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🇺🇸🇺🇦Rally for Ukraine in Washington D.C.

It will take hundreds of billions of dollars to put this genie back in the bottle. The entire computerized system of financial records will need to be rebuilt because no one knows what was compromised or what damaging programs were introduced into the system. How did we let a few kids do this?

Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources - www.reuters.com/business/us-...

On this day in 1940, John Lewis was born. Not only did he show immense strength and courage, but he showed great kindness. I was lucky enough to serve in Congress alongside John for 17 years and will be honoring his lifetime and legacy today. Happy birthday.

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

She makes excellent points. Democrats need to listen and ask questions to find out what people in rural areas, people everywhere, need from our government.

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.

apnews.com/article/prou... Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol on assault charge after press conference

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Companies Musk is suing to force them to put ads on X: Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest, Shell International, CVS, Twitch, World Federation of Advertisers, Unilever, Mars, Orsted (Findlaw, 2/6/2025)

We are going to lose a lot of top scientists and health professionals. Cuts in research, cuts in government funds for patient care. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Medicare will not cover regular telehealth appointments after April 1. You’ll have to go to an office “Starting April 1, 2025, you must be in an telehealth office or medical facility located in a rural area (in the U.S.) for most telehealth services.”

Well there’s 170k of you here now so let me introduce myself again. I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m 23 years old and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I have spent the last 6 years working to turn out Gen Z and stop MAGA, and I’m not stopping now. Can you RT and follow to help reach others?

I see a lot of posts asking that we imagine our descendants judging us for what we did in 2025. Seems abstract until you look back at your own ancestors and consider whether you are proud of them. I am. They fought kings and famine and fascists. And won.

Trump fires federal workers who help fight forest fires weeks after historic LA blazes www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

In Russia, dozens of dissenters are held as psychiatric patients - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This is not how federal criminal investigations work. —me (former federal criminal investigator)

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

The House GOP budget ends the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Inter-American Foundation, and the U.S. African Development Foundation

This why we need to support science

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