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"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

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The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

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I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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"People are crying — these people have children," "Everyone has bills — everyone has to put food on the table. We still have to survive." "This is a paradigm shift," the official continued. "The world of government as you knew it, it's gone." www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

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New accusations emerged that Matt Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, had groped a man at a bar in Virginia during a gathering of conservatives.

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Trump warned Maine that he would block federal dollars from going to the state, saying it was letting transgender people compete in women’s sports

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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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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Elon Musk's private security detail has been deputized as Federal Marshalls and can carry firearms on Federal property. What could possibly go wrong? www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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This man is zooted into the next dimension

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Leland Dudek’s weekend started with a phone call removing him from his job at the Social Security Administration after giving information about the agency to Elon Musk's DOGE. By Monday, he was named the agency’s acting commissioner

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$39M+ has been earmarked to DOGE in Trump admin’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50M a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted. Unclear what time frame DOGE's $39M is meant to cover www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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same vibes

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Bannon has been saying this a lot lately. They are for sure planning to honor the people who attacked the Capitol at the Kennedy Center.

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I remember that, yeah.

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having a normal one

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I think it’s important to note that this was bad before but since Elon bought Twitter and turned it into a radicalization machine, it’s complete.

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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Musk's net worth is up upwards of $500 billion (between SpaceX, X, Tesla valuations) due to Trump winning and giving him power over US (for just $300 million in cash!). It is the biggest corruption scandal in US history by far.

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👇🏻

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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To avoid subtlety This was posted by the Trump White House.

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Heyyyyy Wisconsin MAGA dairy farmers...how's that USAID cheese contract y'all used to bank on doing? What? The contracts are gone and your dairy farms are going to go under? Thank DOGE!

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Everybody thinks the "Gulf of America" thing is petty nonsense, but it's just prelude for this motherfucker changing his honorific to "His Excellency" and banning news organizations that refuse to refer to him that way.

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DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series

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Trump and Musk have market sharks’ views of the US—they have no interest in our long term fate. They just want to suck out whatever value they can before they take their profits and move on. They’re corporate raiders doing a hostile takeover and selling the assets off bit by bit.