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Dear manager, here's what I've done this week: 1. Stood in the place that I live 2. Then faced north 3. Thought about direction, wondered why I hadn't before 4. Stood in the place I last was 5. Then faced west 6. Thought about the place that I lived, wondered why I hadn't before

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I never thought freedom for Ukraine could be extinguished at the hands of this generation of Republicans. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

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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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Thanks James. Hope many more cross over. @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social

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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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The Murdoch-owned Post has more courage than congressional Republicans. Wow.

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NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

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NEW: Judge warns Trump appointees not to try to evade his order halting a blanket pause to foreign-aid payments, but stops short of holding officials in contempt. Minutes later, aid groups file new evidence Rubio may have violated court order www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Mentally Unbalanced Man Still Waiting For The Right Trump Comment To Incite Him theonion.com/mentall...

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Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after stating, “MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” before engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.

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We’re living in the upside down

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Federal employee terminations will cause widespread economic damage even beyond the hardships for specific employees How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district? I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...

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For far too many years, Susan Collins expresses dismay and concern about Trump’s extremism, knowing that it doesn’t reflect the views of the majority of her state. But her ACTIONS show that she goes along with that extremism EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. A complete phony.

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“Don’t be such a dick.” That’s what I’d say to my 2010 former self. “Hold to your tea party beliefs, but listen better, and don’t be such a divisive dick.”

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post didn’t want you to see our ad questioning who’s in charge at the White House. We won't stop holding power accountable. thehill.com/media/514849...

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A veteran Social Security Administration official resigned after a dispute with Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to access the personal data of Social Security recipients.

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Nothing says "I'm in way over my head," like asking for help on social media.

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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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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The only life @realdonaldtrump wants to save in the war is Vladimir Putin's.

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Money talks

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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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

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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

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When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag...

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Yes.

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"After Russia had invaded a European country and called in forces from North Korea to help it do it, after all that blather about taking on China, the baldly-stated truth was that what really moves the radical right is hatred of the liberal enemy within." open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

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So now that Elon has spoken at Germany’s AfD launch, how do you feel about having a literal Nazi deciding how your money should be spent?

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The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

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This is fascism.

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200 years from now, this headline will be used to help explain & understand the Trump era.👇

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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If Pam Bondi wants to dismiss the Eric Adams indictment, she can just do it herself. She is the attorney general, she doesn’t need to have a line prosecutor do it for her. But they want to be able to say a career person did it.

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Trump Defends Wrecking USAID With Unhinged Conspiracy Donald Trump continues to falsely insist that 2020 election was rigged. newrepublic.com/post/191554/...

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NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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Heroic & brilliant writing. The art of the principled resignation letter.

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Trump's DOJ making Nixon's Saturday night massacre look like tea and crumpets.

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Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at. You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters. Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

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Says a U.S. Vice President who obediently works for a U.S. President who is trying to be a fascist.

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