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Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance were unceremoniously booed as they entered the Kennedy Center for a concert Thursday night.

NEW: The biggest DOGE-related layoffs are in and around Washington, D.C. In the week ending Feb. 22, unemployment claims in D.C. rose 25% from the week prior and were four times as high as one year earlier — and that’s only the beginning.

Using lessons learned defending abortion, some providers are digging in to serve their trans patients despite legal attacks.

Colorado, seven other states sue Trump administration after abrupt end to teacher training grants

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Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip: He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress. He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession. He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law. Keep fighting.

Trans youth deserve safe schools, loving homes, and the medical care they need.

A judge has ruled that Philly Quakers are among the religious groups whose houses of worship are now off-limits to ICE agents. Maryland District Judge Theodore Chuang said in a memo that allowing for warrantless operations in places of worship “lacks meaningful limitations or safeguards.”

"'We’re bringing attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,' said Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite and military veteran who supplied the flag and helped hang it." www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

“Democracy Is Fragile” and Trump’s Threat to Us All, With @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @katiecouric.bsky.social youtu.be/f-78R0monV4?...

Trump promised to end inflation and “‘make America affordable again,’” writes @annielowrey.bsky.social. “That is not happening. Worse, the White House’s early policies are making it more likely that the country’s cost-of-living crisis will endure for years to come”:

A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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Excellent/useful info Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re so, so sorry. — Sane America

The union representing air traffic controllers rebutted Trump's unsubstantiated claim that diversity policies in aviation were to blame for the fatal plane crash Wednesday near Washington, D.C.

In his first national tragedy, President Trump posted like a pundit, speculated needlessly, and blamed Democrats and DEI without any evidence to suggest either were involved.

Tomorrow is Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence. Gabbard faces a narrow path to confirmation amid concerns that she regularly parrots conspiracy theories, Russian propaganda, and is a Putin sympathizer. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump fired the heads of TSA, the Coast Guard and key aviation safety advisors. Trump needs to be held accountable for the DC airplane/helicopter crash. Who here agrees?

About the presidency, Harry Truman famously said “the buck stops here.” Trump is trying to pass the buck and blame everybody but his administration for the DC plane crash. This is a time for consoling the families and investigating the cause of this tragedy, not shameful finger pointing.

During our panel at Sundance, we discussed how storytelling can drive social progress through difficult times.

Tesla on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in profit for 2024 as the electric car company faces increasing competition in China, Europe and the U.S.

During testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. said Americans don't like the Affordable Care Act. Public opinion polling shows otherwise. nbcnews.to/4jCCPJ5

Yesterday, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear that he does not know very much about Medicare and Medicaid, Katherine J. Wu reports:

Trans kids have a right to exist as who they are, not who the Trump administration wants them to be.

Who here thinks RFK Jr. is unbelievably unqualified?

President Trump signed an executive order last week renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Across the other countries with maritime boundaries in the gulf, Trump’s move was met with annoyance, defiance, confusion and, at times, laughter. Read more. nyti.ms/40ziuvB

Good. Learn more about your rights when approached by ICE at www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

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Bam! @teamsters.bsky.social pulled a Whole Foods in Philadelphia into the #union! Small step for one store, with tremendous ramifications for the Amazon workforce at large. Once the walls start crumbling, and workers see what they have to gain, the ceiling capping wages, workers' safety breaks open

Free speech orgs denounce Ed. Dept's calling book bans a ‘hoax' Such language is "dismissive of the students, educators, librarians, and authors who have firsthand experiences of censorship... (in) school libraries and classrooms,” said PEN America's Kasey Meehan www.nbcdfw.com/news/nationa...

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If Mariann Budde’s sermon earlier this week—in which she addressed Donald Trump, personally and directly—came across as radical, that just says something about the times we are in, the bishop says. nyer.cm/r38o35C

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

55 points most by any team in NFC Championship Game history 👀

My beautiful, talented friend illustrated a wonderful book. So proud of you Anne❤️

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