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Former Treasurer KPFK, Pacifica's Los Angeles radio station. I care about media and education
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Mitch McConnel the only Republican to vote with Democrats against Tulsi. Unreal.

I always thought last week's tariff drama was only to keep the fact that Elmo's children had gotten into Treasury system off the front pages.

if you're actually looking for "waste, fraud and abuse" in government, you don't first fire the Inspectors General.

Really good interview from @majorityreport.bsky.social with bsky.app/profile/gild... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvA...

Helpful map of allocation of government workers.

If you want to cut waste, you don't fire all the IGs.

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One reason Musk might be so driven to shut down USAID? The agency's inspector general opened a probe into Starlink last year. Now the Trump administration says Musk will self-determine his conflicts of interest. Hello?

Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now www.rsn.org/001/five-thi... House Democrats should announce now that they will not engage in negotiations about funding the government or lifting the debt ceiling or give Speaker Johnson a single vote on these measures without an iron-clad guarantee from..

$300M to buy control of the US government.

a hustle here, a hustle there.

And who's going to stop him? And when? Before he wrecks everything? That's the play with all this stuff.

I also loved how Elizabeth Warren showed Jr's personally enriching scam suing vaccine makers - and Jr would not say he would stop if confirmed. It's the grifter administration.

I've been watching the so-called left merge with the far right for the last ten years. And here we are.

Yes, the goal is to privatize all government for the personal gain of Trump and his cronies.

Despite 22 Democratic senators flipping to a "NO" vote today on Trump's climate change-denying Sean Duffy today, BOTH of California's senators Schiff and Padilla voted YES. I just left messages for my senators telling them to grow a fucking backbone. Schiff: (202) 224-3841 Padilla: (202) 224-3553

More than the required 30 day notice, I want to see the required explanation for the firings. Make Trump and his destroyers own it.

This is wild. Let’s see the texts! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yes, please. @democrats.org @democrats-judiciary.house.gov

I hope there's more of this.

Who's going to ask Hegseth about his tattoos?!!!