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The Supreme Court's first and only opinion today is San Francisco v. EPA. The majority substantially weakens the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge. It is 5–4 in relevant part, with Barrett, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissenting. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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The Trump administration’s policy on U.S. citizenship is pay to play

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This “reverse discrimination” case is funded by Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and the dark money-backed Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF). Charles Koch’s and Leonard Leo’s dark money networks are PLF’s biggest donors. The billionaire Mellon family foundation is also financially involved in PLF.

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SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

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Quakers once again on the right side of history. This group was involved in the Underground Railroad and were early advocates to abolish slavery, as well as for prison reform and women’s rights like suffrage. They actively helped Jewish refugees escape the Nazis in WW2. Quakers lead by example.

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“One way to rebalance the power between a billionaire troll and regular people is to make sure everyone sees who they really are.”

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It’s likely intelligence partners have begun icing the U.S. out so the Trump admin is trying to save face by continuing to bully Canada.

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What MSNBC is doing here is replacing journalists with political insiders and pundits. The network can’t really call itself a news network anymore if its programming is led by talking heads.

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All roads lead to Putin.

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MAGA: DEI is Lib Wokeness! Also MAGA: DEI is totally cool as long as we’re talking about people on our side.

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For anyone not in the tech industry, this is how Elon normally speaks. He’s just stumbling more because he’s spent the majority of his con in tech and knows all the buzzwords to deflect from his idiocy. In politics, not so much, so it’s easier to detect his 🐂 💩.

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This is a lot of words for “Trump plans to unlawfully circumvent Congress’s authority by usurping control over U.S. Postal Service.” It’s also important to note this is part of a bigger plan to break up delivery unions, foster surveillance, and privatize the mail system under a broligarch.

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It’s because Trump has always been Putin’s bitch and doesn’t have to hide being a useful idiot anymore.

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Republicans: cheers on unelected billionaire’s usurpation of Congressional power Also Republicans: Wait, we support you taking power from us only if it hurts the libs! Please don’t take funds away from our districts/states.

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A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

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TikTok is burying my latest reporting on Elon Musk’s purge of federal agencies and the corruption within the Trump admin. Here’s my latest reporting on Musk’s infiltration of the FAA #news www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YX6Voy/

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Breaking: Multiple people have sustained injuries after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport, paramedics say.

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"Free speech" is not the problem, it is people framing their authoritarian agendas as a form of free speech advocacy when in fact their plan is to promote speech they like while suppressing speech they don't like.

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The US health department fired employees Saturday across some of its biggest agencies including Medicare, Medicaid and the FDA. trib.al/99QFCR9

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In a 2-1 order, a panel on the DC circuit court upheld a temporary restraining order that allows a prosecutor with the Office of Special Council to keep his job. The dissent was a Trump appointed judge. Trump’s DOJ plans to appeal - abusing the courts to see what they can get away with is a strategy

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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Democrats need to do to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer what they did to Biden. Force him out and elevate someone else like Sens. Chris Murphy, Andy Kim, Lisa Blunt Rochester—who are actively operating as an opposition—as Senate party leader.

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it rules how whenever you criticize democrats a thousand people crash into your mentions to angrily demand you explain "what exactly would you like them to do" and then they do this

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Mitch McConnell is not part of the resistance. He’s just throwing a tantrum that he is no longer in control. McConnell is a key reason the GOP has metastasized into a plutocratic regime led by a deranged broligarch and a tight group of unqualified, sociopathic yes men.

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One thing that stands out from Trump’s cabinet of degenerates is that the Democratic Party’s strategy for Senate confirmations has been an utter failure.

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This is what propaganda looks like

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If you read the press release, the chair of this task force is 40 year old Congressman from Colorado, Joe Neguse.

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I’ve been out for a week dealing with personal stuff, but it didn’t take long to catch up and see that the Democratic Party is refusing to do what’s necessary. There are Dems that are, but the establishment party is blaming others and making excuses instead of coalescing as an opposition party.

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What Elon Musk is creating here is giving Soviet Union

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Instead of quoting the people complicit in Musk’s coup, media should make it clear Trump’s allies submitted a court filing defending the unlawful activity of an unelected billionaire and unauthorized employees of his private companies.

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“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Frankly, Dems should have started acting in opposition from day 1 instead of allowing confirmations or legislation to move forward. But at least they’re starting to figure it out now.

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New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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I keep telling everyone that all of Trump’s picks will be confirmed and it’s because the GOP has no power or will to do the right thing. And Democrats are too weak to coordinate oppositional messaging that blankets all communications channels.

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I’m pretty sure shipping American citizens off to foreign prisons is unconstitutional but here we are.

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I left the PR world but I am willing to offer my expertise in communications to the Democratic Party. The party is terrible at effectively communicating with the public—especially Dem leaders—and I would like to offer help if they’re willing to accept it.

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Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration. His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:

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When Musk bought Twitter, there were offers of paid exits, code reviews, eliminating of diversity programs, cutting of rent payments, and a reliance on staffers from his companies to enact his plans. All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...

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No one in the financial world seems concerned about the coup led by Elon Musk and that alone is a big red flag. I can’t seem to get any financial advisors to take me seriously and provide guidance about what to do to protect my money.

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I find this as disturbing as anything that's happened so far. They're just erasing huge swaths of knowledge. www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

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We’re watching a coup happen by the executive branch, but no one is tripping the alarm.

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i need someone to ask john roberts if nondelegation applies to handing over the entire federal government to a single unelected billionaire

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Why is the media not calling this what it is? An unelected illegal immigrant is hostilely taking control of the U.S. Government and behaving as if he is the anointed King of the United States.

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Exclusive: David A. Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

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