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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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Exploiting a disaster to undermine coastal protection www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opin...

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An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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While I'm at #ISA2025, posting will be light. But I had some thoughts about whether -- as @mcmegan.bsky.social suggested last week -- the American academy is paying the price for its political and institutional sins. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/psst-every...

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Weird: She is a remote worker. Guess its fine in the private sector.

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It’s important for folks in their 40s/50s/60s to realize that some of us should get a measles booster. I did a few years ago

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Musk just gave the game away in his interview with Joe Rogan. He said that it's because of Social Security that "people are living longer than expected"—which coupled with a lower U.S. birth rate creates a situation he finds intolerable. He _is_ a Yarvinist—and he's coming for our Social Security.

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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18F was dissolved because it saved money. We pushed back against contractors who tried to screw American taxpayers. We showed how cheap and good government software can be. Musk hates that. writing by Dan Tangherlini via @donmoyn.bsky.social

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📣 OK, I've posted several threads with prototypes on this project, but this is the definitive one: I'm generating pie charts breaking out enrollment in ACA plans, Medicaid/CHIP & Medicare for the total populations of EVERY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT suitable for sharing: acasignups.net/25/02/26/pie...

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I’m demanding Sec. Duffy explain why his agency is suddenly selecting Musk’s Starlink for FAA use after a contract was already signed with Verizon. This new deal reeks of corrupt, self-serving abuse of taxpayer dollars.

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The body language could not be more different and is exactly why I despise each of them.

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I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

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If you're not sure why people at the National Weather Service are being fired, that's been a GOP goal for some time. This is from Project 2025, which argues the NWS should focus on selling weather data - not free forecasts and weather warnings.

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The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

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I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX

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🔁 @Mets retweeted @Jay_HorwitzPR Sarah Seaver had a bigger than life personality. She always made me laugh. Well, I am not laughing now, because after a long battle with cancer Sarah passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family and friends. https://t.co/xEs338Fl8u

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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

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Reupping these N95s, which are only $2.50 for a pack of 10. If you’re in a position to do so, it could be a cool thing to get extras of, so you have some to share.

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Elon Musk: people are falsely claiming DOGE can cancel federal contracts. Also Elon Musk:

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Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project." Its statehood is older than Muscovy’s. It has been a member of the US longer than Russia. It has a language, an identity and its own aspirations. youtu.be/p4JFNtlxz9k

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“Lapdog vice-president.” A seething op-ed from JD Vance’s hometown paper, the Ohio Capital Journal, is not impressed by his first few weeks in a “nondescript role as an appendage in the Trump-Musk administration."

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Trump just terminated the Open Government Federal Advisory Committee, on which I served as chair. You can read my statement on this news here: americalabs.org/2025/02/25/s...

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The Colorado Summit have signed former NFL wide receiver Rodney Adams for the 2025 season!

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www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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This is huge and monstrous. The nasal vaccines are our only hope of getting back to a world where you don't have to fear getting covid indoors. I would like to stop masking some day, and they're going to make it impossible.

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"there was no interruption"

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The language, as described, is superfluous. It is already constitutional and federal statutory law that the administration must spend the money that Congress appropriates. Congress’s power of the purse fundamental to our system of government. And yet, it’s a red line for Republicans to include it.

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If the president defies the courts and Congress does not impeach him for it, the Constitution simply ceases to exist.

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Here's the latest ep of my Cool Zone Media/iHeartRadio show Better Offline. I walk you through how OpenAI isn’t a real company - it's a VC-backed welfare recipient that spent $9bn to lose $5bn with its unprofitable, commoditized business. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... linktr.ee/betteroffline

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“Nothing matters other than the question of whether or not we let the billionaires destroy our democracy.” - Sen. Chris Murphy #Connecticut #Nutmegsky www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

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Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran. Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:

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Just incredible reporting from @makenakelly.bsky.social once again on #DOGE, getting incredible detail on just what they are up to. This time? Modifying a piece of software that automates the mass firing of federal workers www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

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Let me remind you that our government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people. Musk is supposed to be working for you and me and every other American. He’s not. He should be fired. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fire-the-muskrat-now

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For everyone who thinks this election was not about Project 2025, someone put together a helpful website tracking policies from Project 2025 that have ALREADY been implemented since Trump took office. As of today, we are already 1/3 of the way there. 😠 www.project2025.observer?fbclid=IwY2x...

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A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the alternative to the Trump-aligned CPAC was evacuated after a death threat made against several of its speakers who have been critical of President Donald Trump.

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This is indeed brilliant

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On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social... I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine. @beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.

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If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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