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This is apparently the best the official DOD “rapid response” account can do in response to the Houthi PC Small Group story.

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I've been hearing from farmers to veterans in Illinois who voted for Trump that they're worried their benefits are being cut. Many of them are showing up to say enough is enough. Meanwhile, Republicans are hiding behind the President and Elon Musk.

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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Musk and Trump have contributed to a rise in death threats and intimidation against judges. In Charleston, S.C., police were dispatched to the home of one of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sisters after a threat claimed a pipe bomb had been placed in her mailbox.

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The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite. My full interview here:

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"A senior scientist who studies a rare and devastating disorder that affects young children and who is studying a treatment that might help had been invited to consult with doctors caring for such children. At the last minute, he was told he could not go..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

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Trump just named Alina Habba to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. Habba was part of Trump's legal team during his hush money trial when he was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

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Judge nails how the Trump team likely tried to evade courts: "[T]he most reasonable inference is that iot hustled people onto those planes in the hopes of evading an injunction or perhaps preventing them from requesting the habeas hearing to which the Government now acknowledges they are entitled."

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News Analysis: President Trump's decision to send a high-powered U.S. delegation to Greenland, apparently uninvited, is already backfiring. Greenland has blasted him as “aggressive” and asked Europe for backup, and the visit is strengthening bonds between Greenland and Denmark.

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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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"In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending."

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Oh no, we've found the one part of an insane plan to forcibly remove 8,000,000 people and send them to a slave labor camp that might be "impractical."

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So, Trump is being found to have broken the law on average once every four days, and MAGA Twitter wants you to believe this is all lawfare from activist judges. There’s really no amount of pretzel logic that is too much for these people.

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Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration. The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.

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🧵1/2 Elon Musk is so desperate to control Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, he’s funding fake ads pretending to support Judge Susan Crawford — just to turn voters against her with phony “progressive” messages filled with misleading lies. Don’t fall for it. Read this: tinyurl.com/Elon-Schimel

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Chants of TAX THE RICH! From today’s Indivisible empty chair town hall for Darrell Issa - who just so happens to be the richest person in Congress. @velshi.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org

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Kudos to more than 150 scientists and other experts who spent thousands of hours working on the National Nature Assessment. Leading scientists plan to submit it for review, though Trump tried to suppress its findings. #Wildlife #Ecology #Nature www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

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Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how

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Time is a flat circle

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Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space: “There are 450 million Europeans. We should not be crying out for 340 million Americans to defend us against 140 million Russians, who are not even able to defeat 38 million Ukrainians.

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Want to keep kids in school? Try a reverse student loan—pay them to study. Starting at age 16, they’d earn the equivalent of a McDonald’s wage, provided they maintain good academic standing.

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Destroying His Own Country Isn’t Enough, Time To Punish The Planet.

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💥 The Musk Effect: A movement grows From Hollywood to academia, the Tesla Takedown movement is gaining momentum with signs like “Honk if you hate Elon” at nearly 90 Tesla showrooms nationwide. #TeslaTakedown #ElonMusk #PoliticalProtests

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Carney calls a snap election after Trump's threat to annex Canada. We can’t let a power-hungry leader destroy our nation. Let's unite behind the Liberal vision for a free and independent Canada. 🗳️💙 #CanadaStrong #FightForOurFuture

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There's a consequential race underway in Wisconsin. Justice Susan Crawford is running to protect the freedoms of everyday Wisconsinites as a WI Supreme Court Judge, while her MAGA opponent wants to turn the clock back to the 1800s. Volunteer, donate, and - if you live in Wisconsin - go VOTE!

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Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act being signed into law. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, pre-existing conditions are covered and 24 million more Americans have access to healthcare.

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One of the most important things I have learned from the study of history: Our circumstances are contingent, the result of countless overlapping developments. And that means that nothing is inevitable. What comes next will be the product of the choices we make.

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There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.

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AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

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She needs you to imagine the violent crimes because most of them are in fact imaginary

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More people voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him.

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The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

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USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment. Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.

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The number of Tesla owners trading in their cars has just surged to an all-time record high as the company’s stock continues to plunge.

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Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX nyti.ms/4kPE8VJ

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🚨 🚨 More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort: 1/

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🇨🇦🇪🇺 Canada plans to sign military security and defense contracts with the EU, - Financial Post and Bloomberg ❗️Canada is interested in purchasing a dozen submarines, aircraft and tanks that could potentially be supplied by the EU.

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Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.

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I don't blame them. But it's mindblowing that in 8 weeks we've managed to prompt Canada to pursue defense deals that exclude the US.

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