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If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: We’re cyber fucked: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 2 days ago • 1090 comments

Found some peace in this.

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Wow. And yet…not surprised.

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Trump fires federal workers protecting America's food system www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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🧵 Elon Musk is shredding the United States government. But that’s not enough for him. Now, he wants to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court as well. Help stop him: secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

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First came the pharmaceutical executives. Then the insurance companies and the hospital leaders. In the gold-covered, chandeliered dining room just off the lobby at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump discovered one of his most lucrative moneymaking ventures.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits. Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices. Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators. That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

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I wonder if William Zabka and Ralph Macchio realize what a gift they gave this 80s kid. So very grateful and hope they find a way back to my tv soon. #CobraKai

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"If you voted for Donald Trump, this is what you were voting for." Watch: youtu.be/ujsQ3bp9-4I

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For a brief moment at the end of February, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial spectacle. This so-called planetary parade, which will occur shortly after sunset on 28 February, will be the last time the phenomenon occurs until 2040.

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As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

submitted 6 days ago • 296 comments

Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the last Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to destroy the American foreign aid system from the inside out. Current and former officials see it as a campaign of retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

The cat is out of the bag, so let's make it official: Verified #AltGov members now have a verified label displayed. Simply click the bluesky link below & subscribe. That's it. Tell your followers! bsky.app/profile/altg...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

DEAD. LAST. Perhaps if this Administration had focused less on culture wars, the critical race theory that wasn't even in curriculum, and banning books, our children wouldn't be falling behind so badly? www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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“A lot of these contracts have data deletion clauses,” a researcher told me. “The fact is that they won’t be able to reopen them if they change their mind. They’re not just paused. They’re terminated and we’re losing the information.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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The Wayback Machine, which the nonprofit Internet Archive operates, is a tool designed to help preserve online data, and it has been used in the past when new presidents’ administrations took down information from past administrations.

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“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies.”

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Super duper stoked to announce this is a thing!!! 🥳 Every vetted verified #AltGov member included in the #AltDaddy official @altspaceforce.altgov.info STARTER PACK has this on their profiles as of this afternoon. MAD THANKS to @larry.earth for this amazing assist 🦾 Version 1.1 coming #soon 😎

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Marcy makes a very nice point here. If Trump asserted that Special Counsel Jack Smith—who was in charge of just two cases against basically one person—was a principal officer who required Senate confirmation, then how could Co-President Musk—who’s remaking the entire government—be anything less?

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

Today's cartoon- Stand Up and Fight

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

“”I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t,” he told his brother”

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

This. Also. @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social et al , can you do what ever you guys do in the House to let Musk, Trump and everyone know that the UCFE, which funds unemployment benefits , is in the Dept of Labor. If these funds are cut, the cost will fall on the states.

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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Brings a depressing new meaning to this exchange between Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine

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Estonia concerned about their HIMARS slots, warns they might pivot to other suppliers if no assurances as coming from the US. Interesting seen in the light of Norway also casting a wider net in their rocket artillery procurement due to US supplier. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/esto...

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Ukraine war briefing: US and Russian officials to meet in Saudi Arabia without Ukrainians – reports

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China’s plateauing oil consumption is without precedent for a country at its stage of economic development, the International Energy Agency said. China's demand for oil was flat in 2024 and may fall in 2025 as EVs & economic shifts destroy demand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #Upshift 🔌💡🔌🚗

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 10 days ago • 192 comments

This is not a normal person 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 699 comments

He who listens to a guy who has... 88 criminal charges, 1 sexual assault conviction, 4059 lawsuits, 1 insurrection, 5000 deceased ketchup bottles, 1 deceased wife under the golf course, 6 bankruptcies, 5 layers of bronzer, 3 brain cells, 2 tiny hands, and zero erections... is a moron.

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Who invited the AI notetaker? The use of artificial intelligence in meetings raises etiquette and privacy concerns.

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2698 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 9 days ago • 834 comments

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

submitted 9 days ago • 1271 comments

Also foreshadowed in Bove's manifesto in response to Danielle Sassoon. Time for everyone to reread @tframpton.bsky.social's very helpful (and short!) law review article about this and Judge Sullivan's opinion in the Michael Flynn case... 1/

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 1910 comments

Those who have been looking for Michael Fanone on social media, he has a Substack. Check out his latest. substack.com/@michaelfano...

submitted 9 days ago • 183 comments

To be clear, it's not a mistake that grants to train special ed teachers were cancelled. MAGA absolutely considers those to be verboten "DEI," and Silicon Valley considers them contrary to their eugenics project.

submitted 10 days ago • 79 comments

If George Soros held an Oval Office press conference explaining his plans for the Biden administration and then the State Department awarded a nine figure contract to the Open Society Foundations then Washington D.C. would’ve consisted of mostly ash and blood within 72 hours.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments