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Update on the Ames IA situation. Really, Mike Naig? “A spokesperson for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig's office on Tuesday said the layoffs had had no effect on the department's bird flu response.” BULLSHIT. More to follow. Entire article is important. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Here's a story about the community counterdisinfo school I have been helping get started, @darktimesacademy.bsky.social. We had to tell the Trump State Department to take a hike after they started demanding student lists and class materials

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Calling all feds: new info site please share data and stories! #AltGov #AltFam please share #SaveAmerica #StopTrump trumpcostsamerica.com

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"So, it’s mostly up to you to check the veracity of the 'news' you read or hear or watch on the internet. Do you really need to? For your mental health, yes. Research shows that even a few minutes of exposure to fake news can subconsciously rewire your brain...

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WATCH: “So far DOGE has saved enough to buy each of us 3 cups of coffee.” Economist Justin Wolfers on the DOGE DIVIDEND It’s all a trick. Their goal is tax cuts for the rich. And they never cared about the debt.

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There are dominoes beginning to fall and not enough public understanding of where that leads

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Don’t post front facing pictures of yourself maskless at protests. Don’t post front facing pictures of other people maskless at protests. Especially ppl of color. Seeing that all over with the Tesla stuff. You eagerly wanting to be seen doing something endangers both yourself and others.

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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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Victoria DeLano is one of thousands of federal probationary employees fired in recent days by the new Department of Government Efficiency team. At the time of her firing, she said she was the only Office of Civil Rights investigator based in Alabama. www.al.com/educationlab...

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“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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These cowardly Republicans see what's happening, but they can't stand up to him like they did in 2015 or he will turn his vengeance on them too, so they stand by and watch our democracy implode. Traitors who don't deserve our pity.

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♟️Arguing online is like playing chess with a pigeon... 💩 No matter what you do, it’s just gonna knock over the pieces and shit on the board... 👉 You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. #CivilDiscourse #MAGA #Politics #Logic #Debate #Resist #SocialMedia #Fail

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60 organizations across #LosAngeles come together to form the Community Self-Defense Coalition. “You will not come into our community without facing an organized resistance. We’re going...to surround [ICE] and not allow them to kidnap our people." boyleheightsbeat.com/community-se...

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After an attack in Germany left six dead & hundreds injured, some argued the suspect had no clear ideology. ISD researchers analysed 100,000+ posts on X/Twitter from the alleged attacker & found he clearly and consistently promoted far-right & anti-Muslim ideas. Read the full Dispatch below.

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If you’re not paying attention to the transnational far right, you should be. Germany’s election is tomorrow, and Elon Musk and JD Vance have been strong supporters of Germany’s far right party, the AfD, which is polling at 21%.

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Christopher Key, who touted curing everything by drinking one's own urine, has a new grift. Just wanna say that the predictive text knew the first 11 words of that sentence lol

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a lot of the Biden Green Lantern-ism stuff is overstated, but one place they absolutely screwed us on is continuing government contracts with Musk businesses like SpaceX

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Billionaires have more class solidarity than we do.

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

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ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

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DHS "has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea..."

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Alina Habba, who is ostensibly a lawyer, claims on Fox & Friends that Trump "made the law" with his executive orders (executive orders are not laws -- only Congress can make laws)

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If Russia invaded Alaska, what would you call a US president who "made a deal" to prevent war by allowing Russia to annex the state and occupy the 730,000 Americans living there?

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The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

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Really scary situation at the Kansas State House today when a fierce debate over guns turned into accusations and fears of legislators being armed on the floor. Great reporting from @journalist-sherman.bsky.social:

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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PR people who don't do much research before blasting out emails. This email has it all. Pro-ICE, pro-vigilante bounty hunters, anti-immigrant, and pro-blockchain. And claims to be against disinformation about... DHS FWIW this was sent to my email address, but addressed to @timcushing.bsky.social

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that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

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I’m at a bar with a mechanical bull. Mike Lindell just walked in. If there is a god, the funniest the possible will happen soon.

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"For those of us following closely, all the signs of a coordinated disinformation attack on the media and the courts by the Trump administration, the Tates, and a network of far-right agitators and pundits are there. Tate’s attack lines are parroted by the Trump administration and vice versa."

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We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

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I am being told students (yall make me so proud) are covering up bathroom signs with hilarious cool art including ones advising people WHO CARES and JUST GO PEE but since I’m inundated with CPAC 2025 and other stuff at the moment, I’ll comment more after I figure out what is what exactly,

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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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.

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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

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wrote about The Situation www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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Editor Commentary: Who does this to other people? To doctors, nurses, farmers, teachers, professors, scientists, veterans, working families, people with disabilities, children with special needs, poor people? What twisted, unnatural men.

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Why have Enrique Tarrio's crypto investments not been transferred to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church? AME is owed a $2.8 million default judgment entered against the Proud Boys stemming from their December 2020 attack. A debtor's exam should be ordered against Tarrio.

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