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1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

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It’s that simple!

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“I’ll see you and raise you one.”

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New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

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Today at El Capitan YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK HUNG Upside Down To SHOW SUPPORT for our National Park Rangers and Workers To show support for our National Forest Service Workers What tRump/MuskDOGE has done is despicable Our National Treasures are in Jeopardy People Wildlife Plantlife

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The differences in these two presidents could not be more clear: Zelenskyy Offers to Step Down for Immediate NATO Membership —While Trump Sides With Russia (Again)

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Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that he had instructed the military 'to prepare for an extended stay'. www.ft.com/content/8e2b...

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It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 2 days ago • 2966 comments

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

submitted 3 days ago • 323 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 3 days ago • 667 comments

The U.S. transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said the government would conduct a “compliance review” on a $3.1 billion grant for California’s high-speed rail, potentially threatening the viability of the project.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

JB Pritzer tells it like it is. "We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one."

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A whooping 83% of Americans oppose Trump pardoning violent J6 rioters. EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 304 comments

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."

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Schools are closed all over central Iowa. Why? Dangerous wind chills of 30 below. How do we know to keep our children safe? The National Weather Service, which Trump plans to destroy.

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Today, the full Senate is expected to vote on Kash Patel's nomination as Director of FBI. CALL YOUR SENATORS! 📱 U.S. Capitol (202) 224-3121 📱 Tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination!

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Former NFL Vikings punter Chris Kluwe spoke out in front of the all MAGA Huntington Beach, CA, City Council and called Trump and MAGA a "Nazi movement.” He got arrested and carried out by police. In a world of Trumps, be a Chris Kluwe.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 1419 comments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to reverse the “accidental” firing of several employees responding to an avian influenza outbreak. While the CDC says the public risk is low, the crisis is hitting the agriculture sector hard, driving egg prices to record highs.

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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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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 6 days ago • 1352 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 6 days ago • 1966 comments

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 8 days ago • 1506 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 8 days ago • 2399 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 8 days ago • 2333 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 8 days ago • 1252 comments

BREAKING: A Delta plane flying from Minnesota crash-landed in Toronto, eight people injured.

submitted 8 days ago • 113 comments

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

submitted 8 days ago • 869 comments

YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS: CDC disease detectors—fired. The Trump administration is using a hatchet, not a scalpel, to slash jobs during a bird flu and measles outbreak. At this rate, we’ll be relying on word of mouth for disease outbreaks like it’s the 1700s.

submitted 8 days ago • 121 comments

Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

submitted 8 days ago • 289 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 9 days ago • 1059 comments

If you don't think the recent spike in planes crashing into each other and falling out of the sky is big enough, go ahead and give the FAA over to the team that makes rockets and cars explode all the fucking time. Great idea.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 8 days ago • 8257 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 8 days ago • 2289 comments

Every administrator of every agency affected should send out these notices citing cuts by DOGE!

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These cuts are endangering Americans.

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Compliments of 🟠. Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

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#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth #Voices4Victory These rich white men don't care if the Earth is destroyed and people hurt by environmental disasters never see justice. People are going hungry, farmers are struggling, businesses going under. They just don't care. insideclimatenews.org/news/1602202...

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Washington Post backs out of 'Fire Elon Musk' ad order: The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group said it signed a $115,000 agreement with The…

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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