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Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine What could possibly go wrong? 🤨

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⚡️Ukraine not on agenda in next US-Russia talks, State Department says. "To be clear, there are no political or security issues on the agenda. Ukraine is not  on the agenda," a State Department spokesperson said in an email to Reuters.

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JUST IN: The Pentagon has issued its formal guidance for currently serving transgender members of the military. It says they will be separated from service unless they obtain a waiver meeting these criteria: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: A judge has ordered Trump administration officials — and at least one DOGE staffer — to sit for depositions in a lawsuit over the group's access to sensitive government systems. Judge Bates called DOGE's activities "opaque." w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Breaking: SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Trump's effort to halt the nation's refugee admissions system.

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The Trump White House just announced that the admin — not the independent White House Correspondents' Association— will determine which news media outlets have access to Trump as part of the press pool allowed into the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One and into other events.

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U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan has just agreed continue blocking the Trump admin from freezing federal grants and loans. The judge said the admin "cannot pretend that the nationwide chaos and paralysis from two weeks ago is some distant memory with no bearing on this case."

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Phil Sussman, an Army vet who worked for USAID, feels "absolutely betrayed" after receiving a termination letter. "This isn't a meme. This isn't a tweet. This is myself and my wife and my three children who don't know how we're gonna pay the mortgage next month." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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NBC News: Trump admin immigration officials are planning a nationwide operation to locate and potentially deport children who came into the United States without a parent or legal guardian.

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

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DOGE quietly deleted the 5 biggest spending cuts it celebrated last week: * An $8 billion cut at ICE was actually $8 million * Three $655 million cuts at USAID were actually a single cut counted three times * A $232 million cut at the SSA was actually $565,000 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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Reuters: US JUDGE EXTENDS ORDER BLOCKING TRUMP FIRING OF WATCHDOG AGENCY HEAD -COURT RULING

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration says it is eliminating more than 90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts, documents show.

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Dozens of DOGE "receipts" saved no money at all and actually killed contracts meant to boost efficiency. In fact, many of the receipts published by Elon Musk's DOGE aren't even receipts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The Office of Personnel Management told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reinstate veterans, disabled veterans, and military spouses who were fired, according to an email sent to CFPB employees who saw their terminations reversed. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

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Thousands of fired USAID employees were given just 15 minutes today to clear out their personal belongings from the agency's former headquarters.

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Congrats @meidastouch.com !!! www.newsweek.com/meidas-touch...

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What I genuinely don’t understand. Bezos has more money than he‘ll ever be able to spend. But he can’t afford moral integrity?

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Let's be clear. All these tech billionaires like Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg didn't become right wingers because of some ideological awakening -- or because of "wokeness." It's because they're BILLIONAIRES and they want to avoid taxes. That's it. It's the MONEY.

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The 9th U.S. Circuit upheld a ruling that blocked key provisions of two Arizona laws demanding documentary proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections when using the federal voter registration form and lowering the barrier for county election officials to cancel registrations.🥳

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France saved us from the Britain in the 18th century. We saved them from Germany in the 20th. And now there trying to save us from Trump in the 21st.

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The House budget reconciliation framework that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid has just passed. They are literally taking from the sick and poor to give the rich tax cuts.

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President Trump announces kleptocracy is here.

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Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

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My statement on voting against the Majority's cuts to Medicaid/CHIP and SNAP tonight:

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Omg. This is horrifying. Congresswoman Kelly Morrison just revealed that Medicaid covers HALF of the kids in the United states, more than 40% of the births — and Republicans want it gone. The Republican funding bill impacts ALL OF US.

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Lieu: "Donald Trump acts like he is scared of Putin."

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Weakness

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Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

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Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

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@repjasmine.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽

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