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New, from me: Tulsi Gabbard purged trans intelligence officers after a Chris Rufo smear campaign. They were targeted because they were trans, their words were mischaracterized, and they were offered no due process. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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GOP reps love your vote, but not your voice. They’re dodging town halls faster than Trump dodged the draft. Demand answers! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/run-for-of...

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The president of the United States is using AI slop to sell war crimes and a potential genocide he considers a real estate deal. It is pitching ethnic cleansing with a meme.

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Don’t take any lectures from right-wing billionaires about “fraud,” “waste,” or “abuse” in vital public services—when these folks won’t even open the books on their pet privateering schemes

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BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their budget resolution 217-215 that would virtually guarantee deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, all to fund a major tax break for the ultrawealthy... and still add trillions to the national debt.

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She’s the supposed DOGE administrator. But she’s apparently on vacation in Mexico this week. Not working so hard, eh? Not so efficient.

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White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group. Because fuck national security, right MAGAts? www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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Trump and Musk are gutting Veterans Affairs science. “Veterans in the midst of experimental treatments for cancer may have their care abruptly discontinued, and other Veterans with cancer will not have access to the most advanced, life-saving care." prospect.org/health/2025-...

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To be clear, the Vance/Musk intervention did not change the outcome. Still, the fact that it happened changes German and European politics forever

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Measles outbreak in the United States, originating from Texas, thanks to the Trump regime's anti-vaccination propaganda people are now being rapidly infected. #EndAutogenocide

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Many people are saying… Great thread.

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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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The @principlesfirst.bsky.social conference was just evacuated due to a bomb threat. This is after Enrique Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys showed up and tried to disrupt the conference yesterday.

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Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

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“It is not too late to salvage the agency and its mission. The agency’s partner organizations are hanging on and its overseas missions seem to have remained mostly intact, for now. The laws establishing U.S.A.I.D. in federal statute and its budget appropriation remain in force and unaltered.”

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It’s the federal government, not “self-policing” industry, that makes sure these calamities aren’t happening. If they did, the economy would be a shipwreck.

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Habitual criminals gonna habitual criminal.

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it's just dribs and drabs here and there. but a lot of stuff has hit the ag sector over the last few weeks mostly out of the media sight. ag labs with half their staffs fired, small but important markets selling commodities to USAID. various grants and contracts for woodland management.

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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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"...one of the speakers out of provocation allowed himself a gesture alluding to Nazi ideology. I therefore took the immediate decision to cancel my speech" www.courthousenews.com/france-far-r...

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This is a good moment to thank the federalism gods. States choose their election technology, not the federal government. In blue states the read out will be GTFO Elon. And given how toxic he’s getting probably in a lot of red states too.

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“The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. Ukraine, the victim of a Russian invasion, must "recoup the costs" to the US taxpayer for aid received…This proposition reveals much about America in February 2025.” snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

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Good words here. When Rs break with Trump on an issue like this let’s encourage it.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk is “exploiting vulnerabilities that are built into the nation’s technological systems, operating as what cybersecurity experts call an insider threat,” our columnist Zeynep Tufekci writes.

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Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

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Carville on Hannity: I think the Republican Party wants to get rid of Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security. I think they are against a living wage. They support Putin. I think the Republican Party hates workers and protect billionaires…https://youtu.be/9L_HvoOkU0s?si=Jt9e8jG9DqcAOTZo

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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Read closely and until the end if you care about this case.

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Not sure we should take Tracy Flick’s word for it. Not that she would know if he was using the data or not. Why not have an independent team assuring us of that possibility if it is all so clean and locked down? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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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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People have gone to jail for less.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

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The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

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MEGA: Make Extortion Great Again.

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Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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As will Republicans, who for some reason think they won’t be Cheneyed. Did Dick Cheney’s enthusiastic support for the “unitary executive” theory prevent Liz Cheney—the Gop Conference Chair & 3rd highest ranking R in the House—from targeting? No! And it was that very theory that sealed her fate!

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A New York developer who donated to Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign as an alleged "straw donor" operates a real estate empire that, documents show, is majority-owned by a Cypriot company linked to Uzbek tycoon Bakhtiyor Fazilov. Read the story:

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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Fantastic work

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NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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