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SCOOP: FEMA's top lawyer was forced out yesterday after less than a week on the job—and sources tell me it was because of his unwillingness to write a memo providing legal cover for the agency's impoundment of $80 million from NYC migrant shelters. Full story:

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Trump and Musk don’t know what it’s like to count on their local public school having the resources to get their kids a great education. They don’t know why Pell Grants are important—and they don’t care to learn why. They want to break public education and enrich themselves.

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Where is the "waste, fraud, and abuse" in protecting the first responders who risked it all to protect us? Why do Trump and Musk want to turn their back on these heroes?

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Well, that was a fun cupla days. * TRUMP: MEXICO WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TO PAY TARIFFS ON ANYTHING THAT FALLS UNDER THE USMCA @reuters.com

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CNBC hosts literally laugh at Lutnick as he suggests that t-shirts, sneakers, towels, and TVs will again be made in the US as a result of Trump's trade war

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* US Jobless Claims -21K To 221K In Mar-1 Wk; Survey 235K

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Shadow Surgeon General @vinguptamd.bsky.social giving you the advice you need

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Leland Dudek is a psychopath.

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These are the names of the 10 Democrats who pathetically voted to censure Al Green for protesting Trump’s madness: Ami Bera Ed Case Jim Costa Laura Gillen Jim Himes Chrissy Houlahan Marcy Kaptur Jared Moskowitz Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi

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10 democrats joined in voting to censure Rep Al Green... Unbelievable... abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...

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“The first two years of CIA officers’ careers are a time of intense training; the government spends large amounts of money to teach them spy tradecraft, languages and other skills. “Literally millions of dollars has been put into some of these employees,’ he said…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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The Senate has voted to strip the CFPB of its authority to monitor digital payment offerings. This development comes as Elon Musk hopes to make Twitter a hub of digital payments. The resolution still requires House approval and Trump's signature. www.theverge.com/news/624904/...

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A big Republican donor turned his multi-million dollar house into a posh group home for the Republican Congressmen he pays off to fuck over Americans. This is an actual whorehouse.

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This is genocide: - Killing members of the group - Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group - Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part Trump is committing genocide.

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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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Throwback Thursday… Remember that time Biden cornered the entire Republican Party into denying they’d cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid for a $1T tax break for billionaires? That was only a year ago. Now, the biggest earned benefits cut in history is in their budget.

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What a triumph! Thank you, archivists, for restoring the CDC website. Science: 1 Fascism: 0

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Trying to explain this story as if one is speaking to a small child. Members of congress, whose job it is to set federal spending, now get to call Elon, who is for some reason controlling federal spending, to plead for changes to federal spending????? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 151 comments

Outstanding webinar this afternoon with Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg. Three, among many, take-aways: 1) We need to put pressure on our elected leaders. 2) We need to act out. Trump hates protests. 3) We are are stronger than we know. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @simonwdc.bsky.social

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What if there were a process where everyone in Congress could like, idk, list their priorities for spending and then they could all be put into a single document and then everyone in Congress could say "yes" or "no" to that spending "bill" until we had a list of spending everyone agreed on?

submitted 18 hours ago • 27 comments

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

submitted 18 hours ago • 126 comments

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3224 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1398 comments

Democrats have no power to shut down the govt. Even when Republicans control the Presidency, House, Senate and every legislative committee, they still try to blame Democrats for their failures. Pass your budget! (Oh sorry, you can’t figure out how to do that). Pass your CR then!

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“… we cannot presently support an institution that has been forced by external forces to betray its mission as a national cultural center that fosters the free expression of art in The United States.”

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BREAKING: The Trump administration dismisses the Justice Department's EMTALA emergency abortion care lawsuit against Idaho that was brought during the Biden administration. Law Dork reported last night that this was coming: www.lawdork.com/i/158385171/...

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Instead of maximizing leverage for a deal, we're preemptively surrendering, cutting off Ukrainian military aid and intelligence sharing and stopping cyber operations against Russia.

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Donald Trump is lying to you.

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China responds to Trump's trade war

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Just left Trump’s speech to Congress. Plenty of talk, but here’s what he DIDN’T SAY: No plan to lower costs. No promise to protect Medicare & Medicaid. No answer on how he’ll pay for tax cuts for his rich friends—spoiler: by gutting programs working people rely on. www.youtube.com/shorts/R6nXs...

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THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.

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Trump credits himself for rebooting manufacturing, but manufacturing construction actually turned around years ago. To boost semiconductor production, Congress made historic investments in advanced manufacturing and education - SIGNED BY BIDEN IN AUGUST 2022. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLMFG...

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Trump spoke for 90 minutes—and didn't say one word about the stress the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck are facing right now.

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Trump highlights culture wars bcuz he doesn't want anyone focusing on the fact that he's trying to kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP benefits down to just $1.67 per person per meal on avg to help pay for tax cuts that give $278k to folks in the top 0.1% while increasing the deficit by trillions.

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Must be exciting for our military officers to learn that they may be going to war against NATO (Canada, Denmark) while helping Russia take Ukraine. Exactly what they signed up for!

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Wow DJ's cancer was likely caused by a chemical he was exposed to? Trump admin this week:

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All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

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Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

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After being removed from the chamber, Rep. Al Green told the White House press pool: "It's worth it to let people know that there are some people who are going to stand up" to Trump.

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Al Green once told me: "Only God knows what he will do when he believes that he has no one to answer to. Right now, he knows that we are there, but if we don’t do our duty, the president will do unthinkable things.”

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The willingness to lie about literally everything in a fashion so egregious as to be literally confusing to listeners is… well, it’s hard to counter

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NEW: DOGE staffers are making well over $100,000 per year salaries as they slash the US workforce en masse. @knibbs.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

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