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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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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

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Trump's latest executive order puts independent agencies — including the FTC, SEC, and NLRB — under his direct control. It's a blatant attempt to shield his corporate donors and his own business from agencies that hold the powerful accountable. This is an alarming power-grab.

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10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions. Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks. Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees government whistleblower protections and enforces certain ethics laws.

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These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

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The Dep't of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies, including the FDA and CDC. Those laid off included people who evaluate the safety of medical devices. @rachelcohrs.bsky.social @bloomberg.com Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

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the best thing SpaceX engineers can do for air travel safety is to stay focused on their day jobs

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Bloomberg is reporting that federal workers tasked with approving medical devices for Medicare have reportedly received termination notices. As a wheelchair user who also uses some other assistive devices (canes, shower chairs, that sort of thing) I want to add some context to this.

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A senior Israeli officer reportedly tied an elderly Palestinian man in his 80s to an explosive belt and forced him to clear booby-trapped houses in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. After eight hours as a human shield, he and his wife were shot dead, shortly after being ordered to leave.

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the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

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Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa | South Africa | The Guardian Horrific

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This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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An amazing FREE website allows you to track the net worth of hundreds of politicians It also allows you to see which stocks have recently been traded Fun facts: AOC is 417th on the list (out of 427) Tuberville just dumped a bunch of tech stocks Congressional stock trading should be illegal

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Idiotic common denominator

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I loved it in Pinocchio, but in real life... not so much. 👀 😱 #WhaleOfA-Tale

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If you’re wondering why bribery is now legal or you think it only has to do with Donald Trump, think again. It’s the culmination of a secret 50-year plan — pass it on. MasterPlanPodcast.com

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ok! www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

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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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Thursday: Trump officials fire hundreds at the National Nuclear Security Administration Friday: moved to hire them back “Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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The parks are being hit hard, what should be happening is more funding to offset the increase in visitation It's not just unfair to the already overworked L.E. Rangers but dangerous for the visitors who'll be waiting longer for emergency services to arrive on scene www.npca.org/articles/681...

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A SpaceX rocket exploded in January, leading to FAA safety violation fines. Elon Musk threatened to sue the agency. Shortly after, the FAA administrator resigned. The FAA's commercial spaceflight office could be next on the DOGE chopping block. See the problem? www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE just posted classified U.S. intelligence data on its website, and officials are scrambling, HuffPost reports.

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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Is anyone else wondering how Trump voters feel about everything going on? I’m concerned about media bubbles, especially knowing some are caving to demands. For example, media aren’t really covering the protests happening in major cities, google identifying gulf of America, etc. Thoughts?

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Breaking| Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Finally Meets Lawyer,Faced Torture in Israeli Detention Dr.Hussam Abu Safiya,a Palestinian doctor & Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who has been detained by Israel since last month, was finally permitted to meet his lawyer from the Al-Mezan Center.

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Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB? Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors. Follow the money.

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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

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Israel is holding 21-year-old Afro-Palestinian artist, student, and activist Shaden Al-Qous hostage. Israel’s military kidnapped her from her home in East Jerusalem on January 6, after five days of forced house arrest. Soldiers ransacked her home, confiscating her laptop and phone.

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Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...

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DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

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A blind man is raising concerns about Indiana gun laws after he was allowed to get a license to carry a handgun

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what do you do when crucial federal permitting offices won’t even talk to renewables developers? welcome to our new reality, according to a leaked industry memo i reported last night for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

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