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!!! At least six federal judges in Texas, along with their clerks and staff, received DOGE’s “tell us what you did last week or else” email. The Chief Judge of the 5th Circuit told judges and staff not to respond. texaslawbook.net/texas-lawboo...

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It Sure Looks Like Musk's Newfound Power Is Scaring Advertisers Back to X https://gizmodo.com/it-sure-looks-like-musks-newfound-power-is-scaring-advertisers-back-to-x-2000566159

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Kennedy Center ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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AXIOS: The funding cuts — and the job cuts — “remove all desire for new workers to look at the government as a realistic option," the NOAA scientist said. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/02/23/f...

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New York Times: Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Why did Trump fire CQ Brown? According to advisers, it was because of a four-minute video Brown taped after the George Floyd murder talking about his experiences as a Black pilot in the Air Force, Helene Cooper reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Federal workers in limbo. Employees at HHS getting emails telling them to justify their jobs and NIH instructing workers to hold off before responding. Obtained from a source familiar.

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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oh boy -- Rich McCormick bailed on CNN after his ill-fated town hall

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'If the anti-abortion group obtains the records... “it will be free to publicize those medical records further, including by posting them on the Internet, depriving patients of their privacy, which cannot be adequately remedied through money damages”.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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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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"Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner." wapo.st/41qBKwR

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Another possible explanation why Republican congressmen aren't doing their jobs is they're busy abusing their young mistresses www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

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Make no mistake, the BEST case for firing CQ Brown is that Trump just invariably politicized something explicitly designed not to be—as he did with the FBI director. And that's the BEST case. The worst case is obviously much, much worse, depending on Dan Caine.

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Good. Keep making noise. www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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Rep. Grothman (R-WI): President Trump has done some very good things Crowd: Booooo

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Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE are carrying out.

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After one month of Trump - Musk - Vance: -the stock market is DOWN -egg prices keep RISING -measles are SPREADING -airplanes keep COLLIDING & CRASHING 😬😬😬

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Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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LATEST: In a rapidly growing measles outbreak in northwest Texas, 90 cases have been confirmed as of Friday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

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Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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"each argument from the lawmaker brought a new round of shouts, groans and boos. 'If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall,' McCormick said, five minutes into defending Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service." 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Make them feel the heat: Town halls from Georgia to Wisconsin to Oregon grew heated this week as voters showed up to vent, outraged at the firing of federal workers and DOGE’s access to sensitive data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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You have to keep in mind, Republican Congressman Rich McCormick is a slimy, amoral, dishonest bozo who was recently caught cheating on his wife with a Congressional colleague. So this is par for the course for #RichMcCormick. #gapol #Georgia #Atlanta #GA07 @georgiademocrat.bsky.social

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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BREAKING: Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was released from prison last month after Trump pardoned him along with 1,500 other Jan. 6 rioters, has just been arrested by Capitol Police for assaulting a counter-protester.

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So, days after a judge ordered President Musk to reinstate USAID funding to life-saving organizations around the world, @stephanienolen.bsky.social contacted 40 of them and only one had seen its funding restored. It appears the administration is in contempt of court www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

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The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

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The Trump administration, flouting a judge's orders, has kept health programs shut down. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

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"Legal experts said the administration’s aggressive maneuvers have approached the red line of openly flouting court orders, as Trump and his top aides and advisers assert vast presidential powers."

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The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over.

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NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Trump's DC reminds @sbg1.bsky.social of Putin's Moscow 25 years ago -- "the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the president’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again. The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office more than twice.

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Some GOP members feel helpless as DOGE cuts hit. A growing number of congressional Republicans are desperately trying to back-channel with White House officials as Trump’s DOGE ramps up its slash-and-burn firings of federal workers.

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"After a judge blocked a Trump executive order, Elon Musk shared a post with his more than 200 million followers on X that included the judge’s daughter’s name, photo and job, allegedly at the Department of Education." Boy I missed that detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Via @bloomberg.com : "US consumer sentiment fell in late February as long-term inflation expectations surged on concerns President Donald Trump’s tariffs will translate into higher prices" www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #TrumpTariffs #tariffs #TrumpTradeWar #inflation #prices #costs #groceries

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Elon Musk is big in Trump's government. He also owns X. Is X's Linda Yaccarino telling companies to give it business, or risk government reprisal?

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Twitter and Musk are openly extorting companies into spending ad money on the platform. Where are the state prosecutors? This is clearly a crime. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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From our new poll: "A broad majority feel the president isn’t doing enough to address the high prices of everyday goods. And 52% say he’s gone too far in using his presidential power....70% of Democratic-aligned adults said they view American democracy as under attack." www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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