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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Social Security will save $205B because it will not have to pay out benefits to 1.7M Americans who died from #COVID. fortune.com/2025/02/19/a...

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Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senator Warren, Senator Smith, and I are holding this Administration accountable.

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How it started. How it’s going

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Texas. Where the lone star is a review.

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These NIH funding cuts threaten research happening in Delaware on heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke recovery, & more. This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.

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This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty. The US is dead last. #Poverty #USA

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@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

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"the silencing of science and health-related communications through suppression or erasure of information, and the corresponding silence by many in the fields of biomedicine and public health, deserve special consideration." "The free exchange of ideas is essential to scientific progress" @jama.com

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And here it is, my Joker moment. I am insane now.

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Over half million people could be taken away from the lives they built here. This is sick. The right defending this is sick. You’re just bigots.

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WATCH Bernie Sanders lay out exactly what's at stake if Republicans gut Medicaid. #DontCutMyMedicaid

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The Spotify dropped! open.spotify.com/track/1Ztfx8...

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"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession" "This is going to be very, very bad." futurism.com/economist-el...

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"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative."

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elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

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🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency. Paper: tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

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When Trump’s tariff plans destroy the economy it’ll be important to remember that 99% of economists told him it would happen

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Seen at CPAC

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The Texas measles outbreak continues to grow. "The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 90 Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or individuals whose vaccination status is unknown & 16 people have been hospitalized so far."

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Wwwhhhheeeee!!!!!

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The good news is that he’s not very popular, the bad news is he is very very very very ensconced

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This article is hilarious. (No, that’s not a name-related pun. At least, I’m pretty sure.) It’s like being able to watch the train wreck without…you know, actually having to watch it. So! Many! Kids! 😂 www.vulture.com/article/the-...

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Their goal is to make life worse for you and privatize everything so robber barons can make an extra buck.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

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"Presidents only get so much political capital. Trump has decided to invest his finite capital into supporting Putin's authoritarian regime in Moscow..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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This is one of the things the Musk crew are doing to evade accountability. The DOGE staffers aren’t employees of DOGE detailed to other agencies; they’re employees of those agencies, and yet being moved around very quickly. This, frankly, raises more questions than it answers.

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Trump owns every long airport line now. Shame. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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168 colleagues lost yesterday, 6 in Earth Sciences alone. Today we grieved. And strategized. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

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Hard to overstate how crazy the DOGE situation is getting. The latest from @cwarzel.bsky.social, @ibogost.bsky.social, and @matteowong.bsky.social

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So many people believed them.

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NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

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Mordechai Brafman shot at two Jewish people 17 times & hit them b/c he thought they were Palestinian. He faces 15 years & no hate crime charges. Briana Boston said "delay deny defend" to Blue Cross. She faces 15 years on terror charges. This is Florida. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-horrif...

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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

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