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DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 26 As always, there were so many stories of our Democrats fighting back, so please share any others that you’ve seen throughout the day! 🧵

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This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

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It’s like saving hundreds of dollars on gas by crashing one’s car

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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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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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👇🎯 Normalizing unconstitutional & illegal behavior by polling it is bad for democracy & the rule of law

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

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Who will cure your cancer? Who will stop the company next door from poisoning your kids? Who will make sure your plane doesn’t plummet 30,000 feet? The federal workforce are public servants and without them the public is screwed

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Make it something people look forward to every day.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal is rallying outside VA HQ now, leading Senate Dems in a powerful stand against Musk’s takeover. “Elon Musk… 9 million veterans are watching you give them the middle finger, & we’re not going to stand for it!” 🔥 LFG for our vets 🫡 @blumenthal.senate.gov @votevets.org

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FORD CEO: ".. Let's be real honest: Long term, a 25% tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we've never seen." $F www.wardsauto.com/ford/ford-ce...

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

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The DOGE website that Elon says is proof of how transparent they are basically doesn't exist www.doge.gov

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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

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Here's a stunner. It's outrage after outrage, and the only real check is public opinion. The idea that this guy is making government his private sandbox and profiting from it in ways we don't know is abominable. Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Susan Collins would confirm a potted plant if it promised her to reconsider its commitment to photosynthesis.

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I’ll be clipping an “Elon Musk: Hands Off Our Social Security” rally at the Social Security Administration today as part of my partnership with @snapstream.com, featuring speeches from Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks. Follow this thread for clips and commentary.

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The Philadelphia Eagles were named, in 1933, to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, part of the New Deal—the NRA’s Blue Eagle stood for protection of labor and federal oversight of the U.S. economy (pic: Library of Congress)

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This energy.

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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

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I love this. This should be the symbol of the new rebel coalition.

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Senator Murphy lays out exactly what is on the line. " There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, poor kids, poor families, Medicare, seniors in this country." Hands Off Our Medicaid!

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Jeffries: "Republicans want to end Medicaid as we know it, are considering eliminating the mortgage interest deduction, and want to take away veterans benefits and nutritional assistance from Children and families. Is that something that Democrats will support? No."

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Three stories from today: WaPo: Senate Republicans Propose $350 Billion for Mass Deportations Bloomberg: Trump Tax Cuts Would Cost Between 5 and 11 Trillion Dollars Politico: Republicans Preparing to Make "Deep Cuts" to Medicaid to Offset Reconciliation Costs

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Every headline that does not say “illegal” or “unconstitutional” is a failure to convey to the public the stakes of what is going on.

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True.

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👇👇

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Why, indeed.

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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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