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JUST IN: “A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI as called for in executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Trump’s betrayal of Americans: He promised not to cut Medicaid—now he’s backing a House plan that slashes $880 billion from it. All to fund $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich. He doesn’t care if families drown in debt, as long as he & his billionaire buddies get richer. Don’t Cut My Medicaid!

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Gutting programs and opportunities for historically Black colleges is a direct attack on the strides the U.S. has made toward equal opportunities for all. We must stand with HBCUs and other diverse institutions & organizations under attack by anti-DEI efforts. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

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Across the U.S., #DEI is being villainized, with our teachers and students facing the depth of the fallout. The SPLC interviewed Black teachers and professors about the anti-DEI laws in their state that stop them from teaching Black history, even during #BlackHistoryMonth: bit.ly/4i52MPU

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With Elon Musk's social media platform Twitter poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about Twitter’s competitors, an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told Musk Watch.

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Republicans are not helpless. They can stop this. But they won’t because they are only concerned about their own political fortunes.

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Keep pressuring Republicans. Call them. Write them. Visit their district offices.

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

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Words fail.

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Hey #Alabama - Steve Marshall wants to help the world’s richest oligarch and his band of teenaged nerds who keep accidentally firing the wrong people get your Social Security data. What could possibly go wrong? www.al.com/politics/202...

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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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Recapping the week so far.

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seriously, it's not even like a coup at this point. it's just pure, mindless destruction and pillage and a divvying up of the spoils.

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“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 of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

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Opinion | The woke Left is banging the table claiming that it was Russian soldiers who invaded Ukraine in 2022. But how do we know it wasn't Antifa and Black Lives Matter, wearing Russian uniforms?

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If Russia or Ukraine show any further aggression toward each other, I will have no choice but to show up at a military base school and ban more books that have gay characters. by Pete Hegseth

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Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

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Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

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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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Of all the deeply sickening things that have happened so far in this administration, the confirmation of Kash Patel to lead the FBI takes the cake.

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This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

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“I don’t know how to explain to our daughter…that our own government is doing this to us.”

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Tired: Asking the Supreme Court to overrule Humphrey's Executor Wired: Deeming the Supreme Court irrelevant and simply ignoring Humphrey's Executor (and plenty of other things)

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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer nyti.ms/4hVfn8w

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This new Executive Order puts the bat in bat shit crazy. L’etat, c’est Trump. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Surely we can take his word for this, since Trump would never lie.🙄

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This is pure evil.

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So they accidentally fired the people who protect us from mass death, for the second time in a week. And this is the same bunch who are going to make air travel safer?

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Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

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This weasel actually insists it’s a “longstanding norm” that only the president or his attorney general can say “what the law is” which is, of course, absolute garbage.

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One of the hazards of sitting outside to work is that there might be some old geezer nearby listening to right-wing talk radio at high volume. I almost couldn’t contain myself as the radio spouted complete lies about immigration.

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Winner.

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First Cows, Now Cats. Is Bird Flu Coming for Humans Next? www.wsj.com/health/bird-...

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A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

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Chief Justice Roberts has ordered that a response to the government's emergency application in the Dellinger case be filed by 2 p.m. (ET) tomorrow. That quick turnaround suggests that #SCOTUS is hoping to rule sometime this week. For much more background, see: www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...

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Can anyone explain why we can't afford affordable healthcare or free school lunches but we can spend millions so the President can ride around at Daytona 500?? Starting to think Trump might not really care about "cutting down government waste."

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What this shows is that Trump is, as promised, using the DOJ to go after political enemies to the point that senior prosecutors are quitting.

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NEW 👀: As predicted, Judge Ho has ordered a hearing for 2 p.m. this Wednesday to explore why the DOJ has moved to dismiss the charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

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Working from home means every day is #Caturday.

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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: Most of the federal government’s 2.3 million employees aren’t based in and around Washington, D.C. They are spread throughout the country, often making up core parts of the economy in rural areas and sections of the nation that swing between Democrats and Republicans.

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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I’m shocked shocked to find gambling going on here FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

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This is just so incredibly racist, my god

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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