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Guess what? Town hall meetings with your elected representative can't be hacked by Elon's prepubescent cyberterrorists. They can ignore their emails and voicemails, but they will hear a packed room of pissed off constituents.

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Colonists needed a way to communicate during the Rev War so USPS was created. It proved so vital it was written into the Constitution. It served as a secure way to hold elections. Voting by mail is how this country was founded. A traitor is sabotaging it. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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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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“MAGA stands for resegregation and racism”

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Under her command, the US Navy met its recruiting goals last year. The Army did not. She made being in the Navy more tolerable, based on experience of more than 20 years of her career at sea. People wanted to join Navy, to the point they had to deny people because the training slots were filled.

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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I have a few theories as to why Trump is gunning so hard to strip Native Americans of citizenship - resources, money and racism. He wants to give the rez land and its resources to his cronies. Casinos for himself, and to strip black American descendants of slaves, of their citizenship …

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Video of Natasha Hodgson's recent Royal Historical Society Lecture is now available: bit.ly/4i94uQa Held on 7 Feb, Natasha's lecture explored 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World'. How exceptional were the women who made these dangerous journeys? 1/2 #skystorians

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An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Thucydides wrote “the regular meaning of words changed to fit the state-of-affairs. Insane risk was now bravery; forethought was cowardice…it was simply the same whether you stopped someone from doing wrong or you discovered a new opportunity for doing wrong yourself” neoskosmos.com/en/2025/02/2...

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

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Here's @bluestein.bsky.social's uncensored thread of the town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), in which an unhappy audience pushes back against DOGE cuts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18927...

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Calling #OFMD fans!

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Even though this false claim of Peter Dutton was factchecked in July 2024, he's just repeated it from Adelaide on ABC News this afternoon. The lie is broadcast yet again over fact. People heard him say it on the ABC so he must be correct? #auspol www.aap.com.au/factcheck/du...

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For international followers: Te Matatini is the nationwide competition for traditional Māori dance, which happens every two years. From Feb 25th 55 groups will perform live for an audience of ~70,000 people. If you're interested in haka or māori culture, keep an eye out on social media next week.

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It’s been clear for a long time that they think if they make being trans suck enough, we’ll all just go “okay, fine” and just go back to our birth genders. We won’t, of course.

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That one time on Real Time when I scolded Billy Bush to his face and Bill Maher pushed back with a great point that I used to hopefully role model how boys and men should try to be and evolve

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elon appears to be going through his timeline and manually hiding posts from the mother of his child instead of responding to her urgent requests for help?

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"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness." “We asked who was mission critical and more than half of people were identified,” Cheatham said. “That was too many.” “The Director couldn’t even show up to the 10 AM firing call held for all of us"

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The commentariat need to stop framing Farage as an unrefined pub bore because that's exactly the image he is trying to project. In reality he's a private schooled, stokebroker, posh boy and he trots around in his idea of working class cosplay in an affected accent. Call him on it.

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In traditional European heraldry, there are colors and metals (silver/white, gold/yellow). The rule is you never put a metal on a metal, or a color on a color. It's a rule for readability reasons - you want contrast. You want to be able to read it clearly on a battlefield. That said, it's a rule.

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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I was today years old when my 'home' academic association had to issue a statement that the 'evolving situation' in🇺🇸 is monitored ahead of a conference. Letters for travel will not include paper titles. Because many of us research important topics. In the bigger picture, small, for academics huge😢

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Of all the stupid in the world, this one hits different.

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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"MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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This only confirms one thing… They never had any intention of supporting our community in the first place if they’re so quick to walk away.

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