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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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I don’t have kids. I just care about the world and the people who live in it. It’s never wrong to do the right thing.

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Helpful reminder:

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“.. The first time one NATO member thinks the others won’t defend it, that’s the beginning of the end.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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This surely won’t affect people in those red states that voted for him🙄 The ‘find out’ stage continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...

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“The stakes will increase as the temperature increases. Donald Trump is destabilizing the economy, and as he does, he will seek more political control in the name of dealing with the emergency of fixing the economy, border or whatever.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Looks like Trump will continue to do Putin's bidding. What a bargain. Whatever happened to the story about the Russian-funded "influencers"? We got a list of 4-5 and learned what they did with $10M in payments. What about the full list, including Tucker Carlson and other Faux News darlings?

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“If the Administration spurns court orders, what happens next will conceivably determine the fate of democracy and the rule of law in our time.” www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

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Hey, MAGA, how are things going? After 3 weeks, President Musk has run the ship a-ground.

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I remember when Attorney General Pam Bondi said she'd protect federal whistleblowers in her confirmation hearing. Now they're being threatened with illegal "discipline, including dismissal."

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“History reflects the Framers’ decision to give Congress, not the president, the authority to generate the executive-organization chart,” Peter M. Shane writes:

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DJ Rudy rocking out the America First Club in Florida.

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I hear the nagging question you ask inside your head a few hundred times a day: "Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?" It isn't you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Sad that one of the couple dozen career prosecutors (Edward Sullivan) finally signed Emil Bove’s corrupt motion to dismiss the indictment of NYC Mayor Eric Adams. He rationalized that he was saving the jobs of his younger DOJ colleagues. Nearing retirement, he should’ve forced Bove to fire them all.

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67 fake bomb threats on Election Day 2024. Almost all of them targeting heavily Democratic cities — which had lower turnout than in 2020. Many of the threats were clearly traced to Russia. And the mainstream media and establishment have somehow COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN.

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Sadly, we’ve reached this point thanks to Trump and MAGA, but President Zelensky is probably right. Europe can no longer rely on the United States. They will have to build their own army and take care of their own security—which means they’ll be less likely to help us when we need them.

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To its credit - and it has a pretty good tradition on economic and racial diversity initiatives, my alma mater Amherst is holding strong and Amherst President Elliott declared the college would not engage in “anticipatory compliance” to Trump orders on immigration and DEI

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NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

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Nothing will put the “co-president” meme to rest better than an exclusive joint interview of the co-presidents.

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People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

Spot on.

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Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

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Doing great 👍

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

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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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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

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Too. Little. Too. Late. ✨

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if I were writing stories about the gov "firing thousands of probationary workers" I would probably rewrite as "firing thousands of new hires -- who are often on a status called "probation" --" because I think the general understanding of "probation" is "in trouble for something they did"

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Feels like a metaphor

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Lots of people are joining the Musk boycott. Across the country, Americans are protesting at Tesla showrooms, even taking free test drives just to waste the company’s time.

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"Leavitt might as well have turned the microphone over to Big Brother to let him say, 'We have always been at war with Eurasia.'"

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The Guardians are gone The Barbarians breached the gates There are no guardrails, no firewalls. No brave, oath bound officer to cuff the perps No oath bound representaive capable of halting the carnage The Guardians are gone. Good luck America. My soul weeps for thee.

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This is so unsurprising. Did anyone think Elon was doing all of this work just for fun?

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(Sandersonians) it appears many members of the DOJ have said the Fifth Ideal of the Sky Breakers

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It's like we all live at Four Seasons Total Landscaping now.

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Authoritarianism 101: Keep your security forces close. I.e., usually not a good idea to fire thousands of them and leave them pissed off

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I'm working on a couple of upcoming talks and can't get over how simply describing what is happening right now with attacks on the NSF, NIH, Diversity, etc. makes me sound like a raving lunatic. They've launched an all-out assault on empirical reality.

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