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If you missed this when The Atlantic first published it, now is a good time to read it. Gift link here so it’s free for anyone to read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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February 20, 2025

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Have you heard about the biggest bank heist in history? Donald Trump is trying to pull it off right now. He wants to steal 20 billion of your dollars that are already working to cut energy bills and power the clean revolution.

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"“In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, according to five western officials familiar with the matter. www.ft.com/content/7380...

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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-...

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February 19, 2025

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Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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DOGE team's "wall of receipts" shows errors in tallying billions in savings www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-wa...

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Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

We’re cooked

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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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The US military/intelligence communities have acknowledged the threat climate change poses to US national security since the 80s. Trump will censor that fact That won't change the science. It WILL worsen the safety of the nation & effectiveness of our armed forces. www.gleick.com/blog/a-histo...

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The Ukrainian president made his comments as Vladimir Putin praised the US-Russian rapprochement and argued that European leaders had excluded themselves from the talks. www.ft.com/content/dc98...

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Mayors across the US urge Congress not to repeal clean energy tax credits. grist.org/energy/mayor... #Mayors #Cities #Renewables #GreenSky #Climate

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February 18, 2025

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Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

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Daily Briefing | Senior Department of Justice prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending, sources say ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/3QoU9Uz ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3X60aJw

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Brazil will join OPEC+, [cartel] of oil-exporting nations, months before hosting UN climate summit #COP30 - 'We should not be ashamed of being oil producers,' said Brazilian energy minister HT @carbonbrief.org www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Trump just shut down the JFK Library. Every day, Republicans find new ways to slash community services to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Meanwhile, they've done nothing to cut the cost of groceries, or housing, or child care.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum closed abruptly Tuesday. Hours later — after pushback from members of the Kennedy family and the public — the National Archives said the library and museum would open Wednesday.

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DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach. It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut. Be warned.

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“The party that once prided itself on standing up to Moscow,” Jonathan Lemire writes, “has bowed to a president who himself is bowing to an adversary.”

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

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Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

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A $7M grant to install solar panels through the EPA’s Solar for All program is in limbo. Also unclear: a $300,000 grant for resilient infrastructure from the Department of Energy and $600,000 for food distribution from the Department of Agriculture.

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"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

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February 17, 2025

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IRS reportedly preparing to give Musk’s Doge agency access to taxpayer data

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Elon Musk wants the financial information of every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country. This isn’t complicated: An unelected billionaire shouldn’t have access to your private IRS records. What do you say, House GOP? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the health care you need. The people who make sure medical devices are safe for you to use. The people who approve the lifesaving drugs you rely on. How does this help working people?

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One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

submitted 6 days ago • 672 comments

Daily Briefing | US: Trump ends climate work inside agency that responds to disasters ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/3EHSdUz ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/4fRUaL3

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

been thinking a lot about precisely this. about how capitalising on disaster is a forte of fascism.

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What is wrong with these people?!

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"President Trump is suppressing essential health information that public health agencies and providers across the country rely on to do our jobs," said Dr. Robbie Goldstein, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. cnn.it/4i3tdWn

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February 16, 2025

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Hundreds of religious groups have declared they will continue the work of fulfilling the U.S. pledge to the Paris Agreement to reduce planet-heating emissions. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/fait... @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

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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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SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Nearly 1.6 million Massachusetts residents use Medicaid. Yet, Republicans want to gut the program & attack the Affordable Care Act so they can give trillions in tax breaks to their billionaire friends. This is Trump’s Project 2025 in action.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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