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Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

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The Trump administration orders the federal General Services Administration to shut down 22 electric vehicle charging stations on its Denver-area campus. 🔌💡 www.cpr.org/2025/02/20/d...

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"The Emperor's New Clothes"

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

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Trump's Pentagon just called climate change "woke" but four decades of defense and intelligence assessments have consistently identified climate change as posing serious threats to US national security and the operations of US military assets. www.gleick.com/blog/a-histo...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

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Math is hard

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California creating beautiful pollution to amplify the billionaire's fortune.

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www.the-reframe.com/the/ Highlighting the unfolding smash and grab being committed by these notorious grifters

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A reminder. The evisceration of US health, environment, national security, services, and more isn't all on Trump and Musk. It's on every single Republican senator and representative. Hold them accountable.

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This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

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heavens-above.com/StarLink.asp... Dominating the sky and driving the executive branch.

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WAY surpasses Watergate. It’s the most serious constitutional crisis since 1861.

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Fight Fight Fight

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I have worked on civil wars and state capture for 25 years. So let me be REALLY clear about this for Americans: Your courts are only as useful as the willingness of politicians to comply with those judgments. And the willingness of police to enforce. And Musk, Trump & Co do NOT care about the law

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Republicans push for more pollution.

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But in my back yard today, two monarchs — one male, one female — emerged from their chrysalises in the garden

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Tuberculosis is spreading in Kansas. #Measles outbreak in the unvaccinated in Texas. Bird #flu increasingly in animals and people. Worst respiratory flu outbreaks nationwide since 2008. And #RFKJr is somehow seriously being considered to run the nation's #health systems??? Republican insanity.

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SpaceX has placed more than 7,000 satellites into Earth orbit, and now they are starting to come down. In January alone, more than 120 Starlinks deorbited adding metallic vapors to the atmosphere, a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry. www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?...

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I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls

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"This freeze on critical communications will disrupt the flow of crucial information... about food recalls, disease outbreaks or other health threats to national security, and responses to health emergencies." @sciencewriters.org www.nasw.org/article/nasw...

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I was just outside the Treasury Department where Elon Musk has launched a full scale authoritarian takeover. My message to Musk is simple: get your hands off our money and get the hell out.

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My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.

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Breaking: Trump picks Neil Jacobs to run #NOAA. Jacobs was the flack who tried to justify Trump's use of a "sharpie" to alter the path of Hurricane Dorian. A 2020 internal NOAA report then determined this was a violation of the agency’s scientific integrity policy. thehill.com/newsletters/...

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The war-criminal and the grifter.

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Trump has vowed to pump more water in California. Government data show pumping at a federal facility in the Delta was down for maintenance. www.latimes.com/environment/... #CAwater

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Gabbard’s opening statement led with a truth and a lie. The truth: the disaster of the Iraq war. The lie: it was caused by a failure of US intel. It was caused by Dick Cheney’s creation of an alt intel channel, led by an ambitious fabricator named Chalabi. Look it up.

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BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors. They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.

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Fossil fuels are like opiate drugs that create addiction on one hand and turf wars on the other. Occupied Palestinian territory lies above reservoirs of oil and natural gas in the West Bank and the coast off the Gaza Strip.

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Late last night, Trump fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies. Inspectors general are tasked with rooting out fraud, abuse, and corruption. Trump wants loyalists in these positions — a key tenant of Project 2025. Keep paying attention. wapo.st/3Cptwvg

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This is what the Episcopalian Church had to say about his tantrum on x:

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All of the data/publications that www.pacinst.org generates on #climate, #water, #science & #publicpolicy, will forever be available free. As will everything on my personal site, gleick.com. If there are peer-reviewed publications of mine behind a paywall, simply email me. I'll send it to you free.

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In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from "a presidential appointee." This is high level censorship. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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