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A MUST-SEE‼️ The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election. • Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule. 🧵

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One of the things that has made people shy away from naming our fascism is because we are expecting state controlled brown shirts in the streets. But the Black American experience should teach us that the fascist here uses every day disorganized deputized violence every bit as as effectively.

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Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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If you care about abortion access, voting rights, and the future of Wisconsin, you should care about the WI Supreme Court election! We can’t let conservatives who want to ban abortion and roll back our rights take control of the court. 🗳️ Vote for Judge Susan Crawford on April 1.

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Republicans are fast tracking getting The SAVE Act approved. “if enacted it would devastate voter registration while disenfranchising tens of millions of eligible American citizens.” www.thetelegraph.com/news/article...

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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

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@jamestalarico.bsky.social The Texas Public Education System continues to be destroyed by Governor Abbott and his henchmen and henchwomen ! Stealing funds to privatize education and put money in their pockets! www.ksat.com/news/texas/2...

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Vance’s culture-war tirade against the Europeans was not only pointlessly confrontational and ill-informed; it was also delivered at a moment when lectures on democracy from America have inevitable “Physician, heal thyself” overtones. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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thanks for sharing

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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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New York City sued President Donald Trump and members of his administration for clawing back $80 million that the federal government had awarded the city to house immigrants.

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Watching a #CALeg Senate GOP press conference for a bill to roll back part of California's Sanctuary State protections for undocumented immigrants. The speakers, including Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones and Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, are being shouted down by protesters.

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#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Earth has an inexhaustible supply of minerals that are capable of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, but they don’t react fast enough on their own to counteract human greenhouse gas emissions. Our work solves this problem. #ActOnClimate techxplore.com/news/2025-02...

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US CDC Reports Five-Fold Increase in Measles Cases From Last Week: (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported that weekly measles cases had jumped to 93 from 14 earlier,...

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'Kremlin whisperers’ have the president’s ear and dissenters are few – but a thin skin and self-interest are also at play www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?

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NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Proud Boys are back at the Capitol. Here they are near the first Jan. 6 breach point, around Peace Circle.

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A Jan. 6 defendant from North Carolina, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of "Production of Child Pornography" and "Possession of Child Pornography," & Trump & his administration wanna pardon this guy? WTF, America! Did you vote for that, MAGA? whyy.org/articles/don...

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“Given that the United States is roughly $36 trillion in debt, experts question where the money would come from. The Trump administration seems to be signaling that selling out and selling off the nation’s public lands to the highest bidder might…” www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

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NEW: The Energy Department tried to spin its DOGE-directed firing of nuclear-safety officials as affecting just non-critical staff. But this wasn’t close to true. In fact, one of the officials locked out of his work accounts was the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency.

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Senator Tina Smith nails it 👇 Tell Congress to put Families over Billionaires here: bit.ly/3MOBGyT #TaxFairnessNOW

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With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will sell shares in Eli Lilly and UnitedHealth. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH nominee, will shed stock in Walmart and Nvidia.

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The context makes it clear:“Fight. Fight. Fight.” Nazi salute “Amen”

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

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Voting down party lines, the US Senate has just passed this horrific budget. apnews.com/article/sena...

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The DOJ official who announced a possible prosecution into the New York sheriff for not complying with ICE is none other than... ... Emil Bove, who you've all gotten to know as the DOJ official who is leading the charge to let Eric Adams off corruption charges so he can help ICE.

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🧵"Some claim that DEI work puts identity above 'merit'—when the opposite is true. Casting a wide net for talent, ensuring fair opportunity for all to succeed, and building a culture that fosters connections" is a "congressional mandate, and good business." #DEI fortune.com/2025/02/20/t...

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A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

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In Memoriam Congressman John Lewis 2/21/1940-7/17/2020 Honoring the little boy from Troy who dared to dream of freedom and equality for all and believed all things were possible if you got in good trouble. There is no need to miss our precious hero because he lives in each ballot we cast. 🧵1/2

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I think it’s reasonable to assume that what the Trump regime is doing to Ukraine now is related to how they view, and will treat, states & cities they consider either enemies or not of use to them.

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Reminder: When you look at the Weather Channel App and it talks about Warnings, Watches, Advisories, Outlooks active in your area. Those are all done by @NOAA @NWS the National Weather Service. The Weather Channel does NONE of that stuff. Carry on...

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The wealth of Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon nominated by Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has swelled in part from for-profit health care companies over which he’d wield significant power if confirmed. apnews.com/article/mehm...

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✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ "Costco, which has resisted pressure from shareholders, 19 Republican attorneys general, and anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck to dump its DEI program, has seen traffic rise" List of 100+ companies like Costco, standing strong on DEI: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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This will especially hurt rural folks

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Last night I attended the Save Our Services rally in New York City. Listen to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fighting for people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” @aoc.bsky.social

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A little substance about what the FBI does & historical context to help you articulate just how dangerous the confirmation of Kash Patel is. joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Local coverage of protests here against what's going on with the oligarch coup in the US. https://digitaledition.toacorn.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=1eaa3ccb-f5c1-4982-95ca-9da3831de310 #protests #USPol #Politics #ConejoValley #VenturaCounty

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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Confused about what DOGE is doing at the Treasury Department and what the Bureau of the Fiscal Service even is? Listen to @qjurecic.bsky.social talk to @wendyedelberg.bsky.social and @jleibenluft.bsky.social to understand what is going on wherever you get your podcasts:

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💥 Apple is upholding its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Despite attack from right-wing anti-DEI shareholder activists -- the same anti-DEI group that targeted Costco. And just like Costco, look for Apple shareholders to tell anti-DEI activists to take a hike on Feb 25.

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Nixon Administration abuses led to the passage of strict tax privacy laws. That’s one reason moves by DOGE to access sensitive data are so controversial. Here’s what you need to know about taxpayer privacy. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

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