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Musk just amplified a leader of Germany’s far-right AfD, who called the country’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” demanded a “180-degree turn” in how Germany remembers Nazi crimes & was convicted for using a Nazi slogan Let’s hope the people of 🇩🇪will choose wisely in tomorrow’s election

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Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr is planning to remove several advisors on the CDC's vaccine committee. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a panel of outside experts that advises CDC on best, safest practices—backed by data. The panel's next meeting—postponed www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

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The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

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Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

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This guide to the far right is definite clip 'n' save material. Lots of insight into what's unfolding here and in Europe. So much is known; why were we so unready? From The UnPopulist open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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Yet another scoop from @Reinlwapo and the @washingtonpost: New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him wapo.st/41qBKwR

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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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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

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This is a great example of why Trump has never been given the respect he so desperately wants. He doesn’t deserve it and shows why every time he opens his mouth. (1/2)

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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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Julie Mason interviewed Gianforte on the radio today and after being asked about all the public land firings he basically trashed all of them for being terrible at their jobs, including firefighters. Then in the next breath praised the state’s FD hero’s for helping CA.

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Beyond betrayal.

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Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

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What a disgraceful human being

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NEW: The Energy Department tried to spin its DOGE-directed firing of nuclear-safety officials as affecting just non-critical staff. But this wasn’t close to true. In fact, one of the officials locked out of his work accounts was the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency.

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Just more proof that CPAC is now just a gathering of right wing extremists

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SMH tr*mp & Musk are crippling our scientific future.

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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling. Story by Ben Mueller. Gift link: nyti.ms/435szDm

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This is happening because Elon Musk tweeted to kill the December funding bill & all the bipartisan health policies Congress negotiated fell apart. Expanding telehealth brings DOWN costs. It makes health care MORE efficient, and it’s SO important for rural patients.

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Ken Paxton is suing to force sex screening for student athletes... exactly what House Democrats warned about in the sports ban hearing in January, the one single time they had unified messaging on trans issues. Paxton is giving Dems a giant gift here and they could do something with it.

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that is one of the most offensive statements i have ever heard

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Imagine being alive and conscious in America for the last decade. Seeing Trump lie about thing after thing after thing. And yet voting for him in 2024 because you thought the only two things he was NOT lying about were “I will immediately bring down prices” and “I know nothing about Project 2025.”

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Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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I was listening to Julie Mason on POTUS on XM interviewing governors and, amazingly, this video doesn’t match the joy some Republican governors expressed about Trump’s comments, ideas, and collaborative spirit.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Not good news, but needs to be said: Hamas claimed that Israel killed the Bibas children and their mother in an airstrike. Forensic examination of the corpses reveals the kids were murdered and that Hamas didn't even send back the mother, but a random body. Depravity piled upon lies.

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By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court holds that states may NOT immunize state officials from certain federal civil rights lawsuits alleging unlawful delays in an administrative process (like the provision of welfare benefits). Kavanaugh and Roberts join the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Year-ahead inflation expectations jumped up from 3.3% in Jan to 4.3% this month, the highest reading since November 2023 and marking two consecutive months of unusually large increases. This is the largest month-over-month increase seen since May 2021. www.sca.isr.umich.edu

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It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

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