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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1436 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1363 comments

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

submitted 17 hours ago • 55 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

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Love this guy. He appeared on the Mueller, She Wrote podcast in 2018. Hell of an activist.

submitted 1 day ago • 282 comments

well done, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social

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".. If the loan is canceled, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to benefit the most." @fortune.com $RIVN #OligarchEra fortune.com/2025/02/19/r...

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Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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🚨West Virginia introduced a bill in the Senate & aims to make opioid treatment programs ILLEGAL in the state. Senate Bill 204 targets programs that provide on-site administration or dispensing of opioid agonist medications, like methadone, commonly used in treatment.🚨 www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/...

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Musk is straight up threatening advertisers to stay on X. This is exactly what anyone who knows anything about him expected him to do when he got this power. Musk very clearly sees the US government as just another new arm of his business empire. And is using it all as any authoritarian would.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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The bonus will be that all the Mars-goers die of space cancer www.shesabeast.co/mars-radiati...

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Well done Senator Duckworth fighting for fellow veterans. -- VA Crisis Line Employees Among Those Fired Amid Federal Workforce Purge www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

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Happy Black History Month

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Estonian parliament 👇🏽

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

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New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

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Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

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American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

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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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