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Kash Patel wants the FBI to partner with UFC. I feel like this says a lot about current politics.

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Cryptocurrency prices are down sharply in recent weeks and not expected to rebound soon, with some of the biggest digital currencies erasing nearly all of the gains they made after Trump's election win triggered a wave of excitement across the industry reut.rs/4ikM5QA

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Lieu: "We used to fight the axis of evil. Now Trump apparently wants to join the axis of evil."

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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

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They’re cutting Medicaid

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After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer considered a threat to Earth.

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🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements. A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

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Apple shareholders voted to keep the tech giant's diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a win for management which had opposed efforts by a conservative group to scrap the program reut.rs/4hQ7DVx

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“While the blueprint itself does not mention Medicaid directly, it sets a goal of at least $2 trillion in cuts to mandatory federal spending, which includes funding for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare” abcnews.go.com/Politics/bud... #Medicaid #government

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The Trump administration is developing plans to build immigration detention facilities on bases nationwide, a step that could significantly expand the military's role in immigration enforcement.

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Infuriating 🙄

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Research shows that LGBTQ+ inclusion can drive economic activity. Open For Business’ latest report shows the economic case for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Poland: open-for-business.org/poland

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the latest federal agency to be hit with DOGE layoffs. That's the same agency that has investigated crashes involving Tesla's self-driving cars. This was never about "efficiency."

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The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

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"The goalposts for DOGE have silently moved from finding fraud and corruption to simply pointing out and cancelling government programs that Trump and Republicans simply don’t support." -- @justinglawe.bsky.social

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Elon Musk's DOGE purge included Jonathan Kamens, the security lead for the Department of Veterans Affairs website. #forkoff @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social 🥄🥄

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Trump/Musk just laid off the entire VA info security team, in the middle off the night, this weekend.

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A post-US election spike in interest in buying Irish property has been sustained, with people living in states that didn’t vote for Donald Trump most interested in making a move www.independent.ie/business/big...

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Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.

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Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating DEI-related grants | NBC News www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

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If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

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The mothers met in a Whatsapp group. They have vowed to fight until their sons, who they say have not committed crimes and do not have ties to gangs, are released.

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Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

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Nice try, snowflakes.

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

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A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action committee (PAC).

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US President Donald Trump said he was not happy with planemaker Boeing and his administration might have to go a different route with Air Force One planes reut.rs/4163PbF

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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

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And there it is

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I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.

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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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⚠️ BREAKING: U.S. 🇺🇸 reports 4.676 million new COVID-19 cases in a single week, with 668,000 daily infections. Currently, 1 in every 72 Americans is infected with COVID-19. Transmission rates are now higher than at any point during 59.3% of the pandemic.

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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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So mightily honored that "Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia" is a National Magazine Award finalist. This list has been my lodestar for mag writing since I was 19 -- and still is. Big hat tip to my @wired.com editors @caitlinkelly.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social + Maria Streshinsky

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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!

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

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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.

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JD Vance pushes Germany’s far-right. Their leaders aren’t having it. Germany’s Annalena Baerbock rejected Vance’s push for parties to work with the AfD, saying, “The only people who decide German elections are German voters.” Trump’s VP is lecturing Europe on democracy—while undermining it at home.

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I’m going to continue to work until my computer access is revoked,” Lennox said. “Then I’m going to volunteer. I’m going to keep working as best I can to support the veterans. That’s what I’m here for.” taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

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North Korean state actor 'Kimsuky' (aka 'Emerald Sleet' or 'Velvet Chollima') has been observed using a new tactic inspired from the now widespread ClickFix campaigns.

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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