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Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

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If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

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Worth the read.

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TONIGHT! Seattle Bach Festival presents Bach, by Arrangement — Bach's brilliant organ trios, in arrangements for violin, viola and continuo with arias by Purcell and Bach #SeattleSings https://seattlesings.org/event/bach-by-arrangement-2453/

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Urgent Request: Follow my page for real-time updates on Bird Flu, COVID-19, Tuberculosis, Measles, and other infectious diseases. My CDC sources some recently fired, others risking everything provide firsthand information. Stay informed. Share widely. Public health depends on awareness.

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...I did not have "agree with a NY Post headline" on my 2025 bingo card

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The FDIC protects your hard earn money in the bank and helps prevent another financial crash. Trump and Musk’s move to fire these workers is dangerous. I led Senate Democrats in pushing back, and now independent investigators are on the case.

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2AM and the YouTube algorithm feeds me a song I haven't thought about in several years and multiple jobs. I know not all my followers are religious, but I offer it anyway. It felt worth sharing. youtu.be/bXSfBMZJB7M?...

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It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

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It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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The giant Dutch civil service pension fund ABP sold its stakes in Alphabet and Meta in the third quarter of last year, as well as Tesla, the Financieele Dagblad reported. The companies no longer met ABP’s stricter criteria for responsible entrepreneurship. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/dutc...

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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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Agreed. This is not something to laugh off.

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A crisis of their own making, for the record purpose of setting themselves up to "solve" it. Kyrie eleison.

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It's a stormy, grey day as we visit the coast, but we are very grateful for the gift of a fire and an opportunity to rest in front of it. #cattax

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

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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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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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How to freeze your child’s credit too. You know, in case of data leaks or something… www.nerdwallet.com/article/fina...

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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I predict a pattern.

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Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I don't know about?

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Join me for short comic verses for musical birthdays. Today Margaret Truman, Harry Truman's daughter. who for a time pursued a career as a singer. Also, what must be the only limericks ever written about Friedrich Cerha's completion of Berg's Lulu. musicalbirthdayseries.blogspot.com/2025/02/febr...

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Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

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February 23: Kirkland Choral Society presents Light and Love Abound #SeattleSings https://seattlesings.org/event/light-and-love-abound-2461/

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Grateful there's a news outlet covering this. Consider contacting local news to ask them to cover it, too. www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

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The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

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Citation in replies.

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JUST IN: All age groups in the United States are experiencing a "high severity" of influenza cases -CDC

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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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Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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