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Ukrainian intelligence has confirmed that the strike on the 107th GRAU arsenal in Toropets destroyed 160,000 metric tons of Russian ammunition, including approximately half of all 122mm shells in Russia's inventory.

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Within 5 minutes of Elon Musk tweeting that Mexican telecom oligarch Carlos Slim was tied to cartels, Slims businesses cancelled their contracts with Musk’s Starlink, costing Musk $7 billion immediately, and $22 billion in future contracts, while the investments shifted to European and Chinese firms

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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This is terrifying.

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Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

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The Supreme Court blocked a judge’s order to quickly unfreeze payments for foreign aid work.

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“Did Russia invade Ukraine?” Steve Feinberg, nominee for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, struggled to answer a simple question.

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When you take a step back, it’s genuinely stunning how far any of this is from anything Trump campaigned on. It aligns perfectly w Project 2025 of course, but in terms of Trump’s public rhetoric, this was totally absent.

submitted 12 hours ago • 264 comments

Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right. Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 292 comments

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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NEW: So today in DOGE order just went out that all civilian DOD credit cards are immediately frozen/can't be used. This applies to people who are in the midst of DOD official travel. So maybe you're in Albania and your credit card just stopped working. Or maybe you're on travel from ...

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Merit Systems Protection Board swiftly upholds finding that firing of some probationary employees was illegal. Case is about six employees but could affect many more. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements. A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

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Trump and Unchecked Billionaire Musk Have Fired Nearly 6,000 Veterans

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Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov says that the Trump administration sounds exactly like his show. He is also claiming that under Trump, America wants to be in an alliance with Russia, the same way the U.S. was an ally to the USSR in WWII. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcU...

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Budzinski: "We saw just yesterday another round of layoffs at the VA -- 1,400 more people. When we're trying to address veterans suicide rates, when you're cutting jobs for folks that are actually answering those suicide hotlines, how is that in the service of our veterans?"

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated over 1,400 employees.

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Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

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UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

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White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group. Alienating our friends and courting our enemies. This is straight out of Orwell.

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peter navarro floating removing canada from the world's most important intelligence sharing network:

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NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This is what courage looks like. While so many stay silent, these people took a stand. We need more of that—right now. 📌 21 civil service employees resigned from DOGE

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“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services. We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.” Patriots. apnews.com/article/doge...

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Hampton Dellinger, a government watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by President Trump has been stalled by the courts, announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass firings of some probationary federal workers.

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“The choice of Mr. Bongino is a radical and abrupt departure from that practice and raises startling questions about how two people who have never served as F.B.I. agents will oversee the vast surveillance and investigative powers of an agency of 38,000 people…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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this week's cover is on point ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social

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I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal. Or if you have any other good stories.

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This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

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"No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.” apnews.com/article/ukra...

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Noem said the president told her, “I want the first ad, I want you to thank me..." Noem then claimed, “I said, ‘Yes, sir, I will thank you..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment

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My original billet at US European Command (EUCOM) was related to its work on Africa, there was no AFRICOM back then but it was rumored to be coming. Someone saw something about me and took me from that billet to one studying Russian military and political machinations (this was 2005-2009 …

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BREAKING: Josh Shapiro just sued Donald Trump and won, unfreezing $2.1 billion in funds the administration tried to freeze. Another win for Democrats in the courts. Don’t let anyone tell you Donald Trump is unstoppable.

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This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

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TRUMP: We will be a merit based society.

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