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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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That guy is Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems Command. He's basically the guy in charge of making sure the boats are good boats. And he has to send a frantic email out telling everybody to treat DOGE like a phishing attack.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 16 hours ago • 100 comments

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 15 hours ago • 212 comments

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.

submitted 25 days ago • 1099 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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“Dudek had been placed on leave by previous leadership for helping DOGE; he posted about it; Musk caught wind of what Dudek had done for him and forced the former Acting Commissioner to resign; then he rewarded Dudek for his loyalty by promoting him to temporarily lead the agency.” My latest:

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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WATCH: “You just said something that’s not true — that tens of millions of dead people are on that list… but the same report you cited said almost none of them have received Social security.” Trump’s Press Sec hides behind saying they “suspect” it, then runs away 🤔

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Non-diverse spies, excellent idea.

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These two Utah workers were among thousands of federal employees fired recently to purge what the Trump administration considers a bloated bureaucracy.

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I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

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How stupid and arbitrary are Trump's mass firings at federal agencies? A State Dept employee tells me some colleagues are racing to change their job descriptions so phrases like "transnational crime" don't get caught up in DOGE AI bots scanning for words like "trans" to fire people because "DEI."

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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

submitted 3 days ago • 578 comments

As national outlets catch up to the importance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, please remember where you heard about it first lol Subscribe to my free newsletter, where you would've heard about this race weeks ago. Wherethereissmoke.substack.com

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Johnathan Miller serves as head of security for his cousin @damianlillard.bsky.social, a 9-time NBA All-Star. When he isn’t traveling or sitting courtside at Milwaukee Bucks games, John is back at his farm in Portland, teaching folks how to grow their own food. capitalbnews.org/johnathan-mi...

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LA Ports: Record Inbound Traffic for January www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/02/la-p... This was a new record for imports in January, eclipsing the previous recent (Jan 2022) by 17%!

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Americans Are Heading for the Exits Go ahead and roll your eyes at those who want out of Trump's second term, but it's emigration, not immigration, that should concern us most. newrepublic.com/article/1914...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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PBS: “In the last two presidential elections, farmers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, but now some are saying his efforts to cut the government are causing major financial pressure.” www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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The House GOP budget plan that Trump has endorsed would cut Medicaid by about 10% and cut SNAP by about 20%. At the same time it would increase the deficit by $2.8 trillion to pay for tax cuts, mainly for the rich.

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Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.

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Amid tax season…. Over 6,000 IRS employees expected to be terminated by end of week www.cbsnews.com/news/over-35...

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BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

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I repeat: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-and-...

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They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats’ when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary."

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A hiring freeze put federal firefighters in limbo. Here’s what that could mean for wildfire in Colorado.

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Trump and Musk’s efforts to shrink the government have left the country’s wildland firefighting force unprepared for the approaching wildfire season. One federal employee likened the funding freeze to a “massive sledgehammer” hitting the force.

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NEW: Trump cabinet officials have embraced Jack Posobiec, the far-right conspiracy theory-peddler (Pizzagate!) who co-wrote a book last year demonizing liberals as "unhumans" & praising fascist dictators—Spain's Franco & Chile's Pinochet—as role models for MAGA. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Cutting NASA's workforce by about 10 percent. That's a boost to the Chinese and Russians. And the guy in charge of SpaceX made this decision? That's a total conflict of interest. Moreover, firing all probationary employees shows they're not serious about evaluating programs. It's a machine gun.

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"We can’t do the science and the public health work anymore because we’re so consumed with responding to the executive orders or other mandates and censorship,” a senior leader at the CDC told @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The Department Of Defense's New #1 Enemy Is Named 'Freckleface Strawberry' www.wonkette.com/p/the-depart... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

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Anne Marie Hochhalter wrote in a 2016 Facebook post that she had forgiven the mother of one of the shooters.

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They are getting rid of all the new hires, but also all the talented people who were most recently promoted.

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