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JD Vance earlier this week: “Thank God we now have a president who believes in free speech.”

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The "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" boils down to this: Taxpayer money is being STOLEN, without congressional approval, to artificially boost the value of a highly speculative financial asset. You can like that asset, you can dislike that asset, that's your own business. But this is open embezzlement.

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I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

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If you love kids who benefit from special education as I do, you are entitled to despise Trump’s efforts to destroy the organization protecting special ed access, the Department of Education.

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Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

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Fascism "a political system based on a very powerful leader, state control of social and economic life, and extreme pride in country and race, with no expression of political disagreement allowed" dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

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I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.

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Tesla, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Alphabet could rake in $75 billion of tax giveaways after cozying up to the Trump administration. Let’s find out how much they spent lobbying for this potential windfall. And let’s find out how it could affect their executive compensation.

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Again, given the way DOJ keeps asking for delays, I think there's good reason to wonder whether the DOGE boys broke something at USAID and they're trying to buy time to put it back together again.

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New: DOGE sought access to a sensitive database kept by federal child-support office Powerful system contains income info, Social Security numbers for nearly all U.S. workers DOGE initially rebuffed by a career civil servant who questioned legal authority More TK w @jeffstein.bsky.social

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What a disgrace. Using public school funds for totally inadequate education from a for-profit education. KY voters were very clear they didn't want this. www.kentucky.com/news/local/e...

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When your students are diverse, even showing basic respect to them can be counted nebulously as "DEI" and targeted. That's not an unintended consequence, it's the goal. This Administration's actions demonstrate clearly that they want education (and the opportunities it provides) to be segregated.

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At closed-door lunch, Musk told Repub senators he'd “create a system where members of Congress can call some central group” to get problematic cuts reversed quickly, per Sen Graham Truly embarrassing that Congress has forfeited constitutional power of the purse www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Ask people in the UK how privatizing mail and rail is going.

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I keep hearing Republicans claim their budget doesn't cut Medicaid. We all know that's a lie — so I asked the nonpartisan CBO to look into it. Their analysis confirms it: the Republican budget delivers the largest Medicaid cuts in history to pay for giveaways to billionaires.

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Sofa king stupid

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Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

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In today’s hellscape news, the Trump administration is planning to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is already short-staffed and wait times are abhorrent. Veterans will die because of this move.

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From Russian State Media. This is playing out exactly the way Putin planned it with Trump.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate more than 5,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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Donald Trump loves to talk. But last night he avoided talking about his own real actions. He avoided talking about his Medicaid cuts. He avoided talking about Musk firing thousands of veterans. He avoided talking about his tax cuts for billionaires. We will make sure Americans know the truth.

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Helpful graphic:

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Calls increasing across Europe to cancel all US contracts immediately and oust Star link. The Russia allied Trump government has made the US a national security threat.

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So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

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Federal buildings in Ashland, Bowling Green, London, Louisville and Pikeville are on the list. @jennifershutt.bsky.social shutt kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/04/r...

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Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work already done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

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Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh think US farmers should be stiffed for billions of dollars owed to them. Where’s the justice in that? These men are owned. Bought and paid for and it should infuriate you.

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DOGE was never about saving money and eliminating fraud. It was about eliminating all of the people and agencies who could prevent Musk, Trump, and their oligarchs from stealing money and committing fraud while they hijack the government. It’s a coup.

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There's this conventional wisdom that despite the insanity Trump's numbers have shown little impact. Not really. In six weeks he's gone from +8.2 approval to net negative (-.3) as of last night. By any standard that's a sharp drop.

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Justice Alito dissents, along with Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. 4 votes for "fuck you I do what I want." Hanging on by a thread here.

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NEW (scoopy): "In an extraordinary step, more than 700 U.S. foreign service officers and civil servants have signed on to a dissent cable to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging him to stop the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and unfreeze foreign aid."

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The latest Ipsos/Reuters poll, conducted this week, shows Trump with only a 43% approval rating and underwater by 7 points. The only issue Trump is above water on is immigration, while he's down double digits on how he's handling the economy and trade. www.ipsos.com/en-us/three-...

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This has been reported. So I'm not breaking any news. But it's amazing: Kristi Noem is literally running campaign commercials for Trump using the DHS budget. I knew this was happening from news reports. But I hadn't seen them until I saw them yesterday on the local ABC affiliate at the gym.

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Senator Bernie Sanders goes off about Donald Trump’s lie that people who are 150 years old are collecting Social Security checks: “And on and on the lies go.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

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The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.

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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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Man, know what my colleagues and I did in the military when we thought we might be targeted and killed at work? Our fucking jobs.

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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