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This is an excellent, fact-filled article with video segments to answer questions about Trump & Putin’s “illegitimate president” propaganda war against Zelensky.

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If you are an agency employee asked to take a polygraph contact a lawyer immediately. I am more than willing to immediately respond to anyone being pushed into this. My email is in my bio and my signal is NationalSecurityCounselors.16

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Did you hear about the Italian chef? He pasta away. Get it? I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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Tax the rich. Problems solved. It’s a false dilemma gop presents of not being able to afford Medicare Medicaid and social security. False. The real solution? Tax the rich and corporations. Why is that not in the conversation? Tax the ones that won’t be hurt by it. Don’t kill the people.

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Americans. All of us. Are terrible groundwork for autocracy. Freedom is engrained in us from birth. If there is any entitlement we don’t question, it freedom. When they cross that they will never win.

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If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

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It is almost his singular motivator: besting critics and opponents. I am convinced that his presidency was set in motion by the public spanking he got from Obama at the WHCA. He wants to wreck everything in that ecosphere, and get the best boy sticker.

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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It’s absolutely a Nazi salute. But note how weak it is. Whether it’s sincere or “ironic” (and that doesn’t make a difference), he doesn’t quite have the cobbles to do it vigorously. He does it like grandma struggling to put her shawl on a hook.

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Just as we warned, Brendan Carr is establishing himself as America's top censor, and he's not being shy about it. And a hearty "fuck you" to anyone who insisted Carr was a "free speech warrior."

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Quick, get Matt Taibbi on it! He will fix it.

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

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President Trump has significant business ties with Saudi Arabia, and speaking at a Saudi-backed conference means that we have to wonder if he's prioritizing his own interests over the American people's. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

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A double-PhD byline from STAT's immunology expert @jonathanwosen.bsky.social and ...me: What if we could read your diseases from your immune cells? A new machine learning technique brings such a diagnostic, especially aimed at autoimmune disease, closer to reality: More @statnews.com: 🧪🧬🧫💉

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Ahem

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🦴🔬 Bone has (at least) two types of mineral: Intrafibrillar mineral (inside collagen fibrils) & Extrafibrillar mineral (outside). The mineral provides stiffness, while collagen provides toughness. 👉 Learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... #bone #biomineralization #apatite #collagen #biomaterials 🧪

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I created Democracy Docket in 2020 to help keep you informed on the fight for democracy in court. Five years later, it continues to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. Support the work of its 19-person team: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

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OK @normeisen.bsky.social @kathryntewson.bsky.social @legaleagle.bsky.social can we talk a minute about a PAID AGENCY EMPLOYEE being an SGE for another agency? Because I'd really like an explanation about that.

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It’s only been one month, and two years is an eternity in politics … but the vibes are already giving the left’s version of the “tea party town halls” circa 2009/2010.

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It’s literally in the Constitution. No. Just no.

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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Back the blue!

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

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Ironically, if Trump did this, it would give additional legal strength to the cases challenging the mass firings.

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Seriously, I’m not kidding, they’re recycling a West Wing story arc.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

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Costs mounting in Florida’s book removal battle: Currently, Florida ranks first in the country for volume of book titles prohibited in public school libraries, as by the American Library Association and the advocacy group PEN America. #BecauseFlorida www.alligator.org/article/2025...

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3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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Trump now stating "I signed an order creating the department of government efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge", contradicting the submission to Judge Chutkan.

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These are the excuses Pete Marocco is using to cut virtually all foreign aid. We don't DO democracy anymore, peeps. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dark Pence is back.

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@lolgop.bsky.social and I ended our Ball of Thread podcast with Ka$h Patel, basically the Alpha and Omega of Trump's grievance narrative. youtu.be/IANIa1lHIgs?...

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