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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

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“This Week in Democracy: Week 5 – The 'King' Purges His Generals” Read and share the latest from Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term:

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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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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Shoutout to Governor Janet Mills! This is the kind of courage we need.

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white guy DEI

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Instead of focusing on America’s national security, this man is treating America like a reality show. Firing QUALIFIED military leaders! Playing with our national security! This isn’t a game. crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

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Anne Marie Hochhalter, who spoke publicly about the long-lasting effects of gun violence after she was paralyzed in the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, was found dead on Sunday at her home. She was 43. nyti.ms/3X8xaB0

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New in PN: How Marco Rubio helped bury American soft power "Rubio initially seemed a surprising choice for Trump. But tapping a mainstream Republican and former neocon as secretary of state and making him a spokesperson for his callow isolationism was Trump’s own demonstration of hard power."

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“JD Vance Called Me a 'Dummy' for Pointing Out His Administration's Hypocrisy on Free Speech. I Guess the Truth Hurts” My piece for Zeteo on yesterday’s back and forth with the VP and others on Twitter - and on the threat to imprison American journalists. zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-c...

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Today on Scroll: newsletter.scroll.in/post/769381/ - How Indian law is trying to make it impossible for interfaith couples to marry -How India’s shift to a car-centric transport model is derailing national mobility More ⤵️

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Scientists, doctors and public health professionals at the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, the FDA, and other federal agencies have been fired under President Trump’s effort to shrink the government.

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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

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I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

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The students blocked the road that leads to the university, accusing the administration of not acting despite the Nepali girl having sought help from the institute’s international students office about the harassment she allegedly faced. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10792... #KIITUniversity

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🚨Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives are attempting to access confidential tax information — tax returns, bank data, Social Security numbers — for millions of Americans. Illegal access can lead to jail time under federal law. @wyden.senate.gov and I are investigating and fighting back.

submitted 5 days ago • 661 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

Thousands of protesters opposing President Trump’s agenda took to the streets on Monday across the U.S., derisively calling him a “king” on Presidents’ Day for his efforts to terminate thousands of federal workers and to fire prosecutors and independent watchdogs. nyti.ms/3CQA2LX

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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

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Over at the other place, JD Vance is calling me a ‘dummy’ for pointing out his administration’s attacks on journalists and free speech here at home. Musk literally today called for the jailing of CBS journalists. The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.

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Imprisoning journalists is fine when we do it

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The Washington Post scrapped an upcoming print ad from a pair of advocacy groups calling for the firing of Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government and Efficiency.

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Hamid's grandson, Jameel Alam, claimed that the local community was not consulted about the renaming. He said the move was an insult to Hamid’s legacy. scroll.in/latest/10792... #AbdulHamid #PMShri

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Every $1 invested in NIH returns $2.46—cutting National Institute of Health research funding won’t save money; it’ll cost lives.

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Donald Trump and Republicans are making flying more dangerous. This will increase the probability for plane accidents. Texas has two of the largest airports in the country (DFW + IAH) yet Governor Greg Abbott stays mute about this danger. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

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The 116 undocumented Indian migrants, who were onboard the U.S. plane that landed at Punjab’s Amritsar International Airport on Saturday night were handcuffed and chained during the travel as they were deported from the United States. www.instagram.com/p/DGIaiDXtWS...

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"I am just telling you the f&%king truth." At some point a professor who has otherwise made a respectable impression when invited to these popular news shows will completely lose his cool and shout "We are so f&%ked!" That person may end up being me. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? youtu.be/L99-t5OvSbk?...

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My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years. Our veterans deserve better. If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121 And share your story: www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...

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sounds legit

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NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

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Every picture of Usha Vance with her white supremacist husband is a reminder if how much she will have to answer for to the generation she is helping to steal rights and their future from. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

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Watters: Why do you guys go out there and sing songs and act crazy? Moskowitz: Look, what you want us to do? Storm the Capitol? That’s already been done

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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 8 days ago • 2781 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments

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 8 days ago • 2697 comments

Who the fuck could have guessed?

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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)

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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(1,2) This is Jaime. She was funny and fun & made everyone laugh. Unfortunately, the laughter stopped 7 years ago today in the Parkland shooting. Because of what happened to Jaime, my family started Orange Ribbons for Jaime doing great work orange-ribbons-for-jaime.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Incompetence is a feature, not a bug.

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And by this he means it costs one gold bar just to afford a carton of eggs. www.foxnews.com/opinion/marc...

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The Attorney General of the United States — the chief law enforcement officer of the country — just told Apple and Google that they can break the law with impunity. Maybe you like this result; but is this the kind of country you want to live in? open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

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NEW STORY // Social Housing Proposition 1A Prevails, Gains 20-Point Lead in Thursday Count www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/13/s...

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Good news: after we raised the alarm, DOGE has been blocked from accessing sensitive Department of Education data. Your Social Security number, income data, and personal information are safe for now. We will keep fighting back.

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Putting RFK Jr. in charge of the nation’s public health is a huge mistake. When dangerous diseases resurface and people can’t access lifesaving vaccines, all Americans will suffer — and RFK Jr.’s family could keep getting richer thanks to his serious conflicts of interest.

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This strikes me as a miscalculation by the WSJ — They are treating their subscribers like idiots who know nothing about Partition. I bet most know that Partition was horrific and 1-2 million Indians and Pakistanis died. I can’t imagine they will appreciate being blatantly lied to.

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(1,2) Tomorrow will be 7 years since my daughter Jaime was murdered in the Parkland school shooting. Because of what happened to my family, we started our Orange Ribbons for Jaime foundation to help families affected by gun violence. orange-ribbons-for-jaime.myshopify.com/collections/...

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