaceX can come close to #NASA's knowledge, skillset, workforce or capabilities, to quote the title one of my old favorite video game quiz shows, You Don't Know Jack.

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Thank you to @maddow.msnbc.com for promoting @bsky.app on air and complimenting it. Her on air support is truly important

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Former Illinois guard Terrence Shannon Jr. is trying to create something positive out of the school’s upside-down banner mishap over the weekend.

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Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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Here in Illinois, we're making education more attainable, affordable, and accessible. We want to make sure our students can apply to our public universities with no fees and full confidence. And enabling community colleges to offer the programs for in-demand career paths.

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

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Grateful to be delivering my seventh State of the State and Budget Address today. For 207 years, Illinois governors have stood before the General Assembly to do what our first constitution mandated with messages reflecting the unique times they've served. Tune in at 12 PM CT.

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Thank you @SNL for an absolutely wonderful, funny as hell, 50th anniversary show. Priceless. LOLed till I cried for 3 hours. Well done. Here's to 50 more...or at least 20...#saturdaynightlive

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Trump had signed an executive order aimed at bringing the nation’s independent agencies - such as the FTC, the SEC, and the FCC - under his control, a sweeping power grab that’s expected to spark a legal fight with enormous stakes for the country.

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Psychopath.

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Day One was a month ago.

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With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

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Trump appears to have referred to himself as a king. But America has no kings—and never will. In 1776, we declared our independence from the King of England. That was final. There is no going back.

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“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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Repeating a request from this morning... I would do this myself but I deactivated my Twitter account and am not opening another. Could someone who still has an active account there please AT @MichaelMcFaul and @drvolts and ask them to join us here? We need their voices and their input here.

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Corporations are hiking up prices to drive profits, while everyday Illinoisans are stuck with the bill. It's not right — and we're calling them out and doing something about them in our state. We’re taking more steps to increase access to health care and lower the costs.

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Donald Trump's administration with a Republican Congress and Elon Musk intends to take our essential programs away. Let me be clear, that's going to affect your daily lives. Our state budget can't make up for the damage that's done if they succeed.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Cutting NASA's workforce by about 10 percent. That's a boost to the Chinese and Russians. And the guy in charge of SpaceX made this decision? That's a total conflict of interest. Moreover, firing all probationary employees shows they're not serious about evaluating programs. It's a machine gun.

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HELL YEAH: In a masterful speech, the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker announces not ONLY a balanced budget in his state but alludes to Donald Trump and Elon Musk as being “IDIOTS.” Let me know if you agree with him.

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(NYT) - President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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From @theathletic.bsky.social: The late Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull had stage 2 CTE, which stems from repeated blows to the head. His wife said he struggled with short-term memory loss and impaired judgment over the last decade of his life. nyti.ms/433Ud3v

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Just a reminder his plan is not only dumb and unethical, it’s also unrealistic. They’ll all just die. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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It's traditions like today that bring together all our branches of government to stand in respect of each other - that underpins the guardrails of our democracy. The only power that the Constitution truly recognizes is power that's capable of humbling itself before our people.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

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Right now our country is facing serious outbreaks of bird flu, tuberculosis, and measles, and a surge in flu cases—and how do Trump & Musk respond? By firing hundreds of CDC employees—the very people researching the spread of these diseases & how to keep people safe.

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Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

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