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You wouldn't know it from the front pages of NYT or the Post, but a stunning 3-to-5.2 million Americans took to the streets Saturday with a simple message: "No King" Congress passed the law that enabled a dictator, and Congress can stop the madness. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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75 percent.

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The year is 2065. Worldwide, young colony members are taking tests. “In 2025, which of the following did the US Trump Administration not tariff?” A. The entire EU B. Peru C. Russia D. Penguins

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JPMorgan raises recession odds this year to 60%.

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This is, as far as I can tell, a real ad by a company trying to get more Tesla owner business.

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This is brilliant and on point. This is exactly it - the Democrats who will internalize these points and lead accordingly will emerge as the real leaders for the time we live in www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

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I've been unable to think of little else since watching the video of masked secret police from ICE whisking away Rumeysa Ozturk - a shocking scene of police state repression I never hoped to see in America What's even worse is why she was disappeared. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/rume...

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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

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J.D. Vance got a cold reception at his vacation in Vermont

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Show me all of the Dems like this

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Numbers update Of those arrested for Jan 6, 2021 crimes at the US Capitol, the number of those with criminal histories as of 2/7/2025 Cases are still being reviewed!! 1,059 cases reviewed to date

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Trump megadonor, Steve Wynn, petitions SCOTUS to take up his appeal in order to overturn NY Times v. Sullivan, the landmark US Supreme Court case that established the legal standard for defamation lawsuits against the press. news.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...

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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.

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#Russia www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Russell Vought as White House budget director, putting Project 2025 architect at helm of powerful office.

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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

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Anti-Trump, anti-Musk protest growing in size at Texas Capitol, with chants of “no more Musk, stop the coup” among others #txlege

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Vermont Capitol today. We're gonna have to get uncomfortable & get out there. #protest

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Indiana State Capitol. Crowd cheering: “This is what democracy looks like” and “Musk was not elected” #Indianapolis #protest

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We have a protest brewing here on the Capitol steps. Protesting Trump and Elon Musk’s actions as part of the 50501 protest movement

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"The world's richest man deciding the world's richest country should stop helping the world's poorest people” @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social , president of Refugees International

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Rep. Jamie Raskin notes that the entire US foreign aid budget is ~$40 billion. "We have a Pentagon budget of $900 billion. The Pentagon budget is where the defense contractor Elon Musk—who became the richest man in the world off of our money—he collects his payments from."

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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

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It's not a "pause." It's not a review. It's a naked power grab to seize spending powers from Congress. Russ Vought is the unelected bureaucrat who wants to contol all of the government's spending decisions. Make him famous. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/russ-vough...

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Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.

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The orange fecal smear has removed the U.S. from the World Health Organization, if you'd like to sign up for their newsletters to keep yourself aware, here ya go: www.who.int/news-room/ne...

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This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.

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While the other youngins were out there listening to podcasters who purport the ability to give them the manliness to nab a baddie, Tom got a GENERATIONAL BADDIE…by lip synching Rihanna while wearing lingerie. Winners win, fellas.

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Winter storm poses risk of giant metaphor of what’s coming to DC from the heartland later this month

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