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Hey. You should text/call/voice-note some friends just because. Don't just DM silly videos. Check in with them. We all need some genuine connection right now!

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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UnitedHealth is under investigation by the Justice Department over its Medicare billing practices and how it records diagnoses

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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

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As to be expected of MAGA snowflakes.

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Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year. Amanda’s Story: Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…

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BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

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Happy Black History Month

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looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

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Did you hear about the Italian chef? He pasta away. Get it? I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

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Love this guy. He appeared on the Mueller, She Wrote podcast in 2018. Hell of an activist.

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Well now.

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I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

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Michael Wolff’s bombshell new book makes some startling new revelations about Donald Trump’s bizarre marriage to Melania. “She fucking hates him,” a “Mar-a-Lago patio confidant” of Trump and his family told the best-selling author. He writes that his source was “bewildered that this needed saying.”

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OPM did not reply shortly. In fact, it didn’t reply to retired Navy captain and FEMA official Scott Curtis at all. Instead the acting deputy regional administrator called Curtis to inform him that his job was being terminated. New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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Rep. Victoria Spartz, who is Ukrainian, lies that Zelenskyy "wants to be a dictator"

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

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@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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A brutal and well-deserved takedown of a shamefully derisible position.

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So much this. I could do with a lot fewer swastikas and sieg heil salutes around here

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The judge Musk wants to install is for an abortion ban & “has openly solicited donations from dark money groups, an approach that is highly unusual—and some might say unethical—for a judicial candidate who may eventually hear cases from those very interests.”

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New in PN: Elite lawyers sell out the rule of law "Ultimately, by joining in Trump’s effort to make America lawless, Sullivan & Cromwell may be working to render itself irrelevant."

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Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

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“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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I see a lot of trans folks scared that we're going to be exterminated right now. And you're right that they're going to try. So I want to say this: they tried before, from 1981-1989. And for most of you, every moment of queer joy you've ever had came in the shadow of that last effort to kill us.

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Trump Breaks Promise on IVF, Waters Down Bold Campaign Pledge Video: Trump promised IVF treatments would be free or fully covered by insurance

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"It has been only four weeks since Trump took the oath of office, and I wonder whether casual voters or even those who truly despised Biden have taken onboard what they’ve done." It's so normal to vote for the other guy - but not this time. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:

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At least as interesting as the results of this poll—and they are definitely interesting—is the fact that pollsters are starting to ask the right questions about our new and perilous moment.

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