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In addition to the incredibly inhumane main outrage of this story of keeping food from severely malnourished children, a secondary impact will be the RI employees who will soon be on the unemployment roles. Lose-Lose-Lose situation. newrepublic.com/article/1919...

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At today's briefing, WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who has banned the AP from covering Presidential events, was bragging about the success of Trump's anti-immigration efforts by citing a report from... the AP. She then went on to brag about a Judge refusing to block her banning of the AP.

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They’re cutting Medicaid

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Go figure.

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Congress is proposing drastic cuts to programs that provide babies and families with healthcare, child care, food and economic security. The House is voting on a budget later today. Urge your Members of Congress to vote ‘no’ on budget cuts that will harm infants and toddlers.

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The Defense Department still hasn’t held a formal Pentagon Press briefing. Under the previous administration, the first Pentagon press briefings occurred 3 days after inauguration.

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That is a very good question !

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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

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"Sooner or later, Trump could face a foreign-policy crisis, and he will need better counsel than he can get from billionaire defense dilettantes and a MAGA television personality."

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What a circus… unbelievable that the President hair sits there while Musk holds court… with a baseball cap on no less.

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@radiofreetom.bsky.social reacts to how President Trump is seriously thinking about making Canada a U.S. state "What kind of president sits around, having these kind of thoughts, especially when there are so many other problems here at home and around the world" #SundayShow

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Since Trump is busy unilaterally renaming bodies of water down south, thought we’d get started up in New England. How’s this?

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In Rhode Island - NIH FUNDING: $256M JOBS SUPPORTED: 2212 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $502M www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

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“How many athletes are there in the United States in NCAA schools?,” Durbin inquired. Baker: “510,000.” “How many transgender athletes are you aware of?,” Durbin asked. “Less than 10,” Baker said. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Semafor: Rubio will appoint Darren Beattie, a speechwriter in Trump’s first term, acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said…Beattie was fired from the WH in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

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This is horrific.

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This administration is a well oiled machine

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After claiming he doesn't know who Laura Loomer is and merely took a photo with her at a book event, Kash Patel is asked if he's familiar with Stew Peters, an antisemitic podcast host. Patel: "Not off the top of my head." Durbin: "You made eight separate appearances on his podcast..."

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"The USDA has been at the heart of concerns about bird flu... And, the USDA inspector general launched an investigation into Elon Musk's brain implant startup, Neuralink, which remains ongoing."

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Never seen such a load of unqualified white dudes

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Rhode Island Congressman @magaziner.house.gov sharing list of grants where funding is frozen: Includes funding for Homeland Security preparedness, cyber security, boating safety, dam safety, and fire prevention.

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Yikes. Sen. Jack Reed, the top Dem on the Senate Armed Services Committee, spells out all the details of the sworn affidavit recounting Pete Hegseth's specific incidents of alcohol abuse, abusive behavior toward his second wife + offensive public misconduct.

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Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

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just like Rs who cannot condemn letting cop assaultersgo free, doesn't get to be law & order; anyone supporting this guy doesn't get to be pro-defense. no Dem president could or would get away with such manifestly dangerous and unpatriotic actions

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

Proud to be an Episcopalian

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sellouts and phonies: www.mediaite.com/news/top-law...

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Roped-off R.I. State House rotunda seen as part of ‘playbook’ for muting dissent www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/15/m...

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Yup!

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Happening in Rhode Island also, can’t get legislative change on annual interest rates up to 270 percent

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$13.2 million in tax credits + $5 million grant = no community benefit agreement www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/19/m...

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Thank you @johnmarion.bsky.social and Common Cause for standing up for every Rhode Islander who wants to see their leaders act with integrity. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/19/m...

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Exactly this👇🏼 #endgunviolencenow

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JD Vance’s admirers are mad at me at the other place, but if you missed it, here’s the very first thing I ever wrote about him www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

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It is a big deal. Thank you for sharing!

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