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🚨BREAKING: Alliance for Retired Americans and two labor unions file lawsuit against Treasury Dept. to block disclosure of personal and financial information to Musk and DOGE. Follow @democracydocket.com for details on this and every pro-democracy lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

His reaction to every tragedy explained

I just canceled my NYT and WP subscriptions. I feel liberated!!

Jennifer Rubin has resigned from the Washington Post and she’s launching a publication with Norm Eisen.

Here’s a version that I found printed in Germany around a decade ago, ahead of its time. . .

NEW: Merrick Garland should drop the Florida case and release both volumes of the report. My latest, with a link to email the Attorney General. Please share widely! www.muellershewrote.com/p/merrick-ga...

Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky

I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.

@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social

This is worth another watch

RIP to the only decent country ass president of my lifetime

I think the most remarkable part of the story is that Gaetz clearly violated Florida state law, but no one filed charges.

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I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

Nancy Mace’s former Communications Director.

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

I don’t think I can handle four more years of this, and it hasn’t even started.

After I got my doctorate in health admin, I could have taken a cushy job atop a corporate health firm & gotten rich off denying claims, but instead, I chose a low-paying civil service job to help care for Veterans & the Military. So don't give me that "he was only doing his job" crap.

Thoughts?

That is actually what autocrats do: pardons free up people with valuable criminal talents for govt and party service. See my Lucid essay Pardon Me: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

In the process of learning lessons from our losses—we must be careful not to overcorrect. We got some of this right and must stay true to our loyal base.

Exactly

Rebels are within 6km from Assad's palace. Locals are tearing down Assad images & signs 15 minutes from the Palace. Russia is fleeing Tartus port and Iran is evacuating forces. An emergency meeting to be held between Turkey, Iran, Russia, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. #freeSyria

Elon Musk spent $250 million dollars so Donald Trump could put him in charge of cutting wasteful spending.

Beautiful!