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Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

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What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

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It's amazing what a fucked-up 30 days can do to a nation. Are you just going to sit there and hope it doesn't affect you personally? Or stand up and fight for your country and the ones you love? Wake up and fight. We must stop these alt-right, Christofascist pukes from poisoning democracy.

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“New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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MAGA is a terrorist organization and needs to be labeled as such. We will not allow Nazis and Nazi sympathizers to ruin lives and terrorize our wonderful, diverse American citizens.

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that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

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📉📉📉

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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But of course!

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"The press....have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government....The AP therefore brings this action to....prevent the Executive Branch from coercing journalists to report the news using only govt.-approved language" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Take Russia's frozen assets now (written in December 2023, now even more urgent) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Picks up phone to read news and says to himself: Now let’s see the latest super dumb and dangerous shit King Felon and President Musk have done. Oh, look, Dumbass Chainsaw Massacre at CPAC.

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"one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd, a senior executive official and the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency" www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Breaking - Trump can’t end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

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Testing the limits of presidential power, Donald Trump this week tightened his grip on US government agencies that for years have taken pride in their independence overseeing matters such as elections, stock markets and labor unrest reut.rs/4ia8KiK

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Donald Is Making Airplanes Crash Again - Letters from God 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀, Please ensure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their upright positions, because U.S. aviation is upside down. Read on. We have the numbers and they are 𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚. www.thegodpodcast.com/p/donald-is-...

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it's happening www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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“Analysis: Trump’s 13 biggest lies of his first month back in office” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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So, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has gotten the text of the letter sent by 40 news orgs to the White House re its ban on the AP. Signatories range from NBC, Washpost and The Guardian to Fox and Newsmax. www.status.news/p/associated...

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Trump is "frustrated" with the Ukraine President because he didn't instantly roll over to Trump's insane, ridiculous demands. If you don't obey the Supreme Orange Leader instantly, you will be punished by his minions.........

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 1213 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

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🇺🇦 NOTE: It's not a fucking Ukraine "conflict." It's a criminal Russian invasion.

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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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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: “We will never, ever, ever, kiss the ring of that gangster from Mar-A-Lago." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Yep, par for the course for a fake-ass, know-nothing, law-breaking president. he doesn't give a damn about saving Americans money. Just wait, you'll never see prosperity for the working and middle class during Trump's time in office.

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Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

submitted 6 days ago • 608 comments

Calling for the press to be jailed is not patriotism.

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It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.

submitted 6 days ago • 342 comments

Money talks

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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