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What really struck me over the course of writing this is how the people that serve alongside Talbott don't seem to have a problem, neither did his superiors, with him being a transgender man. What mattered was his performance. Seems the ones who have a problem are just those who have never served.

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🔥 Kimmel on @repstansbury.bsky.social gloriously trolling Marge for using a doctored photo to try to make a witness look bad

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Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science

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NEW: Our CBS News review found approx. 500 of the AMERICORPS program grants terminated by Trump Admin are in states Trump won in 2024 Nonprofits, charities, ed. programs, child abuse prevention initiatives lose millions. Some report "damage & chaos" www.cbsnews.com/news/americo...

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The acting administrator of FEMA has been fired one day after he broke with fellow members of the administration when he told lawmakers he does not support dismantling the agency, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to CNN. news.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

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CFPB employees can't own stocks in companies that the agency regulates. A DOGE employee was warned by ethics lawyers that he held nearly $700K in stock in such companies. He then carried out mass firings at the agency – including those ethics lawyers. The corruption couldn’t be any more blatant.

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Just as the Johns Hopkins team did during the height of the #Covid pandemic, it has now created a dasboard to track the measles crisis. With federal data encumbered by RFK Jr’s stranglehold on the CDC, Hopkins offers unbiased insight into the outbreak👇

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Rand Paul: "I'm not voting to add $5 trillion to the deficit, or to the debt ceiling. Conservatives have never voted for that, and now conservatives are lining up and falling all over themselves to vote for the largest debt ceiling increase in all of history."

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I thought those jobs were supposed to come here? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Steny Hoyer: "Is this infantile bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico really this House's top priority? phone rings I think Saturday Night Live just called me. They want me on."

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Jeffries: "Here's this gem from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. She's got legislation to arrange for the carving of the figure of President Trump on Mt Rushmore. Are we living in the times of King Nebuchadnezzar? What are we doing, folks?"

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Jeffries: "What Republicans have decided to spend this entire legislative day doing is debate a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Now, in some ways I guess the American people can be thankful, because this week what Rs were going to try was visit upon the people the largest Medicaid cut in history"

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MURPHY: You've read the SCOTUS decision. Does it not require you to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia? NOEM: The Trump admin is complying with all court orders M: You're a defendant in the case!... the discussion ends when SCOTUS rules 9-0... that is incredibly chilling for balance of powers

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Kash Patel, the conspiracy theorist that Republicans made FBI Director, came to a Senate hearing on the budget—with NO budget, NO timeline, and NO clue. It's downright incompetent, and it's making America less safe. We need serious leadership at the FBI.

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These chuds are so thoroughly steeped in online right-wing bullshit that it’s never occurred to them there might be knowledge required in the job.

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"We have good investments over there-" Just a reminder, America. He's talking about how his personal business empire is affected by the deal with the UK, not the welfare of the people of the United States that he is apparently President of.

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Oh. My. God.

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Trump on a new air traffic control system: "You always need pilots. I want pilots. But you wouldn't even have to have pilots."

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Every Republican in Congress should be asked if they agree with Trump that it’s a “good thing” if truck drivers and dockworkers lose their jobs

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so uhhh - have you ever been fired or reprimanded by management at work? put on a personal improvement plan? for what?

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There is already a resurgence going on, they are ignoring the last few waste water testing programs that are still in operation across the US.

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Big Oil donated millions to Trump, and spent $60M lobbying Republicans last year to oppose energy efficiency, to indirectly boosts fossil fuel consumption. Ending the Energy Star program could generate $11 billion per year in revenue for Big Oil. This is bribery and corruption.

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Must-read new Bloomberg analysis: Most of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin - who are vying for an “intimate dinner” with POTUS and a White House tour - are likely foreign. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Another victory for Team Cancer in the War on Cancer

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

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Scoop: We've obtained internal cables showing how the U.S. government is pushing countries facing tariffs to clear way for Musk's Starlink State Dept says it's good to encourage Starlink adoption Others point to blurring of Musk's private/government roles ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Riggs: My opponent—there are a hundred counties in North Carolina. He picked four of the most Democratic counties and challenged the military and overseas voters in those four counties only. We were gratified that the federal court yesterday upheld every one of the arguments we made..

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“Without HICPAC’s public meetings, there is no longer any public access to the process for drafting CDC guidance on infection control for health care settings. This further undermines safety for patients, nurses, and other health care workers.”

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Making America Great Again since Jan. 21st. 🙄 The S&P is down over 7% The NASDAQ is down over 10.5% Dow Jones is down over 7% Agencies slashed: NIH, CDC, USAID, CFPB, FDA, VA, IRS, EPA, FEMA, FAA, NOAA, more 😡 Planned cuts: See above, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, NASA, NEA, more 😡 Tariffs 💣

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Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee because everyone knows that infectious diseases disappear like magic when you stop talking about or testing for them….. 🦠 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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What a stupid time to be alive.

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Breaking: Griffin Concedes To Riggs In NC Supreme Court Race talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

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with the most inept president in history and a neutered secty of state we have: Bibi reverting to total war, India vs. Pakastan battling, nowhere near end in Ukraine war, tariff chaos and Trump spying on Greenland. what an effing mess

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What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

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Trump: “We don’t do much business with Canada." The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: "Canada has consistently been one of the top two trading partners for the United States." United States Census Bureau data: Canada was the top destination for U.S. goods exports in 2024.

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Spot-on story in @npr.org on how Medicaid cuts will impact the 9 million older adults and disabled people who rely on the program for long-term care - from unnecessary hospitalization and ER visits to institutionalization and even early death. @caringacross.org www.npr.org/2025/04/14/g...

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He throws around tariffs like “a monkey throws dung.” 😂

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Bessent calls himself a "farmer." That's interesting. Bessent is the part owner of a company that rents land to actual farmers, but promised to sell his interest in the company within 90 days after he was confirmed. Did he change his mind? www.thefencepost.com/news/treasur...

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"One source with direct knowledge of the matter said National Security Adviser Waltz ultimately intervened to reverse Hegseth's cancelation of Ukraine aid. Waltz was forced out on Thursday."

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stories like this one👇 really drive home that the Trump administration is more akin to a hostile regime than a government

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Are they gonna do parades for other branches of the military whose anniversary isn't on Trump's birthday?

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For Trump’s office: 24 karat gold. For you: #TwoDolls 🤡

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I'm demanding an investigation into the Trump administration's apparent use of the knockoff Signal app, TeleMessage. Senior government officials using a shoddy, foreign-owned communications app poses massive national security and counterintelligence threats.

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Trade strategy going swimmingly. 🤡 @scmp.com www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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watch Carney's reaction as Trump claims America doesn't "do much business" with Canada

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None of what he's saying makes any sense. It's just pure gibberish from a profoundly addled mind. This flargle-blargle isn't going to help consumer confidence. Or anything.

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This is a detailed depiction of yet another GOP grifting scheme, and it isn't pretty, folks Ron and Casey DeSantis are just sleaze personified While Pam Bondi looks the other way, of course

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