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BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

Advice from a vet. Be honest. We can’t help you if you don’t tell us the truth. Ask about costs if not clearly communicated. We want to work with you to help your pet. We will give options based on financial considerations. Don’t skip a yearly exam! It WILL save you money in the long run.

COLBERT, on Trump calling Tesla “Tesler”: “It was an honest mistake. He just mixed up the two words most associated with Elon Musk: Tesla .. and Hitler.”

“The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff.”

“.. He then essentially explained to me that Mel Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump and that should be sufficient basis for me to make a recommendation and that I would be wise to make the recommendation,” she said. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

Stephen Miller would torture your cat. Kristi Noem would shoot your cat. RFKJr would eat your cat.

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

NIH Director-to-be Jay Bhattacharya demonstrating his commitment to scientific integrity by uhhh creating a "journal" only he & his buddies can submit to where every paper is autoaccepted & his buddies are also the editors & the peer reviewers who get paid $500 to write 4 sentence uncritical reviews

New: A glimpse inside the EPA, where the 20+ workers I spoke with are sad, terrified, resigned and, in not a few cases, really, really mad. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

I turned on Fox Entertainment for 1st time ever. There was a commercial for Ontario Canada and how they provide energy and critical minerals for technology. I have no idea if this is normal, but if not, well played Canada. Well played

I really could care less about bball but for those fans that do, you should read up on Mavs owner the Adelsons. This team means nothing to them. HUGE Trump benefactors. They don’t CARE about winning, loyalty or the fans. She is just here to get gambling legalized and build a casino.

The irony of this yahoo talking about the "best and the brightest" when he made his name on MTV's the Real World and his predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, was literally a Rhodes Scholar. But sure, just throw around the DEI smokescreen.

He is going to say "pinky swear you will protect our border. And buy more booze and stuff from us. " They will say yes. Won't actually buy the stuff. And he will declare victory Trumpenomics

Local Dallas news led with Luca trade. All these men crying like their rights have been taken away. Cry me a river. Where was the outrage when women are dying from lack of appropriate pregnancy care. Our priorities are so effed up. Good luck with those tariffs.

Stores across Canada have begun removing U.S. Red State liquors from their shelves and replacing them with “buy Canadian instead” signs. Canada isn’t playing around and I’m loving it.

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

She puts on a new costume every day

“We’re extremely upset,” said Frank Jarvis, whose wife’s registration was challenged . “We’re traditional conservatives and Republicans — but it leaves a terrible taste in my mouth, no matter what side it is doing this. I don’t need that kind of person representing me on the Supreme Court.”

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This used to sound reasonable. But after many thousands died refusing COVID vaccines, why should we expect a few measles deaths will be different? Hopefully we won’t find out.

Schatz: The drumbeat below all of this has to be that the policy of the Trump Administration is to rip regular people off. They’re transferring wealth from regular working people, the elderly, students, the disabled and shoving it to the wealthiest individuals that have ever walked this planet.

Under Paul Dans, Project 2025 assembled a database of more than 10,000 Trump loyalist job candidates ready to place into federal agencies. It's a ready-use toolkit to create a second Trump administration that would be more MAGA than his first. (Published Aug. 2024)

So I’m just curious, are there any jobs women and POC can have that *aren’t* DEI?

NEW: If a bill that would ban almost all abortions moves to the South Carolina Senate, not a single Republican debating or voting on the restrictions will be a woman. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social